Resenhas na RBL: 18.04.2010

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

Hector Avalos, Sarah Melcher, and Jeremy Schipper, eds.
This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Yael Avrahami

Susan Emanuel and Jonathan G. Campbell
The Exegetical Texts
Reviewed by Eric F. Mason

A. Philip Brown
Hope amidst Ruin: A Literary and Theological Analysis of Ezra
Reviewed by Bob Becking

James R. Linville
Amos and the Cosmic Imagination
Reviewed by M. Daniel Carroll R.

John P. Meier
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4: Law and Love
Reviewed by William Loader

Gerald O’Collins
Christology: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study of Jesus
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

Gregory E. Sterling
Coptic Paradigms: A Summary of Sahidic Coptic Morphology
Reviewed by William Arnal

Guy G. Stroumsa
The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Douglas Estes

Stefan Wälchli
Glaubenswelten der Bibel: Eine kleine Geschichte des biblischen Glaubens und der Entstehung der Bibel
Reviewed by Louis Jonker

Harald Martin Wahl
Das Buch Esther: Übersetzung und Kommentar
Reviewed by Donatella Scaiola

Walter T. Wilson
Pauline Parallels: A Comprehensive Guide
Reviewed by Martinus C. de Boer

Otto Zwierlein
Petrus in Rom: Die literarischen Zeugnisse
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

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Resenhas na RBL: 09.04.2010

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

Michael Bachmann
Anti-Judaism in Galatians? Exegetical Studies on a Polemical Letter and on Paul’s Theology
Reviewed by Kevin McCruden

Michael F. Bird
Are You the One Who Is to Come? The Historical Jesus and the Messianic Question
Reviewed by Christopher W. Skinner

Mark J. Boda
A Severe Mercy: Sin and Its Remedy in the Old Testament
Reviewed by Erhard S. Gerstenberger

Walter Brueggemann
Divine Presence amid Violence: Contextualizing the Book of Joshua
Reviewed by Gerrie Snyman

R. Crumb
The Book of Genesis Illustrated
Reviewed by David Petersen

Robert Daly, ed.
Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity
Reviewed by Martin Karrer

W. Edward Glenny
Finding Meaning in the Text: Translation Technique and Theology in the Septuagint of Amos
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

T. Muraoka
A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint
Reviewed by Frederick Danker

James Reitman
Unlocking Wisdom: Forming Agents of God in the House of Mourning
Reviewed by Craig G. Bartholomew

Akira Satake
Die Offenbarung des Johannes: Redaktionell bearbeitet von Thomas Witulski
Reviewed by Russell Morton

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Resenhas na RBL: 25.03.2010

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

Kenneth E. Bailey
The Cross and the Prodigal: Luke 15 through the Eyes of Middle Eastern Peasants
Reviewed by Robert O’Toole

Craig G. Bartholomew
Ecclesiastes
Reviewed by Richard Schultz

Manfred T. Brauch
Abusing Scripture: The Consequences of Misreading the Bible
Reviewed by Michael D. Matlock

Brendan Byrne
A Costly Freedom: A Theological Reading of Mark’s Gospel
Reviewed by Sean Kealy

Duane L. Christensen
Nahum: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Reviewed by Klaas Spronk

Sarah Coakley and Charles M. Stang, eds.
Re-thinking Dionysius the Areopagite
Reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

Gary N. Knoppers and Kenneth A. Ristau, eds.
Community Identity in Judean Historiography: Biblical and Comparative Perspectives
Reviewed by Rainer Kessler

R. W. L. Moberly
The Theology of the Book of Genesis
Reviewed by Brian D. Russell

Stanley E. Porter and Mark J. Boda, eds.
Translating the New Testament: Text, Translation, Theology
Reviewed by Douglas Moo

John M. Steele, ed.
Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East
Reviewed by Mladen Popovic

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Resenhas na RBL: 19.03.2010

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

Elizabeth Boase
The Fulfilment of Doom? The Dialogic Interaction between the Book of Lamentations and the Pre-exilic/Early Exilic Prophetic Literature
Reviewed by Charles Miller

Jo Carruthers
Esther through the Centuries
Reviewed by Linda Day
Reviewed by Timothy Laniak

