resenhas

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

Hector Avalos
The End of Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Ulrich H. J. Körtner

Ward Blanton
Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and the New Testament
Reviewed by Clare K. Rothschild

Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan
The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus’s Final Week in Jerusalem
Reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg

Katherine J. Dell
Opening the Old Testament
Reviewed by Bill T. Arnold
Reviewed by George Heider

Brad E. Kelle and Megan Bishop Moore
Israel’s Prophets and Israel’s Past: Essays on the Relationship of Prophetic Texts and Israelite History in Honor of John H. Hayes
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek, and Michael Stausberg, eds.
Theorizing Rituals: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts, Annotated Bibliography
Reviewed by Brian B. Schmidt

Daniel A. Smith
The Post-Mortem Vindication of Jesus in the Sayings Gospel Q
Reviewed by William Arnal

Fred Strickert
Rachel Weeping: Jews, Christians, and Muslims at the Fortress Tomb
Reviewed by Samuel Thomas

Emily Teeter and Douglas J. Brewer
Egypt and the Egyptians
Reviewed by Roxana Flammini

Ben Zion Wacholder
The New Damascus Document: The Midrash on the Eschatological Torah of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Reconstruction, Translation and Commentary
Reviewed by Gregory L. Doudna

Jürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge, and Dale B. Martin, eds.
Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee: A Region in Transition
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

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

Kevin L. Anderson
‘But God Raised Him from the Dead’: The Theology of Jesus’ Resurrection in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Ron Clark

Paul Barnett
Paul: Missionary of Jesus
Reviewed by Don Garlington

David A. Brondos
Fortress Introduction to Salvation and the Cross
Reviewed by Ron Clark

Donald Capps
Jesus the Village Psychiatrist
Reviewed by Pieter F. Craffert

Robert R. Ellis
Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar
Reviewed by Max Rogland

Alec Gilmore
A Concise Dictionary of Bible Origins and Interpretation
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

H. Klinkott, S. Kubisch, and R. Müller-Wollermann, eds.
Geschenke und Steuern, Zölle und Tribute: Antike Abgabenformen in Anspruch und Wirklichkeit
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton

Thomas L. Leclerc
Introduction to the Prophets: Their Stories, Sayings, and Scrolls
Reviewed by Bo H. Lim

Andrew T. Lincoln and Angus Paddison, eds.
Christology and Scripture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Reviewed by Mark Elliott

Theo A. W. van der Louw
Transformations in the Septuagint: Towards an Interaction of Septuagint Studies and Translation Studies
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Grant Macaskill
Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Reviewed by Brian Han Gregg

Frank J. Matera
New Testament Theology: Exploring Diversity and Unity
Reviewed by Udo Schnelle

Sarianna Metso
The Serekh Texts
Reviewed by Ian Werrett

Ela Nutu
Incarnate Word, Inscribed Flesh: John’s Prologue and the Postmodern
Reviewed by Larry D. George

Alexander Samely
Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought: An Introduction
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Klyne R. Snodgrass
Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck

David E. S. Stein, ed.
The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation
Reviewed by Linda S. Schearing

Marvin A. Sweeney
I and II Kings: A Commentary
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

John S. Vassar
Recalling a Story Once Told: An Intertextual Reading of the Psalter and the Pentateuch
Reviewed by Philippus J. Botha

Claus Wilcke, ed.
Das geistige Erfassen der Welt im Alten Orient: Sprache, Religion, Kultur und Gesellschaft
Reviewed by David Weisberg

Gary Yamasaki
Watching a Biblical Narrative: Point of View in Biblical Exegesis
Reviewed by David R. Bauer
Reviewed by Helmut Utzschneider

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

Edward Adams
The Stars Will Fall from Heaven: Cosmic Catastrophe in the New Testament and Its World
Reviewed by Lorenzo DiTommaso

William Sanger Campbell
The “We” Passages in the Acts of the Apostles: The Narrator as Narrative Character
Reviewed by Jean-François Racine

Andrew D. Clarke
A Pauline Theology of Church Leadership
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

