Resenhas na RBL – 05.06.2015

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

Pablo R. Andiñach
Introducción hermenéutica al Antiguo Testamento
Reviewed by Diego Pérez Gondar
Reviewed by Edesio Sánchez-Cetina

Bradley Beach and Matthew Powell, eds.
Interpreting Abraham: Journeys to Moriah
Reviewed by Simon Lasair

Katell Berthelot, Joseph E. David, and Marc Hirshman, eds.
The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

James V. Brownson
Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships
Reviewed by Hermias van Zyl

Walter Brueggemann
Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks
Reviewed by H. F. Van Rooy

Peter W. Flint
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Reviewed by Daniel K. Falk

R. Michael Fox
Reverberations of the Exodus in Scripture
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

Matthias Henze and Gabriele Boccaccini, eds.
Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall
Reviewed by Kai Akagi

Detlef Jericke
Die Ortsangaben im Buch Genesis: Ein historisch-topographischer und literarisch-topographischer Kommentar
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

Simon J. Joseph
The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition
Reviewed by Sarah E. Rollens

Henk Leene
Newness in Old Testament Prophecy: An Intertextual Study
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen

Gerd Lüdemann
The Earliest Christian Text: 1 Thessalonians
Reviewed by Trevor J. Burke

M. Pina Scanu, ed.
Alla luce delle Scritture: Studi in onore di Giovanni Odasso
Reviewed by Andrea Ravasco

Werner H. Schmidt
Das Buch Jeremia: Kapitel 21–52
Reviewed by Bob Becking

Marty E. Stevens
Leadership Roles of the Old Testament: King, Prophet, Priest, Sage
Reviewed by Daniel S. Diffey

N. T. Wright
Paul and the Faithfulness of God
Reviewed by Russell Morton

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Resenhas na RBL – 01.06.2015

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

Moshe Bar-Asher; Aaron Koller, ed.
Studies in Classical Hebrew
Reviewed by Jerome A. Lund

Sungho Choi
The Messianic Kingship of Jesus: A Study of Christology and Redemptive History in Matthew’s Gospel with Special Reference to the “Royal Enthronment” Psalms
Reviewed by Robert L. Foster

S. Min Chun
Ethics and Biblical Narrative: A Literary and Discourse-Analytical Approach to the Story of Josiah
Reviewed by Benjamin J. M. Johnson

Lutz Doering
Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography
Reviewed by B. J. Oropeza

Joel B. Green, Lee Martin McDonald, eds.
The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts
Reviewed by Kathleen E. Mills

Minna Heimola
Christian Identity in the Gospel of Philip
Reviewed by Tavis A. Bohlinger

Jan Willem van Henten
Judean Antiquities 15: Translation and Commentary
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep

Ulrich Huttner
Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley
Reviewed by John C. Poirier

Amy Kalmanofsky
Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Glenn Pemberton

Craig S. Keener, Jeremy S. Crenshaw, and Jordan Daniel May, eds.
But These Are Written…: Essays on Johannine Literature in Honor of Professor Benny C. Aker
Reviewed by Phillip J. Long

Kai Lämmerhirt
Die sumerische Königshymne Šulgi F
Reviewed by Niek Veldhuis

Josef Lössl and John W. Watt, eds.
Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity: The Alexandrian Commentary Tradition between Rome and Baghdad
Reviewed by Siam Bhayro

Bieke Mahieu
Between Rome and Jerusalem: Herod the Great and His Sons in Their Struggle for Recognition
Reviewed by Frank E. Dicken

Emanuel Pfoh and Keith W. Whitelam, eds.
The Politics of Israel’s Past: The Bible, Archaeology and Nation-Building
Reviewed by Pekka Pitkanen

Stanley E. Porter
How We Got the New Testament: Text, Transmission, Translation
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins
Reviewed by Sylvie Raquel

John R. Spencer, Robert A. Mullins, and Aaron J. Brody, eds.
Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin
Reviewed by Raz Kletter

David Stacey and Gregory Doudna
Qumran Revisted: A Reassessment of the Archaeology of the Site and Its Texts
Reviewed by Ian Werrett
Reviewed by James H. Charlesworth

Markus Zehnder and Hallvard Hagelia, eds.
Encountering Violence in the Bible
Reviewed by Paul Middleton

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Resenhas na RBL – 22.05.2015

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

Susanna Drake
Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts
Reviewed by Sara R. Johnson

Rubén R. Dupertuis and Todd Penner, eds.
Engaging Early Christian History: Reading Acts In The Second Century
Reviewed by Christopher Stroup

Susan Gillingham
A Journey of Two Psalms: The Reception of Psalms 1 and 2 in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Reviewed by Janis Jaynes Quesada

Marvin J. Heller
Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
Reviewed by Ryan Korstange

Antoon Schoors
The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries B.C.E.
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Thomas B. Slater
Ephesians
Reviewed by Corneliu Constantineanu
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

Francis Watson
Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective
Reviewed by Ken Olson
Reviewed by Peter-Ben Smit

Vincent L. Wimbush, with Lalruatkima and Melissa Renee Reid, eds.
MisReading America: Scriptures and Difference
Reviewed by Francisco Lozada Jr.

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Resenhas na RBL – 15.05.2015

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

John Ashton
The Gospel of John and Christian Origins
Reviewed by Seth Pollinger

Cornelis Bennema
A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative
Reviewed by Alicia D. Myers

David G. Burke, Philip H. Towner, and John F. Kutsko, eds.
The King James Version at 400: Assessing Its Genius as Bible Translation and Its Literary Influence
Reviewed by Brian Hartley

Josef Forsling
Composite Artistry in the Book of Numbers: A Study in Biblical Narrative Conventions
Reviewed by Benjamin D. Giffone

Robert W. Funk
A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek
Reviewed by James W. Voelz

Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs, eds.
All Things to All Cultures: Paul among Jews, Greeks, and Romans
Reviewed by Andrew Spurgeon

Felipe de Jesús Legarreta-Castillo
The Figure of Adam in Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15: The New Creation and Its Ethical and Social Reconfiguration
Reviewed by John Anthony Dunne

Boris Paschke
Particularism and Universalism in the Sermon on the Mount: A Narrative-Critical Analysis of Matthew 5-7 in the Light of Matthew’s View on Mission
Reviewed by Jeannine K. Brown

Micahel L. Satlow
How the Bible Became Holy
Reviewed by Chad Spigel

Jay Twomey
2 Corinthians: Crisis and Conflict
Reviewed by Adam White

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Resenhas na RBL – 07.05.2015

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

Markus Bockmuehl and Guy G. Stroumsa, eds.
Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Views
Reviewed by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

Tony Burke, ed.
Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?: The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate: Proceedings from the 2011 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

Andrew R. Davis
Tel Dan in Its Northern Cultic Context
Reviewed by Bob Becking
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Stephen Finlan
The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching: Gospel Imagery and Application
Reviewed by Joanna Dewey

Kai Kaniuth, Anne Löhnert, Jared L. Miller, Adelheid Otto, Michael Roaf, and Walther Sallaberger, eds.
Tempel im Alten Orient
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Emma Loosley
The Architecture and Liturgy of the Bema in Fourth- to-Sixth-Century Syrian Churches
Reviewed by Robert Morehouse

Elvira Martín Contreras and Guadalupe Seijas de los Ríos-Zarzosa
Masora: La transmisión de la tradición de la Biblia Hebrea
Reviewed by Amparo Alba Cecilia

Halvor Moxnes
Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism: A New Quest for the Nineteenth Century Historical Jesus
Reviewed by Craig A. Evans

Pheme Perkins
First Corinthians
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

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Resenhas na RBL – 02.05.2015

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

Francis Borchardt
The Torah in 1Maccabees: A Literary Critical Approach to the Text
Reviewed by Thomas Hieke

Cilliers Breytenbach and Jörg Frey, eds.
Reflections on the Early Christian History of Religion—Erwägungen zur frühchristlichen Religionsgeschichte
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Walter Dietrich
Die Samuelbücher im deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerk: Studien zu den Geschichtsüberlieferungen des Alten Testaments II
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton

James D. G. Dunn
The Oral Gospel Tradition
Reviewed by David B. Sloan

Paul S. Evans and Tyler F. Williams, eds.
Chronicling the Chronicler: The Book of Chronicles and Early Second Temple Historiography
Reviewed by Michael D. Matlock

Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn
The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Moshe Garsiel
From Earth to Heaven: A Literary Study of the Eliijah Stories in the Book of Kings
Reviewed by Keith Bodner
Reviewed by David A. Glatt-Gilad

Alison Ruth Gray
Psalm 18 in Words and Pictures: A Reading through Metaphor
Reviewed by Leslie C. Allen

Mignon R. Jacobs and Raymond F. Person Jr., eds.
Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History: Portrait, Reality, and the Formation of a History
Reviewed by James M. Bos
Reviewed by Thomas Wagner

Ronald Jolliffe, Gertraud Harb, Christoph Heil, Anneliese Felber, and Angelika Magnes
Q11: 39a, 42, 39b, 41, 43-44: Woes against the Pharisees
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

W. G. Lambert
Babylonian Creation Myths
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Daniel C. Matt, trans.
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume 6
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Abera M. Mengestu
God as Father in Paul: Kingship Language and Identity Formation in Early Christianity
Reviewed by Inhee C. Berg

Anthony M. Moore
Signs of Salvation: The Theme of Creation in John’s Gospel
Reviewed by Brian J. Tabb

Valérie Nicolet-Anderson
Constructing the Self: Thinking with Paul and Michel Foucault
Reviewed by Chris L. de Wet

Vernon K. Robbins
Who Do People Say I Am? Rewriting Gospel in Emerging Christianity
Reviewed by Michael J. Kok

David S. Vanderhooft and Abraham Winitzer, eds.
Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature: Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist
Reviewed by Shawn W. Flynn

Ryan Donald Wettlaufer
No Longer Written: The Use of Conjectural Emendation in the Restoration of the Text of the New Testament, the Epistle of James as a Case Study
Reviewed by Jeff Cate

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Resenhas na RBL – 24.04.2015

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

James Aston and John Walliss, eds.
Small Screen Revelations: Apocalypse in Contemporary Television
Reviewed by Sylvie Raquel

Joseph A. Bessler
A Scandalous Jesus: How Three Historic Quests Changed Theology for the Better
Reviewed by Mary K. Schmitt

Daniel Bodi, ed.
Abigail, Wife of David, and Other Ancient Oriental Women
Reviewed by Benjamin J. M. Johnson

Jared C. Calaway
The Sabbath and the Sanctuary: Access to God in the Letter to the Hebrews and Its Priestly Context
Reviewed by Carl Mosser

Ohad Cohen
The Verbal Tense System in Late Biblical Hebrew Prose
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

John Granger Cook
Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World
Reviewed by Charles L. Quarles

Jerome F. D. Creach
Violence in Scripture
Reviewed by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

Arthur J. Dewey and Robert J. Miller, eds.
The Complete Gospel Parallels
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Matthew Drever
Image, Identity, and the Forming of the Augustinian Soul
Reviewed by Cheuk Yin Yam and Anthony Dupont

Diana V. Edelman, ed.
Deuteronomy-Kings as Emerging Authoritative Books: A Conversation
Reviewed by Trent C. Butler

Shawn W. Flynn
YHWH is King: Development of Divine Kingship in Ancient Israel
Reviewed by Michael B. Hundley

Steven J. Friesen, Sarah A. James, and Daniel N. Schowalter, eds.
Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality
Reviewed by Thomas R. Blanton IV

Matti Friedman
The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books
Reviewed by Paul Sanders

Cornelis den Hertog
The Other Face of God: ‘I Am That I Am’ Reconsidered
Reviewed by Richard S. Briggs

Christl M. Maier and Carolyn J. Sharp, eds.
Prophecy and Power: Jeremiah in Feminist and Postcolonial Perspective
Reviewed by Andrew Shead

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath and Florian Wilk, eds.
Gut und Böse in Mensch und Welt: Philosophische und religiöse Konzeptionen vom Alten Orient bis zum frühen Islam
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Jonathan Miles Robker
The Jehu Revolution: A Royal Tradition of the Northern Kingdom and Its Ramifications
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

David C. Sim and James S. McLaren, eds.
Attitudes to Gentiles in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Reviewed by Avram Shannon

Mirjam van der Vorm-Croughs
The Old Greek of Isaiah: An Analysis of Its Pluses and Minuses
Reviewed by Randall X. Gauthier

Stephen Westerholm
Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme
Reviewed by David J. Neville

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Resenhas na RBL – 17.04.2015

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

Bill T. Arnold
Introduction to the Old Testament
Reviewed by David W. Baker
Reviewed by Anselm C. Hagedorn

Mark A. Chancey, Carol Meyers, and Eric M. Meyers, eds.
The Bible in the Public Square: Its Enduring Influence in American Life
Reviewed by Randall Balmer

Raymond F. Collins
Accompanied by a Believing Wife: Ministry and Celibacy in the Earliest Christian Communities
Reviewed by William R. G. Loader

Andrew Crislip
Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity
Reviewed by John J. Pilch

B. C. Hodge
Revisiting the Days of Genesis: A Study of the Use of Time in Genesis 1–11 in Light of Its Ancient Near Eastern and Literary Context
Reviewed by Jeffery M. Leonard

Jey J. Kanagaraj
John
Reviewed by Jo-Ann Brant

Laurel W. Koepf-Taylor
Give Me Children or I Shall Die: Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature
Reviewed by Jason A. Riley

Katherine Low
The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job’s Wife
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

Burton MacDonald, Larry G. Herr, D. Scott Quaintance, Geoffrey A. Clark, and Michael C. A. Macdonald
The Ayl to Ras an-Naqab Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan 2005–2007
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

J. Gordon McConville
Joshua: Crossing Divides
Reviewed by Trent C. Butler

Douglas J. Moo
Galatians
Reviewed by Richard Manly Adams Jr.
Reviewed by Roy E. Ciampa

James M. Morgan
Encountering Images of Spiritual Transformation: The Thoroughfare Motif within the Plot of Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Jean-François Racine

Reinhard Muller, Juha Pakkala, and Bas ter Haar Romeny
Evidence of Editing: Growth and Change of Texts in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by John F. Quant

Miguel Pérez Fernández and Olga Ruiz Morell
El Beso de Dios: Midrás de la Muerte de Moisés. Edición bilingüe hebreo-español y comentario
Reviewed by Francisco García-Treto

Allen P. Ross
A Commentary on the Psalms: 42–89
Reviewed by Christine Jones

Robert A. Spivey, D. Moody Smith, and C. Clifton Black
Anatomy of the New Testament: A Guide to Its Structure and Meaning
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

Jamie Viands
I Will Surely Multiply Your Offspring: An Old Testament Theology of the Blessing of Progeny with Special Attention to the Latter Prophets
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney

Julius Wellhausen; Rudolf Smend, ed.
Briefe
Reviewed by James Alfred Loader

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Resenhas na RBL – 10.04.2015

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

Angelika Berlejung, Jan Dietrich, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, eds.
Menschenbilder und Körperkonzepte im Alten Israel, in Ägypten und im Alten Orient
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton

William P. Brown
Wisdom’s Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible’s Wisdom Literature
Reviewed by James Alfred Loader

Martin J. Buss
Toward Understanding the Hebrew Canon: A Form-Critical Approach
Reviewed by Colin Toffelmire

Nuria Calduch-Benages, ed.
Wisdom for Life: Essays Offered to Honor Prof. Maurice Gilbert, SJ, on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday
Reviewed by Katharine Dell

Volkmar Fritz
The Emergence of Israel in the Twelfth and Eleventh Centuries B.C.E.
Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

Hadi Ghantous
The Elijah-Hazael Paradigm and the Kingdom of Israel: The Politics of God in Ancient Syria-Palestine
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Addison Hodges Hart
Taking Jesus at His Word: What Jesus Really Said in the Sermon on the Mount
Reviewed by Joshua Chatraw

Steven L. McKenzie and John Kaltner, eds.
New Meanings for Ancient Texts: Recent Approaches to Biblical Criticism and Their Applications
Reviewed by Emmanuel Nathan

R. W. L. Moberly
Old Testament Theology: Reading the Hebrew Bible as Christian Scripture
Reviewed by Trent C. Butler
Reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels

Roger Mohrlang
Paul and His Life-Transforming Theology: A Concise Introduction
Reviewed by Bas van Os

Francis J. Moloney
The Resurrection of the Messiah: A Narrative Commentary on the Resurrection Accounts in the Four Gospels
Reviewed by Richard I. Pervo

Joy A. Schroeder
Deborah’s Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Dennis E. Smith and Joseph B. Tyson, eds.
Acts and Christian Beginnings: The Acts Seminar Report
Reviewed by Susana Funsten

William J. Subash
The Dreams of Matthew 1:18–2:23: Tradition, Form, and Theological Investigation
Reviewed by Bart J. Koet

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Resenhas na RBL – 03.04.2015

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

Itzhak Benyamini
Narcissist Universalism: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Paul’s Epistles
Reviewed by Kari Syreeni

Wim M. de Bruin
Isaiah 1–12 as Written and Read in Antiquity
Reviewed by Ibolya Balla

Trevor J. Burke and Brian S. Rosner, eds.
Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology, and Practice
Reviewed by Ronald R. Clark

J. Patout Burns Jr.
Romans: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators
Reviewed by Daniel Patte
Reviewed by Adam Ployd

Beverly Roberts Gaventa, ed.
Apocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthropos in Romans 5–8
Reviewed by Timothy Gombis

Barbara Green
Jeremiah and God’s Plans of Well-Being
Reviewed by Lissa M. Wray Beal

Richard H. Hiers
Women’s Rights and the Bible: Implications for Christian Ethics and Social Policy
Reviewed by L. Juliana Claassens

William S. Kurz
Acts of the Apostles
Reviewed by Thomas E. Phillips
Reviewed by Troy M. Troftgruben

A. James Murphy
Kids and Kingdom: The Precarious Presence of Children in the Synoptic Gospels
Reviewed by Marianne Blickenstaff

Ruth Poser
Das Ezechielbuch als Trauma-Literatur
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Robert M. Price
The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul
Reviewed by Corneliu Constantineanu
Reviewed by Glenn E. Snyder

Ephraim Stern
The Material Culture of the Northern Sea Peoples in Israel
Reviewed by Raz Kletter

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