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.

Eva Marta Baillie, Facing the Fiend: Satan as a Literary Character
Reviewed by Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte

Roland Boer and Christina Petterson, Time of Troubles: A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity
Reviewed by Mark A. Matson

Philip Church, Hebrews and the Temple: Attitudes to the Temple in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews
Reviewed by Max Botner

Eckhart Frahm, ed., A Companion to Assyria
Reviewed by Yoram Cohen

Tiffany Houck-Loomis, History through Trauma: History and Counter-history in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Elizabeth Boase

Ulrich Hübler and Herbert Niehr, eds., Sprachen in Palastina im 2. und 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Kolloquium des Deutschen Vereins zur Erforschung Palastinas, 02.–04.11.2012, Mainz
Reviewed by Dennis Pardee

Mark J. Keown, Jesus in a World of Colliding Empires: Mark’s Jesus from the Perspective of Power and Expectations
Reviewed by Adam Winn

Roland Meynet, Le Psautier: Premier Livre (Ps 1–41)
Reviewed by Marc Girard

Françoise Mirguet, An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism
Reviewed by Tyler Smith

Asher Ovadiah and Rosario Pierri, Elijah’s Cave on Mount Carmel and Its Inscriptions
Reviewed by Christopher Ryan Jones

Eric Weidner, Strategien zur Leidbewältigung im 2. Korintherbrief
Reviewed by Gudrun Nassauer

Florian Wilk and Markus Öhler, eds., Paulinische Schriftrezeption: Grundlagen – Auspragungen – Wirkungen – Wertungen
Reviewed by Steven Edward Harris

Raiders of the Lost Ark and Biblical Interpretation

This blog post explains what these two have in common.

Six Reasons to Read Galatians Again

Jeff Robinson discusses them here.

Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament

David Turner interviews Jonathan Greer and John Hilber here about a recent book they edited, Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament.

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.

Rachel E. Adelman, The Female Ruse: Women’s Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Diana Abernethy

James K. Aitken and Hilary F. Marlow, eds., The City in the Hebrew Bible: Critical, Literary, and Exegetical Approaches
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews

Karl Barth; R. David Nelson, ed., The Epistle to the Ephesians
Reviewed by Eric Covington

Matthew E. Gordley, New Testament Christological Hymns: Exploring Texts, Contexts, and Significance
Reviewed by Chris Kugler

Wolfgang Gründstäudl, Uta Poplutz, and Tobias Nicklas, eds., Der zweite Petrusbrief und das Neue Testament
Reviewed by Terrance Callan

Rahel Halabé, Hinneh: Biblical Hebrew the Practical Way
Reviewed by Michael Graves

Trevor S. Luke, Ushering in a New Republic: Theologies of Arrival at Rome in the First Century BCE
Reviewed by Patrick Stange

Thomas P. Nelligan, The Quest for Mark’s Sources: An Exploration of the Case for Mark’s Use of First Corinthians
Reviewed by Jin Hwan Lee

Johannes Unsok Ro, Poverty, Law, and Divine Justice in Persian and Hellenistic Judah
Reviewed by Brandon R. Grafius

Roger Tomes; Walter J. Houston and Adrian H. W. Curtis, eds., Interpreting the Text: Essays on the Old Testament, Its Reception and Its Study
Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Audirsch

Carey Walsh and Mark W. Elliott, eds., Biblical Theology: Past, Present, and Future
Reviewed by David S. Ritsema

Ola Wikander, Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragons, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible 
Reviewed by Joanna Töyräänvuori

Ceramic Pomegranate from Tel Shiloh

A couple of my colleagues from the Tel Shiloh dig have published an article available here on a ceramic pomegranate, one of the more important finds from the 2018 season.

The Dangers of Academized Christianity

All those involved in theological education either as a professor or as a student should read this.