Nov 12, 2016

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 but unfortunately you must be a SBL member.

James K. Aitken, ed.
T&T Clark Companion to the Septuagint
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10386
Reviewed by Siegfried Kreuzer

Stine Birk
Depicting the Dead: Self-Representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10614
Reviewed by Eric C. Smith

Sebastian Fink
Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10856
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Stephen E. Fowl
Ephesians: Being a Christian at Home and in the Cosmos
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10219
Reviewed by Julia Lambert Fogg

John Paul Heil
The Book of Revelation: Worship for Life in the Spirit of Prophecy
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10002
Reviewed by Russell Morton

Yael Klangwisan
Earthing the Cosmic Queen: Relevance Theory and the Song of Songs
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9826
Reviewed by Dianne Bergant

Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
Evagrius’s Kephalaia Gnostika: A New Translation of the Unreformed Text from the Syriac
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10904
Reviewed by Timothy Pettipiece

Stanley E. Porter
John, His Gospel, and Jesus: In Pursuit of the Johannine Voice
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10830
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Sigmund Mowinckel; trans. Mark E. Biddle
Psalm Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10081
Reviewed by Phil J. Botha
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Nov 11, 2016

Luke 2:1-7

James Gray discusses Luke 2:1-7 here. This post does a good job of summarizing some of the problematic issues related to this text. Those working on Christmas sermons or lessons might find it useful.

Nov 10, 2016

Characteristics of Faith According to Hebrews 11

George Guthrie discusses six characteristics of biblical faith according to Hebrews 11 here.

Nov 9, 2016

Robert Hubbard on Books for Genesis — Ruth

Robert Hubbard has a nice run through here of books which you might want to consider in building an Old Testament library covering Genesis — Ruth.

Nov 7, 2016

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 but unfortunately you must be a SBL member.

James S. Anderson
Monotheism and Yahweh's Appropriation of Baal
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10729
Reviewed by Steve Wiggins

Robert L. Brawley
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10163
Reviewed by Volker Rabens

Natalio Fernández Marcos, M. Victoria Spottorno Díaz-Caro, Jose Manuel Cañas Reillo, Mercedes López Salvá, Inmaculada Delgado Jara, Antonio Piñero Sáenz, and Lorena Miralles Maciá, trans.
La Biblia griega Septuaginta 3: Libros poéticos y sapienciales
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9694
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Deirdre N. Fulton
Reconsidering Nehemiah's Judah: The Case of MT and LXX Nehemia 11–12
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10838
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Lars Kierspel
Charts on the Life and Letters of Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9124
Reviewed by Corneliu Constantineanu

Susan Marks and Hal Taussig, eds.
Meals in Early Judaism: Social Formation at the Table
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10807
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Benjamin Richler
Guide to Hebrew Manuscript Collections
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10919
Reviewed by Christopher Dost

J. J. M. Roberts
First Isaiah
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11068
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney
Reviewed by H. G. M. Williamson

Jack M. Sasson
From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10716
Reviewed by Amanda H. Podany

Nov 6, 2016

Guarding Your Study Time

Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson has some good suggestions here.