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.

Achim Behrens, Das Wort Gottes im Kontext alttestamentlicher Hermeneutik: Untersuchungen zum Wort Gottes und zum Gottesbild im Alten Testament (Mohr Siebeck)
Benedikt J. Collinet

D. Clint Burnett, Christ’s Enthronement at God’s Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context (De Gruyter)
Aquila H. I. Lee

R. Alan Culpepper, Matthew: A Commentary (Westminster John Knox)
Clinton Wahlen

Will D. Desmond, Hegel’s Antiquity (Oxford University Press)
Shawn Kelley

David D. M. King, Reclaiming the Radical Economic Message of Luke (Pickwick)
Renee Dutter Miller

Assaf Kleiman, Beyond Israel and Aram: The Archaeology and History of Iron Age Communities in the Central Levant (Mohr Siebeck)
Joel S. Burnett

Matthew V. Novenson, Paul, Then and Now (Eerdmans)
Oda Wischmeyer

Cooper Smith, Allusive and Elusive: Allusion and the Elihu Speeches of Job 32–37 (Brill)
Nicolae Roddy

Christopher D. Stanley, Paul and Asklepios: The Greco-Roman Quest for Healing and the Apostolic Mission (T&T Clark)
Jennifer Eyl

Markus Witte, Jens Schröter, and Verena M. Lepper, eds., Torah, Temple, Land: Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity (Mohr Siebeck)
Joseph Scales

John 5 and the Healing at Bethesda

Steve Bryan has an interesting take here on the healing at Bethesda in John 5.

The Merneptah Stele

Here is a nice overview of an important biblically-related artifact.

Samson as Nazarite

While I would not hold to many of the higher critical assumptions in this article, I found it to be an interesting discussion of Samson as a nazarite.

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.

Mika Ahuvia and Alexander Kocar, eds., Placing Ancient Texts: The Ritual and Rhetorical Use of Space (Mohr Siebeck)
Gert T. M. Prinsloo

Christian Bemmerl, Der Jakobusbrief in der Alten Kirche: Eine Spurensuche vom Neuen Testament bis zu Origenes (Mohr Siebeck)
Martin C. Albl 

M. Eugene Boring, Hearing Paul’s Voice: Insights for Teaching and Preaching (Eerdmans)
Michael P. Knowles

Piet van Boxel, Kirsten Macfarlane, and Joanna Weinberg, eds., The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press)
Chanan Gafni

Zorodzai Dube, Jesus, the Best Capernaum Folk-Healer: Mark’s Aretalogy of Jesus in the Healing Stories (Pickwick)
Olugbenga Olagunju

Jean-Luc Fournet, The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity (Princeton University Press)
Melody Everest

Russell E. Gmirkin, Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts: Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History (Routledge)
Paavo N. Tucker

David John McCollough, Ritual and Religious Experience in Early Christianities: The Spirit in Between (Mohr Siebeck)
Rikard Roitto

Urmas Nõmmik, Die Erzelternerzählungen im Lichte höfischer Erzählkunst: Motivkritische Studien zu den Überlieferungen von Lot, Isaak, Rebekka und Jakob (Mohr Siebeck)
Kristin Weingart

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, ed., Studies in Rabbinic Narratives: Volume 1 (Brown Judaic Studies)
Reuven Kiperwasser

Psalm 134

I am working on a commentary on the Psalms. I have decided to compile some helpful links that I discovered during my research. It includes a mix of exegetical and sermonic links. Here is what I have for Psalm 134 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps134.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_133_134.pdf

Psalm 134 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/219

Daniel Akin sermon resources: https://www.danielakin.com/worship-that-pleases-the-lord-through-the-psalms-series

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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.

Emily R. Cain, Mirrors of the Divine: Late Ancient Christianity and the Vision of God (Oxford University Press)

Jaeda C. Calaway

Judith E. Filitz, Gott Unterwegs: Die traditions- und religionsgeschichtlichen Hintergründe des Habakukliedes (Mohr Siebeck)
Gert T. M. Prinsloo

Karen Polinger Foster and Benjamin R. Foster, A Mesopotamian Miscellany (Gorgias)
Corinna Nichols

Gary Greenberg, The Case for a Proto-Gospel: Recovering the Common Written Source behind Mark and John (Lang)
Jonathan W. Lo

Matt Jackson-McCabe, Jewish Christianity: The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide (Yale University Press)
Joshua Schwartz

Hyun Chul Paul Kim, Tyler D. Mayfield, and Hye Kyung Park, eds., Historical Settings, Intertextuality, and Biblical Theology: Essays in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney (Mohr Siebeck)
Alexiana Fry

Frazer MacDiarmid, The Memory of Ignatius of Antioch: The Martyr as a Locus of Christian Identity, Remembering and Remembered (Mohr Siebeck)
Harry O. Maier

F. Scott Spencer, Passions of the Christ: The Emotional Life of Jesus in the Gospels (Baker Academic)
Nils Neumann

Ekaputra Tupamahu, Contesting Languages: Heteroglossia and the Politics of Language in the Early Church (Oxford University Press)
Joseph A. Marchal

Markus Vinzent, Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings (Cambridge University Press)
Kimberly B. Stratton