Advances in Ancient Biblical and Near Eastern Research 3:3

You can access the latest issue of Advances in Ancient Biblical and Near Eastern Research for free here. It contains the following articles.

Global and Local Cultures in the Roman East: An Introduction
Raimo Hakola and Nina Nikki

Jesus and Poverty in the Context of Imperial and Local Economies in First-Century Galilee
Raimo Hakola

Divinely Sanctioned Domination: Accommodating Roman and Native Identities in Dionysius’s Roman Antiquities and Josephus’s Jewish War
Marika Rauhala

A Multicultural Paul in the Globalized Roman Empire
Nina Nikki

Local and Global Narratives at Palmyra
Eivind Heldaas Seland

Citizenship and Ethnicity in Cassius Dio’s Roman History
Jussi Rantala

Letter from Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne as a Diaspora Quest for Authenticity
Jarkko Vikman

From Bad Barbarians into Good Romans? Themistius and the Case of Goths in the Fourth Century
Maijastina Kahlos

The Seed of Abraham: Gentile Ethnicity in Early Christian Texts and the Quran
Ilkka Lindstedt

HT: Agade

Distinctives of the Gospel of John

Michael Kruger identifies seven here.

Acts Commentaries Recommendation

Paul Henebury has a pretty good list of recommended Acts commentaries here. I would add David Garland's work in the Teach the Text series and C. K. Barrett's dense, technical, but often insightful contribution to the International Critical Commentary series.

The Difference between Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology

Jon Nielson has some helpful thoughts here on the difference between systematic theology and biblical theology. But keep in mind that the definition of biblical theology and hw to do it varies quite a bit.

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.

Michael Patrick Barber, The Historical Jesus and the Temple: Memory, Methodology, and the Gospel of Matthew (Cambridge University Press)
Nathan C. Johnson

Sharon Betsworth and Julie Faith Parker, eds., T&T Clark Handbook of Children in the Bible and the Biblical World (T&T Clark)
Laura Pasterkamp

Aaron M. Butts, Kristian S. Heal, and Robert A. Kitchen, eds., Narsai: Rethinking His Work and His World (Mohr Siebeck)
Jason Scully

Eric Douglass, Interpreting New Testament Narratives: Recovering the Author’s Voice (Brill)
David Ganlin Xie

Joel B. Green, Discovering Luke: Content, Interpretation, Reception (Eerdmans)
F. Scott Spencer

Gail Labovitz, Massekhet Mo’ed Qatan: Text, Translation, and Commentary (Mohr Siebeck)
Judith R. Baskin

Hryhoriy Lozinskyy, The Feasts of the Calendar in the Book of Numbers: Num 28:16–30:1 in the Light of Related Biblical Texts and Some Ancient Sources of 200 BCE–100 CE (Mohr Siebeck)
James W. Watts

Julia A. Snyder and Korinna Zamfir, eds., Reading the Political in Jewish and Christian Texts (Peeters)
Olegs Andrejevs

Stephen Westerholm, Romans: Text, Readers, and the History of Interpretation (Eerdmans)
Christopher Seitz

Jarvis J. Williams, Redemptive Kingdom Diversity: A Biblical Theology of the People of God (Baker Academic)
Vien V. Nguyen