Mark K. George
Israel’s Tabernacle as Social Space
Reviewed by Gert Prinsloo

Joel B. Green
Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible
Reviewed by Robin Gallaher Branch

Peter J. Leithart
Deep Exegesis: The Mystery of Reading Scripture
Reviewed by Matthew Gordley

Bruce J. Malina
Timothy: Paul’s Closest Associate
Reviewed by Mark Batluck

Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica, eds.
Who Do My Opponents Say That I Am? An Investigation of the Accusations against Jesus
Reviewed by M. Robert Mulholland

John Oswalt
The Bible among the Myths: Unique Revelation or Just Ancient Literature?
Reviewed by Claude Mariottini

Tessa Rajak
Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible and the Ancient Jewish Diaspora
Reviewed by Christopher Beetham

Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg
Sustaining Fictions: Intertextuality, Midrash, Translation, and the Literary Afterlife of the Bible
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Tom Thatcher
Greater than Caesar: Christology and Empire in the Fourth Gospel
Reviewed by Adam Winn

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Resenhas na RBL: 11.03.2010

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

Peter Brown
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity; Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction
Reviewed by Richard Valantasis

Kate Cooper and Julia Hillner, eds.
Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300-900
Reviewed by Ilaria Ramelli

April D. DeConick
The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation: With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel
Reviewed by Stephen Patterson

David A. deSilva
Seeing Things John’s Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation
Reviewed by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Terence L. Donaldson
Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE)
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Yonatan Kolatch
Masters of the Word: Traditional Jewish Bible Commentary from the Eleventh through the Thirteenth Centuries (vol. 2)
Reviewed by Günter Stemberger

Michael Philip Penn
Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church
Reviewed by Candida Moss

Stanley E. Porter, ed.
Paul: Jew, Greek, and Roman
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Micah Ross, ed.
From the Banks of the Euphrates: Studies in Honor of Alice Louise Slotsky
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Turid Karlsen Seim and Jorunn Økland, eds.
Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity
Reviewed by V. Henry Nguyen

Rivka Ulmer, ed.
Pesiqta Rabbati: A Synoptic Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Based upon All Extant Manuscripts and the Editio Princeps
Reviewed by Peter Tomson

Jan de Waard, eds.
Biblia Hebraica Quinta: Proverbs
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Magnus Zetterholm
Approaches to Paul: A Student’s Guide to Recent Scholarship
Reviewed by Nijay Gupta

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Resenhas na RBL: 06.03.2010

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

François Bovon
L’Evangile selon saint Luc 19,28-24,53
Reviewed by Richard I. Pervo

Robin Gallaher Branch
Jeroboam’s Wife: The Enduring Contributions of the Old Testament’s Lesser-Known Women
Reviewed by Wil Gafney

Jean-Marie van Cangh
Les sources Judaïques du nouveau testament: Recueil d’essais
Reviewed by Peter Tomson

Shawna Dolansky, ed.
Sacred History, Sacred Literature: Essays on Ancient Israel, the Bible, and Religion in Honor of R. E. Friedman on His Sixtieth Birthday
Reviewed by Bob Becking

Pamela Eisenbaum
Paul Was Not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle
Reviewed by Yung Suk Kim

Dirk Hartwig, Walter Homolka, Michael J. Marx, and Angelika Neuwirth, eds.
“Im vollen Licht der Geschichte”: Die Wissenschaft des Judentums und die Anfänge der kritischen Koranforschung
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

Bernard M. Levinson
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel
Reviewed by Bruce Wells

Lee Martin McDonald
Forgotten Scriptures: The Selection and Rejection of Early Religious Writings
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Paul Middleton, Angus Paddison, and Karen Wenell, eds.
Paul, Grace and Freedom: Essays in Honour of John K. Riches
Reviewed by Michael J. Lakey

Mogens Müller
The Expression ‘Son of Man’ and the Development of Christology: A History of Interpretation
Reviewed by Rollin Kearns

Eckart Otto
Die Tora: Studien zum Pentateuch: Gesammelte Schriften
Reviewed by Trent C. Butler

