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Book Reviews (January-February, 2013)

1342028393This is a list of book reviews found across the Internet from January-February, 2013, that may be of interest:

Herbert Bateman, Darrell Bock, and Gordon Johnston, Jesus the Messiah by Clifford Kvidahl

Michael Bird and Preston Sprinkle, The Faith of Jesus Christ by Kevin Brown

Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ by Rodney Thomas

Constantine R. Campbell, Paul and Union with Christ by Nijay Gupta

Michael D. Coogan, A Reader of Ancient Near Eastern Texts by Charles Halton

Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne, Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity by Nijay Gupta

Mihee Kim-Kort, Making Paper Cranes: Toward an Asian-American Feminist Theology by Katie Yahns

Charles Hill and Michael Krugor, The Early Text of the New Testament (Pt. 1) by Kevin Brown

Douglas S. Huffman, The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek by Luke Geraty

James Nogalski, The Book of the Twelve: Hosea-Jonah by Andrew King

Jonathan Pennington, Reading the Gospels Wisely (Pt. 2) by Nijay Gupta

Stanley Porter and Eckhard J. Schnabel (eds), On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries by Cliff Kvidahl

Eric A. Seibert, Disturbing Divine Behavior by Kevin Brown

Christopher D. Stanley, Arguing with Scripture by Aaron White

Geza Vermes, Christian Beginnings by Mark Edwards

N.T. Wright, How God Became King

N.T. Wright, Paul in Fresh Perspective by Amanda MacInnis

Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece 28 by Peter Williams

 

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Review of Biblical Literature: April 14th, 2011 Additions

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

Herbert Basser
The Mind behind the Gospels: A Commentary to Matthew 1-14
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7471
Reviewed by Robert H. Gundry
Reviewed by Timothy Howell

Kathleen E. Corley
Maranatha: Women’s Funerary Rituals and Christian Origins
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7427
Reviewed by Susan Miller

Stefano Cotrozzi
Expect the Unexpected: Aspects of Pragmatic Foregrounding in Old Testament Narratives
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7584
Reviewed by Philip Nel

S. White Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J. P. Dessel, W. G. Dever, A. Mazar, and J. Aviram, eds.
“Up to the Gates of Ekron”: Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6774
Reviewed by Carl S. Ehrlich

Gershon Galil
The Lower Stratum Families in the Neo-Assyrian Period
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6321
Reviewed by John MacGinnis

Kathy Reiko Maxwell
Hearing between the Lines: The Audience as Fellow-Worker in Luke-Acts and its Literary Milieu
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7628
Reviewed by Jean-François Racine

Dietmar Neufeld and Richard E. DeMaris, eds.
Understanding the Social World of the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7418
Reviewed by Renate Viveen Hood

Erwin Ochsenmeier
Mal, souffrance et justice de Dieu selon Romains 1-3: Étude exégétique et théologique
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6832
Reviewed by Paul Sanders

Klaus Seybold
Poetik der prophetischen Literatur im Alten Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7775
Reviewed by Heinz-Dieter Neef


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Review of Biblical Literature: March 11th, 2011 Additions

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

Natalie B. Dohrmann and David Stern, eds.
Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange: Comparative Exegesis in Context
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7304
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

John H. Elliott
The Elect and the Holy: An Exegetical Examination of 1 Peter 2:4-10 and the Phrase Basileion Hierateuma
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6811
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Frederick Mario Fales
Guerre et paix en Assyrie: Religion et impérialisme
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7802
Reviewed by Gershon Galil

Terry Giles and William J. Doan
Twice Used Songs: Performance Criticism of the Songs of Ancient Israel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6881
Reviewed by Amir Eitan

Stuart L. Love
Jesus and Marginal Women: The Gospel of Matthew in Social-Scientific Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7645
Reviewed by Warren Carter

Russell Pregeant
Encounter with the New Testament: An Interdisciplinary Approach
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7092
Reviewed by Sonya S. Cronin

Piotr Taracha
Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7095
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Runar M. Thorsteinsson
Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism: A Comparative Study of Ancient Morality
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7733
Reviewed by Jeffrey Murray
Reviewed by Stefan Nordgaard

Nicolas Wyatt
Word of Tree and Whisper of Stone: And Other Papers on Ugaritian Thought
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6581
Reviewed by John Engle


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The Pastor…

My copy of Eugene Peterson’s memoirs arrived late yesterday. It was in Adelaide on Friday morning so I have no idea why it took until 5:30 last night to get to me. But I digress…

The few chapters of the book I have read have been amazing (but you’d expect me to say that). I can hardly put it down. I feel as if Peterson is in the room with me conversing with me, challenging and encouraging me. I will never get a chance to  meet the man that has mentored me in faithful pastoral vocation over the past 5 years but already he has begun answering some of the questions I have had about his journey and beliefs. If you are a pastor you NEED to read this book (Actually this is not completely true. I suspect it will fall on deaf ears for most of those in ministry).

As an aside. Something i did not know about Peterson and something Brian LePort might find interesting: Peterson had been accepted to Yale to do his Phd under Brevard Childs! He turned down the offer in order to start the church he would pastor for nearly 30 years!

