RBL 11.12.2015

Deborah Levine Gera, Judith
Reviewed by Patricia Ahearne-Kroll

Christopher B. Hays, Hidden Riches: A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East
Reviewed by Brad E. Kelle
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews

Thomas Hieke, Levitikus: Erster Teilband: 1-15 and Levitikus: Zweiter Teilband: 16-27
Reviewed by Erhard S. Gerstenberger

Doohee Lee, Luke-Acts and 'Tragic History'
Reviewed by Gregory Sterling

Meir Lubetski and Edith Lubetski, eds., New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the Biblical World
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Piotr Michalowski, The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur: An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom
Reviewed by T. Sharlach

J. Brian Peckham, Phoenicia: Episodes and Anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean
Reviewed by Josette Elayi

Matthew Thiessen, Contesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Reviewed by James C. Miller
Reviewed by Rafael Rodríguez

RBL 25.9.2015

Gary A. Anderson and Joel S. Kaminsky, eds., The Call of Abraham: Essays on the Election of Israel in Honor of Jon D. Levenson
Reviewed by Megan Warner

Bryan C. Babcock, Sacred Ritual: A Study of the West Semitic Ritual Calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian Text Emar 446
Reviewed by Daniel Oden

Reimund Bieringer, Ma. Marilou S. Ibita, Dominika A. Kurek-Chomycz, and Thomas A. Vollmer, eds., Theologizing in the Corinthian Conflict: Studies in the Exegesis and Theology of 2 Corinthians
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

Walter Bührer, Am Anfang…: Untersuchungen zur Textgenese und zur relativ-chronologischen Einordnung von Gen 1–3
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

Warren Carter, What Does Revelation Reveal? Unlocking the Mystery
Reviewed by Shane J. Wood

Yoram Cohen, Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

István Czachesz and Risto Uro, eds., Mind, Morality, and Magic: Cognitive Science Approaches in Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Paul Korchin

David A. deSilva, The Apocrypha
Reviewed by Daniel M. Gurtner

Jo Ann Hackett and Walter E. Aufrecht, eds.,  “An Eye for Form”: Epigraphic Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross
Reviewed by Heath D. Dewrell

Shalom E. Holtz, Neo-Babylonian Trial Records
Reviewed by J. H. Price

Mitri Raheb, Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Eyes
Reviewed by Michael Sandford

RBL 18.9.2015

Wilhelm Bousset, Kyrios Christos: A History of Belief in Christ from the Beginning of Christianity to Irenaeus
Reviewed by Jonathan M. Potter

Claire Clivaz, Corina Combet-Galland, Jean-Daniel Macchi, and Christophe Nihan, eds., Ecritures et réécritures: La reprise interprétative des traditions fondatrices par la littérature biblique et extra-biblique. Cinquième Colloque International du RRENAB, Université de Genève et Lausanne, 10-12 juin 2010
Reviewed by Renata Furst

Devorah Dimant, History, Ideology and Bible Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Collected Studies
Reviewed by Peter Porzig

Benjamin H. Dunning, Christ without Adam: Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosophers’ Paul
Reviewed by Robert Paul Seesengood

Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear, eds., The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Richard Horsley, The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel: Moving Beyond a Diversionary Debate
Reviewed by Chris L. de Wet

Gideon R. Kotzé, The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study
Reviewed by Pieter B. Hartog

Frans van Liere, An Introduction to the Medieval Bible
Reviewed by Marcus Elder

Heinz-Werner Neudorfer, Der Brief des Paulus an Titus
Reviewed by Manabu Tsuji

Walter T. Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus
Reviewed by Johan Thom

RBL 15.9.2015

Mark W. Elliott, Scott J. Hafemann, N. T. Wright, and John Frederick, eds., Galatians and Christian Theology: Justification, the Gospel, and Ethics in Paul's Letter
Reviewed by Susan Eastman

Michael B. Hundley, Gods in Dwellings: Temples and Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East
Reviewed by Pekka Pitkanen
Reviewed by Paul Sanders

Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, eds., Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle
Reviewed by Mark M. Mattison

Mark Reasoner, Roman Imperial Texts: A Sourcebook
Reviewed by Warren Carter

R. S. Sugirtharajah, The Bible and Asia: From the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age
Reviewed by Alex Damm

