The Number Seven in the Old Testament

Elaine Goodfriend has an interesting post here on the number seven and its multiples in the Old Testament.

Mohr Siebeck Open-Access Volumes

New Testament scholar, David DeSilva posted on Facebook some open-access titles at Mohr Siebeck that he liked. I am not sure how to link to his post but here are the ones he singled out.

To Eat or Not to Eat: Studies on the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions
Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini

Empire Criticism of the New Testament: New Approaches
Edited by Christoph Heilig

The Image of the Invisible God: An Exegetical Study of Colossians 1:15-20
Travis R. Niles

Paul within Judaism: Perspectives on Paul and Jewish Identity
Edited by Jörg Frey, Ruben A. Bühner, Michael Bird and Brian Rosner

The Beginning of the Biblical Canon and Ben Sira
Alma Brodersen

Judaism for Gentiles: Reading Paul beyond the Parting of the Ways Paradigm
Anders Runesson in collaboration with Rebecca Runesson

Torah, Temple, Land: Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity
Edited by Jens Schröter, Markus Witte and Verena M. Lepper

Interpreting and Living God's Law at Qumran: Miqṣat Ma῾aśe Ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT)
Edited by John J. Collins, Lutz Doering, Jörg Frey, Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Charlotte Hempel, Eibert Tigchelaaar, Noam Mizrahi, Jonathan Ben-Dov and Vered Noam

Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions: Reassessing Archaeological and Literary Perspectives
Edited by Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini and Abra Spiciarich

In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns
Edited by Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Donald A. Russell and Michael Trapp

Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Galilee: An Archaeological Survey of the Eastern Galilee
Uzi Leibner

The Interpretation of Freedom in the Letters of Paul
Wayne Coppins

Cosmic Christology in Paul and the Pauline School: Colossians and Ephesians in the Context of Graeco-Roman Cosmology, with a New Synopsis of the Greek Texts
George H. van Kooten

Purity in Ancient Judaism: Texts, Contexts, and Concepts
Edited by Lutz Doering, Jörg Frey and Laura von Bartenwerffer

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.

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.

1. Click on this link.
2. Click "ADD TO CART" on the eBook option.
3. Use the code "IVERSON25"
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David deSilva's Substack

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

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

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

Preaching the Psalms

Abe Kuruvilla has some insights here.

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

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

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 here, here, here, and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get The History of Ancient Israel by Phillip Davies for free here.

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).

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

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