I’ll finish my preview with this quote from the first few pages:

North American culture does not offer congenial conditions in which to live vocationally as a pastor.  Men and women who are pastors in America today find that they have entered into a way of life that is in ruins. The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies  of religious entrepreneurs with business plans…I wanted my life both my personal life and my working life to be shaped by God and the Scriptures and prayer. [2011, p.4]

Classic Peterson and it only gets better! More Anon [You can count on it!]


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Review of Biblical Literature, February 17th Additions

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

John J. Collins
Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7404
Reviewed by Philip R. Davies

David Lyle Jeffrey and C. Stephen Evans, eds.
The Bible and the University
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6773
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Timothy Jay Johnson
Now My Eye Sees You: Unveiling an Apocalyptic Job
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7514
Reviewed by Scott C. Jones

Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit
Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7649
Reviewed by Matthew A. Collins

Edward W. Klink III
The Audience of the Gospels: The Origin and Function of the Gospels in Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7491
Reviewed by Theodore J. Weeden Sr.

Daniel A. Machiela
The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13-17
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7425
Reviewed by Benjamin Ziemer

Laura Salah Nasrallah
Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church amid the Spaces of Empire
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7452
Reviewed by Rosemary Canavan
Reviewed by Lee M. Jefferson

Lawrence H. Schiffman
Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7591
Reviewed by Sidnie White Crawford

Michael E. Stone, Aryeh Amihay, and Vered Hillel, eds.
Noah and His Book(s)
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7661
Reviewed by Emma England
Reviewed by Anthony Swindell


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Review of Biblical Literature, January 14, 2011 Additions

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

Bertil Albrektson
Text, Translation, Theology: Selected Essays on the Hebrew Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7443
Reviewed by Corrado Martone

Rob Barrett
Disloyalty and Destruction: Religion and Politics in Deuteronomy and the Modern World
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7543
Reviewed by Jerry Hwang

David A. Bernat
Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision in the Priestly Tradition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7283
Reviewed by Michael Hundley

Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee
A Manual of Ugaritic
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7347
Reviewed by Ian Young and Lucy Davey

Paul Borgman
David, Saul, and God: Rediscovering an Ancient Story
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6985
Reviewed by Andrew E. Steinmann

Athalya Brenner, Archie Chi Chung Lee, and Gale A. Yee, eds.
Genesis
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7448
Reviewed by Phillip Michael Sherman

R. T. France
The Gospel of Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6051
Reviewed by Leslie Robert Keylock

Robert D. Holmstedt
Ruth: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7436
Reviewed by Marjo C. A. Korpel

Anders-Christian Jacobsen, ed.
The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7229
Reviewed by Matteo Grosso

Philip Peter Jenson
Obadiah, Jonah, Micah: A Theological Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6952
Reviewed by Michael D. Matlock
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Edward Kessler
An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7616
Reviewed by D. Andrew Kille

Richard N. Soulen
Sacred Scripture: A Short History of Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7478
Reviewed by Sean Kealy

Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed.
Theological Interpretation of the Old Testament: A Book-by-Book Survey
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6968
Reviewed by William A. Tooman

Howard N. Wallace
Psalms
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7507
Reviewed by John E. Anderson


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Review of Biblical Literature: 01.06.2011

The Review of Biblical Literature is a publication of the Society of Biblical Literature (http://www.sbl-site.org).

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

Michael F. Bird
Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6559
Reviewed by Craig A. Evans

Claire Clivaz
L’ange et la sueur de sang (Lc 22,43-44): Ou comment on pourrait bien encore écrire l’histoire
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7433
Reviewed by Andrew Gregory

Jo Ann Hackett
A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7571
Reviewed by Bernard M. Levinson
Reviewed by James Robson

George H. van Kooten
Paul’s Anthropology in Context: The Image of God, Assimilation to God, and Tripartite Man in Ancient Judaism, Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7182
Reviewed by Joel B. Green

Andrew B. McGowan, Brian E. Daley, and Timothy J. Gaden, eds.
God in Early Christian Thought: Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7423
Reviewed by Mark DelCogliano

Peter Oakes
Reading Romans in Pompeii: Paul’s Letter at Ground Level
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7353
Reviewed by Steven A. Hunt

Anthony Robert Petterson
Behold Your King: The Hope for the House of David in the Book of Zechariah
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7483
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Stanley E. Porter
Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7259
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Heikki Räisänen
The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7356
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Todd D. Still and David G. Horrell, eds.
After the First Urban Christians: The Social-Scientific Study of Pauline Christianity Twenty-Five Years Later
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7477
Reviewed by Ronald R. Clark

Graham H. Twelftree
People of the Spirit: Exploring Luke’s View of the Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7532
Reviewed by Gregory R. Perry

Bruce Wells and F. Rachel Magdalene, eds.
Law from the Tigris to the Tiber: The Writings of Raymond Westbrook
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7362
Reviewed by Anselm Hagedorn

Amy C. Merrill Willis
Dissonance and the Drama of Divine Sovereignty in the Book of Daniel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7619
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

Felipe Blanco Wißmann
“Er tat das Rechte”: Beurteilungskriterien und Deuteronomismus in 1Kön 12-2Kön 25
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7080
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton