The “Slaughter” of the Canaanites

William Lane Craig revisits this oft-discussed issue here.

The Need for Zephaniah

Daniel Timmer gives three reasons here.

Steve Walton on Jude 17–25

Steve Walton has provided slides on Jude 17–25 from one of his recent talks here.

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.

Andrew Bowden, Desire in Paul’s Undisputed Epistles: Semantic Observations on the Use of epithymeō, ho epithymētēs, and epithymía in Roman Imperial Texts (Mohr Siebeck)
Nélida Naveros Córdova

Holly J. Carey, Women Who Do: Female Disciples in the Gospels (Eerdmans)
Susan E. Benton

David Davage, How Isaiah Became an Author: Prophecy, Authority, and Attribution (Fortress)
J. Todd Hibbard

Ariel Feldman and Timothy J. Sandoval, eds., Torah in Early Jewish Imaginations (Mohr Siebeck)
Joshua Schwartz

Ronit Nikolsky and Arnon Atzmon, eds., Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature (Brill)
Matthew Goldstone

Lidija Novakovic, John 11–21: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor University Press)
Yan Ma

Frances Reynolds, A Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC (Oxford University Press)
Céline Debourse

Joseph Too Shao and Rosa Ching Shao, Joel, Nahum, and Malachi: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Langham Global Library)
Bob Becking

W. Gil Shin, The “Exodus” in Jerusalem (Luke 9:31): A Lukan Form of Israel’s Restoration Hope (Brill)
Jeremy D. Otten

Michael Wandusim, The Lord’s Prayer in the Ghanaian Context: A Reception-Historical Study (De Gruyter)
Torrey Seland

Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 29

The latest issue of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal is available for free access here.

Free Illustrated Greek Reader on Colossians

Colossians: A Biblical Greek Visual Reader by Sawyer Moranville is available as a free PDF here. You can access a similar volume on Jude here.

HT: Robert Plummer

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.

Yuval Blankovsky, Reading Talmudic Sources as Arguments: A New Interpretive Approach (Brill)
David Kraemer

Constantine R. Campbell and Jonathan T. Pennington, Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture: A Literary, Canonical, and Theological Survey (Baker Academic)
James P. Sweeney

Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Ezra: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Yale University Press)
Christopher M. Jones

Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee and Na‘ama Pat-El, eds., Bēl lišāni: Current Research in Akkadian Linguistics (Eisenbrauns)
Paul Korchin

Joshua W. Jipp, Pauline Theology as a Way of Life: A Vision of Human Flourishing in Christ (Baker Academic)
Haley Jacob

Seyoon Kim, Paul’s Gospel for the Thessalonians and Others: Essays on 1 and 2 Thessalonians and Other Pauline Epistles (Mohr Siebeck)
David Lertis Matson

Matthew R. Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (Brill)
Jeffrey L. Morrow

Stanley E. Porter and David I. Yoon, Romans: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor University Press)
B. J. Oropeza

Jeffrey Stackert, Deuteronomy and the Pentateuch (Yale University Press)
Kevin Mattison

Johannes Vortisch, Das unschuldige Blut im Matthäusevangelium: Zur geschichtstheologischen Deutung des Todes Jesu (Mohr Siebeck)
Marc Groenbech-Dam

Exodus Commentaries

Carmen Imes gives her recommendations here.

Acts Presentations

Steve Walton has made presentations from two lectures on Acts at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology available here.

Free eBook: Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Essays and Sermons on Eschatology, Ethics, and Politics

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Essays and Sermons on Eschatology, Ethics, and Politics by Elizabeth Phillips. The offer is valid until October 15. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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Journal for the Study of the New Testament 47:1

The latest articles from of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament are available now. Here is a list of the articles and links to abstracts. The articles by Horrell, Kaawa, Casas-Ramírez, and Atkins are open access.

Introduction: Decolonizing New Testament Studies? Beyond Eurocentrism to Reshaping the Discipline
David G. Horrell

Reconsidering the Task, Methods, and Aims of Reading the Gospels in the Present Myanmar Context
Layang Seng Ja

Decolonizing New Testament Studies: A Māori Perspective
Wayne Te Kaawa

The Narrative Construction of Peter in the Gospel of Mark in Light of the Reports of Displacement and Exile Due to the Armed Conflict in Colombia
Juan Alberto Casas-Ramírez

Reading New Testament Exorcism Stories in Dialogue with African Pentecostalism: An Illustration from Mark 1.21–28
Viateur Habarurema

Mary and Maternal Health: Decolonizing Luke 1–2 Amidst the Crisis of Teen Pregnancy
Ma. Marilou S. Ibita

Reading Scripture in Latin America: An Evangelical Perspective From the Grassroots
Sergio Zapata Grajales

Decolonizing New Testament Translation in the Indian Context: John 10.1–18 in the Satya Veda Pusthakam
Johnson Thomaskutty

Mata o Masiasi (Face of Shame): Resituating Paul’s Fool’s Speech Within the Contours of Samoan Rhetoric
Fatilua Fatilua

African Cosmology, Hierarchies of Power, and Slave Dynamics in the Book of Philemon
Gesila Nneka Uzukwu

Decolonizing the New Testament Texts: A Postcolonial Task
C. I. David Joy