Resenhas na RBL – 04.08.2011

As seguintes resenhas foram recentemente (ou quase) publicadas pela Review of Biblical Literature:

Cornelis Bennema
Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Nijay K. Gupta

Scott N. Callaham
Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute
Reviewed by Jeremy Hutton

Thomas B. Dozeman, ed.
Methods for Exodus
Reviewed by Danny Mathews

Jennie R. Ebeling
Women’s Lives in Biblical Times
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Swift Edgar, ed.
The Vulgate Bible, Volume 1: The Pentateuch: Douay-Rheims Translation
Reviewed by Mark Elliott

Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul: The Material Spirit
Reviewed by Kevin McCruden

John Paul Heil
Colossians: Encouragement to Walk in All Wisdom as Holy Ones in Christ
Reviewed by Rodrigo J. Morales

Robert Kugler and Patrick Hartin
An Introduction to the Bible
Reviewed by Lily Vuong

Heikki Räisänen
The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians
Reviewed by Gosnell Yorke

Robert Titley
A Poetic Discontent: Austin Farrer and the Gospel of Mark
Reviewed by Mark A. Matson

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Resenhas na RBL – 28.07.2011

As seguintes resenhas foram recentemente publicadas pela Review of Biblical Literature:

Scott A. Ellington
Risking Truth: Reshaping the World through Prayers of Lament
Reviewed by Philip E. Satterthwaite

Andreas Hahn
Canon Hebraeorum-Canon Ecclesiae: Zur deuterokanonischen Frage im Rahmen der Begründung alttestamentlicher Schriftkanonizität in neuerer römisch-katholischer Dogmatik
Reviewed by Mark Elliott

K. L. Noll and Brooks Schramm, eds.
Raising Up a Faithful Exegete: Essays in Honor of Richard D. Nelson
Reviewed by Kent Harold Richards

B. J. Oropeza, C. K. Robertson, and Douglas C. Mohrmann, eds.
Jesus and Paul: Global Perspectives in Honor of James D. G. Dunn for His Seventieth Birthday
Reviewed by Bernard Ukwuegbu

Yoon-Man Park
Mark’s Memory Resources and the Controversy Stories (Mark 2:1-3:6): An Application of the Frame Theory of Cognitive Science to the Markan Oral-Aural Narrative
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Henning Graf Reventlow
History of Biblical Interpretation, Vol. 3: Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism
Reviewed by A. K. M. Adam

Henning Graf Reventlow
History of Biblical Interpretation, Vol. 3: Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism; and Vol. 4: From the Englightenment to the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by John F. A. Sawyer

Matthew Sleeman
Geography and the Ascension Narrative in Acts
Reviewed by Steve Walton

Michael G. Wechsler, ed.
The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli the Karaite on the Book of Esther: Edition, Translation, and Introduction
Reviewed by John Kaltner

Timothy M. Willis
Leviticus
Reviewed by Christophe Nihan

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Resenhas na RBL – 22.07.2011

As seguintes resenhas foram recentemente publicadas pela Review of Biblical Literature:

Duane L. Christensen
Nahum: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Reviewed by Donatella Scaiola

Pierre Gibert
L’invention critique de la Bible, XVe-XVIIIe Siècle: L’invention moderne de la critique du texte biblique
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Jo Ann Hackett
A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
Reviewed by George Athas

Ronald Hendel
Reading Genesis: Ten Methods
Reviewed by Matthias Millard

Dirk J. Human and Gert J. Steyn, eds.
Psalms and Hebrews: Studies in Reception
Reviewed by Steve Moyise

Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
Recovering the Unity of the Bible: One Continuous Story, Plan, and Purpose
Reviewed by Joel Stephen Williams

Ross Shepard Kraemer
Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
Reviewed by Gail Streete

Tremper Longman III
How to Read Exodus
Reviewed by Wolfgang Oswald

Maynard Paul Maidman
Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence
Reviewed by Christopher Metcalf

Andreas Wagner
Gottes Körper: Zur alttestamentlichen Vorstellung der Menschengestaltigkeit Gottes
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton

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Resenhas na RBL – 14.07.2011

As seguintes resenhas foram recentemente publicadas pela Review of Biblical Literature:

Alicia J. Batten
Friendship and Benefaction in James
Reviewed by Oda Wischmeyer

Michael W. Duggan
The Consuming Fire: A Christian Guide to the Old Testament
Reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels

Steven J. Friesen, Daniel N. Schowalter, and James C. Walters, eds.
Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and Society
Reviewed by Dennis E. Smith

Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
Gossip and Gender: Othering of Speech in the Pastoral Epistles
Reviewed by Korinna Zamfir

Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
Keys to Second Corinthians: Revisiting the Major Issues
Reviewed by Victor Paul Furnish
Reviewed by vanThanh Nguyen

David S. Powers
Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet
Reviewed by Joel Stephen Williams

Christopher Rollston
Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age
Reviewed by Johannes Schnocks
Reviewed by Ian Young

Robert L. Webb and Duane F. Watson, eds.
Reading Second Peter with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Second Peter
Reviewed by David K. Burge

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Resenhas na RBL – 10.07.2011

As seguintes resenhas foram recentemente publicadas pela Review of Biblical Literature:

Amar Annus and Alan Lenzi
Ludlul Bel Nemeqi: The Standard Babylonian Poem of the Righteous Sufferer
Reviewed by Christopher A. Rollston

Willis Barnstone
The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas
Reviewed by Marvin J. Hudson

Rowan A. Greer
Theodore of Mopsuestia: Commentary on the Minor Pauline Epistles
Reviewed by Frederick G. McLeod

David G. Horrell, Cherryl Hunt, Christopher Southgate, and Francesca Stavrakopoulou, eds.
Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives
Reviewed by Russell Pregeant

Matthew W. Mitchell
Abortion and the Apostolate: A Study in Pauline Conversion, Rhetoric, and Scholarship
Reviewed by William S. Campbell

John J. Ranieri
Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Bible
Reviewed by George Heyman

Sandra L. Richter
The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament
Reviewed by Russell Meek
Reviewed by Stephen Moyise

Richard G. Smith
The Fate of Justice and Righteousness during David’s Reign: Narrative Ethics and Rereading the Court History According to 2 Samuel 8:15-20:26
Reviewed by Walter Dietrich

Einar Thomassen, ed.
Canon and Canonicity: The Formation and Use of Scripture
Reviewed by Donatella Scaiola

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Resenhas na RBL – 30.06.2011

As seguintes resenhas foram recentemente publicadas pela Review of Biblical Literature:

Jerome F. D. Creach
The Destiny of the Righteous in the Psalms
Reviewed by Johan H. Coetzee

John M. Dillon and Wolfgang Polleichtner
Iamblichus of Chalcis: The Letters
Reviewed by Blossom Stefaniw

Nicole Wilkinson Duran, Teresa Okure, and Daniel Patte, eds.
Mark
Reviewed by David J. Neville
Reviewed by Steve Smith

David G. Horrell
The Bible and the Environment: Towards a Critical Ecological Biblical Theology
Reviewed by Norman Habel

James L. Papandrea
The Wedding of the Lamb: A Historical Approach to the Book of Revelation
Reviewed by Russell Morton

Suzanne Richard, Jesse C. Long Jr., Paul S. Holdorf, and Glen Peterman, eds.
Khirbat Iskandar: Final Report on the Early Bronze IV Area C ‘Gateway’ and Cemeteries
Reviewed by Ulrich Hübner

John W. Rogerson
A Theology of the Old Testament: Cultural Memory, Communication, and Being Human
Reviewed by Robert L. Hubbard Jr.
Reviewed by Leonard Mare

Benjamin Edidin Scolnic
Judaism Defined: Mattathias and the Destiny of His People
Reviewed by Daniel R. Schwartz

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Resenhas na RBL – 17.06.2011

As seguintes resenhas foram recentemente publicadas pela Review of Biblical Literature:

Reinhard Achenbach and Martin Arneth, eds.
»Gerechtigkeit und Recht zu üben« (Gen 18,19): Studien zur altorientalischen und biblischen Rechtsgeschichte, zur Religionsgeschichte Israels und zur Religionssoziologie: Festschrift für Eckart Otto zum 65. Geburtstag
Reviewed by Klaus Grünwaldt

Jan Assmann
Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism
Reviewed by James K. Hoffmeier

Roger S. Bagnall
Early Christian Books in Egypt
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Assnat Bartor
Reading Law as Narrative: A Study in the Casuistic Laws of the Pentateuch
Reviewed by Thomas B. Dozeman

Christopher L. Carter
The Great Sermon Tradition as a Fiscal Framework in 1 Corinthians: Towards a Pauline Theology of Material Possessions
Reviewed by Philip F. Esler

Sandra Gambetti
The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews: A Historical Reconstruction
Reviewed by Magnus Zetterholm

Robert H. Gundry
Commentary on the New Testament: Verse-by-Verse Explanations with a Literal Translation
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

