Journal of Biblical Literature 142:3

Volume 142:3 of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now out. Here is a list of the articles with links to abstracts.

Not Seeing, Unseeing, and Blind: Disentangling Disability from Adjacent Topoi in the Hebrew Bible
Eric J. Harvey

The Rot of the Bones: A New Analysis of קנאה (“Envy/Jealousy”) in the Hebrew Bible
Anthony Ellis

Irresolution as Historical Practice and the Case of the Unnamed Woman in Timnah
Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

The Field Belonging to Boaz: Creating Kinship through Land, Labor, Food, and Feeding
Cynthia R. Chapman

Love, Marriage, and a Delayed Harvest: Isaiah 61 as the Reversal of the Song of the Vineyard (5:1–7)
Rebecca W. Poe Hays

Travel and Anxiety in Early Jewish Literature
Elisa Uusimäki

Remembering God’s Beloved Son: Jeremiah 38:20 LXX and Mark 1:11
James M. Neumann

John 21:15–19 as a Prophetic Succession: A Reading in Light of 2 Kings 2:1–18
Matthew J. Klem

Exotica and the Ethiopian of Acts 8:26–40: Toward a Different Fabula
Margaret Aymer

Genesis 6:1-4

Mitchell Chase has a very thorough and clear discussion here of the meaning of this much debated text.

Nehemiah 8:8

William Varner calls Nehemiah 8:8 the first example of expository preaching here. Since I see application as an essential part of exposition, one would need to continue reading in v. 9ff.

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.

Roger David Aus, ed., Haggadah in Early Judaism and the New Testament (Mohr Siebeck)
Joshua Schwartz

Shelley L. Birdsong, J. Cornelis de Vos, and Hyun Chul Paul Kim, eds., Reading Gender in Judges: An Intertextual Approach (SBL Press)
Caryn Tamber-Rosenau

Paul Borgman and Kelly James Clark, Written to Be Heard: Recovering the Messages of the Gospels (Eerdmans)
Mark Cooper

John J. Collins, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara Reid, OP, and Donald Senior, CP, eds., The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century (T&T Clark)
Leslie J. Hoppe

Edward Gudeman, The Abyss in Revelation: A View from Below (Eisenbrauns)
Alexander P. Thompson

Joseph McDonald, Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple Era: Images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities (T&T Clark)
Samantha J. Scott

Madison N. Pierce, Andrew J. Byers, and Simon Gathercole, eds., Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature (Cambridge University Press)
Conrad Thorup Elmelund

Samuel Pomeroy, Chrysostom as Exegete: Scholarly Traditions and Rhetorical Aims in the Homilies on Genesis (Brill)
Jacopo Marcon

Robert D. Sider, ed., The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus: An Introduction with Erasmus’ Prefaces and Ancillary Writings (University of Toronto Press)
Kirk Essary

Michael E. Stone, Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Biblical Heroes (SBL Press)
Mari Mamyan