Journal of Biblical Literature 137:3

Volume 137:3 of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now out. Here is a list of the articles with links to abstracts.

Conceptualizing the Place of Deaf People in Ancient Israel: Suggestions from Deaf Space
Mike Gulliver and William John Lyons

Biblical Myths and the Inversion Principle: A Neostructuralist Approach
Aryeh Amihay

Once Again: The Yam Sûp of the Exodus
Philip Y. Yoo

The Gēr (Stranger) in Deuteronomy: Family for the Displaced
Mark Glanville

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: The Independent Logic of Deuteronomy 22:25–27
Sara J. Milstein

“All That You Have Done … Has Been Fully Told to Me”: The Power of Gossip and the Story of Ruth
Philip F. Esler

Utterance of David, the Anointed of the God of Jacob (2 Samuel 23:1–7)
Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

“Your Torah Is My Delight”: Repetition and the Poetics of Immanence in Psalm 119
Sean Burt

Gabriel’s Entrance and Biblical Violence in Luke’s Annunciation Narrative
Michael Pope

Mixed Metaphors: Resolving the “Eschatological Headache” of John 5
Hugo Méndez

Romans 5:12, Once Again: Is It a Grammatical Comparison?
James W. Haring

“Wretch I Am!” Eve’s Tragic Speech-in-Character in Romans 7:7–25
Nicholas Elder

The Blood of Goats and Calves … and Bulls? An Allusion to Isaiah 1:11 LXX in Hebrews 10:4
Justin Harrison Duff

Church History, Archaeology, and Geography

Ferrell Jenkins has an excellent blog that focuses on archaeology and geography that relate to the Bible. He has now created a handy index focusing on his blog posts related to church history. You should check it out here.

Spurgeon on Sermon Helps

Here is an interesting blog post on Charles Spurgeon's view of preachers using sermon helps.

HT: Trevin Wax

Forming a Daily Writing Habit

Some good advice here.

Preaching Ecclesiastes

John Divito explains why you should preach Ecclesiastes here.

Robert Yarbrough Interview

Last week I provided a link here to Robert Yarbrough answering five questions related to the Pastoral Epistles and related to a commentary on the Pastorals that he has just written for the Pillar New Testament Commentary series. Now Mike Bird has posted an interview with Yarbrough on the Pastorals his blog here.

Free Logos Book for October: Ancient Christian Devotional

The free Logos Book for the Month for October is Ancient Christian Devotional: A Year of Weekly Readings: Lectionary Cycle A edited by Thomas Oden and Cindy Crosby. You can also purchase the volumes for cycles B and C for $2.99 and $3.99 respectively. But if you are going to do that you can buy all three volumes for $4.99 and save a $1.99. There is also a contest to win the 20 volume IVP New Testament Commentary series. For all these offers, go to the Logos' Free Book of Month page here.

Feast of Booths Libation Ceremony

See this article on a recreation of a libation ceremony which is traditionally associated with the Feast of Booths.

Resources for Biblical Aramaic

Steven Anderson has a very helpful and comprehensive discussion of resources for biblical Aramaic here.

Theologically Themed Comic Convention

Those who love their theology and comics might be interested in ΘeoCon, a theologically themed comic convention. Unfortunately, it is today so you might not be able to attend. But, you can read an news article about it 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.

Mark J. Boda, Exploring Zechariah, Volume 1: The Development of Zechariah and Its Role within the Twelve
Reviewed by Barry A. Jones

Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher and Maria Häusl, eds., Sedaqa and Torah in Postexilic Discourse
Reviewed by Gert Kwakkel

Martin Goodman, A History of Judaism
Reviewed by Sara Ronis

Elizabeth R. Hayes and Karolien Vermeulen, eds., Doubling and Duplicating in the Book of Genesis: Literary and Stylistic Approaches to the Text
Reviewed by Megan Warner

John W. Kleinig, Hebrews
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

B. J. Oropeza and Steve Moyise, eds., Exploring Intertextuality: Diverse Strategies for New Testament Interpretation of Texts
Reviewed by Thomas P. Nelligan

Petr Sláma, New Theologies of the Old Testament and History: The Function of History in Modern Biblical Scholarship
Reviewed by Edgar Kellenberger

Francis Watson, The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Wilhelm Wrede, The Authenticity of the Second Letter to the Thessalonians
Reviewed by Glenn Holland

K. Lawson Younger Jr., A Political History of the Arameans: From Their Origins to the End of Their Polities
Reviewed by Yigal Levin 

Hospital Verses

See this list of verses to memorize when you are going to or in the hospital.

Robert Yarbrough on the Letters to Timothy and Titus

The Eerdmans' blog has an interview with Robert Yarbrough here on five big surprises that he found while researching and writing a commentary on the Letters to Timothy and Titus

Advice for Delegating

Ministry leadership often involves delegation. This article provides some advice on doing it successfully.

A Comparison of Moses and Joshua in the Book of Joshua

This table helps illustrate how Joshua is shown to be the successor of Moses by fulfilling many of the same functions.

Function	Moses	Joshua
Called a servant of the LORD	1:1, 2, 7, 13, 15	24:29
Mediator the divine promises	1:3, 13	1:11, 12-15; cf. 22:1-6
Mediator of the law	1:7	1:12-13
Mediator of the instructions for possessing the land	1:13-15; cf. Deut 3:18-20	1:13-15
One in whom God is especially present	1:5, 17	1:5, 17; cf. 3:7
Ascription of the gift of the land beyond the Jordan	1:14, 15; cf. 13:8	1:5; cf. 11:23
Obedience of the people	1:17	1:16-17; cf. 4:14
Table created from observations of Terence E. Fretheim, Deuteronomic History, Interpreting Biblical Texts (Nashville: Abingdon, 1983), 58.

David A. deSilva'a Top 5 Critical Issues in Galatians

You can read David A. deSilva list of the top 5 critical issues in Galatians here.