Jacob Neusner

Those who are well-versed in biblical studies are familiar with the name Jacob Neusner. To say that Neusner is prolific is an understatement. But the man himself is a controversial and complicated character evidenced by a recent bibliography that you can read about here.

The Pursuit of Perfectionism Versus Excellence

See David Murray's post here on the difference between the pursuit of perfectionism and the pursuit of excellence. 

Journal for the Study of the New Testament 39:1

Here are the articles to the forthcoming issue of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament. The links will take you to an abstract.

Investigating the Apocalyptic Texture of Paul’s Martial Imagery in 2 Corinthians 4–6
Lisa M. Bowens

‘Like the Scum of the World, the Refuse of All’: A Study of the Background and Usage of περίψημα and περικάθαρμα in 1 Corinthians 4.13b
Atsuhiro Asano

Diabolical Data: A Critical Inventory of New Testament Satanology
Thomas J. Farrar and Guy J. Williams

Talk of the Devil: Unpacking the Language of New Testament Satanology
Thomas J. Farrar and Guy J. Williams
 
Acts and Christian Beginnings: A Review Essay
Andrew Gregory

Latest Issue of 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.

Jonathan Ben-Dov and Seth Sanders, eds.
Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10586
Reviewed by John J. Collins

Athalya Brenner-Idan, ed.
Discourse, Dialogue, and Debate in the Bible: Essays in Honour of Frank H. Polak
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10229
Reviewed by Max Rogland

Rodney J. Decker
Mark 1–8: A Handbook on the Greek Text
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10277
Reviewed by J. Andrew Doole

Crispin Fletcher-Louis
Jesus Monotheism: Volume 1: Christological Origins: The Emerging Consensus and Beyond
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10588
Reviewed by Larry W. Hurtado

Jonathan I. Griffiths
Hebrews and Divine Speech
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10211
Reviewed by Bryan J. Whitfield

George A. Kiraz and Joseph Bali, eds.; Gillian Greenberg and Donald M. Walter, trans.
Ezekiel according to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10879
Reviewed by Jerome A. Lund

James M. Leonard
Codex Schøyen 2650: A Middle Egyptian Coptic Witness to the Early Greek Text of Matthew’s Gospel: A Study in Translation Theory, Indigenous Coptic, and New Testament Textual Criticism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9947
Reviewed by Uwe-Karsten Plisch

Michael Lyons
An Introduction to the Study of Ezekiel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10544
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen

James R. McConnell Jr.
The topos of Divine Testimony in Luke-Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9954
Reviewed by Kyle R. Hughes

Jennifer Houston McNeel
Paul as Infant and Nursing Mother: Metaphor, Rhetoric, and Identity in 1 Thessalonians 2:5–8
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9921
Reviewed by Trevor Burke

Ari Mermelstein
Creation, Covenant, and the Beginnings of Judaism: Reconceiving Historical Time in the Second Temple Period
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10202
Reviewed by Stewart Moore

J. Richard Middleton
A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10136
Reviewed by J. P. Davies

Jutta Noetzel
Maleachi, ein Hermeneut
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10668
Reviewed by Thomas Hieke

Daniel R. Schwartz
Judeans and Jews: Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10332
Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

Charles Anthony Stewart, Thomas W. Davis, and Annemarie Weyl Carr, eds.
Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10046
Reviewed by Young Richard Kim

The Limitations of Strong’s Concordance for Word Studies

Gary Shogren has a good reminder here of the limited value of using a Strong's Concordance for understanding the meaning of Hebrew or Greek terms. 

Free Romans Study

Michael Kruger has made handouts and videos from a two-year study of Romans available for free here.

Advice for Bible College and Seminary Students

Michael Cooper has some good advice for Bible college and seminary students here on how to contribute to one's own education.

Emailing in an Academic Context

Mark Goodacre has a nice post here on how professors should respond to students' emails and he provides a link to another post here advising students on how to email their professors. Both of these posts are worth reading and I think they might apply, with some modification, to church and ministry contexts as well.

Plagiarized Commentaries

I was a bit shocked to see this notice from Eerdmans about plagiarism in some fairly well-known commentaries from a scholar whose work I have used and appreciated. At minimum, it is a reminder of how careful one needs to be in documenting one's sources and writing.

2016 Advanced Expository Preaching Workshop

The 2016 Advanced Expository Preaching Workshop will be held on October 10, 2016 from 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM at the Riley Center of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This year's focus will be the book of Ruth. You can get more information here or register here.

Jeremiah 13:23

Lee Fields has a good post here on Jeremiah 13:23 and how meaning is not merely grammatical.

How Long Is the Average Sermon Series?

Preaching Magazine ran a poll recently concerning the average length of a sermon series. Here is what they found.

Longer than 15 weeks – 8%
10–15 weeks – 12%
6–10 weeks – 36%
2–5 weeks – 31%
I do not preach in series – 13%

There were no big surprises here for me except for the fact that I might have suspected that, "I do not preach in series" number might be higher than 13%.

The Great Commission

Rob Plummer has a nice explanation here of the Greek of the "Great Commission" (Matt 28:19–20a).

The Septuagint and Biblical Theology

Check out Ed Glenny's article, "The Septuagint and Biblical Theology." It is available as a free PDF here.

Latest Issue of 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.

Sébastien B. Abalodo 
Structure et théologie dans le Trito-Isaïe: Une contribution à l’unité du Livre 
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10121
Reviewed by C. Y. Timothy Kao

Mark A. Chancey, Carol Meyers, and Eric M. Meyers, eds.
The Bible in the Public Square: Its Enduring Influence in American Life
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9915
Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Siker

R. Alan Culpepper and Paul N. Anderson, eds.
Communities in Dispute: Current Scholarship on the Johannine Epistles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10077
Reviewed by Toan Do
Reviewed by Jan A. du Rand

Thomas B. Dozeman, Craig A. Evans, and Joel N. Lohr, eds.
The Book of Exodus: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10206
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Niclas Förster
Jesus und die Steuerfrage: Die Zinsgroschenperikope auf dem religiösen und politischen Hintergrund ihrer Zeit mit einer Edition von Pseudo-Hieronymus, De haeresibus Judaeorum
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9103
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Gregg E. Gardner
The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10410
Reviewed by Rivka Ulmer

Raimo Hakola, Nina Nikki, and Ulla Tervahauta, eds.
Others and the Construction of Early Christian Identities
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10022
Reviewed by Benjamin H. Dunning

Tricia Miller
Three Versions of Esther: Their Relationship to Anti-Semitic and Feminist Critique of the Story
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10346
Reviewed by Anne-Mareike Wetter

Mika S. Pajunen and Hanna Tervanotko, eds.
Crossing Imaginary Boundaries: The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Context of Second Temple Judaism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10309
Reviewed by Timothy H. Lim

Another Benefit of Reading

Apparently readers live longer according to a recent article in the journal Science and Social Order. You can read about it here.

Background and Function of the Priestly Blessing in Numbers

Jeremy Smoak has an interesting article here on the background and function of the priestly blessing in Numbers 6:22-27.

Latest Issue of 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.

Giorgio Agamben
Pilate and Jesus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10338
Reviewed by Roland Boer

Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and John M. Fossey, eds.
The Levant: Crossroads of Late Antiquity. History, Religion and Archaeology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9788
Reviewed by Jürgen Zangenberg

Roland Boer
The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10348
Reviewed by K. L. Noll

Daniel Boyarin
A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10519
Reviewed by Christine Hayes

Walter Brueggemann; Davis Hankins, ed.
Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9966
Reviewed by Joy A. Schroeder

George Carraway
Christ Is God over All: Romans 9:5 in the Context of Romans 9–11
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9704
Reviewed by Charles L. Quarles

