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