Saying, "No"

I have a hard time saying, "no." But I am getting better at it and Charles Stone has some good advice here for doing it gracefully.

Numbering the Ten Commandments

Nothing really new here but Jason DeRouchie gives a good explanation of the three major ways the Decalogue has been enumerated.

The Latest Issue of Detroit Baptist Theological Journal

The latest issue of Detroit Baptist Theological Journal is available for free here.

Melchizedek

Joshua Garroway has an interesting post here on Melchizedek both from a Jewish and Christian perspective.

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.

Amy Cottrill, Uncovering Violence: Reading Biblical Narratives as an Ethical Project (Westminster John Knox)
Shelley L. Birdsong

Philip La G. Du Toit, God’s Saved Israel: Reading Romans 11:26 and Galatians 6:16 in Terms of the New Identity in Christ and the Spirit (Pickwick)
B. J. Oropeza

Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse: Double Trouble Embodied (Routledge)
Caroline Vander Stichele

Ari Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (Cambridge University Press)
Ryan S. Schellenberg

Janette H. Ok, Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer (T&T Clark)
Katie Marcar

Vernon K. Robbins and Roy R. Jeal, eds., Welcoming the Nations: International Sociorhetorical Explorations (SBL Press)
Russell B. Sisson

Michael P. Theophilos, Numismatics and Greek Lexicography (T&T Clark)
David Hendin

Joel L. Watts, Jesus as Divine Suicide: The Death of the Messiah in Galatians (Pickwick)
Dain Alexander Smith

Burkard M. Zapff, Micah (Kohlhammer)
Nicholas R. Werse

Markus Zehnder, The Bible and Immigration: A Critical and Empirical Reassessment (Pickwick)
M. Daniel Carroll R.