Song of Solomon Humor

Babylon Bee strikes again.

Free eBook: Source Criticism

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Source Criticism by Joel Baden. Act quickly because the deal ends on 5/15. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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Blogaversary

This is a bit late, but on April 12 I completed 18 years of blogging. Much has changed personally since my first blog post in 2008 but my interests are about the same. I am grateful for all who have stopped by over the years.

Numbers 5:11–31

Numbers 5:11–31 is a difficult passage for many faithful interpreters. The trial by ordeal stipulated in the text seems strange to many modern readers. Hanna Lis does not resolve the issues but her treatment here is interesting both in her survey of rabbinic interpretations and in her suggestion of the purpose of the practice.

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.

Shay Bar and Adam Zertal, The Manasseh Hill Country Survey Volume 6: The Eastern Samaria Shoulder, from Nahal Tirzah (Wadi Far'ah) to Ma’ale Ephraim Junction (Brill)
Joshua Schwartz

Philip Freeman, Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor (Yale University Press)
Elijah Wreh

Christian Grappe, Manuel d’exégèse du Nouveau Testament (Labor et Fides)
Luca Marulli

Nijay K. Gupta, The Affections of Christ Jesus: Love at the Heart of Paul’s Theology (Eerdmans)
Jerry L. Sumney

Peter C. W. Ho, Habakkuk and Zephaniah: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Langham Global Library)
S. D. (Fanie) Snyman

Mark Reasoner, Five Models of Scripture (Eerdmans)
David Brown

Stephen J. Shoemaker, Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study (University of California Press)
Kurt Anders Richardson

Josey Bridges Snyder, Lot’s Wife in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions (SBL Press)
Susanne Scholz

Nancy Nam Hoon Tan, Resisting Rape Culture: The Hebrew Bible and Hong Kong Sex Workers (Routledge)
Addison R. Schievelbein

Emmanuel Weiss, De 2 à 4 Maccabées: Étude d'une réécriture (Mohr Siebeck)
Maria Brutti

Seven Principles for Preaching Ecclesiastes

Eric Davis covers one to three here and four to seven here.

The Master's University Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies

The latest issue is available for free here.

HT: Todd Bolen

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.

Johann Cook, Wolfgang Kraus, and Martin Rösel, eds., Septuagint Theology and Its Reception: Stellenbosch Congress on the Septuagint, 2022 (SBL Press)
Rodrigo de Sousa

Juliane Eckstein, Peter Juhás, Róbert Lapko, and Reinhard Müller, eds., Challenges for Ancient and Modern Bible Translators (Gorgias)
Łukasz Popko

Deirdre N. Fulton, Kenneth A. Ristau, Jonathan S. Greer, and Margaret E. Cohen, eds., The Formation of Biblical Texts: Chronicling the Legacy of Gary N. Knoppers (Mohr Siebeck)
Francisco Martins

Jo Henderson-Merrygold, Introducing a Hermeneutics of Cispicion: Reading Sarah and Esau’s Gender (Failures) Beyond Cisnormativity (T&T Clark)
Anne Létourneau

Scott McLaren, ed., The Bible in the Age of Empire: A Cultural History (T&T Clark)
Robert Wafawanaka

Douglas J. Moo, The Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon (Eerdmans)
Roy R. Jeal

Clemens Schneider, Die Wüste, das Meer und die Verwandlung Zions: Eine kritische Kontextualisierung des neuen Exodus in Jesaja 40–52 (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt)
Anja Klein

Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca, eds., Levantine Entanglements: Cultural Productions, Long-Term Changes and Globalizations in the Eastern Mediterranean (Equinox)
Piotr Bienkowski

Ambra Suriano, Narrative Paths Through Mamre and Sodom: The Oak and the Gate (T&T Clark)
Fabrizio Ficco 

Samson L. Uytanlet and Bennet Lawrence, eds., Exploring the New Testament in Asia: Evangelical Perspectives (Langham Global Library)
Melissa C. M. Tan

Free Logos Resources for May

Logos is offering these freebies this month: Understanding Biblical Theology by Edward Klink and Darian Lockett, The Abuse of Conscience by Matthew Levering. You can get these free resources and also other deals here and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get God’s Rascal: The Jacob Narrative in Genesis 25–35 by Dale Ralph Davis 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.

Seth Bledsoe, The Wisdom of the Aramaic Book of Ahiqar: Unravelling a Discourse of Uncertainty and Distress (Brill)
Bryan D. Estelle

Renate Marian van Dijk-Coombes, The Standards of Mesopotamia in the Third and Fourth Millennia BCE: An Iconographic Study (Mohr Siebeck)
Noemi Borrelli

Harvey D. Egan, SJ, Paul: Christianity’s Premier Apostolic Mystic (Cascade)
Gudrun Nassauer

Manfred Hutter, Religionsgeschichte Anatoliens: Vom Ende des dritten bis zum Beginn des ersten Jahrtausends (Kohlhammer)
Andrea Trameri

Sara Kipfer, Extreme Klimaereignisse und Hungerkatastrophen in den Prophetenbüchern (Brill)
Bob Becking

Nathan Mastnjak, Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israel’s Prophetic Library (Oxford University Press)
Andrew B. Perrin

Carol A. Newsom, The Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism (Yale University Press)
Michael B. Johnson

Jenny Read-Heimerdinger and Josep Rius-Camps, Luke’s Demonstration to Theophilus: The Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles according to Codex Bezae (T&T Clark)
Paolo Costa

Norman Roth, The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain (Routledge)
Joshua Schwartz

Carolyn Roberts Thompson, Reading German for Theological Studies: A Grammar and Reader (Baker Academic)
David J. Fuller