Oct 10, 2025

Free eBook: Reading Mark

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Oct 7, 2025

Journal of Biblical Literature 144:3

Volume 144:.34 of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now out. Here is a list of the articles.

On Having a Body: Time and Divine Embodiment
Jennie Grillo

Light and Luminaries: A Study of Genesis 1:3–5 and 14–19
Daniel Kwame Bediako

Saul and the Not-So-Holy Ghost: 1 Samuel 16:14–23 and Ghost-Induced Illness
David E. Basher

Transgenerational “Righteousness” in Ezekiel and Aramean (Sam’alian) Texts
Theodore J. Lewis

The Postexilic נתינים and the Neo-Babylonian Širkū: A Reassessment
Tyler M. Moser

Noah’s Sacrifice and the Relation between Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon
Hillel Mali

אַשְׁרֵי and μακάριος: Contact Linguistics, Constrained Language, and the Nature of Judaic Greek
Jonathan Arulnathan Thambyrajah

Hagar on Sinai: The Choice of Heracles, Mountain Women, and Pauline Allegory in Galatians
Courtney J. P. Friesen

The Pro-Choice Biblical Ethic of American Evangelical Scholars before the Religious Right
Kirk R. MacGregor

Oct 5, 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.

Christopher B. Ansberry, Reading Wisdom and Psalms as Christian Scripture: A Literary, Canonical, and Theological Introduction (Baker Academic)
Nathaniel Holmes Jr.

Ferdinand Christian Baur; Peter C. Hodgson, ed., Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ (Cascade)
Pierre Célestin Musoni

Gabriella Gelardini, Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews: Collected Essays (Brill)
Christopher T. Holmes

Paul Moser, The Divine Goodness of Jesus: Impact and Response (Cambridge University Press)
Aquila H. I. Lee

Raju Parakkott, trans.; Mary T. Hansbury, ed., Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Paul: On the Conversion of the Apostle Paul and a Second Homily on Paul the Apostle (Gorgias)
Armando Elkhoury

James Riley Strange, Excavating the Land of Jesus: How Archaeologists Study the People of the Gospels (Eerdmans)
James D. Tabor

Blake Wassell, John 18:28–19:22 and the Paradox of Judgement (Mohr Siebeck)
Sergio Zapata Grajales

Korinna Zamfir and Uta Poplutz, eds., Reading Women in the New Testament Letters (SBL Press)
Susan E. Hylen