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. 

Mira Balberg
Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11062
Reviewed by Lennart Lehmhaus

John T. Carroll
Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11428
Reviewed by David J. Neville

Mordechai Cogan
The Raging Torrent
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11028
Reviewed by Krzysztof J. Baranowski

Elaine T. James
Landscapes of the Song of Songs: Poetry and Place
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11758
Reviewed by Stephen C. Russell

M. David Litwa
Refutation of All Heresies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11117
Reviewed by Augusto Cosentino

Sara J. Milstein
Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11480
Reviewed by JiSeong Kwon

James J. O’Donnell
Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10780
Reviewed by Michael F. Bird

Kenneth A. Ristau
Reconstructing Jerusalem: Persian-Period Prophetic Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11314
Reviewed by Sean Burt

Marcel Sigrist and Kevin Stephens, eds.
In Memoriam John Strugnell: Four Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10972
Reviewed by Andrea Ravasco

Peter-Ben Smit
From Canonical Criticism to Ecumenical Exegesis? A Study in Biblical Hermeneutics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11125
Reviewed by Joel B. Green

Matthew 10:21 and Malachi 4:6.

Abram K-J has an interesting post here on whether Jesus' words recorded in Matthew 10:21 which seem allude to Malachi 4:6 follow the MT (3:24) or LXX (3:23).

Translating New Testament Slavery Texts

Philip Jenkins discusses the challenges related to translating slavery texts in the New Testament here.

Vlach on Psalm 8 in the New Testament

Michael Vlach discusses the use of Psalm 8 in the New Testament here.

The Place of Trumpeting Inscription

Leen Ritmeyer has an interesting post here on the "place of trumpeting" inscription found in the southern Temple Mount excavations. One point that I found intriguing was Leen's suggestion that the inscription may have been Broken inadvertently by Charles Warren in 1867.

Bad Theological Writing

David Murray talks about it here.

Mission as the Staring Point for the Theology of the Pastorals?

Andreas Köstenberger in this post suggests that "mission" might be the best starting point for the theology of the Pastorals. I'm not sure I agree but it is interesting.