Overview of the Gospel of Luke

Steve Walton has made his presentation slides for an overview of the Gospel of Luke here.

Free Logos Resources for November

 Logos is offering these freebies this month: 1 Peter, Word Biblical Themes by J. Ramsey Michaels, Coritta Kent by Rose Pacatte, a free ebook, The Pursuit of Excellence by George Sweeting, and the free audio book The Pastor's Wife by Sabina Wurmbrand. You can get these free resources and also other deals here, here, here, and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get I Saw the Lord by Abner Chou for free here.

Why Did Cain Kill Abel?

David Zucker explores this question here by looking almost solely at rabbinic sources. Unexplored in the article are references to Cain in Hebrews 11:4; 1 John 3:12, and Jude 11.

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.

Jörg Frey, Friederike Kunath, and Jens Schröter, eds., Perspektiven zur Präexistenz im Frühjudentum und frühen Christentum (Mohr Siebeck)
Frederique Dantonel

Najeeb T. Haddad, Paul and Empire Criticism: Why and How? (Cascade)
Efrain Agosto

Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri, Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars (Yale University Press)
Jacob A. Lollar

Jordan J. Ryan, From the Passion to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Memories of Jesus in Place, Pilgrimage, and Early Holy Sites over the First Three Centuries (T&T Clark)
Joshua Schwartz

Maria Sokolskaya, Die griechische Bibel in Alexandrien: Ihre Legende und die exegetische Praxis im hellenistischen Judentum (Brill)
Felix Albrecht

Peter Kamande Thuo, A Complementary Approach to the Interpretation and Translation of Biblical Metaphors (Langham Monographs)
Nebeyou Alemu Terefe

Karel van der Toorn, Israelite Religion: From Tribal Beginnings to Scribal Legacy (Yale University Press)
David M. Carr

Samson L. Uytanlet, 2 Peter and Jude: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Langham Global Library)
Jacob C. Berlin

Prophetic Humor

HT: Clark Paton

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.

Brian J. Abasciano, Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9:19–24: An Intertextual and Theological Exegesis (T&T Clark)
A. Chadwick Thornhill

Jan-Mathieu Carbon and Gunnel Ekroth, eds., From Snout to Tail: Exploring the Greek Sacrificial Animal from the Literary, Epigraphical, Iconographical, Archaeological, and Zooarchaeological Evidence (Swedish Institute at Athens)
Tua Korhonen

Benedikt Hensel, Bartosz Adamczewski, and Dany Nocquet, eds., Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions: Identity Perspectives from Egypt, Transjordan, Mesopotamia, and Israel in the Second Temple Period (Mohr Siebeck)
Sam Blankenship

Yung Suk Kim, Monotheism, Biblical Traditions, Race Relations (Cambridge University Press)
Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III

Hugo Méndez, The Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford University Press)
M. David Litwa

Stephen Westerholm, Romans: Text, Readers, and the History of Interpretation (Eerdmans)
Josh C. S. Ip

Jeremy L. Williams, Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles: Race, Rhetoric and the Prosecution of Early Christian Movement (Cambridge University Press)
Eric C. Smith

Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins (Cambridge University Press)
Corrine Carvalho

The Portrayal of God in Acts

Steve Walton has made his slides available here from a recent presentation that he did with Tom Wright.

The Number Seven in the Old Testament

Elaine Goodfriend has an interesting post here on the number seven and its multiples in the Old Testament.

Mohr Siebeck Open-Access Volumes

New Testament scholar, David DeSilva posted on Facebook some open-access titles at Mohr Siebeck that he liked. I am not sure how to link to his post but here are the ones he singled out.

To Eat or Not to Eat: Studies on the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions
Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini

Empire Criticism of the New Testament: New Approaches
Edited by Christoph Heilig

The Image of the Invisible God: An Exegetical Study of Colossians 1:15-20
Travis R. Niles

Paul within Judaism: Perspectives on Paul and Jewish Identity
Edited by Jörg Frey, Ruben A. Bühner, Michael Bird and Brian Rosner

The Beginning of the Biblical Canon and Ben Sira
Alma Brodersen

Judaism for Gentiles: Reading Paul beyond the Parting of the Ways Paradigm
Anders Runesson in collaboration with Rebecca Runesson

Torah, Temple, Land: Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity
Edited by Jens Schröter, Markus Witte and Verena M. Lepper

Interpreting and Living God's Law at Qumran: Miqṣat Ma῾aśe Ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT)
Edited by John J. Collins, Lutz Doering, Jörg Frey, Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Charlotte Hempel, Eibert Tigchelaaar, Noam Mizrahi, Jonathan Ben-Dov and Vered Noam

Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions: Reassessing Archaeological and Literary Perspectives
Edited by Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini and Abra Spiciarich

In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns
Edited by Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Donald A. Russell and Michael Trapp

Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Galilee: An Archaeological Survey of the Eastern Galilee
Uzi Leibner

The Interpretation of Freedom in the Letters of Paul
Wayne Coppins

Cosmic Christology in Paul and the Pauline School: Colossians and Ephesians in the Context of Graeco-Roman Cosmology, with a New Synopsis of the Greek Texts
George H. van Kooten

Purity in Ancient Judaism: Texts, Contexts, and Concepts
Edited by Lutz Doering, Jörg Frey and Laura von Bartenwerffer