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Jul 7, 2017

Latest Issue of 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.

Aaron Chalmers
Interpreting the Prophets: Reading, Understanding and Preaching from the Worlds of the Prophets
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10623
Reviewed by Samuel Hildebrandt

Panayotis Coutsoumpos
Paul, Corinth, and the Roman Empire
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10644
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

Thomas Esposito
Jesus’ Meals with Pharisees and Their Liturgical Roots
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10468
Reviewed by Dennis E. Smith

Simon Gathercole
Defending Substitution: An Essay on Atonement in Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10364
Reviewed by Jarvis J. Williams

David Gowler
James through the Centuries
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10057
Reviewed by R. Alan Culpepper

Michael J. Kok
The Gospel on the Margins: The Reception of Mark in the Second Century
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10242
Reviewed by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon

Helen Leneman and Barry Dov Walfish, eds.
The Bible Retold by Jewish Artists, Writers, Composers and Filmmakers
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11138
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

Gordon H. Matties
Joshua
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10053
Reviewed by Ryan P. Bonfiglio

Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò
Goliath’s Legacy: Philistines and Hebrews in Biblical Times
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11294
Reviewed by Carl S. Ehrlich

Diego Pérez Gondar
Caín, Abel y la sangre de los justos: Gn 4, 1–16 y su recepción en la Iglesia Primitiva
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10453
Reviewed by Susana de Sola Funsten

Alistair C. Stewart
The Original Bishops: Office and Order in the First Christian Communities
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9835
Reviewed by David J. DeVore

Patricia K. Tull and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, eds.
After Exegesis: Feminist Biblical Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10897
Reviewed by Lisa W. Davison

Michael Wolter
Paul: An Outline of His Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10916
Reviewed by Matthew V. Novenson

Sami Yli-Karjanmaa
Reincarnation in Philo of Alexandria
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11004
Reviewed by Gregory E. Sterling

Tamar Zewi
The Samaritan Version of Saadya Gaon’s Translation of the Pentateuch: Critical Edition and Study of MS London BL OR7562 and Related MSS
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10508
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Jul 6, 2017

Original Turabian?

In the process of packing some things today, I can across this copy of Turabian. There is no indication of a second or later edition so it may be a first edition. In any case, it is only 61 pages long!

How to Talk to Famous Professors

Robin Bernstein has some good advice here.

Jul 5, 2017

Two Views on Applying 2 Chronicles 7:14

Steve Gaines argues for direct application here and Russell Moore argues against direct application here (written in 2016). I wonder whether at least some of the differences between Gaines and Russell relates to a failure to distinguish between principles and applications.

Jul 4, 2017

Leviticus and Sexual Morality

Jeff Mirus has a good post here on what Leviticus has to teach us about sexual morality and ourselves.

Jul 3, 2017

Infographic: Singleness, Dating, and Marriage

Crossway has a helpful infographic on singleness, dating, and marriage here.

HT: David Murray

Jul 1, 2017

Free Logos Book for July: The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity

The free Logos Book of the Month for July is The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity by Mark A. Noll. For this and other offers you can go to the Logos' Free Book of Month page here.

Jun 30, 2017

On the Value of Biblical Hebrew

Here is a Roman Catholic perspective. Note also the author's encouragement to visit the Holt Land.

Jun 29, 2017

Latest Issue of 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.

Stephen Carlson
The Text of Galatians and Its History
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10563
Reviewed by Akio Ito

Lynne St. Clair Darden
Scripturalizing Revelation: An African American Postcolonial Reading of Empire
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10688
Reviewed by Lynn Huber

Sally Douglas
Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine: The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11286
Reviewed by Jill E. Marshall

Mariachiara Fincati
The Medieval Revision of the Ambrosian Hexateuch: Critical Editing between Septuaginta and Hebraica Veritas in Ms. Ambrosianus A 147 inf.
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11289
Reviewed by Melvin K. H. Peters

