Resources on the Book of Esther

Ron Lindo offers some suggestions here.

Free Logos Resources for August

Logos is offering these freebies this month: The Apostle's Creed by Ben Myers, Saint Augustine: Sermons 94A–147A on the New Testament, a free ebook, True Courage by Steve Farrar, and the free audio book Resolutions and Advice to Young Converts by Jonathan Edwards. You can get these free resources and also other deals here, here, here, and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get Five Views on the Church and Politics edited by Amy Black and Stan Gundry for free here.

Applying the Book of Acts

Iain Duguid offers some insight here.

Resource: Audio-Visual Reading of Joshua 18

Bible Mapper is a helpful Bible geography resource with over 200 free maps created by David Barrett. Barrett has now added a video that includes a reading of Joshua 18 while the geographical references in the text are simultaneously highlighted on a map. Check it out here.

HT: Mark Hoffman

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.

Elie Assis, Lamentations: From Despair to Prayer (Sheffield Phoenix)
Jill Middlemas

Christina Bünger, Briefliches Zitieren bei Paulus und Cicero: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung zu den Korintherbriefen (Mohr Siebeck)
Maria B. Lang

Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, eds., Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts (Eerdmans)
Christopher B. Zeichmann

Elisabeth M. Cook, Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9–10 (Routledge)
Vien V. Nguyen

Adrian Kelly and Christophe Metcalf, eds., Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology (Cambridge University Press)
Dale Launderville

Benjamin J. Petroelje, The Pauline Book and the Dilemma of Ephesians (T&T Clark)
Justin Winzenburg

Jonathan M. Potter, Rewritten Gospel: The Composition of Luke and Rewritten Scripture (De Gruyter)
Gregory S. Thellman

Kris Song, One Spirit: Pneumatology and Unity in the Corinthian Letters (T&T Clark)
William Horst