Oct 8, 2023

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.

Roger David Aus, ed., Haggadah in Early Judaism and the New Testament (Mohr Siebeck)
Joshua Schwartz

Shelley L. Birdsong, J. Cornelis de Vos, and Hyun Chul Paul Kim, eds., Reading Gender in Judges: An Intertextual Approach (SBL Press)
Caryn Tamber-Rosenau

Paul Borgman and Kelly James Clark, Written to Be Heard: Recovering the Messages of the Gospels (Eerdmans)
Mark Cooper

John J. Collins, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara Reid, OP, and Donald Senior, CP, eds., The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century (T&T Clark)
Leslie J. Hoppe

Edward Gudeman, The Abyss in Revelation: A View from Below (Eisenbrauns)
Alexander P. Thompson

Joseph McDonald, Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple Era: Images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities (T&T Clark)
Samantha J. Scott

Madison N. Pierce, Andrew J. Byers, and Simon Gathercole, eds., Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature (Cambridge University Press)
Conrad Thorup Elmelund

Samuel Pomeroy, Chrysostom as Exegete: Scholarly Traditions and Rhetorical Aims in the Homilies on Genesis (Brill)
Jacopo Marcon

Robert D. Sider, ed., The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus: An Introduction with Erasmus’ Prefaces and Ancillary Writings (University of Toronto Press)
Kirk Essary

Michael E. Stone, Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Biblical Heroes (SBL Press)
Mari Mamyan

Oct 5, 2023

Free eBook: Acts of Empire

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Acts of Empire: The Acts of the Apostles and Imperial Ideology by Christina Petterson. Keep in mind that offer is only good until October 12. 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 "PETTERSON
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4. Upon checkout completion, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions of how to download your free eBook.

Oct 3, 2023

Oct 2, 2023

Oct 1, 2023

Free Logos Resources for October

Logos is offering these three freebies this month: the commentary Romans in the Interpretation series by Paul Achtemeier, Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity: A Missing Dimension in New Testament Studies by Luke Timothy Johnson, a free ebook, Eldership and the Mission of God: Equipping Teams for Faithful Church Leadership by Alan Hirsch, J. R. Briggs, Bob Hyatt, and the audio book Luther on the Christian Life: Cross and Freedom. You can get these free resources and also purchase others at significant discounts here, here, here, and here.

Sep 30, 2023

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.

Francesco Celia, Preaching the Gospel to the Hellenes: The Life and Works of Gregory the Wonderworker (Peeters)
Bradley K. Storin

John Day, From Creation to Abraham: Further Studies in Genesis 1–11 (T&T Clark)
Robert Gnuse

Gordon D. Fee; Eldon J. Epp, ed., Bodmer Papyri, Scribal Culture, and Textual Transmission: Collected Works on New Testament Textual Criticism (Brill)
Chris S. Stevens

Michael J. Gorman, Romans: A Theological and Pastoral Commentary (Eerdmans)
Mark Reasoner

Philippe Guillaume, The Economy of Deuteronomy’s Core (Equinox)
Bill T. Arnold

Wendy Elgersma Helleman and Musa A. B. Gaiya, Early Christianity: A Textbook for African Students (Langham Global Library)
J. Ayodeji Adewuya

James T. Hughes, Ecclesial Solidarity in the Pauline Corpus: Relationships Between Churches in Paul’s Letters (Pickwick)
Jin Ki Hwang

Taimaya Ragui, Confessing Community: An Entryway to Theological Interpretation in North East India (Fortress)
Philip P. Sam

Gail P. Streete, Violated and Transcended Bodies: Gender, Martyrdom, and Asceticism in Early Christianity (Cambridge University Press)
Anders Klostergaard Petersen

Richard A. Wright, A Reader in Biblical Greek (Eerdmans)
Amy Whisenand Krall

Sep 28, 2023

Overview of Jerusalem

Here is a nicely done photo of Jerusalem showing the current gates and some other major sites.

Sep 26, 2023

Unique Roots in the Greek New Testament

Very interesting post here on the vocabulary range of Greek words in the New Testament.

Sep 25, 2023

Mt. Nebo

Ferrell Jenkins posts some thoughts here about visting Mt. Nebo. Its been a few years for me but it seems like the tourist site continued to be developed.

Sep 24, 2023

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.

Tanja Dannenmann, Emotion, Narration und Ethik: Zur ethischen Relevanz antizipatorischer Emotionen in Parabeln des Matthäus-Evangeliums (Mohr Siebeck)
Nils Neumann

Eric Eve, Relating the Gospels: Memory, Imitation and the Farrer Hypothesis (T&T Clark)
Olegs Andrejevs

John Goldingay, Miracle in Isaiah: Divine Marvel and Prophetic World (Fortress)
John N. Oswalt

Justin L. Kelley, The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Text and Archaeology: A Survey and Analysis of Past Excavations and Recent Archaeological Research with a Collection of Principal Historical Sources (Archaeopress)
Joshua Schwartz

Hanneke van Loon, Metaphors in the Discussion on Suffering in Job 3–31: Visions of Hope and Consolation (Brill)
Edward L. Greenstein

Lee Martin McDonald, Before There Was a Bible: Authorities in Early Christianity (T&T Clark)
John-Christian Eurell

Elizabeth A. Myers, Probability of Intertextual Borrowing: A Methodology for Determining the Likelihood of Literary Dependence and the Direction of Borrowing between New Testament Books (Pistos Ktistes)
Jeffrey M. Tripp

William A. Tooman, with Marian Kelsey, (Re)reading Ruth (Cascade)
Jennifer L. Koosed

Chris L. de Wet, Maijastina Kahlos, and Ville Vuolanto, eds., Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150–700 CE (Cambridge University Press)
Jonathan J. Hatter