Saul and Paul

Greg Lanier has a good correction and explanation here of the use of Saul and Paul in the New Testament.

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.

Kristian A. Bendoraitis
‘Behold, the Angels Came and Served Him’: A Compositional Analysis of Angels in Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10950
Reviewed by Marianne Blickenstaff

J. Blake Couey
Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah: The Most Perfect Model of the Prophetic Poetry
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11598
Reviewed by Daniel J. Stulac

Robert Hanhart, ed.
Septuaginta: Paralipomenon liber II
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10312
Reviewed by Roger Good

Diana Lipton, ed.
Universalism and Particularism at Sodom and Gomorrah: Essays in Memory of Ron Pirson
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8455
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews

Peter Meineck and David Konstan, eds.
Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11000
Reviewed by Zsuzsanna Varhelyi

Geert van Oyen
Reading the Gospel of Mark as a Novel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10180
Reviewed by Gregg S. Morrison

E. J. Revell; Raymond de Hoop and Paul Sanders, eds.
The Pausal System: Divisions in the Hebrew Biblical Text as Marked by Voweling and Stress Position
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11133
Reviewed by Jerome A. Lund

Randy Rheaume
An Exegetical and Theological Analysis of the Son’s Relationship to the Father in John’s Gospel: Equal Yet Subordinate
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10799
Reviewed by Athanasios Despotis

Mirjo Salvini
Les textes hourrites de Meskéné/Emar
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11147
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Christopher W. Skinner
Reading John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10513
Reviewed by Chang Seon An

Another Three-Fold Division of the Law

Ian Paul discusses Philip Jenson's alternative three-fold division of the law here. It is an interesting proposal but I am not sure that setting up a tiered-system solves some of the thornier problems related to Christians and the law.

Maintaining Your Greek

Andreas Köstenberger and Robert Plummer talk about maintaining your Greek here. I especially liked this quote: “Greek is like the neighborhood cat. If we don’t feed it, eventually it will leave.” The same could be said of Hebrew as well.

The Temple in Daniel 9:24-27

Michael Vlach has a good  post here on the three phases of the Jerusalem temple in Daniel 9:24-27.

Free ANE Timeline

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is providing a free full-color PDF timeline of the ancient Near East here.

How to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year

See this article at the Harvard Business Review.

HT: Trevin Wax