Peter W. Gosnell
The Ethical Vision of the Bible: Learning Good from Knowing God
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10153
Reviewed by C. Fred Smith

Lester L. Grabbe, Gabriele Boccaccini, and Jason M. Zurawski, eds.
The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11195
Reviewed by G. Anthony Keddie

Ithamar Gruenwald
Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10250
Reviewed by Andrew R. Guffey

Sylvie Honigman
Tales of High Priests and Taxes: The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion against Antiochos IV
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11059
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Sharon Jacob
Reading Mary Alongside Indian Surrogate Mothers: Violent Love, Oppressive Liberation, and Infancy Narratives
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10745
Reviewed by Angela N. Parker

Andre LaCocque
Jesus the Central Jew: His Times and His People
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10414
Reviewed by Tobias Hägerland

Susanne Luther, Jörg Röder, and Eckart Schmidt, eds.
Wie Geschichten Geschichte schreiben: Frühchristliche Literatur zwischen Faktualität und Fiktionalität
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10374
Reviewed by Jonathon Lookadoo

James E. Robson
Deuteronomy 1–11: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11379
Reviewed by Leslie J. Hoppe, OFM

John Christopher Thomas and Frank D. Macchia
Revelation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11246
Reviewed by Gregory Stevenson

Bruce W. Winter
Divine Honours for the Caesars: The First Christians’ Responses
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10900
Reviewed by Warren Carter

Edwin M. Yamauchi and Marvin R. Wilson
Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-biblical Antiquity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9980
Reviewed by Oded Borowski
Reviewed by Hennie Stander

Jun 28, 2017

Charles Spurgeon's Schedule

Check out this blog post related to Charles Spurgeon's schedule. I know it puts my schedule to shame!

Jun 27, 2017

Free Hebrew Course

Kevin Bauder notes that you can take a free Biblical Hebrew course taught by William Barrick. You can access it out here.

Jun 26, 2017

Ten Major Themes in Proverbs

Steve Nicholes and his son Benjamin have created a nice visual diagram of ten major themes in Proverbs. You can click on the image below for a higher quality PDF version.

Jun 25, 2017

Ten Online Teaching Tips

This post seems to have some helpful suggestions.

Jun 23, 2017

Spurgeon Collection Online

See this article explaining the site here or go directly to the site here.

Jun 22, 2017

Teaching Specific Skills

Maryellen Weimer has a good post here on teaching specific skills to students. Much, if not all, of this also applies to discipleship.

Jun 21, 2017

Prothro on Justification

Peter Leithart interacts with James Prothro's article, “The Strange Case of Dikaioo in the Septuagint and Paul: The Oddity and Origins of Paul's Talk of ‘Justification'” here.

Jun 19, 2017

The Sermon Is not Dead

Those that think that preaching is passé should read this.

Jun 18, 2017

Latest Issue of 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.

Yitzhak Berger
Jonah in the Shadows of Eden
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11344
Reviewed by Paul L. Redditt

Mark Glen Bilby
As the Bandit Will I Confess you: Luke 23.39–43 in Early Christian Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10109
Reviewed by Edmon L. Gallagher

Crispin Fletcher-Louis
Jesus Monotheism: Volume 1: Christological Origins: The Emerging Consensus and Beyond
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10588
Reviewed by Blake A. Jurgens

Amanda C. Miller
Rumors of Resistance: Status Reversals and Hidden Transcripts in the Gospel of Luke
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9815
Reviewed by Eric D. Barreto

Manfred Oeming and Joachim Vette
Das Buch der Psalmen: Psalm 90–151
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11303
Reviewed by Áron Németh

Robert Somos
Logic and Argumentation in Origen
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11157
Reviewed by Mark S. M. Scott

James W. Thompson
The Church according to Paul: Rediscovering the Community Conformed to Christ
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9934
Reviewed by Christopher T. Holmes
Reviewed by Herman C. Waetjen

Adam Winn, ed.
An Introduction to Empire in the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11301
Reviewed by Greg Carey