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

Moabite Women Seduce Israel into Worshiping Baal Peor

Atar Livneh has an interesting discussion here concerning the Moabite women who seduce dIsrael into worshiping Baal Peor (Num 31:16). What is most interesting to me is the later interpretations of the event.

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.

Joel S. Baden and Jeffrey Stackert, eds., The Pentateuch and Its Readers (Mohr Siebeck)
Stephen Germany

A. Andrew Das and B. J. Oropeza, eds., Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
David M. Allen

Chloë N. Duckworth and Andrew Wilson, eds., Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy (Oxford University Press)
Anna M. V. Bowden

Nicholas A. Elder, Gospel Media: Reading, Writing, and Circulating Jesus Traditions (Eerdmans)
Cambry G. Pardee

Lester L. Grabbe, The Maccabaean Revolt, Hasmonaean Rule, and Herod the Great (175–4 BCE), volume 3 of A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period (T&T Clark)
Jeffrey A. Colburn

Thomas Kazen and Rikard Roitto, Revenge, Compensation, and Forgiveness in the Ancient World: A Comparative Study of Interpersonal Infringement and Moral Repair (Mohr Siebeck)
Marius Johannes Nel

Helen Leneman, The Voice of Judith in 300 Years of Oratorio and Opera (T&T Clark)
Joshua Joel Spoelstra

Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (HarperCollins)
Michael Coogan

Joshua Humor

HT: Kevin Larsen 

Free eBook: Politics, Conflicts, and Movements in First-Century Palestine

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Politics, Conflicts, and Movements in First-Century Palestine by Richard A. Horsley. Act quickly because I am not sure when the deal expires. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

1. Click on this link.
2. Click "ADD TO CART" on the eBook option.
3. Use the code "HORSLEY25"
4. Upon checkout completion, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions of how to download your free eBook.

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.

Blessing Onoriode Boloje, Reading Micah in Nigeria: Ethics, Wealth, and Corruption (SBL Press)
Michael Ufok Udoekpo

Chance E. Bonar and Julia D. Lindenlaub, eds., Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean (Mohr Siebeck)
Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson

Erin Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster, eds., Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context (Brill)
Rachel Nabulsi

Matthijs den Dulk, Joshua Schwartz, Peter J. Tomson, and Joseph Verheyden, eds., Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: Mapping the Second Century (Brill)
Paula Fredriksen

Bruce Henning, Matthew’s Non-Messianic Mapping of Messianic Texts: Evidences of a Broadly Eschatological Hermeneutic (Brill)
David Parris

Theodora Suk Fong Jim, Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (Oxford University Press)
Teresa Morgan

Jennifer M. Matheny, Judges 19–21 and Ruth: Canon as a Voice of Answerability (Brill)
Esther Brownsmith

David Stein, Beth Lieberman, and Hilary Lipka, eds., The JPS Tanakh: Gender-Sensitive Edition (Jewish Publication Society)
Susanne Scholz