Martin Karrer and Wolfgang Kraus, eds.
Die Septuaginta-Texte, Kontexte, Lebenswelten: Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 20.-23. Juli 2006
Reviewed by J. Cornelis De Vos

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Stories of the Babylonian Talmud
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Philip L. Tite
Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse: Determining the Social Function of Moral Exhortation in Valentinian Christianity
Reviewed by Johanna Brankaer

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Resenhas na RBL – 10.06.2011

As seguintes resenhas foram recentemente publicadas pela Review of Biblical Literature:

Henry Hanoch Abramovitch
The First Father Abraham: The Psychology and Culture of a Spiritual Revolutionary
Reviewed by D. Andrew Kille

Faith Cimok
The Hittites and Hattusa
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Andreas Dettwiler and Uta Poplutz, eds.
Studien zu Matthäus und Johannes/Études sur Matthieu et Jean: Festschrift für Jean Zumstein zu seinem 65. Geburtstag/Mélanges offerts à Jean Zumstein pour son 65e anniversaire
Reviewed by Boris Paschke

Toshikazu S. Foley
Biblical Translation in Chinese and Greek: Verbal Aspect in Theory and Practice
Reviewed by Ken Chan

Paul Hoffman
Jesus von Nazaret und Die Kirche: Spurensicherung im Neuen Testament
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Jae Hyun Lee
Paul’s Gospel in Romans: A Discourse Analysis of Rom 1:16-8:39
Reviewed by Eve-Marie Becker

Mark Leuchter and Klaus-Peter Adam, eds.
Soundings in Kings: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak

J. Ramsey Michaels
The Gospel of John
Reviewed by D. A. Carson

G. Sujin Pak
Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms
Reviewed by Susan Gillingham

Begonya Palau
Les aparicions de Jesús Ressuscitat a les dones (Mt 28, 8-10) i also Onze (Mt 28, 16-20) com a textos complementaris
Reviewed by Sylvie Raquel

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Resenhas na RBL – 31.05.2011

As seguintes resenhas foram recentemente publicadas pela Review of Biblical Literature:

Alejandro F. Botta
The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach
Reviewed by Aaron Koller

Philip W. Comfort
New Testament Text and Translation Commentary: Commentary on the Variant Readings of the Ancient New Testament Manuscripts and How They Relate to the Major English Translations
Reviewed by J. K. Elliott

Randall Heskett and Brian Irwin
The Bible as a Human Witness to Divine Revelation: Hearing the Word of God Through Historically Dissimilar Traditions
Reviewed by Pieter M. Venter

Eric M. Meyers and Paul V. M. Flesher, eds.
Aramaic in Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity: Papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University
Reviewed by John Engle

Ilaria Ramelli; David Konstan, trans.
Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics, Fragments, and Excerpts
Reviewed by Troels Engberg-Pedersen

Tuomas Rasimus
Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence
Reviewed by Gesine Schenke Robinson

Carl G. Rasmussen
Zondervan Atlas of the Bible
Reviewed by Wolfgang Zwickel

William A. Simmons
Peoples of the New Testament World: An Illustrated Guide
Reviewed by Moschos Goutzioudis

Oral A. W. Thomas
Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context
Reviewed by Gerald West

Dvora E. Weisberg
Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism
Reviewed by Obiorah Mary Jerome

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Resenhas na RBL – 26.05.2011

As seguintes resenhas foram recentemente publicadas pela Review of Biblical Literature:

James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy, eds.
The Historical Jesus: Five Views
Reviewed by Pieter F. Craffert

Corrine L. Carvalho
Encountering Ancient Voices: A Guide to Reading the Old Testament
Reviewed by Achim Mueller

Jeremy Corley, ed.
New Perspectives on the Nativity
Reviewed by Mark R. C. Grundeken

Thomas B. Dozeman, ed.
Methods for Exodus
Reviewed by Brian D. Russell

Yael S. Feldman
Glory and Agony: Isaac’s Sacrifice and National Narrative
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Norman K. Gottwald; Rebecca J. Kruger Gaudino, ed.
The Hebrew Bible: A Brief Socio-Literary Introduction
Reviewed by David M. Maas

Hans-Josef Klauck, Bernard McGinn, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski, eds.
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception: Volume 1: Aaron-Aniconism
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, eds.
Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christianity
Reviewed by Hal Taussig

Raymond F. Person
The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles: Scribal Works in an Oral World
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak

Jerome T. Walsh
Old Testament Narrative: A Guide to Interpretation
Reviewed by John E. Anderson

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