C. Kavin Rowe
World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age
Reviewed by V. Henry Nguyen

Karel van der Toorn
Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Richard Weis

Alexander Tsutserov
Glory, Grace, and Truth: Ratification of the Sinaitic Covenant according to the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Christopher W. Skinner

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Resenhas na RBL: 20.02.2010

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

Izak Cornelius and Louis Jonker, eds.
“From Ebla to Stellenbosch”: Syro-Palestinian Religions and the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Friedrich T. Schipper

Ellen F. Davis
Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible
Reviewed by Robin Gallaher Branch

Luke Gärtner-Brereton
The Ontology of Space in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: The Determinate Function of Narrative ‘Space’ within the Biblical Hebrew Aesthetic
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak

Michael Fox
Proverbs 10-31: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Reviewed by Bruce K. Waltke

Philip McCosker, ed.
What Is It That the Scripture Says? Essays in Biblical Interpretation, Translation and Reception in Honour of Henry Wansbrough OSB
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

John Van Seters
The Biblical Saga of King David
Reviewed by Walter Dietrich

John Fleter Tipei
The Laying on of Hands in the New Testament: Its Significance, Techniques, and Effects
Reviewed by Everett Ferguson

Timo Veijola; Walter Dietrich, ed.
Leben nach der Weisung: Exegetisch-historische Studien zum Alten Testament
Reviewed by Thomas Römer

Chris A. Vlachos
The Law and the Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Edenic Background of the Catalytic Operation of the Law in Paul
Reviewed by James M. Howard

Norman Whybray
Job
Reviewed by F. Rachel Magdalene

Marguerite Yon
The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra
Reviewed by Dirk Paul Mielke

Magnus Zetterholm
Approaches to Paul: A Student’s Guide to Recent Scholarship
Reviewed by David G. Horrell

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Resenhas na RBL: 09.02.2010

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

Michael F. Bird
Introducing Paul: The Man, His Mission and His Message
Reviewed by Tony Costa

Craig A. Blaising, Carmen S. Hardin, and Quentin F. Wesselschmidt, eds.
Psalms (2 volumes)
Reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo

Delbert Burkett
Rethinking the Gospel Sources, Volume 2: The Unity and Plurality of Q
Reviewed by Tobias Hagerland

Greg Carey
Sinners: Jesus and His Earliest Followers
Reviewed by Burgert De Wet

Andrie Du Toit; edited by Cilliers Breytenbach and David S. Du Toit
Focusing on Paul: Persuasion and Theological Design in Romans and Galatians
Reviewed by Sheila E. McGinn

Carole R. Fontaine
With Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights
Reviewed by Robin Gallaher Branch

J. R. Daniel Kirk
Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God
Reviewed by Jens Herzer

Kenneth L. Schenck
Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews: The Settings of the Sacrifice
Reviewed by Thomas Kraus

Gerhard Sellin
Der Brief an die Epheser
Reviewed by Angela Standhartinger

Benjamin D. Sommer
The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel
Reviewed by Gilbert Lozano

David Toshio Tsumura
The First Book of Samuel
Reviewed by Phillip Camp

Edna Ullmann-Margalit
Out of the Cave: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Dead Sea Scrolls Research
Reviewed by Samuel Thomas

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Resenhas na RBL: 04.02.2010

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

Linda M. Day
Esther
Reviewed by Jean-Daniel Macchi

Charles L. Echols
“Tell Me, O Muse”: The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) in the Light of Heroic Poetry
Reviewed by Klaas Spronk

John Goldingay
Psalms: Volume 3: Psalms 90-150
Reviewed by Leonard Mare

Jonathan Knight
Christian Origins
Reviewed by Markus Oehler

Kasper Bro Larsen
Recognizing the Stranger: Recognition Scenes in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Dorothy Lee

Ramsay MacMullen
The Second Church: Popular Christianity A.D. 200-400
Reviewed by Charles Bobertz

John P. Meier
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4: Law and Love
Reviewed by Susan Graham

Stanley E. Porter and Wendy J. Porter, eds.
New Testament Greek Papyri and Parchments: New Editions: Texts and Plates
Reviewed by Thomas Kraus

Paul L. Redditt
Introduction to the Prophets
Reviewed by Timothy Sandoval

Magne Sæbø, ed.
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation, II: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Reviewed by W. Dennis Tucker Jr.

