RBL 17.4.2015

Bill T. Arnold, Introduction to the Old Testament
Reviewed by David W. Baker
Reviewed by Anselm C. Hagedorn

Mark A. Chancey, Carol Meyers, and Eric M. Meyers, eds., The Bible in the Public Square: Its Enduring Influence in American Life
Reviewed by Randall Balmer

Raymond F. Collins, Accompanied by a Believing Wife: Ministry and Celibacy in the Earliest Christian Communities
Reviewed by William R. G. Loader

Andrew Crislip, Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity
Reviewed by John J. Pilch

B. C. Hodge, Revisiting the Days of Genesis: A Study of the Use of Time in Genesis 1–11 in Light of Its Ancient Near Eastern and Literary Context
Reviewed by Jeffery M. Leonard

Jey J. Kanagaraj, John
Reviewed by Jo-Ann Brant

Laurel W. Koepf-Taylor, Give Me Children or I Shall Die: Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature
Reviewed by Jason A. Riley

Katherine Low, The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job’s Wife
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

Burton MacDonald, Larry G. Herr, D. Scott Quaintance, Geoffrey A. Clark, and Michael C. A. Macdonald, The Ayl to Ras an-Naqab Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan 2005–2007
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

J. Gordon McConville, Joshua: Crossing Divides
Reviewed by Trent C. Butler

Douglas J. Moo, Galatians
Reviewed by Richard Manly Adams Jr.
Reviewed by Roy E. Ciampa

James M. Morgan, Encountering Images of Spiritual Transformation: The Thoroughfare Motif within the Plot of Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Jean-François Racine

Reinhard Muller, Juha Pakkala, and Bas ter Haar Romeny, Evidence of Editing: Growth and Change of Texts in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by John F. Quant

Miguel Pérez Fernández and Olga Ruiz Morell, El Beso de Dios: Midrás de la Muerte de Moisés. Edición bilingüe hebreo-español y comentario
Reviewed by Francisco García-Treto

Allen P. Ross, A Commentary on the Psalms: 42–89
Reviewed by Christine Jones

Robert A. Spivey, D. Moody Smith, and C. Clifton Black, Anatomy of the New Testament: A Guide to Its Structure and Meaning
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

Jamie Viands, I Will Surely Multiply Your Offspring: An Old Testament Theology of the Blessing of Progeny with Special Attention to the Latter Prophets
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney

Julius Wellhausen; Rudolf Smend, ed., Briefe
Reviewed by James Alfred Loader