Six Implications of Being Made in the Image of God

Kevin DeYoung has some helpful thoughts here.

Journal for the Study of the New Testament 47:5

The latest articles from of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament are available now. Here is a list of the articles and links to abstracts. The article by Gathercole is open access.

Did Paul Expect to Survive until the Parousia? A Suggested Re-reading of 1 Cor. 15.51–52
Simon Gathercole

Reading Luke 2.41–52 in the Post-War Context: War Trauma, Intergenerational Tension, and Therapeutic Reading Experience
Jin Young Kim

Josephus’s Rhetorical Construction of the Galileans as Proximate Others
Sung Uk Lim

Fearful and Joyous Old Men Old Age, Masculinity, and Emotions in Luke’s Account of Zechariah (Lk. 1) and the Fables of Babrios (Fab. 98, 136)
Albertina Oegema

Populating the Middle: The Social Location of the Author of Luke-Acts
Timothy J. Murray

The Construction of Authorial Authority in John and Revelation
Christopher Seglenieks

Bond, Favour Bank, and Social Capital: A Social-Scientific Reading of the Parable of the Dishonest Steward in Luke 16.1–9
Kingsley Ikechukwu Uwaegbute

Collegia of Brothers? The Semantics of Brotherhood in Greco-Roman Associations and the New Testament
Francesco Filannino

A Fragmented Revelation: Paragraph Delimitation of John’s Apocalypse in Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Alexandrinus
Cristian Cardozo Mindiola

The Intersectionality of Gender and Slavery: Paul’s Social Creativity within an Unchangeable System
Darlene M. Seal

Kissing in the Hebrew Bible

The Times of Israel discusses a recent Journal of Biblical Literature article on kissing in Hebrew Bible 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.

Arjen F. Bakker, René Bloch, Yael Fisch, Paula Fredriksen, and Hindy Najman, eds., Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism and Anti-Judaism (Brill)
Jeffrey Morrow

Beatrice Bonanno, The Septuagint of Ruth: Translation Technique, Textual History, and Theological Issues (Brepols)
William A. Ross

Lynn H. Cohick, The Letter to the Ephesians (Eerdmans)
Lisa Marie Belz

Craig A. Evans and Adam Z. Wright, eds., Gods, Spirits, and Worship in the Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity (T&T Clark)
Margaret Froelich

Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez, Begging for Their Daily Bread: Beggar-Centric Interpretations of Matthew 6 (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Mphumezi Hombana

James B. Prothro, A Pauline Theology of Justification: Forgiveness, Friendship, and Life in Christ (Cascade)
Garwood P. Anderson

Jonathan Stutz, Stasis: Crowd Violence and Religious-Political Discourses in Late Antiquity (Mohr Siebeck)
Christian R. Raschle

Erik Waaler, The Use of the Old Testament in Matthew 1–4 (Mohr Siebeck)
Akio Ito