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.

Christopher Armitage, Atonement and Ethics in 1 John: A Peacemaking Hermeneutic (T&T Clark)
Matthew D. Jensen

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

Mark DelCogliano, ed., Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond (Cambridge University Press)
Robert Edwards

William G. Dever, My Nine Lives: Sixty Years in Israeli and Biblical Archaeology (SBL Press)
Joshua Schwartz

Bruce W. Longenecker, ed., Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity (Baylor University Press)
Zeba Crook

Paul L. Redditt, 1 and 2 Chronicles (Smyth & Helwys)
Steven Schweitzer

Christopher Rowland, “By an Immediate Revelation”: Studies in Apocalypticism, Its Origins and Effects (Mohr Siebeck)
Frances L. Flannery

Abdul-Massih Saadi, ed. and trans., Moshe Bar Kepha’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (Gorgias)
T. C. Schmidt

Michael Spalione and Helen Paynter, eds., Map or Compass? The Bible on Violence (Sheffield Phoenix)
David A. Bosworth

Greg Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (Mohr Siebeck)
Stefan Krauter

Saying, "No"

I have a hard time saying, "no." But I am getting better at it and Charles Stone has some good advice here for doing it gracefully.

Numbering the Ten Commandments

Nothing really new here but Jason DeRouchie gives a good explanation of the three major ways the Decalogue has been enumerated.

The Latest Issue of Detroit Baptist Theological Journal

The latest issue of Detroit Baptist Theological Journal is available for free here.

Melchizedek

Joshua Garroway has an interesting post here on Melchizedek both from a Jewish and Christian perspective.

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

HT: Coleman Ford

 

 

 

 

 

 

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