What is Hanukkah?

Leen Ritmyer answers this question in a detailed and well-illustrated post here.

Merry Christmas!

 

Another Free eBook: Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s Gospel

Wipf and Stock is offering another free eBook: Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s Gospel by Douglas A. Campbell and Jon DePue. Act quickly because the deal ends on 12/31. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

1. Click on this link.
2. Click "ADD TO CART" on the eBook option.
3. Use the code "CAMPBELL25"
4. Upon checkout completion, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions of how to download your free eBook.

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.

R. J. Balfour, Divine Rejection: Explorations in the Biblical Portrayals of Esau and King Saul (Baylor University Press)
Frank Anthony Spina

Jeremiah Cataldo, Disembodying Narrative: A Postcolonial Subversion of Genesis (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Carolyn Alsen

Michael Fishbane, Biblical Text and Exegetical Culture: Collected Essays (Mohr Siebeck)
Jonathan Gan

J. M. F. Heath, Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation (Oxford University Press)
Alexander D. Perkins

R. Reed Lessing, Zechariah (Concordia Publishing House)
Michael H. Floyd

David Lincicum and Johannes Zachhuber, eds., Ferdinand Christian Baur: A Reader (T&T Clark)
Gregory L. Glover

Pieter van der Lugt, The Rhetorical Design of Isaiah 40–48/55: Zion’s Incomparable Saviour and His Servants (Brill)
Kevin L. Tolley

Adele Reinhartz, Bible and Cinema: An Introduction (Routledge)
Caroline Vander Stichele

John Screnock with Vladimir Olivero, A Grammar of Ugaritic (SBL Press)
Joseph Lam

Jan G. van der Watt, A Grammar of the Ethics of John, Volume 2: Reading the Letters of John from an Ethical Perspective (Mohr Siebeck)
Paul N. Anderson