In compliance with the FTC guidelines for blog reviews a list will be provided here recording books received from publishers for free reviews. If the title of the book is not followed by the mention of a sender of the book then the book was purchased. (Disclaimer: This page is under constant revision. Sometimes it may take a while for us to list a book, a sender, and a review. If you have questions about any of the books listed or if you find a review on our blog that is not listed please let us know if you have any questions about the book and we will response as soon as possible.)

Allen, Diogenes and Eric O. Springsted, Philosophy for Understanding Theology, 2nd Ed. (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007). (Review)

Anderson, Gary A. The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011). (Review)

Arnold, John H. History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. (Review)

Beilby, James K. and Paul Rhodes Eddy, eds. The Historical Jesus: Five Views (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2009). (Review)

Black, David Allen. Why Four Gospels? The Historical Origins of the Gospels (Gonzalez: Energion Publications, 2010). (Review)

Bock, Darrell L. A Theology of Luke and Acts: Biblical Theology of the New Testament. Zondervan Academic, 2012. Received from Zondervan. (Review)

Bock, Darrell L. and Mitch Glaser (eds), The Gospel According to Isaiah 53: Encountering the Suffering Servant in Jewish and Christian Theology (Grand Rapids: Kregal Publications, 2012). Received from Kregal Publications. (Review)

Butler Bass, Diana, A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story, Harper One, 2009. Received from The Ooze Viral Bloggers, theooze.com. (Review)

Campbell, Constantine R. Keep Your Greek: Strategies for Busy People (Grand Rapids: Zonderban, 2010). Received from Zondervan. (Review)

Childs, Brevard S. The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2008). (Review)

Chittister, Joan. The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2009). Received from Thomas Nelson. (Review)

Collins, C. John. Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? Who They Were and Why You Should Care (Grand Rapids: Crossway, 2011). (Review)

Collins, John J. and Craig A. Evans (eds). Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006. (Review)

Collins, John J. and Daniel C. Harlow (eds.), The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010). (Review)

Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus, Interupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them). Harper One, 2009. Received from The Ooze Viral Bloggers, theooze.com. (Review)

Enns, Peter. Inspiration and Incarnation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005). (Review)

Enns, Peter. The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Does Not Say About Human Origins (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2012). (Review)

Estes, Douglas. SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World. Zondervan, 2009. Received from Zondervan. (Author Interview)

Estes, Douglas. The Questions of Jesus in John: Logic, Rhetoric, and Persuasive Discourse (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Received from Brill. (Review)

Evans, Craig A., Joel N. Lohr, and David L. Petersen (eds.) The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation (Boston, Brill Academic Publications, 2011). (Review)

Held Evans, Rachel, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012). Received from Thomas Nelson. (Review)

Fee, Gordon D. God’s Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994). (Review)

Fee, Gordon D. The IVP New Testament Commentary Series, V. 11: Philippians. 10.  IVP Academic. Received from IVP. (Review)

Foster, Paul, ed., Early Christian Thinkers: The Lives and Legacies of Twelve Key Figures. IVP, 2010. Received from IVP Academic. (Review)

Futato, Mark D. Interpreting the Psalms: An Exegetical Handbook. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2007. (Review)

Glerup, Michael (ed). Gregory of Nyssa, Sermons on the Beatitudes (Downers Grove, IVP, 2012). Received from IVP. (Review)

Gombis. Timothy G. The Drama of Ephesians: Particpating in the Triumph of God. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2010) (Review)

Gordon, Nehemia and Keith Johnson, A Prayer to Our Father: Hebrew Origins of the Lord’s Prayer, Hilkiah Press, 2009. Received from The Ooze Viral Bloggers, theooze.com.

Grabbe, Lester L., An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism: History and Religion of the Jews in the Time of Nehemiah, the Maccabees, Hillel and Jesus (New York: T&T Clark, 2010). (Review)

Haw, Chris. From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart: Rekindling My Love for Catholicism (Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press, 2012). Received from Ave Maria Press. (Review)

Hebrews (Life Application Bible Series: NLT). Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2008. Received from Tyndale House Publishers. (Review)

Holmes, Stephen R. The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History, and Modernity (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2012). Received from IVP Academic. (Review)

Huffman, Douglas S. The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek: Grammar, Syntax, and Diagramming (Grand Rapids: Kregal Publications, 2012). Received from Kregal Publications. (Review)

James, Carolyn Custis. Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011). Received from Zondervan. (Review)

Janney, Rebecca Price.Who Goes There? A Cultural History of Heaven and Hell. Moody Publishers, 2009. Received from The Ooze Viral Bloggers, theooze.com. (Review)

Jenkins, Keith. Rethinking History (New York: Routledge, 1991). (Review)

