Mar 12, 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.


Régis Burnet, Exegesis and History of Reception: Reading the New Testament Today with the Readers of the Past (Mohr Siebeck)
Cristian Cardozo Mindiola

Eric H. Cline, Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works (Princeton University Press)
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott

Johann Cook and Gideon R. Kotzé, eds., The Septuagint South of Alexandria: Essays on the Greek Translations and Other Ancient Versions by the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa (LXXSA) (Brill)
Anwar Tjen

E. Earle Ellis; Terry L. Wilder, ed., 1 Corinthians: A Commentary (T&T Clark)
Timothy Keiderling

David F. Ford, The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary (Baker Academic)
John Behr

Tal Ilan, Tractates Pe’ah, Demai and Kil’ayim: Text, Translation, and Commentary (Mohr Siebeck)
Natalie C. Polzer

Elizabeth A. Myers, Authorship of 1 Peter and Hebrews: New Evidence in Light of Probable Intertextual Borrowing (Pistos Ktistes)
John-Christian Eurell

Robert W. Wall, Studies in Canonical Criticism: Reading the New Testament as Scripture (T&T Clark)
Peter-Ben Smit





Mar 10, 2025

Free eBook: To Follow the Lamb

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of To Follow the Lamb: A Peaceable Reading of the Book of Revelation by Ted Grimsrud. The offer is valid until March 14. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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Mar 9, 2025

The "Mixed Multitude" in Exodus 12:38

Very interesting discussion here on the identity of the "mixed multitude" in Exodus 12:38.

Mar 2, 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.

Dionsio Candido, Renate Egger-Wenzel, and Stefan C. Reif, eds., What Makes a People? Early Jewish Ideas of Peoplehood and Their Evolving Impact (De Gruyter)
Grace Wing-Yi Au

Meghan Henning and Nils Neumann, eds., Vivid Rhetoric and Visual Persuasion: Ekphrasis in Early Christian Literature (Eerdmans)
Jason Robert Combs

John C. Poirier, The Invention of the Inspired Text: Philological Windows on the Theopneustia of Scripture (T&T Clark)
Jeffrey M. Tripp

Stanley E. Porter, The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Greek Text (Baker Academic)
Isaiah Allen

Olivia L. Rahmsdorf, Zeit und Ethik im Johannesevangelium: Theoretische, methodische und exegetische Annäherungen an die Gunst der Stunde (Mohr Siebeck)
Gregory Thomas Bask

Nicolai Techow, Sinners, Works of Law, and Transgression in Gal 2:14b–21: A Study in Paul’s Line of Thought (Mohr Siebeck)
William Sanger Campbell

Philip S. Thomas, In a Vision of the Night: Job, Cormac McCarthy, and the Challenge of Chaos (Baylor University Press)
Anthony C. Swindell

Robyn J. Whitaker, Even the Devil Quotes Scripture: Reading the Bible on Its Own Terms (Eerdmans)
Greg Carey

Mar 1, 2025

Free Logos Resources for March

Logos is offering these freebies this month: Genesis, Shepherd's Notes, What Are They Saying about Augustine? by Joseph Kelley, a free ebook, A Loving Life by Paul Miller, and the free audio book Working for God by Andrew Murray. You can get these free resources and also other deals here, here, here, and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get People of the Spirit by Graham Twelftree for free here.

Feb 27, 2025

The Meaning of the Transfiguration in Luke 9

Ian Paul has a good discussion here on the meaning of Jesus' transfiguration in Luke 9

Feb 26, 2025

Don't Preach a Commentary

Amen and amen to this article on preaching by Michael C. Lyons.

HT: Tim Challies

Feb 25, 2025

Top Biblical Archaeology Discoveries of 2024

A bit late to the party, but Biblical Archaeology Review discusses the top bBiblical archaeology discoveries of 2024 here.

Feb 24, 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.

Adam H. Becker, Isaac of Antioch: Homilies on Moral and Monastic Reform (SBL Press)
Robert A. Kitchen

Jonathan Ben-Dov, Asaf Gayer, and Eshbal Ratzon, Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of 4Q418a (Brill)
Charles P. Comerford

Presian Renee Burroughs, Creation’s Slavery and Liberation: Paul’s Letter to Rome in the Face of Imperial and Industrial Agriculture (Cascade)
William Horst

Sung J. Cho, Matthew’s Account of the Massacre of the Innocents in Light of Its Reception History (T&T Clark)
Rebekah Eklund

Jürg Hutzli, The Origins of P: Literary Profiles and Strata of the Priestly Texts in Genesis 1–Exodus 40 (Mohr Siebeck)
David Rothstein

Chiaen Liu, Register Variation in the New Testament Petrine Texts (Brill)
Zachary K. Dawson

Travis R. Niles, The Image of the Invisible God: An Exegetical Study of Colossians 1:15–20 (Mohr Siebeck)
Matthew E. Gordley

Shaul Shaked, James Nathan Ford, and Siam Bhayro, Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls, Volume Two (Brill)
Joshua Schwartz

Feb 23, 2025

The Samaritan Pentateuch

The Samaritan Pentateuch: An English Translation with a Parallel Annotated Hebrew Text by Moshe Florentin and Abraham Tal is available for free via open access here.

HT: Steven Fine