The Number Seven in the Old Testament

Elaine Goodfriend has an interesting post here on the number seven and its multiples in the Old Testament.

Mohr Siebeck Open-Access Volumes

New Testament scholar, David DeSilva posted on Facebook some open-access titles at Mohr Siebeck that he liked. I am not sure how to link to his post but here are the ones he singled out.

To Eat or Not to Eat: Studies on the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions
Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini

Empire Criticism of the New Testament: New Approaches
Edited by Christoph Heilig

The Image of the Invisible God: An Exegetical Study of Colossians 1:15-20
Travis R. Niles

Paul within Judaism: Perspectives on Paul and Jewish Identity
Edited by Jörg Frey, Ruben A. Bühner, Michael Bird and Brian Rosner

The Beginning of the Biblical Canon and Ben Sira
Alma Brodersen

Judaism for Gentiles: Reading Paul beyond the Parting of the Ways Paradigm
Anders Runesson in collaboration with Rebecca Runesson

Torah, Temple, Land: Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity
Edited by Jens Schröter, Markus Witte and Verena M. Lepper

Interpreting and Living God's Law at Qumran: Miqṣat Ma῾aśe Ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT)
Edited by John J. Collins, Lutz Doering, Jörg Frey, Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Charlotte Hempel, Eibert Tigchelaaar, Noam Mizrahi, Jonathan Ben-Dov and Vered Noam

Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions: Reassessing Archaeological and Literary Perspectives
Edited by Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini and Abra Spiciarich

In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns
Edited by Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Donald A. Russell and Michael Trapp

Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Galilee: An Archaeological Survey of the Eastern Galilee
Uzi Leibner

The Interpretation of Freedom in the Letters of Paul
Wayne Coppins

Cosmic Christology in Paul and the Pauline School: Colossians and Ephesians in the Context of Graeco-Roman Cosmology, with a New Synopsis of the Greek Texts
George H. van Kooten

Purity in Ancient Judaism: Texts, Contexts, and Concepts
Edited by Lutz Doering, Jörg Frey and Laura von Bartenwerffer

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.

Stefan Alkier, ed., Antagonismen in neutestamentlichen Schriften: Studien zur Neuformulierung der “Gegnerfrage” jenseits des Historismus (Brill Schöningh)
Stephan Witetschek

Denise Flanders, The Rhetorical Use of Numbers in the Deuteronomistic History: “Saul Has Killed His Thousands, David His Tens of Thousands” (Brill)
Benjamin J. M. Johnson

Carina Kühne-Wespi and Joachim Friedrich Quack, eds., Ancient Egyptian Rituals against Enemies (Mohr Siebeck)
Robyn Gillam

James F. McGrath, The A to Z of the New Testament: Things Experts Know That Everyone Else Should Too (Eerdmans)
Michel Pauw

Volker Rabens, Jacqueline Grey, and Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn, eds., Key Approaches to Biblical Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (Brill)
Alexander P. Thompson

Giancarlo Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (Brill)
Lucas Brum Teixeira

Paul Trebilco, Simon H. Rae, and Deolito Vistar, 1 Timothy: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Langham Global Library)
Ray Van Neste

Danilo Verde, The Language of Trauma in the Psalms (Eisenbrauns)
Eric D. McDonnell Jr.