Caroline Vander Stichele and Susanne Scholz, eds., Hidden Truths from Eden: Esoteric Readings of Genesis 1-3
Reviewed by Dylan M. Burns
Reviewed by Ronald Hendel

Wim J. C. Weren, Studies in Matthew's Gospel: Literary Design, Intertextuality, and Social Setting
Reviewed by Brian C. Dennert

David Wolpe, David: The Divided Heart
Reviewed by Walter Dietrich

RBL 9.9.2015

James H. Charlesworth, ed., The Tomb of Jesus and His Family? Exploring Ancient Jewish Tombs Near Jerusalem’s Walls
Reviewed by Jodi Magness

John J. Collins, A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Corinne Blackmer
Reviewed by David M. Carr

Eric Eve, Behind the Gospels: Understanding the Oral Tradition
Reviewed by Werner H. Kelber

Charles W. Hedrick, The Wisdom of Jesus: Between the Sages of Israel and the Apostles of the Church
Reviewed by David Gowler

Douglas S. Huffman, The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek: Grammar, Syntax, and Diagramming
Reviewed by Justin Langford

Francisco Lozada Jr. and Fernando F. Segovia, eds., Latino/a Biblical Hermeneutics: Problematics, Objectives, Strategies
Reviewed by Tat-siong Benny Liew

Ronald D. Peters, The Greek Article: A Functional Grammar of ?-items in the Greek New Testament with Special Emphasis on the Greek Article
Reviewed by Daniel Wallace

Rivka Ulmer and Moshe Ulmer, Righteous Giving to the Poor: Tzedakah (“Charity”) in Classic Rabbinic Judaism
Reviewed by Gregg E. Gardner

Yael Wilfand, Poverty, Charity and the Image of the Poor in Rabbinic Texts from the Land of Israel
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

RBL 28.8.2015

Adesola Joan Akala, The Son-Father Relationship and Christological Symbolism in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Sherri Brown

Eve-Marie Becker and Anders Runesson, eds., Mark and Matthew II: Comparative Readings: Reception History, Cultural Hermeneutics, and Theology
Reviewed by Craig A. Evans

Eberhard Bons, Ralph Brucker, and Jan Joosten, eds., The Reception of Septuagint Words in Jewish-Hellenistic and Christian Literature
Reviewed by Randall X. Gauthier

Paul J. Brown, Bodily Resurrection and Ethics in 1 Cor 15: Connecting Faith and Morality in the Context of Greco-Roman Mythology
Reviewed by Matthew R. Malcolm

Teresa J. Calpino, Women, Work and Leadership in Acts
Reviewed by Deborah Thompson Prince

James H. Charlesworth, ed., Jesus and Temple: Textual and Archaeological Explorations
Reviewed by S. Aaron Son

E. Anne Clements, Mothers on the Margin? The Significance of the Women in Matthew’s Genealogy
Reviewed by Erin K. Vearncombe

Lynn H. Cohick, Ephesians: A New Covenant Commentary
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

F. Stanley Jones, ed., The Rediscovery of Jewish Christianity: From Toland to Baur
Reviewed by Edwin Broadhead

Jennifer L. Koosed, ed., The Bible and Posthumanism
Reviewed by Norman Habel
Reviewed by Trevor W. Thompson

Jan Krans, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, Peter-Ben Smit, and Arie Zwiep, eds., Paul, John, and Apocalyptic Eschatology: Studies in Honour of Martinus C. de Boer
Reviewed by S. Michael Ahn

Carol Meyers, Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context
Reviewed by Linda S. Schearing

Merrill Morse, Isaiah Speaks: A Voice from the Past for the Present
Reviewed by Hélène Dallaire

Carl P. E. Springer, Sedulius, The Paschal Song and Hymns
Reviewed by Jade Weimer

David I. Starling, UnCorinthian Leadership: Thematic Reflections on 1 Corinthians
Reviewed by J. Brian Tucker

RBL 20.8.2015

Katherine Bain, Women’s Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor: In the First Two Centuries C.E.
Reviewed by Shelly Matthews

René Bloch, Jüdische Drehbühnen: Biblische Variationen im antiken Judentum
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

George Brooke, Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls: Essays in Method
Reviewed by Carol A. Newsom