Benjamin Fiore
The Pastoral Epistles: First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus
Reviewed by Korinna Zamfir

Bas ter Haar Romeny, ed.
The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy: Papers Read at the Third Peshitta Symposium
Reviewed by Robert A. Kitchen

Daniel Hillel
The Natural History of the Bible: An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures
Reviewed by Norman Habel

Werner G. Jeanrond and Andrew D. H. Mayes, eds.
Recognising the Margins: Developments in Biblical and Theological Studies
Reviewed by Peter R. Rodgers

Matthew Levering
Ezra and Nehemiah
Reviewed by Ralph W. Klein

Graham S. Ogden
Qoheleth
Reviewed by Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger

R. J. R. Plant
Good Figs, Bad Figs: Judicial Differentiation in the Book of Jeremiah
Reviewed by Mark Brummitt

Fernando F. Segovia and R. S. Sugirtharajah, eds.
A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings
Reviewed by Jonathan A. Draper
Reviewed by Hans Leander

Robert B. Stewart, ed.
Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse in Dialogue
Reviewed by Christopher Heard

Ilse Wegner
Eine Einführung in die hurritische Sprache
Reviewed by Ignacio Marquez Rowe

Stephen Westerholm
Understanding Matthew: The Early Christian Worldview of the First Gospel
Reviewed by David C. Sim

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

Andrew Bernhard
Other Early Christian Gospels: A Critical Edition of the Surviving Greek Manuscripts
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett

Augusto Cosentino
Il battesimo gnostico: Dottrine, simboli e riti iniziatici nello gnosticismo
Reviewed by Birger A. Pearson

Katharine J. Dell
The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context
Reviewed by Dorothy Akoto

Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, and K.F. Diethard Römheld, eds.
Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Reviewed by James W. Watts

Joel B. Green
1 Peter
Reviewed by Paul J. Achtemeier

John Paul Hozvicka
A Primer on Biblical Studies
Reviewed by John Vassar

Steven L. McKenzie and John Kaltner
The Old Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Daniel Patte, ed.
Global Bible Commentary
Reviewed by Alexander Negrov

Finny Philip
The Origins of Pauline Pneumatology: The Eschatological Bestowal of the Spirit upon Gentiles in Judaism and in the Early Development of Paul’s Theology
Reviewed by Justin K. Hardin

Aicha Rahmouni; J. N. Ford, trans.
Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts
Reviewed by James R. Getz Jr.

Varda Sussman
Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land: Saucer Lamps: From the Beginning to the Hellenistic Period: Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority
Reviewed by Noam Adler

Ben Witherington III
Matthew
Reviewed by David C. Sim

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

Craig D. Allert
A High View of Scripture? The Authority of the Bible and the Formation of the New Testament Canon
Reviewed by Garwood P. Anderson

Philip R. Amidon
Philostorgius: Church History
Reviewed by Alanna M. Nobbs

Stephen Bertman
Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Sebastian P. Brock
The Wisdom of St. Isaac of Nineveh
Reviewed by Lucas Van Rompay

Michael J. Gorman
Reading Paul
Reviewed by Stephen Finlan

Joseph H. Hellerman
Jesus and the People of God: Reconfiguring Ethnic Identity
Reviewed by Vernon Robbins

Christophe Nihan
From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch: A Study in the Composition of the Book of Leviticus
Reviewed by Jeffrey Stackert

Barbara E. Reid
Taking up the Cross: New Testament Interpretations through Latina and Feminist Eyes
Reviewed by Mary J. Marshall

Bernard Renaud
«Proche est ton Nom»: De la révélation à l’invocation du Nom de Dieu
Reviewed by Jean-Paul Michaud

Joseph B. Soloveitchik; David Shatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky, and Reuven Ziegler, eds.
Abraham’s Journey: Reflections on the Life of the Founding Patriarch
Reviewed by Dan W. Clanton Jr.

