Ben Witherington's Top Five NT Books from the Last 25 Years

You can read his annotated list here. it is a pretty a good list.

Steve Walton on Church Planting in Acts

Steve Walton has made his presentation on Church Planting in Acts available 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.

James W. Barker, Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics (Eerdmans)
Grayson Thompson

Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, 1800 Years of Encounters With Mandaeans (Gorgias)
James F. McGrath

David M. Carr, From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond: Essays on the Study of the Pentateuch (Mohr Siebeck)
A. Rahel Wells

Nils Alstrup Dahl, The Apostle Paul Guides the Early Church (Cascade)
James P. Sweeney

Erasmus Gass, Asyl, Leviten und ein Altar: Eine literarhistorische Analyse von Josua 20–22 (Mohr Siebeck)
Thomas B. Dozeman

Thomas L. Gertzen, Aber die Zeit fürchtet die Pyramiden: Die Wissenschaften vom Alten Orient und die zeitliche Dimension von Kulturgeschichte (De Gruyter)
Nikola Wenner

John Goldingay, Proverbs (Eerdmans)
Steven Tuell

Brandon Massey, The Birth and Death of the PreMarkan Passion Narrative: A History of Form Criticism’s Most Assured Result (Mohr Siebeck)
Santiago Guijarro

Emmanuel L. Rehfeld, ed., Sündlos solidarisch: Der Sohn Gottes als Repräsentant der Menschheit nach der Darstellung des Markusevangeliums (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt)
Judith König

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, ed., Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 2 (Brown Judaic Studies)
Richard Kalmin

Free eBook: Theology and Technique

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Theology and Technique: Toward and Ethic of Non-Power by Jacques Ellul. Act quickly because the deal ends on 1/15. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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Free Logos Resources for January

Logos is offering these freebies this month: 40 Questions about Angels, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare by John Gilhooly, The Good Life by Herbert McCabe. You can get these free resources and also other deals here and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get Interpreting Paul: Essays on the Apostle and His Letters by N. T. Wright for free here.

10 Striking Biblical Archaeology Stories of 2025

Tis the season for year-end lists. Here is Gordon Govier's list for Christianity Today.

2025 Bible Archaeology Listapalooza

Todd Bolen has provided another outstanding top ten list for biblical archaeology in 2025. But really to call it a "top ten" is almost misleading because it includes so much more. Check it out 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.

Warren Carter, 1, 2, and 3 John: An Introduction and Study Guide; Multiple Readings, Deconstructing Constructions (T&T Clark)
Alicia D. Myers

Brendan W. Case and William Glass, Least of the Apostles: Paul and His Legacies in Earliest Christianity (Pickwick)
Stephan Witetschek

Zev Garber and Kenneth L. Hanson, eds., Jewish Studies and the Gospel of St John (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Joshua Schwartz

Jan Christian Gertz, Studien zum Buch Genesis (Mohr Siebeck)
Ronald Hendel

Jennie Grillo, Daniel after Babylon: The Additions in the History of Interpretation (Oxford University Press)
Marco Settembrini

Charlotte Katzoff, Human Agency and Divine Will: The Book of Genesis (Routledge)
Arthur Jan Keefer

Won W. Lee, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Korea (Oxford University Press)
Hyun Woo Kim

Ray M. Lozano, The Proskynesis of Jesus in the New Testament: A Study on the Significance of Jesus as an Object of “Proskuneo” in the New Testament Writings (T&T Clark)
Kendall A. Davis

Sergio Rotasperti, Metaphors in Proverbs: Decoding the Language of Metaphor in the Book of Proverbs (Brill)
Frederique Dantonel

Joan Taylor and David M. Hay, Philo of Alexandria, On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (Brill)
Torrey Seland

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.

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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