Walter Brueggemann and William H. Bellenger, Psalms
Reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo
Reviewed by Beat Weber

Corrine L. Carvalho, ed., Pastoral Essays in Honor of Lawrence Boadt, CSP: Reading the Old Testament
Reviewed by Deena Grant

Carl S. Ehrlich, Anders Runesson, and Eileen Schuller, eds., Purity, Holiness, and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber
Reviewed by John C. Poirier

Laszlo Gallusz, The Throne Motif in the Book of Revelation
Reviewed by Andrew R. Guffey

Yung Suk Kim, Biblical Interpretation: Theory, Process, and Criteria
Reviewed by Valeriy A. Alikin

Jonathan S. Linebaugh, God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Texts in Conversation
Reviewed by Daniele Pevarello

Timothy Luckritz Marquis, Transient Apostle: Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

Isaac K. Mbabazi, The Significance of Interpersonal Forgiveness in the Gospel of Matthew
Reviewed by Dion Forster

Emanuel Pfoh and Keith W. Whitelam, eds., The Politics of Israel’s Past: The Bible, Archaeology and Nation-Building
Reviewed by Mark Leuchter

Jörg Rüpke and Greg Woolf, eds., Religious Dimensions of the Self in the Second Century CE
Reviewed by Clayton N. Jefford

Alistair C. Stewart, The Original Bishops: Office and Order in the First Christian Communities
Reviewed by Judith M. Lieu

J. Brian Tucker and Coleman A. Baker, eds., T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament
Reviewed by Jacobus (Kobus) Kok

W. Dennis Tucker Jr., Constructing and Deconstructing Power in Psalms 107–150
Reviewed by Erhard S. Gerstenberger

Pauline A. Viviano, Jeremiah, Baruch
Reviewed by Matthias Henze

Catrin H. Williams and Christopher Rowland, eds., John’s Gospel and Intimations of Apocalyptic
Reviewed by Laura C. S. Holmes

Carol B. Wilson, For I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food: Pragmatics of Food Access in the Gospel of Matthew
Reviewed by Craig S. Keener

RBL 31.7.2015

Eve-Marie Becker, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, and Mogens Muller, eds., Mark and Paul: Comparative Essays Part II For and Against Pauline Influence on Mark
Reviewed by Thomas P. Nelligan

Shaye J. D. Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
Reviewed by John J. Collins

Jerome N. Douglas, A Polemical Preacher of Joy: An Anti-apocalpytic Genre for Qoheleth’s Message of Joy
Reviewed by Mark Sneed

Peter Frick, Paul in the Grip of the Philosophers: The Apostle and Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Reviewed by Mark Elliott
Reviewed by Jay Twomey

Jione Havea, David J. Neville, and Elaine M. Wainwright, eds., Bible, Borders, Belonging(s): Engaging Readings from Oceania
Reviewed by Yak-Hwee Tan

Marietta Horster and Anja Klöckner, eds., Cities and Priests: Cult Personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands from the Hellenistic to the Imperial Period
Reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg

James A. Kelhoffer, Conceptions of “Gospel” and Legitimacy in Early Christianity
Reviewed by Albert Lukaszewski

Simon Mainwaring, Mark, Mutuality, and Mental Health: Encounters with Jesus
Reviewed by Edwin K. Broadhead

Christoph Markschies, Hellenisierung des Christentums: Sinn und Unsinn einer historischen Deutungskategorie
Reviewed by Harold W. Attridge

Jeffrey Jay Niehaus, Biblical Theology, Volume 1: The Common Grace Covenants
Reviewed by Jens Bruun Kofoed

Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer and Hans M. Barstad, eds., Continuity and Discontinuity: Chronological and Thematic Development in Isaiah 40–66
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney

Philip L. Tite, The Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans: An Epistolary and Rhetorical Analysis
Reviewed by Christopher R. Matthews

Craig W. Tyson, The Ammonites: Elites, Empires, and Sociopolitical Change (1000–500 BCE)
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Herman C. Waetjen, The Letter to the Romans: Salvation as Justice and the Deconstruction of Law
Reviewed by M. Eugene Boring

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

RBL 17.7.2015

Nathan J. Barnes, Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women
Reviewed by Timothy A. Brookins

Richard J. Bautch and Jean-François Racine, eds., Beauty and the Bible: Toward a Hermeneutics of Biblical Aesthetics
Reviewed by Richard Viladescu

Raffaella Cribiore, Libanius the Sophist: Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century
Reviewed by Thomas Olbricht

Roland Deines; Christoph Ochs and Peter Watts, eds., Acts of God in History: Studies Towards Recovering a Theological Historiographyhttp://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9599
Reviewed by Wil Rogan

Leann Snow Flesher, Carol J. Dempsey, and Mark J. Boda, eds., Why? … How Long? Studies on Voice(s) of Lamentation Rooted in Biblical Hebrew Poetry
Reviewed by George Savran

Greg W. Forbes, 1 Peter: Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament
Reviewed by Terrance D. Callan

Lisbeth S. Fried, Ezra and the Law in History and Tradition
Reviewed by Thomas Hieke

Martin Heide, Das Testament Abrahams: Edition und Übersetzung der arabischen und äthiopischen Versionen
Reviewed by Curt Niccum

Clayton N. Jefford, The Epistle to Diognetus (with the Fragment of Quadratus): Introduction, Text, and Commentary
Reviewed by Jonathan A. Draper

Lance Jenott and Sarit Kattan Gribetz, eds., Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Steven Thompson

Hubert James Keener, A Canonical Exegesis of Psalm 8: YHWH’s Maintenance of the Created Order through Divine Reversal
Reviewed by Philippus J. Botha

Karl McDaniel, Experiencing Irony in the First Gospel: Suspense, Surprise and Curiosity
Reviewed by Glenna Jackson

Maciej M. Münnich, The God Resheph in the Ancient Near East
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Douglas E. Oakman, Jesus, Debt, and the Lord’s Prayer: First-Century Debt and Jesus’ Intentions
Reviewed by David A. Fiensy

Iain Provan, Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters
Reviewed by Richard S. Briggs

Robert M. Royalty Jr., The Origin of Heresy: A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
Reviewed by Joseph Azize

Benjamin Sargent, David Being a Prophet: The Contingency of Scripture upon History in the New Testament
Reviewed by Kenneth D. Litwak

Ched Spellman, Toward a Canon-Conscious Reading of the Bible: Exploring the History and Hermeneutics of the Canon
Reviewed by John Barton

Rivka Ulmer and Moshe Ulmer, Righteous Giving to the Poor: Tzedakah (“Charity”) in Classic Rabbinic Judaism
Reviewed by Zev Garber

Samson Uytanlet, Luke-Acts and Jewish Historiography: A Study on the Theology, Literature, and Ideology of Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Andrew W. Pitts

RBL 7.7.2015

Bob Becking, ed., Reflections on the Silence of God: A Discussion with Marjo Korpel and Johannes de Moor
Reviewed by Ulrich Berges

Kathryn D. Blanchard and Jane S. Webster, eds., Lady Parts: Biblical Women and The Vagina Monologues
Reviewed by Janet Everhart

Judy Fentress-Williams, Ruth
Reviewed by Mary Joan Leith

Bernd Janowski, Arguing with God: A Theological Anthropology of the Psalms
Reviewed by Walter Moberly

John MacGinnis, The Arrows of the Sun: Armed Forces in Sippar in the First Millennium BC
Reviewed by Russell Mack

Amy L. B. Peeler, You Are My Son: The Family of God in the Epistle to the Hebrews
Reviewed by Scott D. Mackie

Jerry L. Sumney, The Bible: An Introduction
Reviewed by Ryan Bonfiglio

Graham H. Twelftree, Paul and the Miraculous: A Historical Reconstruction
Reviewed by Clare K. Rothschild

Geza Vermes, The True Herod
Reviewed by John Painter

Jason A. Whitlark, Resisting Empire: Rethinking the Purpose of the Letter to “the Hebrews”
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep

RBL 27.6.2015

Herbert W. Bateman IV, Interpreting the General Letters: An Exegetical Handbook
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

Maurice Casey, Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

L. Juliana Claassens and Klaas Spronk, eds., Fragile Dignity: Intercontextual Conversations on Scriptures, Family, and Violence
Reviewed by Marta Høyland Lavik

Michael Coogan, The Ten Commandments: A Short History of an Ancient Text
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
Reviewed by Zev Garber

Walter Farber, Lamaštu: An Edition of the Canonical Series of Lamaštu Incantations and Rituals and Related Texts from the Second and First Millennia B.C.
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Jack J. Gibson, Peter between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James and the Gentiles
Reviewed by Timothy P. Henderson

Oliver Glanz, Understanding Participant-Reference Shifts in the Book of Jeremiah: A Study of Exegetical Method and Its Consequences for the Interpretation of Referential Incoherence
Reviewed by Kelly A. Whitcomb

Philip Goodwin, Translating the English Bible: From Relevance to Deconstruction
Reviewed by Clement Tong

Ryan Leif Hansen, Silence and Praise: Rhetorical Cosmology and Political Theology in the Book of Revelation
Reviewed by Shane J. Wood

Mark Harris, The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science
Reviewed by Graham B. Walker Jr.

Carl R. Holladay, John T. Fitzgerald, Gregory E. Sterling, and James W. Thompson, eds., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays, 1959–2012, by Abraham J. Malherbe
Reviewed by Matthew V. Novenson

S. R. Llewelyn and J. R. Harrison, eds., New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity: Greek and Other Inscriptions and Papyri Published 1988–1992
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Marvin W. Meyer, The Gospels of the Marginalized: The Redemption of Doubting Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and Judas Iscariot in Early Christian Literature
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep

Christopher T. Paris, Narrative Obtrusion in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Karolien Vermeulen
Reviewed by Benjamin J.M. Johnson

Robert F. Stoops, The Acts of Peter
Reviewed by Jason Sturdevant

Alexa F. Wilke, Die Gebete der Propheten: Anrufungen Gottes im ‘corpus propheticum’ der Hebräischen Bibel
Reviewed by Gert Kwakkel

Jacob L. Wright, David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory
Reviewed by A. Graeme Auld
Reviewed by Bob Becking

RBL 19.6.2015

Peter Bing and Regina Höschele, Aristaenetus, Erotic Letters
Reviewed by Richard I. Pervo

David E. Briones, Paul’s Financial Policy: A Socio-theological Approach
Reviewed by Julien M. Ogereau

Brandon D. Crowe, The Obedient Son: Deuteronomy and Christology in the Gospel of Matthew
Reviewed by Don Garlington

Philip R. Davies, On the Origins of Judaism
Reviewed by Daniel Boyarin

Patricia Dutcher-Walls, Reading the Historical Books: A Student’s Guide to Engaging the Biblical Text
Reviewed by Iain Provan

J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays, Living God’s Word: Discovering Our Place in the Great Story of Scripture
Reviewed by James W. Thompson

Jörg Frey and Angela Standhartinger, eds., Neues Testament und frührabbinisches Judentum
Reviewed by Judith M. Lieu

Joel B. Green and Tim Meadowcroft, eds., Ears That Hear: Explorations in Theological Interpretation of the Bible
Reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg

Martin Hengel, Between Jesus and Paul: Studies in the Earliest History of Christianity
Reviewed by Timothy P. Henderson

Pieter W. van der Horst, Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Reviewed by Matthew J. Grey

Alexander Kyrychenko, The Roman Army and the Expansion of the Gospel: The Role of the Centurion in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by James M. Morgan

Clemens Leonhard and Hermut Lohr, eds., Literature or Liturgy?
Reviewed by Thomas Bergholz

Jared L. Miller, Royal Hittite Instructions and Related Administrative Texts
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Birger Olsson, A Commentary on the Letters of John: An Intra-Jewish Approach
Reviewed by Daniel R. Streett

Stanley E. Porter and Cynthia Long Westfall, eds., The Church, Then and Now
Reviewed by Nijay Gupta

Rafael Rodríguez, Oral Tradition and the New Testament: A Guide for the Perplexed
Reviewed by Werner H. Kelber

Michael Tuval, From Jerusalem Priest to Roman Jew: On Josephus and the Paradigms of Ancient Judaism
Reviewed by Jonathan Klawans

David R. Wallace, Election of the Lesser Son: Paul’s Lament-Midrash in Romans 9–11
Reviewed by A. Chadwick Thornhill

Matt Waters, Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550–330 BCE
Reviewed by Jason Silverman

Ola Wikander, Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study
Reviewed by Laura Quick

