BibleX: 2016-12-25

Dec 31, 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.

Miriam Bier
‘Perhaps There Is Hope’: Reading Lamentations as a Polyphony of Pain, Penitence, and Protest
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10424
Reviewed by Amy C. Cottrill

Tony Burke, ed.
Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha from North American Perspectives: Proceedings from the 2013 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10589
Reviewed by Julia Snyder

Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, ed.
The Shape and Shaping of the Book of Psalms: The Current State of Scholarship
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9922
Reviewed by John E. Anderson

Susan E. Hylen
A Modest Apostle: Thecla and the History of Women in the Early Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10735
Reviewed by Kate Wilkinson

Richard Kalmin
Migrating Tales: The Talmud’s Narratives and Their Historical Context
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11061
Reviewed by Rivka Ulmer

Duane Litfin
Paul’s Theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s Challenge to the Art of Persuasion in Ancient Corinth
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10624
Reviewed by James W. Thompson

Alicia D. Myers and Bruce G. Schuchard, eds.
Abiding Words: The Use of Scripture in the Gospel of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10307
Reviewed by Inhee C. Berg

Manfred Oeming and Konrad Schmid
Job’s Journey: Stations of Suffering
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11081
Reviewed by Katharine Dell

Donald W. Parry and Emanuel Tov
The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10401
Reviewed by Peter Porzig

Leo G. Perdue and Warren Carter; Coleman A. Baker, ed.
Israel and Empire: A Postcolonial History of Israel and Early Judaism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10288
Reviewed by Steed Vernyl Davidson

Adele Reinhartz
Caiaphas the High Priest
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8952
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep

Jeremy Schipper
Ruth: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10968
Reviewed by George Savran

V. George Shillington
An Introduction to the Study of Luke-Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10861
Reviewed by James M. Morgan

Daniel Lynwood Smith
Into the World of the New Testament: Greco-Roman and Jewish Texts and Contexts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10285
Reviewed by Troy M. Troftgruben

Werner Zager
Jesusforschung in vier Jahrhunderten: Texte von den Anfängen historischer Kritik bis zur “dritten Frage” nach dem historischen Jesus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9831
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Dec 30, 2016

Another List of Archaeological Discoveries in 2016

A few days ago, I posted on Christianity Today's list of top ten Bible-related archaeological discoveries in 2016. Now Haaretz here has a list of the best archaeological discoveries in Israel for 2016.