Jan 26, 2025

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 G. Foster, Communal Participation in the Spirit: The Corinthian Correspondence in Light of Early Jewish Mysticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Mohr Siebeck)
Timothy Keiderling

Scott W. Hahn and Jeffrey L. Morrow, Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700–1900) (Emmaus Academic)
Shawn Kelley

Shulamit Laderman, Jewish Art in Late Antiquity: The State of Research in Ancient Jewish Art (Brill)
Christoph Uehlinger

Mark Allan Powell, Matthew: An Interpretation Bible Commentary (Westminster John Knox)
Duncan Reid

Daniel Wayne Roberts, The Pastoral Epistles and the New Perspective on Paul (Wipf & Stock)
Tobias Hägerland

Samuele Rocca, In the Shadow of the Caesars: Jewish Life in Roman Italy (Brill)
Miriam Ben-Zeev

Simon Skidmore, Capital Punishment in the Pentateuch: Why the Bible Prescribes Ritual Killing (T&T Clark)
Viktor Ber

Joy L. Vaughan, Phenomenal Phenomena: Biblical and Mulitcultural Accounts of Spirits and Exorcism (Baylor University Press)
Tyler A. Stewart

The following reviews originally published in the Studia Philonica Annual have been added to RBL.

Risto Auvinen, Philo’s Influence on Valentinian Tradition (SBL Press)
M. David Litwa

Ernest P. Clark, Weak Elements, Weak Flesh: Reading Galatians in Conversation with Philo and Greek Medical Discourse (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Justin Rogers

Jan 23, 2025

Ekron

See Leon Mauldin's post here on the Philistine city of Ekron. I was able to visit the site in 2018. As I recall it was not easy to get to and there is not much to see these days. Here is one of my photos from that visit.


 

Jan 18, 2025

Journal of Biblical Literature 143:4

Volume 143:4 of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now available. Here is a list of articles but you will need to be a member to access them.

“You Shall Be Holy”: A Reassessment of Israel’s Call to Holiness
Joshua J. Van Ee

Spirit Possession and Intimate Partner Violence in the Law of Jealousy (Numbers 5:11–31)
Reed Carlson

Fluid Boundaries and Conflicted Meaning in the Book of Joshua
Robin Baker

Persian-Style Historiography in Ezra-Nehemiah
Sam Blankenship

Revisiting Psalm 91 in Light of Rainer Albertz’s Model of Internal Religious Pluralism
W. Dennis Tucker Jr.

Torches, Not Lamps, in the Wedding Parable of Matthew 25
Michael Peppard

2 Corinthians 8:16–9:5 as a Letter of Commendation and Instruction
Jerry L. Sumney

Courtroom Theatrics in the Letter of James
Alicia J. Batten

An Early Harklean Version in a Syriac Gospel Fragmentary Manuscript (MS Or. 403)
Catalin-Stefan Popa

Jan 17, 2025