RBL 12.6.2015

George Aichele, The Letters of Jude and Second Peter: Paranoia and the Slaves of Christ
Reviewed by Andrew Mbuvi

Warren Carter, Seven Events That Shaped the New Testament World
Reviewed by Richard Johnson

Bruce Chilton, Visions of the Apocalypse: Receptions of John’s Revelation in Western Imagination
Reviewed by Ian Boxall

Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman, eds., Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writing Related to Scripture
Reviewed by Igal German

Michael Graves, The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture: What the Early Church Can Teach Us
Reviewed by Kenneth D. Litwak

A. Kirk Grayson and Jamie Novotny, The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC), Part 2
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Lowell K. Handy, Psalm 29 through Time and Tradition
Reviewed by Wojciech Wegrzyniak

Franz D. Hubmann; ed. Werner Urbanz, Prophetie an der Grenze: Studien zum Jeremiabuch und zum Corpus Propheticum
Reviewed by Mark E. Biddle

Michael B. Hundley, Keeping Heaven on Earth: Safeguarding the Divine Presence in the Priestly Tabernacle
Reviewed by Nevada L. DeLapp

Craig S. Keener, Acts: An Exegetical Commentary (3:1–14:28)
Reviewed by Joshua L. Mann
Reviewed by Justin A. Mihoc

Amy-Jill Levine, Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
Reviewed by Jessica Tinklenberg

Shelly Matthews, The Acts of the Apostles: Taming the Tongues of Fire
Reviewed by Brian LePort

David Miano, Shadow on the Steps: Time Measurement in Ancient Israel
Reviewed by Trent C. Butler

Heinz-Dieter Neef, Die Prüfung Abrahams: Eine exegetisch-theologische Studie zu Gen 22,1–19
Reviewed by Thomas Hieke

C. Marvin Pate, Apostle of the Last Days: The Life, Letters, and Theology of Paul
Reviewed by James Hanson

Daniel Patte, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity
Reviewed by Valeriy Alikin

Daniel Patte and Vasile Mihoc, eds., Greek Patristic and Eastern Orthodox Interpretations of Romans
Reviewed by Michael F. Bird

Abraham Sung-Ho Oh, Oh, That You Would Rend the Heavens and Come Down! The Eschatological Theology of Third Isaiah (Isaiah 56–66)
Reviewed by Klaus Koenen

Eric D. Reymond, Qumran Hebrew: An Overview of Orthography, Phonology, and Morphology
Reviewed by Emanuel Tov

Brian C. Small, The Characterization of Jesus in the Book of Hebrews
Reviewed by Felix H. Cortez

Joan E. Taylor, ed., The Body in Biblical, Christian and Jewish Texts
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Alexander J. M. Wedderburn, The Death of Jesus: Some Reflections on Jesus-Traditions and Paul
Reviewed by Peter Frick

RBL 5.6.2015

Pablo R. Andiñach, Introducción hermenéutica al Antiguo Testamento
Reviewed by Diego Pérez Gondar
Reviewed by Edesio Sánchez-Cetina

Bradley Beach and Matthew Powell, eds., Interpreting Abraham: Journeys to Moriah
Reviewed by Simon Lasair

Katell Berthelot, Joseph E. David, and Marc Hirshman, eds., The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

James V. Brownson, Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships
Reviewed by Hermias van Zyl

Walter Brueggemann, Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks
Reviewed by H. F. Van Rooy

Peter W. Flint, The Dead Sea Scrolls
Reviewed by Daniel K. Falk

R. Michael Fox, Reverberations of the Exodus in Scripture
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

Matthias Henze and Gabriele Boccaccini, eds., Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall
Reviewed by Kai Akagi

Detlef Jericke, Die Ortsangaben im Buch Genesis: Ein historisch-topographischer und literarisch-topographischer Kommentar
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

Simon J. Joseph, The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition
Reviewed by Sarah E. Rollens

Henk Leene, Newness in Old Testament Prophecy: An Intertextual Study
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen

Gerd Lüdemann, The Earliest Christian Text: 1 Thessalonians
Reviewed by Trevor J. Burke

