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. 

Alan J. Bale
Genre and Narrative Coherence in the Acts of the Apostles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10392
Reviewed by Loveday Alexander

Patrick T. Egan
Ecclesiology and the Scriptural Narrative of 1 Peter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11258
Reviewed by Torrey Seland

Susanna Elm
Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11114
Reviewed by Andrew R. Guffey

Matthew Harmon and Jay E. Smith, eds.
Studies in the Pauline Epistles: Essays in Honor of Douglas J. Moo
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10157
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

Jonathan G. Kline
Allusive Soundplay in the Hebrew Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11407
Reviewed by Thomas P. McCreesh, O.P.

Reinhard G. Kratz
Historical and Biblical Israel: The History, Tradition, and Archives of Israel and Judah
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11167
Reviewed by Brad E. Kelle

Jeremy D. Lyon
Qumran Interpretation of the Genesis Flood
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10952
Reviewed by Jonathan M. Potter

Harry O. Maier
Picturing Paul in Empire: Imperial Image, Text and Persuasion in Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9730
Reviewed by Torsten Jantsch

Hans de Wit and Janet Dyk, eds.
Bible and Transformation: The Promise of Intercultural Bible Reading
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11092
Reviewed by Jione Havea

Gary Yamasaki
Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11513
Reviewed by Steve A. Wiggins

The Beatitudes

Here is a very good post on the Beatitudes (Matt 5, Luke 6).

Robert L. Thomas (1928-2017)

I just learned that Dr. Robert L. Thomas has gone to be with the Lord. It is interesting to note that both he and Dr. Toussaint were born the same year and passed the same year. I never met the man but I benefited from his writings, most noticeably, his two-volume Revelation commentary.

8 Tech Tools for Church Staff

See this article although I must admit I don't use any of these.

Stanley D. Toussaint (1928–2017)

I just learned that Dr. Stan Toussaint has gone to be with the Lord. In many ways my life and ministry was shaped by this dear servant. I consider it one of the great privileges in my life to have been able to fill in for him at DTS occasionally from 2008 to 2015. I would often meet with "Dr. T." before such occasions to go over what I was supposed to cover but he would always tell me to teach the text as I understood it. I always felt affirmed by that, yet always mindful that he had probably forgotten more Bible than I knew. 

Best Free Digital Bible Resources

Mark Hoffman has provided a helpful annotated list here of the best free digital Bible Study resources.

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. 

Kimberly Ambrose
Jew among Jews: Rehabilitating Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11150
Reviewed by Michael F. Bird

Elie Assis
Identity in Conflict: The Struggle between Esau and Jacob, Edom and Israel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11182
Reviewed by George Savran

Stephen B. Chapman and Marvin A. Sweeney, eds.
The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11333
Reviewed by Jeffery M. Leonard

Raimo Hakola, Nina Nikki, and Ulla Tervahauta, eds.
Others and the Construction of Early Christian Identities
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10022
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

David Horrell
An Introduction to the Study of Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10387
Reviewed by Nijay Gupta

Bryan M. Litfin
Early Christian Martyr Stories: An Evangelical Introduction with New Translations
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9932
Reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten

John Poirier and Jeffrey Peterson, eds.
Marcan Priority without Q: Explorations in the Farrer Hypothesis
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10389
Reviewed by David J. Neville

Ada Taggar-Cohen and Roy E. Gane, eds.
Current Issues in Priestly and Related Literature: The Legacy of Jacob Milgrom and Beyond
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11091
Reviewed by Mark Awabdy
Reviewed by Brandon R. Grafius

Géza G. Xeravits and Peter Porzig
Einführung in die Qumranliteratur
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10674
Reviewed by Pieter B. Hartog