May 14, 2022

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 to read them.

Barry J. Beitzel, Where Was the Biblical Red Sea? Examining the Ancient Evidence
David Ben-Gad HaCohen

Nuria Calduch-Benages, For Wisdom’s Sake: Collected Essays on the Book of Ben Sira
Room Wischmeyer

Jan Dušek, ed., The Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives
Christian Stadel

Matthias Klinghardt, The Oldest Gospel and the Formation of the Canonical Gospels
Oleg Andreev

John S. Kloppenborg, Christ’s Associations: Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City
Peter Oakes

Mateusz Kusio, The Antichrist Tradition in Antiquity: Antimessianism in Second Temple and Early Christian Literature
Brandon R. Grafius

Sarianna Metso, The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation
Jeff Cross

Kathleen M. O’Connor, Genesis 25B–50
Joel M. LeMon

Ryan S. Schellenberg, Abject Joy: Paul, Prison, and the Art of Making Do
Akio Ito


Sigve K. Tonstad, The Letter to the Romans: Paul among the Ecologists
Cherryl Hunt

May 13, 2022

Preaching Coach Podcasts

David Allen is producing some helpful podcasts related to preaching here.

May 12, 2022

Bread of the Presence

Jennie Ebeling has a very good post here on the Bread of the Presence (aka Shewbread or Showbread) that was part of the tabernacle/temple practice (e.g., Exod 35:13; 39:36; 1 Kgs 7:48; 2 Chr 4:19).

May 11, 2022

Online Resources: Joshua and the Conquest of Canaan

Rob Bradshaw continues to post his helpful lists of online resources. Here is the one for the book of Joshua and the conquest of Canaan.

May 10, 2022

Visualizing Isaiah

The Israel Museum has created an online presentation of artifacts that help to visualize the book of Isaiah. You can check it out here.

May 9, 2022

4 Reasons to Study Revelation

Although Nancy Guthrie and I likely disagree on how Revelation should be interpreted, her four reasons to study the book are worth considering.

May 8, 2022

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 to read them.

Pamela Barmash and Mark W. Hamilton, eds., In the Shadow of Empire: Israel and Judah in the Long Sixth Century BCE
Yigal Levin

Christopher A. Beeley and Mark E. Weedman, eds., The Bible and Early Trinitarian Theology
Peter J. Judge

Katell Berthelot, Michaël Langlois, and Thierry Legrand, eds., Torah: Deutéronome et Pentateuque dans son ensemble
Ariel Feldman

Bruce D. Chilton, Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead
John Granger Cook

Gregorio Del Olmo Lete, Lectura intertextual de la Biblia hebrea: Ensayo de literatura comparada
Miren Junkal Guevara Llaguno

Sascha Gebauer, Hugo Greßmann und sein Programm der Religionsgeschichte
Peter Porzig

Klaus Haacker, Die Apostelgeschichte
Daniel B. Glover

Justin King, Speech-in-Character, Diatribe, and Romans 3:1-9: Who’s Speaking When and Why It Matters
Rafael Rodríguez

Gerbern S. Oegema, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha
Lawrence M. Wills

Julia Rhyder, Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26
David M. Carr