M. Pina Scanu, ed., Alla luce delle Scritture: Studi in onore di Giovanni Odasso
Reviewed by Andrea Ravasco

Werner H. Schmidt, Das Buch Jeremia: Kapitel 21–52
Reviewed by Bob Becking

Marty E. Stevens, Leadership Roles of the Old Testament: King, Prophet, Priest, Sage
Reviewed by Daniel S. Diffey

N. T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God
Reviewed by Russell Morton

RBL 1.6.2015

Moshe Bar-Asher; Aaron Koller, ed., Studies in Classical Hebrew
Reviewed by Jerome A. Lund

Sungho Choi, The Messianic Kingship of Jesus: A Study of Christology and Redemptive History in Matthew’s Gospel with Special Reference to the “Royal Enthronment” Psalms
Reviewed by Robert L. Foster

S. Min Chun, Ethics and Biblical Narrative: A Literary and Discourse-Analytical Approach to the Story of Josiah
Reviewed by Benjamin J. M. Johnson

Lutz Doering, Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography
Reviewed by B. J. Oropeza

Joel B. Green, Lee Martin McDonald, eds., The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts
Reviewed by Kathleen E. Mills

Minna Heimola, Christian Identity in the Gospel of Philip
Reviewed by Tavis A. Bohlinger

Jan Willem van Henten, Judean Antiquities 15: Translation and Commentary
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep

Ulrich Huttner, Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley
Reviewed by John C. Poirier

Amy Kalmanofsky, Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Glenn Pemberton

Craig S. Keener, Jeremy S. Crenshaw, and Jordan Daniel May, eds., But These Are Written…: Essays on Johannine Literature in Honor of Professor Benny C. Aker
Reviewed by Phillip J. Long

Kai Lämmerhirt, Die sumerische Königshymne Šulgi F
Reviewed by Niek Veldhuis

Josef Lössl and John W. Watt, eds., Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity: The Alexandrian Commentary Tradition between Rome and Baghdad
Reviewed by Siam Bhayro

Bieke Mahieu, Between Rome and Jerusalem: Herod the Great and His Sons in Their Struggle for Recognition
Reviewed by Frank E. Dicken

Emanuel Pfoh and Keith W. Whitelam, eds., The Politics of Israel’s Past: The Bible, Archaeology and Nation-Building
Reviewed by Pekka Pitkanen

Stanley E. Porter, How We Got the New Testament: Text, Transmission, Translation
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins
Reviewed by Sylvie Raquel

John R. Spencer, Robert A. Mullins, and Aaron J. Brody, eds., Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin
Reviewed by Raz Kletter

David Stacey and Gregory Doudna, Qumran Revisted: A Reassessment of the Archaeology of the Site and Its Texts
Reviewed by Ian Werrett
Reviewed by James H. Charlesworth

Markus Zehnder and Hallvard Hagelia, eds., Encountering Violence in the Bible
Reviewed by Paul Middleton

RBL 22.5.2015

Susanna Drake, Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts
Reviewed by Sara R. Johnson

Rubén R. Dupertuis and Todd Penner, eds., Engaging Early Christian History: Reading Acts In The Second Century
Reviewed by Christopher Stroup

Susan Gillingham, A Journey of Two Psalms: The Reception of Psalms 1 and 2 in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Reviewed by Janis Jaynes Quesada

Marvin J. Heller, Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
Reviewed by Ryan Korstange

Antoon Schoors, The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries B.C.E.
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Thomas B. Slater, Ephesians
Reviewed by Corneliu Constantineanu
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

Francis Watson, Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective
Reviewed by Ken Olson
Reviewed by Peter-Ben Smit

Vincent L. Wimbush, with Lalruatkima and Melissa Renee Reid, eds., MisReading America: Scriptures and Difference
Reviewed by Francisco Lozada Jr.

