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The Virgin Conception

Eric Davis has a helpful post on the virgin conception here.

Thoughts on Peaching the Infancy Narratives

Ian Paul has a good post on preaching the infancy narratives here.

Journal of Biblical Literature 134.4

The lasted volume of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now out. Here is a list of the articles with links to abstracts.

Ancient Prayers and the Psychology of Religion: Deities as Parental Figures
David A. Bosworth
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Left-Handed Benjaminites and the Shadow of Saul
Suzie Park
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The Levite of Judges 19–21
David Z. Moster
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The Book of Malachi, Manuscript 4Q76 (4QXIIa), and the Formation of the “Book of the Twelve”
Mika S. Pajunen and Hanne von Weissenberg
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Greek Philosophical Discourse in the Book of Judith?
Lawrence M. Wills
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Were the Psalms Collections at Qumran True Psalters?
William Yarchin
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The Oddity of the Reference to Jesus in Acts 4:13b
Chris Keith
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Paulus Tragicus: Staging Apostolic Adversity in First Corinthians
Courtney J. P. Friesen
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Community Is a Body: Sex, Marriage, and Metaphor in 1 Corinthians 6:12–7:7 and Ephesians 5:21–33
Jill E. Marshall
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JBL FORUM The JBL Forum, an Occasional Exchange
Adele Reinhartz
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Twice Called, Thrice Rebuked: Doing African Biblical Scholarship
Gerald O. West
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The Making of Gershom’s Story: A Cameroonian Postwar Hermeneutics Reading of Exodus 2
Kenneth N. Ngwa
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Memories of Midwives
L. Juliana Claassens
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Space and Human Agency in the Making of the Story of Gershom through a Senegalese Christian Lens
Aliou C. Niang
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A Luta Continua: Toward Trickster Intellectuals and Communities
Musa W. Dube
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Five Errors to Drop from Your Christmas Sermon

See Andreas Kӧstenberger and Alexander Stewart's article in Christianity Today here.