RBL 13.2.2015

Philippe Abadie, Des héros peu ordinaires: Théologie et histoire dans le livre des Juges
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Michael Carasik, ed., The Commentators’ Bible: The JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot: Numbers
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

Jeffrey L. Cooley, Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East: The Reflexes of Celestial Science in Ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite Narrative
Reviewed by Stephen C. Russell

Rebecca S. Hancock, Esther and the Politics of Negotiation: Public and Private Spaces and the Figure of the Female Royal Counselor
Reviewed by Christine Mitchell
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Annewies van den Hoek and John J. Herrmann Jr., Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise: Iconographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Lee M. Jefferson

Brian Howell, In the Eyes of God: A Contextual Approach to Biblical Anthropomorphic Metaphors
Reviewed by Michael B. Hundley

Simon J. Joseph, Jesus, Q, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Judaic Approach to Q
Reviewed by Michael Labahn

Shula Keshet, ‘Say You Are My Sister’: Danger, Seduction, and the Foreign in Biblical Literature and Beyond
Reviewed by Nancy Nam Hoon Tan

Nili Wazana, All the Boundaries of the Land: The Promised Land in Biblical Thought in Light of the Ancient Near East
Reviewed by Esias E. Meyer