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.

Arjen F. Bakker, René Bloch, Yael Fisch, Paula Fredriksen, and Hindy Najman, eds., Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism and Anti-Judaism (Brill)
Jeffrey Morrow

Beatrice Bonanno, The Septuagint of Ruth: Translation Technique, Textual History, and Theological Issues (Brepols)
William A. Ross

Lynn H. Cohick, The Letter to the Ephesians (Eerdmans)
Lisa Marie Belz

Craig A. Evans and Adam Z. Wright, eds., Gods, Spirits, and Worship in the Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity (T&T Clark)
Margaret Froelich

Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez, Begging for Their Daily Bread: Beggar-Centric Interpretations of Matthew 6 (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Mphumezi Hombana

James B. Prothro, A Pauline Theology of Justification: Forgiveness, Friendship, and Life in Christ (Cascade)
Garwood P. Anderson

Jonathan Stutz, Stasis: Crowd Violence and Religious-Political Discourses in Late Antiquity (Mohr Siebeck)
Christian R. Raschle

Erik Waaler, The Use of the Old Testament in Matthew 1–4 (Mohr Siebeck)
Akio Ito

The Decalogue

Marc Zvi Brettler has a good discussion here concerning the best way to translate and understand and translate what is popularly called the "Ten Commandments."

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.

Richard Bauckham, The Blurred Cross: A Writer’s Difficult Journey with God (Baker Academic)
Isaiah Allen

Michael Fishbane, Jewish Biblical Interpretation: Medieval and Modern; Collected Essays II (Mohr Siebeck)
Laura S. Lieber

Benjamin D. Gordon, Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism (De Gruyter)
Jordan Guy

Jens Herzer; Jan Quenstedt, ed., Die Pastoralbriefe und das Vermächtnis des Paulus: Studien zu den Briefen an Timotheus und Titus (Mohr Siebeck)
Tobias Hägerland

Beth Langstaff, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, and Michael Tilly, eds., The Lord’s Prayer (Mohr Siebeck)
Michael F. Wandusim

Marcus Sigismund and Siegfried Kreuzer, eds., Die Schriftzitate im Hebräerbrief als Zeugen für die Überlieferung der Septuaginta (Mohr Siebeck)
Piotr Herok

Andreas Wagner and Jürgen van Oorschot, eds., Der bestmögliche Mensch: Alttestamentliche und systematisch-theologische Anmerkungen zu Sünde und Umkehr (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt)
Anja Marschall

Jarvis J. Williams, Christ Redeemed “Us” from the Curse of the Law: A Jewish Martyrological Reading of Galatians 3.13 (T&T Clark)
Seon Yong Kim

Resources on the Book of Esther

Ron Lindo offers some suggestions here.

Free Logos Resources for August

Logos is offering these freebies this month: The Apostle's Creed by Ben Myers, Saint Augustine: Sermons 94A–147A on the New Testament, a free ebook, True Courage by Steve Farrar, and the free audio book Resolutions and Advice to Young Converts by Jonathan Edwards. You can get these free resources and also other deals here, here, here, and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get Five Views on the Church and Politics edited by Amy Black and Stan Gundry for free here.

Applying the Book of Acts

Iain Duguid offers some insight here.

Resource: Audio-Visual Reading of Joshua 18

Bible Mapper is a helpful Bible geography resource with over 200 free maps created by David Barrett. Barrett has now added a video that includes a reading of Joshua 18 while the geographical references in the text are simultaneously highlighted on a map. Check it out here.

HT: Mark Hoffman

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.

Elie Assis, Lamentations: From Despair to Prayer (Sheffield Phoenix)
Jill Middlemas

Christina Bünger, Briefliches Zitieren bei Paulus und Cicero: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung zu den Korintherbriefen (Mohr Siebeck)
Maria B. Lang

Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, eds., Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts (Eerdmans)
Christopher B. Zeichmann

Elisabeth M. Cook, Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9–10 (Routledge)
Vien V. Nguyen

Adrian Kelly and Christophe Metcalf, eds., Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology (Cambridge University Press)
Dale Launderville

Benjamin J. Petroelje, The Pauline Book and the Dilemma of Ephesians (T&T Clark)
Justin Winzenburg

Jonathan M. Potter, Rewritten Gospel: The Composition of Luke and Rewritten Scripture (De Gruyter)
Gregory S. Thellman

Kris Song, One Spirit: Pneumatology and Unity in the Corinthian Letters (T&T Clark)
William Horst