Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2024

Todd Bolen has produced another "Top 10 Discoveries" list. I have posted other lists but this one is more comprehensive. Check it out here.

The Gospel According to Paul: Over a Hundred Years of Interpretation

B. J. Oropeza's article, "The Gospel According to Paul: Over a Hundred Years of Interpretation," can be accessed for free 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 Errington, Every Good Path: Wisdom and Practical Reason in Christian Ethics and the Book of Proverbs (T&T Clark)
Paavo N. Tucker

Afework Hailu, Jewish Cultural Elements in the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥәdo Church (Gorgias)
Nebeyou Alemu Terefe 

Susan Miller, Women in John’s Gospel (T&T Clark)
Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III

Thomas Tops, Paroimia and Parrēsia in the Gospel of John: A Historical-Hermeneutical Study (Mohr Siebeck)
Daniel Frayer-Griggs

The following reviews originally published in the Studia Philonica Annual have been added to RBL.

Radka Fialová, Jiří Hoblík, and Petr Kitzler, eds., Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (De Gruyter)
Justin M. Rogers

Jeffrey M. Hunt, ed. and trans., De vita Mosis I: An Introduction with Text, Translation, and Notes (Baylor University Press)
Gregory E. Sterling

Daniel Maier, Das Glück im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament: Eine Untersuchung zu den Konzepten eines guten Lebens in der Literatur des Zweiten Tempels und deren Einfluss auf die frühchristliche Wahrnehmung des Glücks (Mohr Siebeck)
David T. Runia

Jason A. Staples, The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity (Cambridge University Press)
Ellen Birnbaum

Jonah: A Visual Reader

You can access a free PDF copy of an updated edition of Sawyer Moranville's Jonah: A Visual Reader from Lingua Deo Gloria here.

Top Biblical Archaeology Stories in 2024

Ruth Schuster at Haaretz has now come out with a list here.

Merry Christmas!

 

Biblical Archaeology Stories of 2024

Gordon Govier provides his top ten 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.

Eve-Marie Becker, Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson, and Susanne Luther, eds., Who was “James”?: Essays on the Letter’s Authorship and Provenance (Mohr Siebeck)
Martin C. Albl

Miriam Goldstein, A Judeo-Arabic Parody of the Life of Jesus: The Toledot Yeshu Helene Narrative (Mohr Siebeck)
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg

Mark J. Goodwin, Paul and Participation in Christ: The Patristic Witness (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Benjamin A. Edsall

Evyatar Marienberg, Traditional Jewish Sex Guidance: A History (Brill)
Robert Jütte

The following reviews originally published in the Studia Philonica Annual have been added to RBL.

René Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (Brill)
Erich S. Gruen

Peder Borgen; Torrey Seland, ed., Illuminations by Philo of Alexandria: Selected Studies on Interpretation in Philo, Paul and the Revelation of John (Brill)
Gregory E. Sterling

Ludovica De Luca, Il Dio architetto di Filone di Alessandria (De opificio mundi 17–20) (Vita e Pensiero)
Heleen Keizer

Alan Taylor Farnes, Scott D. Mackie and David T. Runia, eds., Ancient Texts, Papyri, and Manuscripts: Studies in Honor of James R. Royse (Brill)
Brent Nongbri

Theistic Approach To Old Testament “Texts Of Terror”

Although this post dates to 2013, Roger Olson has a pretty good survey here.

12 Fresh Ways to Read Your Bible in 2025

I read through the Bible every year. Hopefully, you do as well. Tim Challies has some helpful suggestions on how to keep it fresh here.

Another Free Book from Logos

Logos Bible software is offering another free book, The Lord’s Song: The Basis, Function and Significance of Choral Music in Chronicles by John W. Kleinig. The offer can be accessed here and is good until December 31.

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.

A. Andrew Das, Remarriage in Early Christianity (Eerdmans)
Sylvie Chabert d’Hyères

Yitzhaq Feder, Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor (Cambridge University Press)
Thomas Kazen

Emanuel Fiano, Three Powers in Heaven: The Emergence of Theology and the Parting of the Ways (Yale University Press)
Adele Reinhartz

Sophus Helle and Gina Konstantopoulos, eds., The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Literature (Brill)
Amar Annus

Christopher Porter, Johannine Social Identity Formation after the Fall of the Jerusalem Temple: Negotiating Identity in Crisis (Brill)
Laurent Pinchard

The following reviews originally published in the Studia Philonica Annual have been added to RBL.

John Paul-Harper, Paul and Philo on the Politics of the Land, Jerusalem, and Temple (Mohr Siebeck)
Gregory E. Sterling

Carl R. Holladay; Jonathan M. Potter and Michael K. W. Suh, eds., Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays (Mohr Siebeck)
Justin M. Rogers

Benjamin Schliesser, Jan Rüggemeier, Thomas J. Kraus, and Jörg Frey, eds., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (Mohr Siebeck)
David T. Runia

Joan E. Taylor and David M. Hay, Philo of Alexandria On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Brill)
Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer