RBL 27.7.2015

Robert L. Cole, Psalms 1–2: Gateway to the Psalter
Reviewed by W. Dennis Tucker Jr.

Paba Nidhani De Andrado, The Akedah Servant Complex: The Soteriological Linkage of Genesis 22 and Isaiah 53 in Ancient Jewish and Christian Writings
Reviewed by John W. Fadden

David A. Lamb, Text, Context and the Johannine Community: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Johannine Writings
Reviewed by Wendy E. S. North

Jennifer Houston McNeel, Paul as Infant and Nursing Mother: Metaphor, Rhetoric, and Identity in 1 Thessalonians 2:5-8
Reviewed by Thomas R. Blanton IV

Gregory Mobley, The Return of the Chaos Monsters—and Other Backstories of the Bible
Reviewed by Bernard F. Batto

Dietmar Neufeld, Mockery and Secretism in the Social World of Mark’s Gospel
Reviewed by Joshua D. Garroway

Thomas Römer, Dark God: Cruelty, Sex, and Violence in the Old Testament
Reviewed by Juan Miguel Betancourt

Laura C. Sweat, The Theological Role of Paradox in the Gospel of Mark
Reviewed by M. Geert van Oyen

Arthur P. Urbano, The Philosophical Life: Biography and the Crafting of Intellectual Identity in Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Edmund P. Cueva

H. H. Drake Williams III, Jesus Tried and True: Why the Four Canonical Gospels Provide the Best Picture of Jesus 
Reviewed by Richard A. Burridge