RBL 20/8/2013

Johann Cook and Arie van der Kooij,  Law, Prophets, and Wisdom: On the Provenance of Translators and Their Books in the Septuagint Version
Reviewed by Sean A. Adams

C. L. Crouch, War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East: Military Violence in Light ofCosmology and History
Reviewed by Tyler Mayfield

Richard Hidary, Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud
Reviewed by Kris Lindbeck

Othmar Keel, Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel: Von den Anfängen bis zur Perserzeit: Katalog Band IV: Von Tel Gamma bisChirbet Husche
Reviewed by Brent A. Strawn

Sigmund Mowinckel, Religion and Cult: The Old Testament and the Phenomenology of Religion
Reviewed by Nicole Ruane

Jonathan Stökl, Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: A Philological and Sociological Comparison
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Thomas L. Thompson and Thomas S. Verenna, eds. ‘Is This Not the Carpenter?’: The Question of the Historicity of theFigure of Jesus
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

Author John E. Anderson has responded to Koog P. Hong’s review of Anderson’s Jacob and the Divine Trickster. See http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/2013/03/20130320-anderson-jacob-and-divine.html.****