Susannah Cornwall, ed.
Intersex, Theology, and the Bible: Troubling Bodies in Church, Text, and Society
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10746
Reviewed by Teresa J. Hornsby

Katie Edwards
Rethinking Biblical Literacy
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10384
Reviewed by Valarie H. Ziegler

Barat Ellman
Memory and Covenant: The Role of Israel’s and God’s Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9564
Reviewed by Rachelle Gilmour

Albert C. Geljon and Riemer Roukema, eds.
Violence in Ancient Christianity: Victims and Perpetrators
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9943
Reviewed by Kimberly B. Stratton

Garth Gilmour
Gezer VI: The Objects from Phases I and II (1964–1974)
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10176
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Matyáš Havrda, Vít Hušek, and Jana Plátová, eds.
The Seventh Book of the Stromateis: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (Olomouc, October 21–23, 2010)
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8789
Reviewed by Michael Harris

Paul M. Joyce and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, eds.
The God Ezekiel Creates
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10294
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen

Jack R. Lundbom
Jeremiah: Prophet Like Moses
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10784
Reviewed by Leslie C. Allen

Michael Lyons
An Introduction to the Study of Ezekiel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10544
Reviewed by Corrine Carvalho

Safwat Marzouk
Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10371
Reviewed by Amy Kalmanofsky

Susanne Scholz, ed.
Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect II: Social Locations
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10232
Reviewed by Christina Landman

Carlos Raúl Sosa Siliezar
Creation Imagery in the Gospel of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10550
Reviewed by R. Alan Culpepper

Elaine M. Wainwright
The Gospel according to Matthew: The Basileia of the Heavens Is Near at Hand
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10220
Reviewed by Margaret Aymer

Jaime L. Waters
Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10625
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews

A Noah Coin

Recently, while reading through Richard Abdy and Amelia Dowler’s Coins and the Bible I came upon an interesting reference to a 2nd–3rd century AD coin from Apamea in Phrygia that references the Noah story.[1] “These rare coins were issued under Septimius Severus, Macrinus, Gordian III, Philip and Trebonianus Gallus.”[2] According to Abdy and Dowler,

The coin reverse shows Noah and his wife twice. On the left they have arrived on Mt. Ararat but even more interestingly on the right they are in transit, adrift in the ark; shown somewhat surprisingly to the modern viewer as a simple box or rather a chest or lid (and conveniently labeled with Noah's name in Greek: NΩЄ. Above the dove with the olive branch sets the scene from Genesis 8:10–11.[3]

This reference is interesting for at least four reasons. First, this does not appear to be a Jewish or Christian coin but one that comes from pagan Apamea. Second, the dating to 2nd–3rd century AD places it before the Edict of Milan (AD 313) and the move to a Christian Roman empire. Therefore, an explicit biblical reference would be unusual. Third, it is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, explicit reference to an Old Testament personage or event on a coin. Fourth, as noted by Abdy and Dowler, the depiction of the ark as a box is interesting lexically. As Markowitz notes, “the Hebrew word for ark, tebah, was translated as kibotos, which means ‘chest’ or ‘shipping crate.’”[4] Markowitz is correct regarding the general meaning but kibotos also carries the specialized sense of “sea-faring vessel, boat, ark” or according to Moffatt, like a “barge.”[5] In any case, either the coin is a highly stylized depiction of the ark, a misunderstanding of the narrative, or both. 

By the way, if you are interested in having such a coin, you might need deep pockets. Markowitz notes that one sold for $24,000 in 2002.[6] Another one with four holes drilled in it sold for $16,500 in 2010.[7]

[1] Richard Abdy and Amelia Dowler, Coins and the Bible (London: Spink & Son, 2013), 73, 75.

[2] Mike Markowitz, “Ships on Ancient Coins,” Coin Week (April 20, 2015). http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ships-on-ancient-coins

[3] Abdy and Dowler, Coins and the Bible, 75.

