10 Striking Biblical Archaeology Stories of 2025

Tis the season for year-end lists. Here is Gordon Govier's list for Christianity Today.

2025 Bible Archaeology Listapalooza

Todd Bolen has provided another outstanding top ten list for biblical archaeology in 2025. But really to call it a "top ten" is almost misleading because it includes so much more. Check it out 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.

Warren Carter, 1, 2, and 3 John: An Introduction and Study Guide; Multiple Readings, Deconstructing Constructions (T&T Clark)
Alicia D. Myers

Brendan W. Case and William Glass, Least of the Apostles: Paul and His Legacies in Earliest Christianity (Pickwick)
Stephan Witetschek

Zev Garber and Kenneth L. Hanson, eds., Jewish Studies and the Gospel of St John (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Joshua Schwartz

Jan Christian Gertz, Studien zum Buch Genesis (Mohr Siebeck)
Ronald Hendel

Jennie Grillo, Daniel after Babylon: The Additions in the History of Interpretation (Oxford University Press)
Marco Settembrini

Charlotte Katzoff, Human Agency and Divine Will: The Book of Genesis (Routledge)
Arthur Jan Keefer

Won W. Lee, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Korea (Oxford University Press)
Hyun Woo Kim

Ray M. Lozano, The Proskynesis of Jesus in the New Testament: A Study on the Significance of Jesus as an Object of “Proskuneo” in the New Testament Writings (T&T Clark)
Kendall A. Davis

Sergio Rotasperti, Metaphors in Proverbs: Decoding the Language of Metaphor in the Book of Proverbs (Brill)
Frederique Dantonel

Joan Taylor and David M. Hay, Philo of Alexandria, On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (Brill)
Torrey Seland

What is Hanukkah?

Leen Ritmyer answers this question in a detailed and well-illustrated post here.

Merry Christmas!

 

Another Free eBook: Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s Gospel

Wipf and Stock is offering another free eBook: Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s Gospel by Douglas A. Campbell and Jon DePue. Act quickly because the deal ends on 12/31. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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2. Click "ADD TO CART" on the eBook option.
3. Use the code "CAMPBELL25"
4. Upon checkout completion, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions of how to download your free eBook.

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.

R. J. Balfour, Divine Rejection: Explorations in the Biblical Portrayals of Esau and King Saul (Baylor University Press)
Frank Anthony Spina

Jeremiah Cataldo, Disembodying Narrative: A Postcolonial Subversion of Genesis (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Carolyn Alsen

Michael Fishbane, Biblical Text and Exegetical Culture: Collected Essays (Mohr Siebeck)
Jonathan Gan

J. M. F. Heath, Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation (Oxford University Press)
Alexander D. Perkins

R. Reed Lessing, Zechariah (Concordia Publishing House)
Michael H. Floyd

David Lincicum and Johannes Zachhuber, eds., Ferdinand Christian Baur: A Reader (T&T Clark)
Gregory L. Glover

Pieter van der Lugt, The Rhetorical Design of Isaiah 40–48/55: Zion’s Incomparable Saviour and His Servants (Brill)
Kevin L. Tolley

Adele Reinhartz, Bible and Cinema: An Introduction (Routledge)
Caroline Vander Stichele

John Screnock with Vladimir Olivero, A Grammar of Ugaritic (SBL Press)
Joseph Lam

Jan G. van der Watt, A Grammar of the Ethics of John, Volume 2: Reading the Letters of John from an Ethical Perspective (Mohr Siebeck)
Paul N. Anderson

Another Free Logos Book

Logos is offering another free book, Carmen Imes's Bearing God's Name. You can access the offer here which is good until the end of the month. 

Ending Courses Well

I know some of you who read this blog are seminary or Bible college teachers like me. If you are then you might find this post about ending your courses in a more effective way to be helpful.

Memorizing the Beatitudes

This post actually came out a few weeks ago but if you are interested in memorizing the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount you might try this.

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.

Dominique Barthélemy, The Precursors of Aquila: The First Complete Publication of the Text of the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll (ḤevXIIgr), Preceded by a Study of the Greek Translations and Recensions of the Bible Conducted in the First Century CE under the Influence of the Palestinian Rabbinate (Brill)
Timothy A. Lee

John Behr, ed. and trans., Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God (Oxford University Press)
Hemchand Gossai

Cornelis Bennema, Imitation in Early Christianity: Mimesis and Religious-Ethical Formation (Eerdmans)
Daniel L. Smith

Simon Goldhill, Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press)
Nina E. Livesey

Stan Harstine, Reading John through Johannine Lenses (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Christopher Seglenieks

Louise J. Lawrence, Peter-Ben Smit, Hannah M. Strømmen, and Charlene van der Walt, eds., Challenging Contextuality: Bibles and Biblical Scholarship in Context (Oxford University Press)
Pieter J. J. Botha

Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò and Kacper Ziemba, eds., Contact Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean: Judeans and Their Neighbours in Intercultural Contexts; Places, Middlemen, Transcultural Contacts—Sixth to Second Century BCE (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)
Stefan Beyerle

Jason A. Staples, Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites (Cambridge University Press)
Magnus Zetterholm

Louis Stulman and Edward Silver, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah (Oxford University Press)

Benedetta Rossi Marvin A. Sweeney, Visions of the Holy: Studies in Biblical Theology and Literature (SBL Press)
Kevin L. Tolley