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.

Garwood P. Anderson
Paul’s New Perspective: Charting a Soteriological Journey
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11472
Reviewed by B. J. Oropeza

Kenneth E. Bailey
The Good Shepherd: A Thousand-Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11465
Reviewed by Wayne Baxter

Dianne Bergant
A New Heaven, A New Earth: The Bible and Catholicity
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11219
Reviewed by John Painter

Ben C. Blackwell
Christosis: Engaging Paul’s Soteriology with His Patristic Interpreters
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11437
Reviewed by Joshua Madden

Jeremiah W. Cataldo
Biblical Terror: Why Law and Restoration in the Bible Depend upon Fear
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11574
Reviewed by Shawn J. Kelley

Lisbeth S. Fried
Ezra: A Commentary
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11128
Reviewed by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

T. Christopher Hoklotubbe
Civilized Piety: The Rhetoric of Pietas in the Pastoral Epistles and the Roman Empire
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11876
Reviewed by Mark Harding

Torsten Jantsch
Frauen, Männer, Engel: Perspektiven zu 1Kor 11,2–16
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11398
Reviewed by J. Andrew Doole

Yung Suk Kim
Resurrecting Jesus: The Renewal of New Testament Theology
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10639
Reviewed by Joel Stephen Williams

Jon D. Levenson
The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10905
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen

Kelly D. Liebengood
The Eschatology of 1 Peter: Considering the Influence of Zechariah 9–14
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10040
Reviewed by John H. Elliott

Robert Mucha
Der apokalyptische Kaiser: Die Wahrnehmung Domitians in der apokalyptischen Literatur des Frühjudentums und Urchristentums
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10660
Reviewed by Russell Morton

James Nogalski
Interpreting Prophetic Literature: Historical and Exegetical Tools for Reading the Prophets
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10819
Reviewed by Ryan P. Bonfiglio

Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer and Michael Welker, eds.
Liebe
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10914
Reviewed by Oda Wischmeyer

Richard E. Payne
A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11047
Reviewed by Jason M. Silverman

Andrew E. Steinman
1 Samuel
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11538
Reviewed by David G. Firth

Nicole L. Tilford
Sensing World, Sensing Wisdom: The Cognitive Foundation of Biblical Metaphors
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11676
Reviewed by JiSeong James Kwon

Dorothy Jean Weaver
The Irony of Power: The Politics of God within Matthew’s Narrative
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11796
Reviewed by Glenna S. Jackson

Philip Y. Yoo
Ezra and the Second Wilderness
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11734
Reviewed by Roy E. Garton

Otto Zwierlein
Die antihäretischen Evangelienprologe und die Entstehung des Neuen Testaments
https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10917
Reviewed by Eric Scherbenske

David and Goliath

Carl Rasmussen has a good post on the geography of the battle between David and Goliath.David and Goliath here.

A Four-Horned Altar near Tel Shiloh

I was finally able to see the four-horned altar at Givat Harel, near Tel Shiloh today. I don't know that much about it but some information on it can be found here. and here. Unfortunately, the area was not well maintained. 

Free Revelation PowerPoint

Credo Courses is offering Mark Hitchcock's slides from his Revelation course for free here. Note only the PowerPoint is free.

Imprecations in Lament Psalms

Gordon Wenham addresses the problem of imprecations within the lament psalms by making the following three points (with some modification).

1. It is surely better to pray for God to punish the wicked than do it yourself.
2. These prayers for God to punish the wicked are expressions of hope in God’s justice.
3. Imprecations can be prayerful expressions of sensitivity for the suffering of fellow Christians.

Wenham, Gordon. The Psalter Reclaimed: Praying and Praising with the Psalms (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013), 49.