[4] Markowitz, “Ships on Ancient Coins.”

[5] κιβωτός, BDAG. It is interesting that although the Hebrew tebah is used of the “basket” that baby Moses is placed in (Exod 2:3, 5), in the LXX kibotos is not used but rather the term thibis.

[6] Markowitz, “Ships on Ancient Coins.”

[7] https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=910868. Special thanks to Russell Atherton for providing this information as well as Markowitz’s article.

The Aaronic Blessing and New Testament Epistles

Recently while reading through the Aaronic blessing in Numbers 6:24–26, I noticed the references to grace and peace.

24 May Yahweh bless you and protect you;
25 may Yahweh make His face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
26 may Yahweh look with favor on you
and give you peace. (HCSB, my bold)

More specifically, I noted the order of the references to grace and peace. This is exactly the order, grace first and then peace, that one finds in the greetings of the majority of New Testament epistles (Rom 1:7; 1 Cor 1:3; 2 Cor 1:2; Gal 1:3; Eph 1:2; Phil 1:2; Col 1:2; 1 Thess 1:1; 2 Thess 1:2; 1 Tim 1:2 [plus mercy]; 2 Tim 1:2 [plus mercy]; Titus 1:4; Philm 1:4; 1 Pet 1:2; 2 Pet 1:2; 2 John 3 [plus mercy]). Indeed, the only clear exception to this pattern is Jude with his “mercy, peace, and love.”

I am not sure if the correspondence in order is significant. I have usually taught that the greetings in the New Testament epistles are adapted from Greco-Roman epistolary conventions with “peace” added as a Jewish element. I did a cursory search and found that Ernest Best in an article from 1960 takes a fairly cautious approach to this possible link.

The “benedictions” of Paul at the beginning and ending of his letters (for example, II Cor. 1:2; 13:14) approach most nearly the priestly blessings of the Old Testament (cf. Num. 6:23-26). These benedictions of Paul may however derive from the Greek epistolary style rather than from conscious imitation of priestly activity. There is no evidence in general in the New Testament of Christians using such blessings, but in the nature of the case it is highly improbable that there should be such evidence; we do not possess the letters of ordinary Christians nor do we know much of their day to day behavior in such matters. We can therefore draw no conclusion in regard to the “blessings” of Paul, whether they arise out of his membership in the general priesthood or pertain to his office as apostle and to a special priesthood. The conception of “blessing” adds, then, nothing to our doctrine of a general priesthood. (“Spiritual Sacrifice, General Priesthood in the New Testament,” Interpretation 14 [1960]: 291).

A little more recently, Gordon Wiles has argued that, “The attempt to link the Pauline greeting directly back to the Aaronic priestly blessing (Num. 6: 26) has not been generally accepted,” (Paul's Intercessory Prayers: The Significance of the Intercessory Prayer Passages in the Letters of St. Paul, SNTSMS 24 [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974], 113, n. 3.

In sum, if Paul and other New Testament authors are adapting a standard Greco-Roman epistolary greeting then it might not be too surprising that their adaptation would be informed by the priestly benediction in Numbers. But caution seems to be in order in applying this to any priest-like functions that Christians might have today.

Free Logos Book for August: Ecclesiastes in the Believers Church Bible Commentary Series

Just in case you missed it, the free Logos Book of the Month for August is Ecclesiastes by Douglas Miller in the Believers Church Bible Commentary series. You can also purchase the Ephesians commentary in the same series for $1.99 or enter to win the entire twenty-six-volume series. For all these offers you can go to the Logos' Free Book of Month page here.

5 Key Characteristics of Old Testament Prophets

Christopher Wright's new book, How to Preach and Teach the Old Testament for All Its Worth, identifies five key characteristics of Old Testament prophets. 

