Aug 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.

Brendan Byrne, Paul and the Economy of Salvation: Reading from the Perspective of the Last Judgment (Baker Academic)
Grant Buchanan

Steven Fassberg, ed., Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period: Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira (Brill)
John Screnock

Martin Goodman, Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Yale University Press)
Jodi Magness

David W. Kling, The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times (Oxford University Press)
An-Ting Yi

Reinhard G. Kratz and Bernd U. Schipper, eds., Elephantine in Context: Studies on the History, Religion and Literature of the Judeans in Persian Period Egypt (Mohr Siebeck)
Alejandro F. Botta

Albert Sui Hung Lee, Dialogue on Monarchy in the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative: Ideological Reading in Light of Bakhtin’s Dialogism (Brill)
Keith Bodner

Susanne Scholz, ed., Doing Biblical Masculinity Studies as Feminist Biblical Studies? Critical Interrogations (Sheffield Phoenix)
Alexiana Fry

Benjamin D. Suchard, Aramaic Daniel: A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1–7 (Brill)
Peter Joshua Atkins

Aug 19, 2025

Free eBook: Practicing Intertextuality

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Aug 18, 2025

What Happened to the Apostles?

Christian History magazine's latest issue addresses the issue of apostleship and lives of the Apostles. You can read the issue or access a free PDF of the issue here. Several friends have contributed to this volume.

HT: Rex Butler

Aug 17, 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.

Elie Assis, Before There Were Kings: A Literary Analysis of the Book of Judges (Eisenbrauns)
Joel S. Kaminsky

Reinhard von Bendemann, Christus der Arzt: Frühchristliche Soteriologie und Anthropologie im Licht antik-medizinischer Konzepte (Kohlhammer)
Karl Olav Sandnes

Bart Ehrman, Michael F. Bird, and Robert B. Stewart, When Did Jesus Become God? A Christological Debate (Westminster John Knox)
Andrew Loke

Jennifer Brown Jones, Psalms 89–105: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor University Press)
Elizabeth H. P. Backfish

Joel Korytko, Death of the Covenant Code: Capital Punishment in Old Greek Exodus in Light of Greco-Egyptian Law (Brill)
Anna Angelini

Sarah E. Rollens, Eric M. Vanden Eykel, and Meredith J. C. Warren, eds., Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts (Eerdmans)
Paula Fredriksen

Daniel R. Schwartz, 1 Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Yale University Press)
Joshua Schwartz 

Ruben Zimmermann; Dieter T. Roth, ed., Breaking New Ground in John: Imagery, Parables, Characters, Christology, and Ethics in the Fourth Gospel (Mohr Siebeck)
Craig R. Koester

Aug 16, 2025

Aug 13, 2025

Journal for the Study of the New Testament 47:5

The latest articles from of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament are available now. Here is a list of the articles and links to abstracts. The article by Gathercole is open access.

Did Paul Expect to Survive until the Parousia? A Suggested Re-reading of 1 Cor. 15.51–52
Simon Gathercole

Reading Luke 2.41–52 in the Post-War Context: War Trauma, Intergenerational Tension, and Therapeutic Reading Experience

Jin Young Kim

Josephus’s Rhetorical Construction of the Galileans as Proximate Others
Sung Uk Lim

Fearful and Joyous Old Men Old Age, Masculinity, and Emotions in Luke’s Account of Zechariah (Lk. 1) and the Fables of Babrios (Fab. 98, 136)
Albertina Oegema

Populating the Middle: The Social Location of the Author of Luke-Acts

Timothy J. Murray

The Construction of Authorial Authority in John and Revelation

Christopher Seglenieks

Bond, Favour Bank, and Social Capital: A Social-Scientific Reading of the Parable of the Dishonest Steward in Luke 16.1–9
Kingsley Ikechukwu Uwaegbute

Collegia of Brothers? The Semantics of Brotherhood in Greco-Roman Associations and the New Testament

Francesco Filannino

A Fragmented Revelation: Paragraph Delimitation of John’s Apocalypse in Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Alexandrinus

Cristian Cardozo Mindiola

The Intersectionality of Gender and Slavery: Paul’s Social Creativity within an Unchangeable System
Darlene M. Seal

Aug 11, 2025

Kissing in the Hebrew Bible

The Times of Israel discusses a recent Journal of Biblical Literature article on kissing in Hebrew Bible here.

Aug 10, 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.

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