John (Life Application Bible Series: NLT). Tyndale House Publishing, Inc. 2008. Received from Tyndale House Publishers. (Review)

Kaminsky, Joel S. and Joel N. Lohr. The Torah: A Beginner’s Guide (Beginner’s Guides), Oxford: One World Publications, 2011. (Review)

Kirk, J.R. Daniel. Jesus I Have Loved, but Paul? A Narrative Approach to the Problem of Pauline Christianity (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012). Received from Baker Academic. (Review)

Kurht, Stephen. Tom Wright for Everyone: Putting the Theology of N.T. Wright into Practice in the Local Church (London, SPCK Publishing, 2011). (Review Pt. 1, Pt. 2)

LeDonne, Anthony. Historical Jesus: What Can We Know and How Can We Know It? (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2011). Kindle Edition. (Review)

Levering, Matthew. Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology. Challenges in Contemporary Theology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004). (Review)

Levine, Amy-Jill and Marc Z. Brettler (eds.), The Jewish Annotated New Testament (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). (Review Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3)

Levison, John R.  Filled with the Spirit. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2009. Received from William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (Review)

Levison, John R. Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Life. Paraclete Press, 2012. Received from Paraclete Press. (Review)

Licona, Michael R. The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic., 2010). (Review)

Mansfield, Stephen. The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World. Thomas Nelson, 2009. Received from Thomas Nelson. (Review)

McKnight, Scot. The King Jesus Gospel.  Zondervan, 2011. Received from Zondervan. (Review)

Mikalatos, Matt. Imaginary Jesus. Barna Books, 2010. Received from Tyndale House Publishers.

Mikalatos, Matt. Night of the Living Dead Christian. Tyndale House Publishers, 2011. Received from Tyndale House Publishers. (Review)

Neusner, Jacob. Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984. (Review)

Oden, Thomas C. The African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition.  IVP, 2011. Received from IVP. (Review)

Osborne, Grant R.  IVP New Testament Commentary Series, V.6: Romans. IVP Academic, 2010. Received from IVP. (Review)

Pennington, Jonathan T., Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012). Received from Baker Academic. (Review)

Perrin, Nicholas. Thomas: The Other Gospel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007). (Review)

Perrin, Nicholas and Richard B. Hays, eds. Jesus, Paul, and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N.T. Wright.  IVP Academic, 2011. Received from IVP. (Review)

Peterson Eugene H. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, 2nd. ed. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2000) (Review)

Peterson, Eugene H. The Pastor: Every Step an Arrival.  Harper One, 2011. Received from Harper One. (Review)

Roncace, Mark. Raw Revelation: The Bible They Never Tell You About (Charleston: CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2012). Received from author. (Review)

Rowe, C. Kavin. World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. (Review)

Smith, Christian, The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2012). Received from Brazos Press. (Review)

Stronstad, Roger. The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1984). (Review)

Tverberg, Lois. Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012). Received from author. (Review)

Vick, Edward W. H., Creation: The Christian Doctrine (Gonzalez: Energion Publications, 2012). Received from Energion Publications. (Review)

Wallace, Daniel B. (ed.) Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament: Manuscript, Patristic, and Apocryphal Evidence, Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2011. (Review)

Wallace, Jay Warner. Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels. Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2013. Received from author. (Review)

Walton, John H. The Lost World of Genesis One. IVP Academic, 2009. Received from IVP. (Review)

Weiss, Herold, Creation in Scripture (Gonzalez: Energion Publications, 2012). Received from Energion Publications. (Review)

Wenham, David. Did St. Paul Get Jesus Right? The Gospel According to Paul(Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2010). (Review)

West, Robert. Saint Francis. Thomas Nelson, 2010. Received from Tyndale House Publishers. (Review)

Williams, Michael. How to Read the Bible through the Jesus Lens: A Guide to Christ-Focused Reading of Scripture. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012. Received from Zondervan. (Review)

Witherington III, Ben. Is There a Doctor in the House? An Insider’s Story and Advice Becoming a Bible Scholar (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011). (Review)

Witherington III, Ben. The Indelible Image: The Theological and Ethical Thought World of the New Testament (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2009). Received from IVP Academic. (Review)

Witherington III, Ben and Ann Witherington. Papias and the Mysterious Menorah: The Third Art West Adventure (Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2010). (Review)

Wright, N.T. After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters. Harper One, 2010. Received from The Ooze Viral Bloggers, theooze.com (Review)

Wright, N.T. Jesus and the Victory of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God, V. 2. (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1996). (Review)

Wright, N.T. Justification: God’s Plan, Paul’s Vision (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2009). (Review Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4)

HCSB Study Bible, 2010. Received from Holman Bible Publishers. (Review)

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