Preaching the Psalms

Phillip Howell makes some good points here about preaching the Psalms here.

Archaeological Discoveries Related to Esther

Bryan Windle has a nice post here on the top ten discoveries related to the Book of Esther.

HT: Todd Bolen

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.

Ra‘anan Boustan, David Frankfurter, and Annette Yoshiko Reed, eds., Above, Below, Before, and After: Studies in Judaism and Christianity in Conversation with Martha Himmelfarb (Mohr Siebeck)
Joshua Schwartz

C. Hassell Bullock, Theology from the Psalms: The Story of God’s Steadfast Love (Baker Academic)
Marika Pulkkinen

Caralie Cooke, Discovering the Religious Dimension of Trauma: Trauma Literature and the Joseph Story (Brill)
David N. DeJong

Philip Erwin, Paul and Image: Reading First Corinthians in Visual Terms (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Yi-Sang Patrick, Chan

René Jacob, L’Évangile de Marc: L’Évangile de la Foi (L’Harmattan)
Luca Marulli

Margaret H. Williams, Early Classical Authors on Jesus (T&T Clark)
Alden Bass

Benjamin Wold, Qumran Wisdom and the New Testament: Exploring Early Jewish and Christian Textual Cultures (Cambridge University Press)
Michael R. Jost