Loren Stuckenbruck
1 Enoch 91-108
Reviewed by Archie T. Wright

Jerry L. Sumney
Colossians: A Commentary
Reviewed by Angela Standhartinger

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Resenhas na RBL: 23.01.2010

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

Roger S. Bagnall
Early Christian Books in Egypt
Reviewed by Larry Hurtado

Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed, eds.
The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Reviewed by Chad Spigel

Bryan D. Bibb
Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus
Reviewed by Dorothea Erbele-Küster

David Bosworth
The Story within a Story in Biblical Hebrew Narrative
Reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia

James H. Charlesworth
The Earliest Christian Hymnbook: The Odes of Solomon
Reviewed by Michael Lattke

Johann Cook, ed.
Septuagint and Reception
Reviewed by Reinhart Ceulemans

David G. Firth and Jamie A. Grant, eds.
Words and the Word: Explorations in Biblical Interpretation and Literary Theory
Reviewed by Eugene Merrill

Erasmus Gass
Die Moabiter: Geschichte und Kultur eines ostjordanischen Volkes im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

Robert Goldenberg
The Origins of Judaism: From Canaan to the Rise of Islam
Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

Michael J. Gorman
Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative Soteriology
Reviewed by Sigurd Grindheim

Deborah A. Green and Laura S. Lieber, eds.
Scriptural Exegesis: The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Sue Hamilton, Ruth D. Whitehouse, and Katherine I. Wright, eds.
Archaeology and Women: Ancient and Modern Issues
Reviewed by Friedrich T. Schipper

Larry R. Helyer
The Witness of Jesus, Paul and John: An Exploration in Biblical Theology
Reviewed by Petrus Grabe

James Allen Hewett
New Testament Greek: A Beginning and Intermediate Grammar
Reviewed by Laurence Vance

Konrad Huber and Boris Repschinski, eds.
Im Geist und in der Wahrheit: Studien zum Johannesevangelium und zur Offenbarung des Johannes sowie andere Beiträge. Festschrift für Martin Hasitschka SJ zum 65. Geburtstag
Reviewed by Michael Labahn

Adam Kamesar, ed.
The Cambridge Companion to Philo
Reviewed by Torrey Seland

Robert Kugler and Patrick Hartin
An Introduction to the Bible
Reviewed by Pieter Venter

Hermann von Lips
Timotheus und Titus: Unterwegs für Paulus
Reviewed by Korinna Zamfir

Eduard Lohse
Das Urchristentum: Ein Rückblick auf die Anfänge
Reviewed by Markus Oehler

Stuart L. Love
Jesus and Marginal Women: The Gospel of Matthew in Social-Scientific Perspective
Reviewed by Esther A. de Boer

Victor H. Matthews
More Than Meets the Ear: Discovering the Hidden Contexts of Old Testament Conversations
Reviewed by Corinne Blackmer

Samuel A. Meier
Themes and Transformations in Old Testament Prophecy
Reviewed by Tyler Mayfield

Lorena Miralles
Marzeah y thíasos: Una institución convival en el Oriente Próximo Antiguo y el Mediterráneo
Reviewed by Leif E. Vaage

Douglas J. Moo
The Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon
Reviewed by Christopher Beetham

Osvaldo Padilla
The Speeches of Outsiders in Acts: Poetics, Theology and Historiography
Reviewed by Deborah Thompson Prince

Chantal Reynier
Saint Paul sur les routes du monde romain: Infrastructures, logistique, itinéraires
Reviewed by Michel Gourgues

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire
Reviewed by Keith Burton

Tom Thatcher
Greater than Caesar: Christology and Empire in the Fourth Gospel
Reviewed by Benjamin Reynolds

Fabian Udoh, ed.
Redefining First-Century Jewish and Christian Identities: Essays in Honor of Ed Parish Sanders
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Tor Vegge
Paulus und das antike Schulwesen: Schule und Bildung des Paulus
Reviewed by Jens Herzer

N. T. Wright
Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision
Reviewed by V. George Shillington

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