Greek Suggestions

Nijay Gupta has some suggestions here for what to do after completing one year of Greek. Mostly he suggests resources which are fine but mostly one needs to just read the text.

Don Carson on John 1:1–2:2

Listen or read the transcript of this podcast. Note that this is part 1. Part 2 is not yet posted.

Free Logos Resources for July

Logos is offering these three freebies this month:The Biblical Expositor: Volume 2: Job-Malachi, The Beauty of the Eucharist: Voices from the Church Fathers by Dennis Billy, a free ebook, 52 Weeks Through the Bible: Fall in Love with the Book That Changed Everything by James Merritt, and the audio book How to Know God Exists: Solid Reasons to Believe in God, Discover by Josh McDowell and Thomas William. You can get these free resources and also purchase others at significant discounts here, here, here, and here.

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.

Bill T. Arnold, The Book of Deuteronomy: Chapters 1–11 (Eerdmans)
Carmen Palmer

Linda L. Belleville and A. Andrew Das, eds., Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Romans (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
David M. Allen

C. Clifton Black, Mark’s Gospel: History, Theology, Interpretation (Eerdmans)
Jarrett Knight

Kate Cooper and Jamie Wood, eds., Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worlds (Cambridge University Press)
Margaret Y. MacDonald

Beate Ego, Tobit (Kohlhammer)
Katherine E. Southwood

R. Hollis Gause, Hebrews (Brill)
Harold W. Attridge

Francesco Graziano, La composizione letteraria del Vangelo di Matteo (Peeters)
Matteo Munari

Georges Massinelli, For Your Sake He Became Poor: Ideology and Practice of Gift Exchange between Early Christian Groups (De Gruyter)
Anna M. V. Bowden

Anders Runesson, Judaism for Gentiles: Reading Paul beyond the Parting of the Ways Paradigm (Mohr Siebeck)
Terence L. Donaldson

Alistair C. Stewart, Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities (Eerdmans)
Steven Dunn

Writing Well

Check out David Allen's pocast here.

The Israel Exploration Journal 74

The latest issue of The Israel Exploration Journal (74:1) is out. It contains the following articles.

Nadav Na'aman: The "City of David" in Biblical Historiography and the Location of the Millo

Debora V. Ben-Ami, Raz Kletter and Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah: Outside the Canon? Three Unique Figurines from Tel Beth Shemesh, Tel Socho, and Jerusalem

Aharon Tavger: A New Look at Iron Age II Olive Oil Production in Southern Samaria: Royal Industry versus Local Economy

Esther Eshel, Haggai Misgav, Amir Ganor and Boaz Zissu: The Potter's Deal: A Fourth Century BCE Aramaic Economic Inscription Incised on the Shoulder of a Jar

Mechael Osband and Chaim Ben David: Inter-site Transfer of Stones from Ancient Public Structures at Rural Sites in the Central Golan Heights

Robert Hoyland: Forgotten Papyri of the Judaean Desert: The Khirbet Mird Corpus from Late Antiquity to Early Islam

Haya Katz and Harel Gootfriend: Archaeology, Education and the Israeli Public

Three Days in Jonah

Jay Sklar's article here makes an interesting connection between the three days in Jonah 1:17 and Jonah 3:3.

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.

Achim Behrens, Das Wort Gottes im Kontext alttestamentlicher Hermeneutik: Untersuchungen zum Wort Gottes und zum Gottesbild im Alten Testament (Mohr Siebeck)
Benedikt J. Collinet

D. Clint Burnett, Christ’s Enthronement at God’s Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context (De Gruyter)
Aquila H. I. Lee

R. Alan Culpepper, Matthew: A Commentary (Westminster John Knox)
Clinton Wahlen

Will D. Desmond, Hegel’s Antiquity (Oxford University Press)
Shawn Kelley

David D. M. King, Reclaiming the Radical Economic Message of Luke (Pickwick)
Renee Dutter Miller

Assaf Kleiman, Beyond Israel and Aram: The Archaeology and History of Iron Age Communities in the Central Levant (Mohr Siebeck)
Joel S. Burnett

Matthew V. Novenson, Paul, Then and Now (Eerdmans)
Oda Wischmeyer

Cooper Smith, Allusive and Elusive: Allusion and the Elihu Speeches of Job 32–37 (Brill)
Nicolae Roddy

Christopher D. Stanley, Paul and Asklepios: The Greco-Roman Quest for Healing and the Apostolic Mission (T&T Clark)
Jennifer Eyl

Markus Witte, Jens Schröter, and Verena M. Lepper, eds., Torah, Temple, Land: Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity (Mohr Siebeck)
Joseph Scales

John 5 and the Healing at Bethesda

Steve Bryan has an interesting take here on the healing at Bethesda in John 5.

The Merneptah Stele

Here is a nice overview of an important biblically-related artifact.

Samson as Nazarite

While I would not hold to many of the higher critical assumptions in this article, I found it to be an interesting discussion of Samson as a nazarite.

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.

Mika Ahuvia and Alexander Kocar, eds., Placing Ancient Texts: The Ritual and Rhetorical Use of Space (Mohr Siebeck)
Gert T. M. Prinsloo

Christian Bemmerl, Der Jakobusbrief in der Alten Kirche: Eine Spurensuche vom Neuen Testament bis zu Origenes (Mohr Siebeck)
Martin C. Albl 

M. Eugene Boring, Hearing Paul’s Voice: Insights for Teaching and Preaching (Eerdmans)
Michael P. Knowles

Piet van Boxel, Kirsten Macfarlane, and Joanna Weinberg, eds., The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press)
Chanan Gafni

Zorodzai Dube, Jesus, the Best Capernaum Folk-Healer: Mark’s Aretalogy of Jesus in the Healing Stories (Pickwick)
Olugbenga Olagunju

Jean-Luc Fournet, The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity (Princeton University Press)
Melody Everest

Russell E. Gmirkin, Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts: Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History (Routledge)
Paavo N. Tucker

David John McCollough, Ritual and Religious Experience in Early Christianities: The Spirit in Between (Mohr Siebeck)
Rikard Roitto

Urmas Nõmmik, Die Erzelternerzählungen im Lichte höfischer Erzählkunst: Motivkritische Studien zu den Überlieferungen von Lot, Isaak, Rebekka und Jakob (Mohr Siebeck)
Kristin Weingart

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, ed., Studies in Rabbinic Narratives: Volume 1 (Brown Judaic Studies)
Reuven Kiperwasser