1. Prophets Had Mouths: They Spoke for God
2. Prophets Had Ears: They Heard God’s Word
3. Prophets Had Heads: They Had Minds of Their Own
4. Prophets Had Hearts: They Felt What God Felt
5. Prophets Had Hands: Sometimes They Turned Their Words into Actions

Christopher J. H. Wright, How to Preach and Teach the Old Testament for All Its Worth (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016).186-194.

Common Attitudes and Approaches of Ancient Jewish Interpreters

I was interested to  read the following list from James Kugel regarding common attitudes and approaches of Jewish

interpreters of the biblical text. Kugel derives these four assumptions from reading Second Temple literature.

1. The Bible is a fundamentally cryptic document.
2. The Bible is a great book of lessons.
3. The Bible is perfectly consistent and free of error or internal contradictions.
4. Every word of Scripture comes from God.

James L. Kugel, “The Beginnings of Biblical Interpretation,” in A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism, ed. Matthias Henze (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012), 14.

The Bible Project's Esther Video

The Bible Project continues to churn out excellent video summaries. Here is the one on Esther. 

Latest Issue of 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.

Sharon Betsworth
Children in Early Christian Narratives
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10427
Reviewed by A. James Murphy
Reviewed by Robert H. von Thaden Jr.

Joanna Dewey
The Oral Ethos of the Early Church: Speaking, Writing, and the Gospel of Mark
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9503
Reviewed by Werner H. Kelber

Eric Douglass
Reading the Bible Ethically: Recovering the Voice in the Text
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10350
Reviewed by Walter Brueggemann

John Harvey
The Bible as Visual Culture: When Text Becomes Image
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9427
Reviewed by Davina C. Lopez

Bo Isaksson and Maria Persson, eds.
Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10452
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak

Robin M. Jensen and J. Patout Burns Jr.
Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10133
Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager

William Johnstone
Exodus 1–19
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9914
Reviewed by George G. Nicol

Paul-Gerhard Klumbies and David S. du Toit, eds.
Paulus—Werk und Wirkung: Festschrift für Andreas Lindemann zum 70. Geburtstag
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9603
Reviewed by M. Eugene Boring

Thierry Legrand and Jan Joosten, eds.
The Targums in the Light of Traditions of the Second Temple Period
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10200
Reviewed by Simon Lasair

Joshua G. Mathews
Melchizedek’s Alternative Priestly Order: A Compositional Analysis of Genesis 14:18–20 and Its Echoes throughout the Tanak
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9572
Reviewed by Bill T. Arnold

Andrew Mein, Else K. Holt, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, eds.
Concerning the Nations: Essays on the Oracles against the Nations in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10299
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen

Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, eds.
Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10240
Reviewed by A. Chadwick Thornhill

Volker Rabens
The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul: Transformation and Empowering for Religious-Ethical Life
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9654
Reviewed by Kenneth D. Litwak

Konrad Schmid
Is There Theology in the Hebrew Bible?
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10282
Translator(s): Peter Altmann
Reviewed by John J. Collins

Moshe Shamah
Recalling the Covenant: A Contemporary Commentary on the Five Books of the Torah
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8889
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Danny Syon
Small Change in Hellenistic-Roman Galilee: The Evidence from Numismatic Site Finds as a Tool for Historical Reconstruction
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10297
Reviewed by Mark A. Chancey

Michael J. Thate, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, and Constantine R. Campbell, eds.
‘In Christ’: Explorations in Paul’s Theology of Union and Participation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10267
Reviewed by Robert R. Foster

Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Zechariah and His Visions: An Exegetical Study of Zechariah’s Vision Report
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10293
Reviewed by Albert M. Wolters

Peter J. Tomson and Joshua Schwartz, eds.
Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: How to Write Their History
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10256
Reviewed by Philip R. Davies

L. L. Welborn
Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10447
Reviewed by Robert L. Brawley
Reviewed by Alexandra Brown

Brittany E. Wilson
Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10336
Reviewed by Colleen Conway