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.

Nathan J. Barnes
Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9820
Reviewed by Timothy A. Brookins

Richard J. Bautch and Jean-François Racine, eds.
Beauty and the Bible: Toward a Hermeneutics of Biblical Aesthetics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9433
Reviewed by Richard Viladescu

Raffaella Cribiore
Libanius the Sophist: Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9548
Reviewed by Thomas Olbricht

Roland Deines; Christoph Ochs and Peter Watts, eds.
Acts of God in History: Studies Towards Recovering a Theological Historiography
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9599
Reviewed by Wil Rogan

Leann Snow Flesher, Carol J. Dempsey, and Mark J. Boda, eds.
Why? … How Long? Studies on Voice(s) of Lamentation Rooted in Biblical Hebrew Poetry
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9724
Reviewed by George Savran

Greg W. Forbes
1 Peter: Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9983
Reviewed by Terrance D. Callan

Lisbeth S. Fried
Ezra and the Law in History and Tradition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10026
Reviewed by Thomas Hieke

Martin Heide
Das Testament Abrahams: Edition und Übersetzung der arabischen und äthiopischen Versionen
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9183
Reviewed by Curt Niccum

Clayton N. Jefford
The Epistle to Diognetus (with the Fragment of Quadratus): Introduction, Text, and Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9488
Reviewed by Jonathan A. Draper

Lance Jenott and Sarit Kattan Gribetz, eds.
Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9593
Reviewed by Steven Thompson

Hubert James Keener
A Canonical Exegesis of Psalm 8: YHWH’s Maintenance of the Created Order through Divine Reversal
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9861
Reviewed by Philippus J. Botha

Karl McDaniel
Experiencing Irony in the First Gospel: Suspense, Surprise and Curiosity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9702
Reviewed by Glenna Jackson

Maciej M. Münnich
The God Resheph in the Ancient Near East
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9474
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Douglas E. Oakman
Jesus, Debt, and the Lord’s Prayer: First-Century Debt and Jesus’ Intentions
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9999
Reviewed by David A. Fiensy

Iain Provan
Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9838
Reviewed by Richard S. Briggs

Robert M. Royalty Jr.
The Origin of Heresy: A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8845
Reviewed by Joseph Azize

Benjamin Sargent
David Being a Prophet: The Contingency of Scripture upon History in the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9798
Reviewed by Kenneth D. Litwak

Ched Spellman
Toward a Canon-Conscious Reading of the Bible: Exploring the History and Hermeneutics of the Canon
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9927
Reviewed by John Barton

Rivka Ulmer and Moshe Ulmer
Righteous Giving to the Poor: Tzedakah (“Charity”) in Classic Rabbinic Judaism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10023
Reviewed by Zev Garber

Samson Uytanlet
Luke-Acts and Jewish Historiography: A Study on the Theology, Literature, and Ideology of Luke-Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9850
Reviewed by Andrew W. Pitts