Feb 16, 2026

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.

Markus Bockmuehl and Nathan Eubank, eds., The Creed and the Scriptures (Mohr Siebeck)
Lee Martin McDonald

Attila Bodor, The Theological Profile of the Peshitta of Isaiah (Brill)
Peter Juhás

Daniel Daley, Ideal Disciples: A Commentary on Matthew’s Beatitudes (Baylor University Press)
Kathy Barrett Dawson

Simon J. Joseph, A Social History of Christian Origins: The Rejected Jesus (Routledge)
Zhenya Gurina-Rodríguez

Esther Kobel, Jo-Ann A. Brant, and Meredith J. C. Warren, eds., The Ties That Bind: Negotiating Relationships in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, Contexts, and Reception History (T&T Clark)
Edward Kessler

Ido Koch, Oded Lipschits, and Omer Sergi, eds., From Nomadism to Monarchy? Revisiting the Early Iron Age Southern Levant (Eisenbrauns)
Quinn Daniels

Julia M. O’Brien, Prophets beyond Activism: Rethinking the Prophetic Roots of Social Justice (Westminster John Knox)
Jeremiah Cataldo

Hughson T. Ong, Sociolinguistic Analysis of the New Testament: Theories and Applications (Brill)
Sung Min Park

Soo Kim Sweeney, David Frankel, and Marvin A. Sweeney, eds., Theology of the Hebrew Bible, Volume 2: Texts, Readers, and Their Worlds (SBL Press)
Xenia L. Chan

Oda Wischmeyer, Love as Agape: The Early Christian Concept and Modern Discourse (Baylor University Press)
John Frederick

Feb 14, 2026

Psalm 141

I am working on a commentary on the Psalms. I have decided to compile some helpful links that I discovered during my research. It includes a mix of exegetical and sermonic links. Here is what I have for Psalm 141 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps141.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_141.pdf

Danny Akin (outline, manuscript): https://www.danielakin.com/the-man-who-will-not-compromise-psalm-141

Feb 8, 2026

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.

Sofanit Tamene Abebe, Apocalyptic Spatiality in 1 Peter and Selected 1 Enoch Literature: A Comparative Analysis (Mohr Siebeck)
David M. Shaw

Sarah Agnew, Embodied Performance: Mutuality, Embrace, and the Letter to Rome (Pickwick)
Clifford A. Barbarick

Thomas P. Dixon, Paul and the Wrath: Divine Judgment and Mercy for Israel in Romans 9–11 (Baylor University Press)
Robert D. Anderson

Joshua W. Jipp, God’s Acts for Israel, Gentiles, and Christians: A Theology of the Acts of the Apostles (Eerdmans)
Troy M. Troftgruben

Benjamin Kantor, A Short Guide to the Pronunciation of New Testament Greek (Eerdmans)
Kevin Grasso

Ogochukwu Daniel Onuorah, Social Memory in Ex 16 and the Identity of Exilic/Post-exilic Israel (Mohr Siebeck)
Linda M. Stargel

David J. Shepherd, King David, Innocent Blood, and Bloodguilt (Oxford University Press)
Diana Abernethy

Tina M. Sherman, Plant Metaphors in Prophetic Condemnations of Israel and Judah (SBL Press)
Benjamin Austin

Hans Ulrich Steymans, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Bible: Erwin Panofsky and Othmar Keel in Dialogue (T&T Clark)
Silas Klein Cardoso

Kent L. Yinger, The Pharisees: Their History, Character, and New Testament Portrait (Cascade)
Felipe Agudelo Olarte

Feb 4, 2026

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Feb 2, 2026

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.

Elizabeth Agaiby and Tim Vivian, Door of the Wilderness: The Greek, Coptic, and Copto-Arabic Sayings of St. Antony of Egypt (An English Translation) (Brill)
Robert A. Kitchen

Andrew H. Bartelt, Isaiah 1–12 (Concordia)
John Goldingay

Brian E. Daley, Christology in Early Christianity: Collected Essays (Eerdmans)
Michael F. Bird

Graham I. Davies, Exodus 1–18: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary: Volume 1, Commentary on Exodus 1–10 (T&T Clark)
Adriane Leveen

David A. deSilva, Ephesians (Cambridge University Press)
Matthew D. Jensen

James Seung-Hyun Lee, Reimagining Exile in Daniel: A Literary-Historical Study (Mohr Siebeck)
Ron Clark

Chung Man Anna Lo, The Laws of the Imperialized: Understanding Exodus 19–24 as a Response to Imperial Legal Traditions (Langham Academic)
Pamela Barmash

Gabriel Said Reynolds, Christianity and the Qur’an: The Rise of Islam in Christian Arabia (Yale University Press)
Abdulla Galadari

James C. VanderKam, R. H. Charles: A Biography (Oxford University Press)
Nathan Leach

Stuart Weeks, Ecclesiastes: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary (T&T Clark)
Ananda Geyser-Fouché