Online Resources for Paul’s Missionary Journeys

Michael Kok has a brief but helpful list of resources here.

The Latest Issue of the 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. 

Adolf von Harnack; Johann Anselm Steiger, ed.
Einleitung in das Neue Testament: Berliner Vorlesung im Wintersemester 1899/1900
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10833
Reviewed by David Lincicum

David Bentley Hart
The New Testament: A Translation
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11853
Reviewed by Andrew R. Guffey

Katrin Juschka
“Geheiligt werde dein Name!”: Eine auslegungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zur Namensheiligung im Vaterunser
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10683
Reviewed by Susanne Luther

Joshua E. Leim
Matthew’s Theological Grammar: The Father and the Son
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10898
Reviewed by Steven M. Bryan

Clive Marsh and Steve Moyise
Jesus and the Gospels
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10864
Reviewed by Eve-Marie Becker

Mark A. Seifrid
The Second Letter to the Corinthians
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10006
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Mitzi J. Smith
Insights from African American Interpretation
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11781
Reviewed by Esau McCaulley

Hermann-Josef Stipp
Studien zum Jeremiabuch: Text und Redaktion
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10377
Reviewed by Andrew Shead

Charlie Trimm
Fighting for the King and the Gods: A Survey of Warfare in the Ancient Near East
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11906
Reviewed by Brad E. Kelle

Ben Witherington III
Psalms Old and New: Exegesis, Intertextuality, and Hermeneutics
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11777
Reviewed by David G. Firth

Psalms as a Source of Ethics

When considering the ethical texts in the Bible, one does not normally think of the Psalms. But Gordon Wenham does a nice job of bringing out the ethical elements in the book. One way he does this is by showing that parts of the psalms deal with each "command" of the Decalogue. There are too many texts to deal with here but check out Wenham's discussion if you are interested

Gordon Wenham, The Psalter Reclaimed: Praying and Praising with the Psalms (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013), 107-115.

The Assyrians

Here is a pretty good article on the Assyrians.

Galatians 2 and Acts 15

Michael Kok has a brief but fair post here addressing the issue of Galatians 2 and Acts 15.