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.

Do not Steal or Do not Kidnap?

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

A Loeb Classical Library Resource

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

HT: Agade

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

Academic Journals for Biblical Studies

Paul Himes has a helpful table of academic journals for biblical studies here.

Naomi in the Book of Ruth

Claude Mariottini has a nice discussion here on Naomi in the book of Ruth. Although the book is named for Ruth, I have long suggested that the main character is Naomi.

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.

František Ábel, ed., Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Ryan D. Collman

Ruth A. Clements, Russell Fuller, Armin Lange, and Paul D. Mandel, eds., The Textual History of the Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Cosponsored by the University of Vienna Institute for Jewish Studies and the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies (Brill)
Joshua Schwartz

Paul S. Evans, Sennacherib and the War of 1812: Disputed Victory in the Assyrian Campaign of 701 BCE in Light of Military History (T&T Clark)
Shawn Zelig Aster

Bungishabaku Katho, Reading Jeremiah in Africa: Biblical Essays in Sociopolitical Imagination (HippoBooks)
Ron Lindo Jr.

Oded Lipschits, Liora Freud, Manfred Oeming, and Yuval Gadot, Ramat Raḥel VI: Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010); The Babylonian-Persian Pit (Eisenbrauns)
Charles E. Carter

Ruth Christa Mathieson, Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast: A Sociorhetorical Interpretation (SBL Press)
Daniel Frayer-Griggs

Jeremiah L. Stallman, Judge Jesus: Approaching Jesus’s Messianic Judgeship in the Gospel of John from an Early Jewish Perspective (Wipf & Stock)
Samantha J. Scott

Ariel Zinder, Arise and Sing: Readings in Medieval Hebrew Penitential Poetry from Iraq and al-Andalus [Hebrew] (Magnes)
Oren Yirmiya

Israel National Archaeological Database

The Israel Antiquities Authority has launched the Israel National Archaeological Database. I have only been able to dabble but this looks like an incredible resource for those interested in biblical archaeology. You can access it here.

Luke 15

Whereas the Parable of the Prodigal Son often gets the lion's share of attention in Luke 15, Ian Paul has a good discussion of the two parables that proceed it. You can check out Ian's post 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.

Andrew T. Abernethy, Discovering Isaiah: Content, Interpretation, Reception (Eerdmans)
Shawn Zelig Aster

Shaye J. D. Cohen, Robert Goldenberg, and Hayim Lapin, eds., The Oxford Annotated Mishnah (Oxford University Press)
Joshua Schwartz

Nijay K. Gupta and John K. Goodrich, eds., Sin and Its Remedy in Paul (Clarke)
Stuart B. Langley

Pieter B. Hartog, Shulamit Laderman, Vered Tohar, and Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen, eds., Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation (Brill)
Rivka Ulmer

Murray J. Harris, Paul—His Life, Letters, and Teaching: Convenient Summaries (Cascade)
Carl N. Toney

Yii-Jan Lin, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (Yale University Press)
Lynn R. Huber

Enoch O. Okode, Christ the Gift and the Giver: Paul’s Portrait of Jesus as the Supreme Royal Benefactor in Romans 5:1–11 (Pickwick)
Grace Wing-yi AU

Joseph Yahalom, Yehudah Halevi: The Secular Poems; The Original Diwan with Supplements [Hebrew] (Magnes)
Federico Dal Bo

Free eBook: Circles and the Cross

 Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Circles and the Cross: Cosmos, Consciousness, Christ, and the Human Place in Creation Context of Palestine/Israel edited by Loren Wilkinson. Act quickly because the deal ends on 8/30. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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Iron in Ancient Israel

Naama Yahalom-Mack has an interesting article here on the history of iron in Israel.

Resource: Audio-Visual Reading of Acts 27

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 Acts 27 and Paul's voyage to Rome while the geographical references in the text are simultaneously highlighted on a map. Check it out here.

HT: Todd Bolen

Free Logos Resources for September

Logos is offering these freebies this month: A Passion for Faithfulness: Wisdom from the Book of Nehemiah by J. I. Packer, Follow Me: A History of Christian Intentionality by Ivan Kauffman, a free ebook, Marriage Forecasting by Tim Muehlhoff, and the free audio book Raising Disciples by Teresa Roberts. You can get these free resources and also other deals here, here, here, and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get 1 Samuel: Choose Your King by Tim Chester for free 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.

Craig G. Bartholomew, Listening to Scripture: An Introduction to Interpreting the Bible (Baker Academic)
Zach Eberhart

Angelika Berlejung and Gideon Bohak, eds., Amulets of Protection and Texts for Fears in Antiquity (Mohr Siebeck)
Ariel Feldman

Kathleen J. Birney, Ashkelon 9: The Hellenistic Period (Eisenbrauns)
Joshua Schwartz

Aron Freidenreich, Mutual Influence in Priestly and Non-Priestly Pentateuchal Narratives: A Study of the Dynamic Interaction Behind the Textual Growth of P and Non-P (Mohr Siebeck)
Gershon Brin

Matthew E. Gordley, Social Justice in the Stories of Jesus: The Ethical Challenge of the Parables (Wiley Blackwell)
Warren Carter

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

Benjamin Kantor, The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam (Eerdmans)
Jenny Read-Heimerdinger

Sydney Tooth, Suddenness and Signs: The Eschatologies of 1 and 2 Thessalonians (Mohr Siebeck)
Janusz Kucicki