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. 

Alex Damm
Ancient Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem: Clarifying Markan Priority
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9291
Reviewed by C. Clifton Black

Michael Fieger, Jutta Krispenz, and Jörg Lanckau, eds.
Wörterbuch alttestamentlicher Motive
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9551
Reviewed by Trent Butler

John Harrison and James D. Dvorak, eds.
The New Testament Church: The Challenge of Developing Ecclesiologies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8976
Reviewed by Robert Matthew Calhoun

Knut Martin Heim
Poetic Imagination in Proverbs: Variant Repetitions and the Nature of Poetry
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9316
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

Rüdiger Jungbluth
Im Himmel und auf Erden: Dimensionen von Königsherrschaft im Alten Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8355
Reviewed by Sven Petry

Ian Christopher Levy, Philip D. W. Krey, and Thomas Ryan, eds.
The Letter to the Romans
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9308
Reviewed by Anders Runesson

Herbert Marks, ed.
The English Bible, King James Version: The Old Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8523
Reviewed by David G. Burke

Francis J. Moloney, SDB
Love in the Gospel of John: An Exegetical, Theological, and Literary Study
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9423
Reviewed by Catrin H. Williams

JoAnn Scurlock and Richard H. Beal, eds.
Creation and Chaos: A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel’s Chaoskampf Hypothesis
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9574
Reviewed by Craig W. Tyson

Christopher R. Seitz
The Character of Christian Scripture: The Significance of a Two-Testament Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8982
Reviewed by Stephen J. Andrews

Anna Rebecca Solevåg
Birthing Salvation: Gender and Class in Early Christian Childbearing Discourse
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9669
Reviewed by Sarah E. Rollens

Michael D. Swartz
The Signifying Creator: Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8909
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Abraham Terian, trans.
Magnalia Dei: Biblical History in Epic Verse by Grigor Magistros
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9159
Reviewed by Adam Carter McCollum

Benyamim Tsedaka and Sharon Sullivan, eds.
The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah: First English Translation Compared with the Masoretic Version
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9231
Reviewed by James R. Blankenship

J. Ross Wagner
Reading the Sealed Book: Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9837
Reviewed by Johann Cook

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read”

Don McMinn has a well-written and thought-provoking exhortation to be a reader here. You might want to bookmark Don's blog as well.

Free Download of Entrusted with the Gospel: Paul's Theology in the Pastoral Epistles

B&H Academic is offering free downloads of Entrusted with the Gospel: Paul's Theology in the Pastoral Epistles in MOBI format if you sign up to receive their updates. You can check it out here.

Audio from the 2015 Expository Preaching Workshop

Free audio for the 2015 Expository Preaching Workshop focusing on the book of Jude can be accessed here or you can access the individual links below.

Plenary Session 1 - Dr. Jerry Vines
Plenary Session 2 - Dr. David Allen
Plenary Session 3 - Dr. Paige Patterson 
Plenary Session 4 - Dr. Matthew McKellar
Plenary Session 5 - Dr. Vern Charette
Plenary Session 6 - Dr. Steven Smith
How to Survive and Thrive in the Apostasy

Five Lessons on Writing a Dissertation

Jonathan Warren at the Emerging Scholars Blog has a three-part post on what he learned from writing a dissertation here, here, and here. I would echo Warren's points.

Eerdmans Inventory Reduction Sale

Eerdmans is offering select titles at a 50% discount until April 15. I did not find many titles of interest or ones that I did not already have but you might. You can access the sale here.

John Broadus

Today is the 120th anniversary of the death of John Broadus, the well-known Baptist professor of homiletics. Bible students might be most familiar with his commentary on Matthew or his book, A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. Church History has an interesting article on the life of Broadus here.