Acts 15 and Disagreements

Ian Paul has a good post on Acts 15 and the Jerusalem Council here. One point of disagreement is with Paul's assertion that there is a "strong consensus" that the prohibitions are sourced in Acts 17–18. While Acts 17–18 is a very popular view, there is some prominent push back (e.g., C. K. Barrett, Bock, Keener, Peterson, Witherington). For those interested, I have written a few things that are accesible on my Academia page.

A Word on Commentaries

Brian Tabb has some helpful reflections on the use of commentaries here.

Themelios 48:1

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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.

Paul K.-K. Cho, Willingness to Die and the Gift of Life: Suicide and Martyrdom in the Hebrew Bible (Eerdmans)
Paul Middleton

Wally V. Cirafesi, John within Judaism: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Shaping of Jesus-Oriented Jewishness in the Fourth Gospel (Brill)
John Van Maaren

C. L. Crouch, Israel and Judah Redefined: Migration, Trauma, and Empire in the Sixth Century BCE (Cambridge University Press)
Yigal Levin

David L. Eastman, Early North African Christianity: Turning Points in the Development of the Church (Baker Academic)
Alden Bass

John Paul-Harper, Paul and Philo on the Politics of the Land, Jerusalem, and Temple (Mohr Siebeck)
William Horst

Ulrich Köpf, Mönchtum als Lebensform: Gesammelte Aufsätze (Mohr Siebeck)
Albrecht Diem

Yii-Jan Lin, The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: New Testament Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences (Oxford University Press)
Werner H. Kelber

Margaret M. Mitchell, John Chrysostom on Paul: Praises and Problem Passages (SBL Press)
Allison L. Gray