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.

Amy Cottrill, Uncovering Violence: Reading Biblical Narratives as an Ethical Project (Westminster John Knox)
Shelley L. Birdsong

Philip La G. Du Toit, God’s Saved Israel: Reading Romans 11:26 and Galatians 6:16 in Terms of the New Identity in Christ and the Spirit (Pickwick)
B. J. Oropeza

Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse: Double Trouble Embodied (Routledge)
Caroline Vander Stichele

Ari Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (Cambridge University Press)
Ryan S. Schellenberg

Janette H. Ok, Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer (T&T Clark)
Katie Marcar

Vernon K. Robbins and Roy R. Jeal, eds., Welcoming the Nations: International Sociorhetorical Explorations (SBL Press)
Russell B. Sisson

Michael P. Theophilos, Numismatics and Greek Lexicography (T&T Clark)
David Hendin

Joel L. Watts, Jesus as Divine Suicide: The Death of the Messiah in Galatians (Pickwick)
Dain Alexander Smith

Burkard M. Zapff, Micah (Kohlhammer)
Nicholas R. Werse

Markus Zehnder, The Bible and Immigration: A Critical and Empirical Reassessment (Pickwick)
M. Daniel Carroll R.

The Meaning of "All" in the Bible

Ken Berding has a great post here on how all is used in the Old Testament, New Testament, and Romans 11:26. I happen to agree with him although in Romans 11:26 I believe "all" includes representatives from each of the "twelve" tribes.

Preaching Humor

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The Geography of the Table of Nations

John Day has a helpful post here on the geography of the Table of Nations in Genesis 10.

Another Free Book from Logos

Jurgen Roloff's Revelation commentary is being offered as an extra free book from Logos software. You can get 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 to read them.

Dustin G. Burlet, Judgment and Salvation: A Rhetorical-Critical Reading of Noah’s Flood in Genesis (Pickwick)
Benjamin J. Noonan

Biju Chacko, Intercultural Christology in John's Gospel: A Subaltern Reading from India (Fortress)
Christopher A. Porter

Kate Hanch, Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th-Century America (Fortress)

Joshua Turpin

Peter H. W. Lau, The Book of Ruth (Eerdmans)
Brittany N. Melton

Mark Leuchter, ed., Scribes and Scribalism (T&T Clark)
William M. Schniedewind

Katie Marcar, Divine Regeneration and Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Mapping Metaphors of Family, Race, and Nation (Cambridge University Press)
Dennis R. Edwards

David A. Michelson, The Library of Paradise: A History of Contemplative Reading in the Monasteries of the Church of the East (Oxford University Press)
Jonathan Loopstra

Laura Quick and Melissa Ramos, eds., New Perspectives on Ritual in the Biblical World (T&T Clark)
Samuel Boyd

Steve Reece, The Formal Education of the Author of Luke-Acts (T&T Clark)
Daniel B. Glover

Christopher R. Seitz, The Elder Testament: Canon, Theology, Trinity (Baylor University Press)
Stephen L. Cook

Journal of Biblical Literature 142:3

Volume 142:3 of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now out. Here is a list of the articles with links to abstracts.

Not Seeing, Unseeing, and Blind: Disentangling Disability from Adjacent Topoi in the Hebrew Bible
Eric J. Harvey

The Rot of the Bones: A New Analysis of קנאה (“Envy/Jealousy”) in the Hebrew Bible
Anthony Ellis

Irresolution as Historical Practice and the Case of the Unnamed Woman in Timnah
Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

The Field Belonging to Boaz: Creating Kinship through Land, Labor, Food, and Feeding
Cynthia R. Chapman

Love, Marriage, and a Delayed Harvest: Isaiah 61 as the Reversal of the Song of the Vineyard (5:1–7)
Rebecca W. Poe Hays

Travel and Anxiety in Early Jewish Literature
Elisa Uusimäki

Remembering God’s Beloved Son: Jeremiah 38:20 LXX and Mark 1:11
James M. Neumann

John 21:15–19 as a Prophetic Succession: A Reading in Light of 2 Kings 2:1–18
Matthew J. Klem

Exotica and the Ethiopian of Acts 8:26–40: Toward a Different Fabula
Margaret Aymer

Genesis 6:1-4

Mitchell Chase has a very thorough and clear discussion here of the meaning of this much debated text.

Nehemiah 8:8

William Varner calls Nehemiah 8:8 the first example of expository preaching here. Since I see application as an essential part of exposition, one would need to continue reading in v. 9ff.

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

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.

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Matthew 21: The Parable of the Wicked Tenants

Ian Paul has a helpful discussion of the parable here.

Burnt Offerings and the Bible

Tim Little provides a nice summary here.

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.