Latest Issue of Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below.

Beth A. Berkowitz
Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present
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Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Stéphanie E. Binder
Tertullian, On Idolatry and Mishnah Avodah Zarah: Questioning the Parting of the Ways between Christians and Jews
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Reviewed by Michael Rosenberg

Markus Bockmuehl
Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory: The New Testament Apostle in the Early Church
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Reviewed by Jean-François Racine

James L. Crenshaw
Reading Job: A Literary and Theological Commentary
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Reviewed by Richard G. Smith

Detlef Dieckmann
«Worte von Weisen sind wie Stacheln» (Koh 12,11): Eine rezeptionsorientierte Studie zu Koh 1–2 und zum Lexem dabar im Buch Kohelet
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9030
Reviewed by Stefan Fischer

Laura Feldt
The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha
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Reviewed by Michael Hundley

Norman Habel
The Birth, the Curse and the Greening of Earth: An Ecological Reading of Genesis 1–11
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8968
Reviewed by Terence E. Fretheim

Steven A. Hunt, ed.
Perspectives on Our Father Abraham: Essays in Honor of Marvin R. Wilson
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Reviewed by David M. Maas

Luke Timothy Johnson
Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church: The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians
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Reviewed by Richard Pervo

Johannes Unsok Ro, ed.
From Judah to Judea: Socio-economic Structures and Processes in the Persian Period
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Reviewed by Jason M. Silverman

Ishay Rosen-Zvi
The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual: Temple, Gender, and Midrash
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Reviewed by Aaron Koller

Jacques T. A. G. M. van Ruiten
Abraham in the Book of Jubilees: The Rewriting of Genesis 11:26–25:10 in the Book of Jubilees 11:14-23:8
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9046
Reviewed by John C. Endres, S.J.

Jason M. Silverman
Persepolis and Jerusalem: Iranian Influence on the Apocalyptic Hermeneutic
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Reviewed by Bob Becking

Paul Trebilco
Self-Designations and Group Identity in the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8921
Reviewed by B. J. Oropeza