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

Frederick E. Brenk
With Unperfumed Voice: Studies in Plutarch, in Greek Literature, Religion and Philosophy, and in the New Testament Background
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

James H. Charlesworth, ed.
The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Second Princeton Symposium on Judaism and Christian Origins
Reviewed by Matthew Goff

Zeba A. Crook and Philip A. Harland, eds.
Identity and Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians and Others: Essays in Honour of Stephen G. Wilson
Reviewed by Thomas W. Gillespie

Rodney J. Decker
Koine Greek Reader: Selections from the New Testament, Septuagint, and Early Christian Writers
Reviewed by Pierre Johan Jordaan

Simcha Fishbane
Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature: A Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays
Reviewed by Mayer I. Gruber

Mark W. Hamilton, Thomas H. Olbricht, and Jeffrey Peterson, eds.
Renewing Tradition: Studies in Texts and Contexts in Honor of James W. Thompson
Reviewed by Nathan Guy

Renate Jost
Gender, Sexualität und Macht in der Anthropologie des Richterbuches
Reviewed by Trent Butler

Matthew Kraus
How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World?
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Larry J. Kreitzer
Hierapolis in the Heavens: Studies in the Letter to the Ephesians
Reviewed by Daniel Darko
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Xabier Pikaza
Diccionario de la Biblia: Historia y Palabra
Reviewed by Daniel Bonilla-Rios

Roger Ryan
Judges
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace to Power in the Bible
Reviewed by Hector Avalos

Nili Wazana
All the Boundaries of the Land: The Promised Land in Biblical Thought in Light of the Ancient Near East [Hebrew]
Reviewed by Shalom E. Holtz

B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort
The Greek New Testament with Dictionary
Reviewed by Allan J. McNicol

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

Stephen C. Barton, ed.
Idolatry: False Worship in the Bible, Early Judaism and Christianity
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Jon L. Berquist, ed.
Approaching Yehud: New Approaches to the Study of the Persian Period
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

Kent E. Brower and Andy Johnson, eds.
Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament
Reviewed by James M. Howard

David B. Capes, Rodney Reeves, and E. Randolph Richards
Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters, and Theology
Reviewed by Rodrigo J. Morales

Paul M. Fullmer
Resurrection in Mark’s Literary-Historical Perspective
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

John Alan Halloran, ed.
Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language
Reviewed by John Engle

Edith M. Humphrey, ed.
And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament
Reviewed by Bart J. Koet

David J. Lull
1 Corinthians
Reviewed by Anthony C. Thiselton

Steve Moyise and Maarten J. J. Menken, eds.
Deuteronomy in the New Testament: The New Testament and the Scriptures of Israel
Reviewed by Michael A. Lyons
Reviewed by David Lincicum

Stanley E. Porter, ed.
Paul and His Opponents
Reviewed by Justin K. Hardin

Dagmar Pruin
Geschichten und Geschichte: Isebel als literarische und historische Gestalt
Reviewed by Claudia D. Bergmann

Magnus Riska
The House of the Lord: A Study of the Temple Scroll Columns 29:3b-47:18
Reviewed by George J. Brooke

Norman Solomon, Richard Harries, and Tim Winter, eds.
Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conversation
Reviewed by Joel N. Lohr

K. Lawson Younger Jr., ed.
Ugarit at Seventy-Five
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

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

Michael F. Bird
The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective
Reviewed by Martin Meiser

William P. Brown, ed.
Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture
Reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg

Reta Halteman Finger
Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts
Reviewed by Steve Walton

Ronald E. Heine
Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church: Exploring the Formation of Early Christian Thought
Reviewed by Martin C. Albl

Alastair Hunter
Wisdom Literature
Reviewed by Jurie le Roux

Joel S. Kaminsky
Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election
Reviewed by B. J. Oropeza

James A. Metzger
Consumption and Wealth in Luke’s Travel Narrative
Reviewed by Kenneth Litwak

Mareike Rake
“Juda wird aufsteigen!”: Untersuchungen zum ersten Kapitel des Richterbuches
Reviewed by Klaas Spronk

Ruth Anne Reese
2 Peter and Jude
Reviewed by Wilhelm Pratscher

David M. Scholer, ed.
Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century: Pivotal Essays by E. A. Judge
Reviewed by Tsalampouni Ekaterini

Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok: Psykologi och Exegetik
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Acabei de ler e recomendo a leitura das resenhas de dois livros. O primeiro de Lester L. Grabbe sobre História de Israel. O segundo de Douglas E. Oakman sobre a prática de Jesus no mundo rural da Palestina do século I.

