- Daniel Kirk takes a look at Jesus’ return for Israel in Romans 11.

- John Mark Harris provides a Greek vocabulary sheet with every word in the New Testament!

- Andrew Wilson predicts the biggest theological debates of the next twenty years.

- Chris Norton says that apologetics is making a comeback among youth.

- Anthony Bradley discusses “Holy Spirit apologetics”.

- Roger Olson finishes his series of post on whether or not Kierkegaard was an evangelical.

- Matthew and Madeleine Flannagan discuss the separation of church and state.

- Tim Gombis takes a look at spiritual warfare in relation to national politics.

- Tony Jones shares a report that says Millennials (18-29) are pro-gay.

- Krista Tippett interviews Sherry Turkle of MIT about human relationships and technology.

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature and listed on the RBL blog (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/):

David Brakke
The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7825
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

Mark Andrew Brighton
The Sicarii in Josephus’s Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7070
Reviewed by Catherine Jones

James H. Charlesworth and Lee Martin McDonald, eds.
Jewish and Christian Scriptures: The Function of ‘Canonical’ and ‘Non-Canonical’ Religious Texts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7865
Reviewed by Everett Ferguson

Jean Delorme and Isabelle Donegani
L’Apocalypse de Jean: Révélation pour le temps de la violence et du désir
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7610
Reviewed by Nils Neumann
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Ian J. Elmer
Paul, Jerusalem and the Judaisers: The Galatian Crisis in Its Broadest Historical Context
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7377
Reviewed by Davina C. Lopez

André Myre
Pour l’avenir du monde: La résurrection revisitée
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6262
Reviewed by Jeffrey F. Cayzer

Randall W. Reed
A Clash of Ideologies: Marxism, Liberation Theology, and Apocalypticism in New Testament Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7745
Reviewed by Leif E. Vaage

Karlheinz Schüssler, ed.
Das sahidische Alte und Neue Testament: Vollständiges Verzeichnis mit Standorten sa 621-672
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7381
Reviewed by Robert Paul Seesengood

Hal Taussig
In the Beginning Was the Meal: Social Experimentation and Early Christian Identity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7094
Reviewed by Pieter J. J. Botha