- Derek Ouellette asks “Who knows the secret will of God?” while reading Deuteronomy 29.29.
- Jesse Luke Richards begins reviewing Scot McKnight’s King Jesus Gospel. Ben Witherington begins a dialogue with McKnight about the book.
- Larry Hurtado examines the UK PhD.
- Marc Cortez asks you to chose between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein.
- Rowan Williams may step-down as the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Kevin Brown shares some doubts regarding the doctrine of the Trinity. Also, he notes some differences between OT and NT textual criticism.
- Rodney Thomas ponders forgetting 9/11. Tony Jones reflects on preaching forgiveness on 9/11.
- Rachel Held Evans says complimentarians are selective too.
- J. Kameron Carter discusses F.B. Wilderson’s book Red, White, and Black.
The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature and listed on the RBL blog (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/):
A. Graeme Auld and Erik Eynikel, eds.
For and against David: Story and History in the Books of Samuel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7948
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak
Philip Culbertson and Elaine M. Wainwright, eds.
The Bible in/and Popular Culture: A Creative Encounter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7833
Reviewed by Claudia Setzer
Reviewed by Anthony Swindell
Thomas Holsinger-Friesen
Irenaeus and Genesis: A Study of Competition in Early Christian Hermeneutics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7272
Reviewed by Thomas Andrew Bennett
Philip J. King
The Bible Is for Living: A Scholar’s Spiritual Journey
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6850
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Staley
Nina E. Livesey
Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8188
Reviewed by Matthew Thiessen
Aliou Cissé Niang
Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal: The Apostle Paul, Colonists and Sending Gods
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7422
Reviewed by Davina C. Lopez
Ilaria Ramelli
Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics, Fragments, and Excerpts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7293
Reviewed by Douglas Estes
Karl Olav Sandnes
The Gospel ‘According to Homer and Virgil’: Cento and Canon
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7971
Reviewed by Dennis R. MacDonald
Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger, ed.
Die Samuelbücher und die Deuteronomisten
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7924
Reviewed by Graeme Auld