GRABBE, L. L. Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? London: T & T Clark, 2007, 328 p. – ISBN 9780567032546. Resenha de Brian B. Schmidt, da Universidade de Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Publicada pela Review of Biblical Literature em 09/08/2008.

Estou trabalhando com este livro. É realmente muito interessante. Não é um livro de História de Israel, mas um livro de historiografia sobre as possibilidades e dificuldades da escrita de uma História de Israel hoje. Leia mais sobre isso aqui.

O resenhista concorda que o livro é fundamental para quem trabalha na área, embora faça, sobre alguns detalhes, seus questionamentos. Diz Brian B. Schmidt, por exemplo:
Ancient Israel is a tremendously informed and useful book that readers will find very helpful in a variety of contexts, whether for general pedagogical purposes or as a reader in the seminar context or as a reference tool in the research environment. It is a welcome change of course, given that progress in the field otherwise had all but become stagnant in the rather polarized, late twentieth-century world of minimalism versus maximalism (although one might aver that such a polarizing stage constitutes a predictable [and necessary?] one in the process of intellectual advancement). Readers will be immensely indebted to Professor Grabbe for Ancient Israel. It invites extensive and detailed engagement.

Observo, porém, que na lista de obras sobre História de Israel citadas na primeira nota eu acrescentaria mais autores e livros, especialmente os obras do Seminário Europeu de Metodologia Histórica, todas editadas por Lester L. Grabbe, que é o coordenador do grupo, como se pode ver na bibliografia.

OAKMAN, D. E. Jesus and the Peasants. Eugene, OR : Cascade Books, 2008, 348 p. – ISBN 9781597522755. Resenha de Ernest van Eck, da Universidade de Pretória, Pretória, África do Sul. Publicada pela Review of Biblical Literature em 09/08/2008.

O resenhista termina sua avaliação assim:
The book is a tour de force of Oakman’s repertoire: the economics of first-century Palestine, his knowledge of historical Jesus studies and Q, his brilliant insights when reading the biblical text, to name but a few. His interpretations, especially of the parables, are fresh and challenging. He shows convincingly that the meanings of Jesus’ parables always have to be accessed vis-à-vis their original audience and sociopolitical and socioeconomic context. If one is interested in understanding the message of Jesus against the backdrop of the realities of first-century Palestine peasantry, this book is a must.

Sobre Douglas E. Oakman, recomendo a leitura de meu post Jesus e os camponeses: novo livro de D. Oakman e insisto com o leitor para que faça uma parada aqui e leia, pelo menos, o primeiro item deste artigo. Veja que leitura Oakman faz do Pai Nosso!

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

Paul J. Achtemeier
Jesus and the Miracle Tradition
Reviewed by Michael Labahn

Roland Boer, ed.
Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies
Reviewed by David W. Williams

Maria Brutti
The Development of the High Priesthood during the Pre-Hasmonean Period: History, Ideology, Theology
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Lester L. Grabbe
Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?
Reviewed by Brian B. Schmidt

Leslie Houlden, ed.
Decoding Early Christianity: Truth and Legend in the Early Church
Reviewed by Robert M. Bowman Jr.

Karen L. King
The Secret Revelation of John
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Sarianna Metso
The Serekh Texts
Reviewed by Eric F. Mason

Douglas E. Oakman
Jesus and the Peasants
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck

Richard Liong-Seng Phua
Idolatry and Authority: A Study of 1 Corinthians 8.1-11.1 in the Light of the Jewish Diaspora
Reviewed by Scott E. McClelland

Tom Thatcher, ed.
What We Have Heard from the Beginning: The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Nancy M. Tischler
Thematic Guide to Biblical Literature
Reviewed by Gerbern Oegema

Valerie M. Warrior
Roman Religion
Reviewed by Honora Howell Chapman

Francis Watson
Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn