Oct 13, 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.

Stefan Alkier, ed., Antagonismen in neutestamentlichen Schriften: Studien zur Neuformulierung der “Gegnerfrage” jenseits des Historismus (Brill Schöningh)
Stephan Witetschek

Denise Flanders, The Rhetorical Use of Numbers in the Deuteronomistic History: “Saul Has Killed His Thousands, David His Tens of Thousands” (Brill)
Benjamin J. M. Johnson

Carina Kühne-Wespi and Joachim Friedrich Quack, eds., Ancient Egyptian Rituals against Enemies (Mohr Siebeck)
Robyn Gillam

James F. McGrath, The A to Z of the New Testament: Things Experts Know That Everyone Else Should Too (Eerdmans)
Michel Pauw

Volker Rabens, Jacqueline Grey, and Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn, eds., Key Approaches to Biblical Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (Brill)
Alexander P. Thompson

Giancarlo Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (Brill)
Lucas Brum Teixeira

Paul Trebilco, Simon H. Rae, and Deolito Vistar, 1 Timothy: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Langham Global Library)
Ray Van Neste

Danilo Verde, The Language of Trauma in the Psalms (Eisenbrauns)
Eric D. McDonnell Jr.

Oct 10, 2025

Free eBook: Reading Mark

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Reading Mark by Kelly Iverson. Act quickly because the deal ends on 10/17. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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David deSilva's Substack

Some might be interested in David deSilva's new Substack here.

Oct 7, 2025

Journal of Biblical Literature 144:3

Volume 144:.34 of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now out. Here is a list of the articles.

On Having a Body: Time and Divine Embodiment
Jennie Grillo

Light and Luminaries: A Study of Genesis 1:3–5 and 14–19
Daniel Kwame Bediako

Saul and the Not-So-Holy Ghost: 1 Samuel 16:14–23 and Ghost-Induced Illness
David E. Basher

Transgenerational “Righteousness” in Ezekiel and Aramean (Sam’alian) Texts
Theodore J. Lewis

The Postexilic נתינים and the Neo-Babylonian Širkū: A Reassessment
Tyler M. Moser

Noah’s Sacrifice and the Relation between Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon
Hillel Mali

אַשְׁרֵי and μακάριος: Contact Linguistics, Constrained Language, and the Nature of Judaic Greek
Jonathan Arulnathan Thambyrajah

Hagar on Sinai: The Choice of Heracles, Mountain Women, and Pauline Allegory in Galatians
Courtney J. P. Friesen

The Pro-Choice Biblical Ethic of American Evangelical Scholars before the Religious Right
Kirk R. MacGregor

Oct 5, 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 B. Ansberry, Reading Wisdom and Psalms as Christian Scripture: A Literary, Canonical, and Theological Introduction (Baker Academic)
Nathaniel Holmes Jr.

Ferdinand Christian Baur; Peter C. Hodgson, ed., Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ (Cascade)
Pierre Célestin Musoni

Gabriella Gelardini, Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews: Collected Essays (Brill)
Christopher T. Holmes

Paul Moser, The Divine Goodness of Jesus: Impact and Response (Cambridge University Press)
Aquila H. I. Lee

Raju Parakkott, trans.; Mary T. Hansbury, ed., Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Paul: On the Conversion of the Apostle Paul and a Second Homily on Paul the Apostle (Gorgias)
Armando Elkhoury

James Riley Strange, Excavating the Land of Jesus: How Archaeologists Study the People of the Gospels (Eerdmans)
James D. Tabor

Blake Wassell, John 18:28–19:22 and the Paradox of Judgement (Mohr Siebeck)
Sergio Zapata Grajales

Korinna Zamfir and Uta Poplutz, eds., Reading Women in the New Testament Letters (SBL Press)
Susan E. Hylen

Oct 3, 2025

Oct 2, 2025

Philip's Daughters (Acts 21:7-14)

Phil Long has a good discussion here of Philip's daughters mentioned in Acts 21.

Oct 1, 2025

Free Logos Resources for October

Logos is offering these freebies this month: Imminent Domain: The Story of the Kingdom of God and its Celebration by Ben Witherington, Crisis of faith, Crisis of Love by Thomas Keating, a free ebook, The Wonder Working God by Jared Wilson, and the free audio book Pinnacles of Preaching. You can get these free resources and also other deals hereherehere, and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get The History of Ancient Israel by Phillip Davies for free here.

Sep 30, 2025

A Goat Being Pushed off a Cliff on the Day of Atonement

Marty Lockshin has an interesting post here regarding the supposed practice of a goat being pushed off a cliff related to the Day of Atonement (Lev 16).

Sep 29, 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.

Jonathan Ben-Dov and Felipe Rojas, eds., Afterlives of Ancient Rock-Cut Monuments in the Near East: Carvings in and out of Time (Brill)
Joshua Schwartz

Richard J. Britton, Romans and the Power of the Believer (SBL Press)
K. Edwin Bryant

Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, eds., Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts (Eerdmans)
Shayna Sheinfeld

Yael Landman, Legal Writing, Legal Practice: The Biblical Bailment Law and Divine Justice (Brown Judaic Studies)
Andrew D. Gross

Jon D. Levenson, Israel’s Day of Light and Joy: The Origin, Development, and Enduring Meaning of the Jewish Sabbath (Eisenbrauns)
Ottilia Lukács

Teresa Lee McCaskill, Gifts and Ritual: The Charismata of Romans 12:6–8 in the Context of Roman Religion (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Zeba Crook

Grace J. Park, Focus Construction with kî ʾim in Biblical Hebrew (Eisenbrauns)
Laura Hare

Andrew J. Summerson, Divine Scripture and Human Emotion in Maximus the Confessor: Exegesis of the Human Heart (Brill)
Jonathan Bieler

Sep 24, 2025

Accessible German New Testament Scholarship

For those that are interested in accessing German New Testament scholarship, there is a new open access journal entitled Accessible German New Testament Scholarship (AGNTS). You can check it out here.

Sep 23, 2025

Do not Steal or Do not Kidnap?

Jonathan Magonet has has an interesting article examining the issue from a rabbinic perspective here.

Sep 22, 2025

A Loeb Classical Library Resource

Loeb volumes that are now in the public domain can be easily accessed here at Loebolus.

HT: Agade

Sep 21, 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.

James W. Barker, Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics (Eerdmans)
Richard Francis D’Souza

Adam H. Becker, Isaac of Antioch: Homilies on Moral and Monastic Reform (SBL Press)
Yifat Monnickendam

Angelika Berlejung, ed., Encyclopedia of Material Culture in the Biblical World: A New Biblisches Reallexikon (Mohr Siebeck)
Joshua Schwartz

Mona P. Bias, Job: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Langham Global Library)
Chloe T. Sun

M. I. Cha, Misunderstanding Galatians: An Exegetical, Originalist Commentary (Wipf & Stock)
William Horst

Evangelia G. Dafni, ed., Law and Justice in Jerusalem, Babylon and Hellas (Mohr Siebeck)
Frank Ueberschaer

Roy R. Jeal, Exploring Colossians: Living the New Reality (SBL Press)
Rosemary Canavan

Jörg Rüpke and Greg Woolf, eds., Religion in the Roman Empire (Kohlhammer)
Jeffrey Brodd