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.

Joel S. Baden and Jeffrey Stackert, eds., The Pentateuch and Its Readers (Mohr Siebeck)
Stephen Germany

A. Andrew Das and B. J. Oropeza, eds., Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
David M. Allen

Chloë N. Duckworth and Andrew Wilson, eds., Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy (Oxford University Press)
Anna M. V. Bowden

Nicholas A. Elder, Gospel Media: Reading, Writing, and Circulating Jesus Traditions (Eerdmans)
Cambry G. Pardee

Lester L. Grabbe, The Maccabaean Revolt, Hasmonaean Rule, and Herod the Great (175–4 BCE), volume 3 of A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period (T&T Clark)
Jeffrey A. Colburn

Thomas Kazen and Rikard Roitto, Revenge, Compensation, and Forgiveness in the Ancient World: A Comparative Study of Interpersonal Infringement and Moral Repair (Mohr Siebeck)
Marius Johannes Nel

Helen Leneman, The Voice of Judith in 300 Years of Oratorio and Opera (T&T Clark)
Joshua Joel Spoelstra

Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (HarperCollins)
Michael Coogan

Joshua Humor

HT: Kevin Larsen 

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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.

Blessing Onoriode Boloje, Reading Micah in Nigeria: Ethics, Wealth, and Corruption (SBL Press)
Michael Ufok Udoekpo

Chance E. Bonar and Julia D. Lindenlaub, eds., Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean (Mohr Siebeck)
Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson

Erin Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster, eds., Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context (Brill)
Rachel Nabulsi

Matthijs den Dulk, Joshua Schwartz, Peter J. Tomson, and Joseph Verheyden, eds., Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: Mapping the Second Century (Brill)
Paula Fredriksen

Bruce Henning, Matthew’s Non-Messianic Mapping of Messianic Texts: Evidences of a Broadly Eschatological Hermeneutic (Brill)
David Parris

Theodora Suk Fong Jim, Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (Oxford University Press)
Teresa Morgan

Jennifer M. Matheny, Judges 19–21 and Ruth: Canon as a Voice of Answerability (Brill)
Esther Brownsmith

David Stein, Beth Lieberman, and Hilary Lipka, eds., The JPS Tanakh: Gender-Sensitive Edition (Jewish Publication Society)
Susanne Scholz

Pastors and AI

Noah Senthil has a thoughtful post here related to four questions pastors should ask before using AI.

Archaic Hebrew Poetry in the Torah

Tania Notarius has an interesting discussion here regarding possible remnants of archaic Hebrew poetry in the Torah.

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 Allen, Ephesians (Brazos)
William Horst

Michael Coogan, The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press)
Francisco de Assis Nogueira Barros

Walter Dietrich, Hauptfiguren und Kernthemen der Samuelbücher (Kohlhammer)
Mark W. Hamilton

Anthony Julius, Abraham: The First Jew (Yale University Press)
Stephen Spector

Thomas Kazen, Impurity and Purification in Early Judaism and the Jesus Tradition (SBL Press)
Hannah K. Harrington

A. G. Long, ed., Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (Cambridge University Press)
Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

Aaron Schart, Malachi (Kohlhammer)
Michael H. Floyd

Patrick Schreiner, The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading (Baker Academic)
Ruth Barasa