RBL 15.5.2015

John Ashton, The Gospel of John and Christian Origins
Reviewed by Seth Pollinger

Cornelis Bennema, A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative
Reviewed by Alicia D. Myers

David G. Burke, Philip H. Towner, and John F. Kutsko, eds., The King James Version at 400: Assessing Its Genius as Bible Translation and Its Literary Influence
Reviewed by Brian Hartley

Josef Forsling, Composite Artistry in the Book of Numbers: A Study in Biblical Narrative Conventions
Reviewed by Benjamin D. Giffone

Robert W. Funk, A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek
Reviewed by James W. Voelz

Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs, eds., All Things to All Cultures: Paul among Jews, Greeks, and Romans
Reviewed by Andrew Spurgeon

Felipe de Jesús Legarreta-Castillo, The Figure of Adam in Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15: The New Creation and Its Ethical and Social Reconfiguration
Reviewed by John Anthony Dunne

Boris Paschke,  Particularism and Universalism in the Sermon on the Mount: A Narrative-Critical Analysis of Matthew 5-7 in the Light of Matthew's View on Mission
Reviewed by Jeannine K. Brown

Michael L. Satlow, How the Bible Became Holy
Reviewed by Chad Spigel

Jay Twomey, 2 Corinthians: Crisis and Conflict
Reviewed by Adam White

RBL 7.5.2015

Markus Bockmuehl and Guy G. Stroumsa, eds., Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Views
Reviewed by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

Tony Burke, ed., Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?: The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate: Proceedings from the 2011 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

Andrew R. Davis, Tel Dan in Its Northern Cultic Context
Reviewed by Bob Becking
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Stephen Finlan, The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching: Gospel Imagery and Application
Reviewed by Joanna Dewey

Kai Kaniuth, Anne Löhnert, Jared L. Miller, Adelheid Otto, Michael Roaf, and Walther Sallaberger, eds., Tempel im Alten Orient
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Emma Loosley, The Architecture and Liturgy of the Bema in Fourth- to-Sixth-Century Syrian Churches
Reviewed by Robert Morehouse

Elvira Martín Contreras and Guadalupe Seijas de los Ríos-Zarzosa, Masora: La transmisión de la tradición de la Biblia Hebrea
Reviewed by Amparo Alba Cecilia

Halvor Moxnes, Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism: A New Quest for the Nineteenth Century Historical Jesus
Reviewed by Craig A. Evans

Pheme Perkins, First Corinthians
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

RBL 1.5.2015

Francis Borchardt, The Torah in 1Maccabees: A Literary Critical Approach to the Text
Reviewed by Thomas Hieke

Cilliers Breytenbach and Jörg Frey, eds., Reflections on the Early Christian History of Religion—Erwägungen zur frühchristlichen Religionsgeschichte
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Walter Dietrich, Die Samuelbücher im deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerk: Studien zu den Geschichtsüberlieferungen des Alten Testaments II
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton

James D. G. Dunn, The Oral Gospel Tradition
Reviewed by David B. Sloan

Paul S. Evans and Tyler F. Williams, eds., Chronicling the Chronicler: The Book of Chronicles and Early Second Temple Historiography
Reviewed by Michael D. Matlock

Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn, The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Moshe Garsiel, From Earth to Heaven: A Literary Study of the Eliijah Stories in the Book of Kings
Reviewed by Keith Bodner
Reviewed by David A. Glatt-Gilad

Alison Ruth Gray, Psalm 18 in Words and Pictures: A Reading through Metaphor
Reviewed by Leslie C. Allen

Mignon R. Jacobs and Raymond F. Person Jr., eds., Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History: Portrait, Reality, and the Formation of a History
Reviewed by James M. Bos
Reviewed by Thomas Wagner

Ronald Jolliffe, Gertraud Harb, Christoph Heil, Anneliese Felber, and Angelika Magnes, Q11: 39a, 42, 39b, 41, 43-44: Woes against the Pharisees
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Daniel C. Matt, trans., The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume 6
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Abera M. Mengestu, God as Father in Paul: Kingship Language and Identity Formation in Early Christianity
Reviewed by Inhee C. Berg

Anthony M. Moore, Signs of Salvation: The Theme of Creation in John’s Gospel
Reviewed by Brian J. Tabb

Valérie Nicolet-Anderson, Constructing the Self: Thinking with Paul and Michel Foucault
Reviewed by Chris L. de Wet

Vernon K. Robbins, Who Do People Say I Am? Rewriting Gospel in Emerging Christianity
Reviewed by Michael J. Kok

David S. Vanderhooft and Abraham Winitzer, eds., Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature: Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist
Reviewed by Shawn W. Flynn

Ryan Donald Wettlaufer, No Longer Written: The Use of Conjectural Emendation in the Restoration of the Text of the New Testament, the Epistle of James as a Case Study
Reviewed by Jeff Cate