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.

Edward Adams, Dorothea H. Bertschmann, Stephen J. Chester, Jonathan A. Linebaugh, and Todd D. Still, eds., The New Perspective on Grace: Paul and the Gospel after Paul and the Gift (Eerdmans)
Ronald D. Witherup, P.S.S.

J. Ayodeji Adewuya, An African Commentary on the Letter of James (Cascade)
K. Jason Coker

Anna M. V. Bowden, Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus: A People’s History Approach (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler

Matthew R. Crawford and Nicholas J. Zola, eds., The Gospel of Tatian: Exploring the Nature and Text of the Diatessaron (T&T Clark)
Jared Secord

Antonios Finitsis, ed., Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible: “Let Your Garments Always Be Bright” (T&T Clark)
Ilona Rashkow

Rolf A. Jacobson and Michael J. Chan, Introducing the Old Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey (Baker Academic)
Sandie Gravett

Matthias Konradt, Christology, Torah, and Ethics in the Gospel of Matthew (Baylor University Press)
Charles L. Quarles

Maia Kotrosits, The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity (University of Chicago Press)
Jimmy Hoke

Alice M. Sinnott, Ruth: An Earth Bible Commentary (T&T Clark)
Debra K. Reid

Andrew Smith, Plotinus on Beauty (Enneads 1.6 and 5.8.1–2): The Greek Text with Notes (SBL Press)
Grant Adamson

Why Pharaoh Went to the Nile

Here is an interesting discussion on why Pharaoh may have gone to the Nile as recorded in Exodus 7:15.

Reading Jeremiah

Jill Firth has a helpful article here concerning how to read Jeremiah with the grain of Scripture following the methodology set forth by Richard Hays.

Walton's Introduction to Mark

Steve Walton has made his slides introducing the Gospel of Mark available here.

Free eBook: Encounters with Jesus

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The Egyptian Sojourn

David Gatt-Gilad discusses here the various chronological issues associated with the length of Israel's sojourn in Egypt from a Jewish 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.

Francesca Alesse and Ludovica De Luca, eds., Philo of Alexandria and Greek Myth: Narratives, Allegories, and Arguments (Brill)
Gregory E. Sterling

Warren Carter, Jesus and the Empire of God: Reading the Gospels in the Roman Empire (Cascade)
Ron Clark

C. L. Crouch and Christopher B. Hays, Isaiah: An Introduction and Study Guide; A Paradigmatic Prophet and His Interpreters (T&T Clark)
Francis Landy

Philip Peter Jenson, Leviticus: An Introduction and Study Guide; The Priestly Vision of Holiness (T&T Clark)
Nicole J. Ruane

Jihye Lee, A Jewish Apocalyptic Framework of Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews: Protology and Eschatology as Background (T&T Clark)
Félix H. Cortez

David L. Mathewson, Voice and Mood: A Linguistic Approach (Baker Academic)
Michel Pauw

James D. Nogalski, The Books of Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah (Eerdmans)
Jason Radine

William A. Tooman and Marian Kelsey, (Re)reading Ruth (Cascade)
Jennifer M. Matheny

Walter T. Wilson, The Gospel of Matthew, Vols. 1 and 2 (Eerdmans)
R. Alan Culpepper

Aren M. Wilson-Wright, Jeremiah’s Egypt: Prophetic Reflections on the Saite Period (SBL Press)
James K. Hoffmeier