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

Judges Prophesied a True and Better Deliverer

Miles Van Pelt explains how here.

Biblical Theology and the Early Church

Stephen Presley has a concise discussion here of what we can learn about biblical theology from the early Church.

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.

Mark G. Brett, Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible: From Moses to Mabo (Oxford University Press)
Brian Kolia

Brevard S. Childs; Daniel R. Driver, ed., Canon as Rule and Guide: Collected Essays (Mohr Siebeck)
Paul Korchin

Monika Czekanowska-Gutman, Reclaiming Biblical Heroines: Portrayals of Judith, Esther and the Shulamite in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art (Brill)
Joshua Joel Spoelstra

Ken Dark, Archaeology of Jesus’ Nazareth (Oxford University Press)
Jonathan L. Reed

Yuliya Minets, The Slow Fall of Babel: Languages and Identites in Late Antique Christianity (Cambridge University Press)
Simon Goldhill

Jonathan D. Redding, Daniel Reconstructed: Reading, Teaching, and Preaching with Fresh Eyes (Baylor University Press)
Tim Meadowcroft

Sarah C. Schaefer, Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination (Oxford University Press)
Carmen Yebra-Rovira

Gerald L. Stevens, Romans: The Gospel of God (Pickwick)
William Horst

Richard Walsh and Jeffrey L. Staley, Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination: Introducing Jesus Movies, Christ Films, and the Messiah in Motion (T&T Clark)
Mark B. Stephens

Korinna Zamfir and Uta Poplutz, eds., Reading Women in the New Testament Letters (SBL Press)
Valerie A. Abrahamsen

Redemption and Ethics

Andrew Walker talks about it here.

Free eBook: A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible by Steven Knepper. Act quickly because the deal ends on 12/15. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

1. Click on this link.
2. Click "ADD TO CART" on the eBook option.
3. Use the code "KNEPPER25"
4. Upon checkout completion, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions of how to download your free eBook.

Free Logos Resources for December

Logos is offering these freebies this month: Ezekiel 1–20, Anchor Yale Bible by Moshe Greenberg, An Introduction to the New Testament by Raymond Brown, a free ebook, 52 Weeks Through the Psalms Devotional by James Merritt, and the free audio book Recapturing the Glory of Christmas: A 25-Day Advent Devotional by Al Mohler. You can get these free resources and also other deals here, here, here, and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get Matthew , a LifeChange study guide for free 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.

Ferdinand Christian Baur; David Lincicum, ed., The Christ Party in the Corinthian Community (SBL Press)
Ron Clark

Wayne Baxter, Divine Shepherd Christology in the Gospel of Matthew (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Philip Thomas Mohr

Caroline Blyth, Rape Culture, Purity Culture, and Coercive Control in Teen Girl Bibles (Routledge)
Alexiana Fry

Bärbel Bosenius, Reversio animae: Studien zu den frühchristlichen Totenerweckungserzählungen (Kohlhammer)
John Granger Cook

A. Andrew Das and B. J. Oropeza, eds., Scriptures, Texts, and Tracings in 2 Corinthians and Philippians (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
J. David Stark

James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn, eds., The First Urban Churches 6: Rome and Ostia (SBL Press)
Markus Oehler

Ronald Hendel, Genesis 1–11: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Yale University Press)
Theodore Hiebert

Angela Kalinowski, Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos (Cambridge University Press)
Paul Trebilco

Widows in Ancient Israel

Claude Mariottini has a good discussion here.

The Pauline Roads Project

I recently learned about this new website. It is still mostly under construction but has the potential to be a very helpful resource.

From Paleo-Hebrew to Aramaic Script

You can check out a fascinating explantion here.

Five Myths About the Book of Romans

Brian Rosner identifies five myths about Romans 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.

Pauline Allen, John Chrysostom, Homilies on Titus and Philemon (SBL Press)
Joseph Verheyden

Anna Angelini, L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante: Une analyse comparée de la notion de “démon” dans la Septante et dans la Bible Hébraïque (Brill)
Beatrice Bonanno

Ruben A. Bühner, Messianic High Christology: New Testament Variants of Second Temple Judaism (Baylor University Press)
Crispin Fletcher-Louis

Gregory R. Lanier and J. Nicholas Reid, eds., Studies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception: A Festschrift in Honor of Charles E. Hill (Brill)
Zachary Skarka

Jill Middlemas, ed., Innovation in Persian Period Judah: Royal and Temple Ideology in Comparative Perspective (Mohr Siebeck)
Joshua Schwartz

Andrew B. Perrin, Horizons of Ancestral Inheritance: Commentary on the Levi, Qahat, and Amram Qumran Aramaic Traditions (T&T Clark)
Robert E. Jones

Konrad Schmid, The Scribes of the Torah: The Formation of the Pentateuch in Its Literary and Historical Contexts (SBL Press)
William M. Schniedewind

Shemaryahu Talmon and Michael Segal, eds., The Twelve Prophets: The Hebrew University Bible Project Edition [Hebrew] (Magnes)
Innocent Himbaza