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.

Herbert W. Bateman IV
Interpreting the General Letters: An Exegetical Handbook
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9717
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

Maurice Casey
Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9729
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

L. Juliana Claassens and Klaas Spronk, eds.
Fragile Dignity: Intercontextual Conversations on Scriptures, Family, and Violence
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9439
Reviewed by Marta Høyland Lavik

Michael Coogan
The Ten Commandments: A Short History of an Ancient Text
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9763
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9973
Reviewed by Zev Garber

Walter Farber
Lamaštu: An Edition of the Canonical Series of Lamaštu Incantations and Rituals and Related Texts from the Second and First Millennia B.C.
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9865
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Jack J. Gibson
Peter between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James and the Gentiles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9470
Reviewed by Timothy P. Henderson

Oliver Glanz
Understanding Participant-Reference Shifts in the Book of Jeremiah: A Study of Exegetical Method and Its Consequences for the Interpretation of Referential Incoherence
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9186
Reviewed by Kelly A. Whitcomb

Philip Goodwin
Translating the English Bible: From Relevance to Deconstruction
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9224
Reviewed by Clement Tong

Ryan Leif Hansen
Silence and Praise: Rhetorical Cosmology and Political Theology in the Book of Revelation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9813
Reviewed by Shane J. Wood

Mark Harris
The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9493
Reviewed by Graham B. Walker Jr.

Carl R. Holladay, John T. Fitzgerald, Gregory E. Sterling, and James W. Thompson, eds.
Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays, 1959–2012, by Abraham J. Malherbe
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9790
Reviewed by Matthew V. Novenson

S. R. Llewelyn and J. R. Harrison, eds.
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity: Greek and Other Inscriptions and Papyri Published 1988–1992
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9229
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Marvin W. Meyer
The Gospels of the Marginalized: The Redemption of Doubting Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and Judas Iscariot in Early Christian Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8775
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep

Christopher T. Paris
Narrative Obtrusion in the Hebrew Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9909
Reviewed by Karolien Vermeulen
Reviewed by Benjamin J.M. Johnson

Robert F. Stoops
The Acts of Peter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9252
Reviewed by Jason Sturdevant

Alexa F. Wilke
Die Gebete der Propheten: Anrufungen Gottes im ‘corpus propheticum’ der Hebräischen Bibel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9830
Reviewed by Gert Kwakkel

Jacob L. Wright
David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9889
Reviewed by A. Graeme Auld
Reviewed by Bob Becking