May 27, 2025

New Resources on Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon

BiblePlaces has just released Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon, the latest volume in the Photo Companion to the Bible series. Like previous offerings, these are an excellent resource for pastors, professors, students, or really anyone interested in a serious study of the Bible. Not only do you get 2,100 quality images on PowerPoint slides but also succinct but detailed notes on what you are looking at. This tool can enhance your knowledge as you prepare to preach or teach and enliven your presentations to congregation or class. I have used BiblePlaces resources for over twenty years in my own ministry. I highly recommend it. 

 These resources are available until Friday for $39 (two-for-one). Check it out.

May 26, 2025

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.

René Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (Brill)
Maria Brutti

Frederick Dale Bruner, The Letter to the Romans: A Short Commentary (Eerdmans)
William Horst

David Edwards, In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus (Brill)
Chris Seeman

Reinhard Feldmeier and Hermann Spieckermann, God Becoming Human: Incarnation in the Christian Bible (Baylor University Press)
Donnie L. DeBord

Douglas R. Frayne and Johanna H. Stuckey, A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam (Eisenbrauns)
Dexter E. Callender Jr.

Johan de Joode, Metaphorical Landscapes and the Theology of the Book of Job: An Analysis of Job’s Spatial Metaphors (Brill)
Edward L. Greenstein

David Rozenthal, Collected Essays in Talmudic Studies [Hebrew] (Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies)
Joshua Schwartz

Jason A. Staples, The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity (Cambridge University Press)
Michelle Eastwood