Resenhas na RBL – 27.03.2015

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

Miryam T. Brand
Evil Within and Without: The Source of Sin and Its Nature as Portrayed in Second Temple Literature
Reviewed by Rodney A. Werline

Ronald E. Clements
Jerusalem and the Nations: Studies in the Book of Isaiah
Reviewed by Bo H. Lim

John A. Cook and Robert D. Holmstedt
Beginning Biblical Hebrew: A Grammar and Illustrated Reader
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

Jason von Ehrenkrook
Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome: (An)Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus
Reviewed by Patrick McCullough

David A. Fiensy and Ralph K. Hawkins, eds.
The Galilean Economy in the Time of Jesus
Reviewed by Ulrich Busse
Reviewed by Sarah E. Rollens

André Gagné and Jean-François Racine, eds.
En marge du canon: Études sur les écrits apocryphes juifs et chrétiens
Reviewed by Edmon L. Gallagher

Jonathan S. Greer
Dinner at Dan: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sacred Feasts at Iron Age II Tel Dan and Their Significance
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Helen R. Jacobus, Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme, and Philippe Guillaume, eds.
Studies on Magic and Divination in the Biblical World
Reviewed by Craig A. Evans

David Marcus
Scribal Wit: Aramaic Mnemonics in the Leningrad Codex
Reviewed by Christopher Dost

Susan Marks
First Came Marriage: The Rabbinic Appropriation of Early Jewish Wedding Ritual
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

David R. Nienhuis and Robert W. Wall
Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude as Scripture: The Shaping and Shape of a Canonical Collection
Reviewed by John Kloppenborg

John Painter and David A. deSilva
James and Jude
Reviewed by Darian Lockett

Luis Sánchez Navarro
Escudriñar las Escrituras: Verbum Domini y la interpretación bíblica
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

C. S. Song
In the Beginning Were Stories, Not Texts: Story Theology
Reviewed by Michelle J. Morris

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Resenhas na RBL – 20.03.2015

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

Alex Damm
Ancient Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem: Clarifying Markan Priority
Reviewed by C. Clifton Black

Michael Fieger, Jutta Krispenz, and Jörg Lanckau, eds.
Wörterbuch alttestamentlicher Motive
Reviewed by Trent Butler

John Harrison and James D. Dvorak, eds.
The New Testament Church: The Challenge of Developing Ecclesiologies
Reviewed by Robert Matthew Calhoun

Knut Martin Heim
Poetic Imagination in Proverbs: Variant Repetitions and the Nature of Poetry
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

Rüdiger Jungbluth
Im Himmel und auf Erden: Dimensionen von Königsherrschaft im Alten Testament
Reviewed by Sven Petry

Ian Christopher Levy, Philip D. W. Krey, and Thomas Ryan, eds.
The Letter to the Romans
Reviewed by Anders Runesson

Herbert Marks, ed.
The English Bible, King James Version: The Old Testament
Reviewed by David G. Burke

Francis J. Moloney, SDB
Love in the Gospel of John: An Exegetical, Theological, and Literary Study
Reviewed by Catrin H. Williams

JoAnn Scurlock and Richard H. Beal, eds.
Creation and Chaos: A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel’s Chaoskampf Hypothesis
Reviewed by Craig W. Tyson

Christopher R. Seitz
The Character of Christian Scripture: The Significance of a Two-Testament Bible
Reviewed by Stephen J. Andrews

Anna Rebecca Solevåg
Birthing Salvation: Gender and Class in Early Christian Childbearing Discourse
Reviewed by Sarah E. Rollens

Michael D. Swartz
The Signifying Creator: Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Abraham Terian, trans.
Magnalia Dei: Biblical History in Epic Verse by Grigor Magistros
Reviewed by Adam Carter McCollum

Benyamim Tsedaka and Sharon Sullivan, eds.
The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah: First English Translation Compared with the Masoretic Version
Reviewed by James R. Blankenship

J. Ross Wagner
Reading the Sealed Book: Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics
Reviewed by Johann Cook

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Resenhas na RBL – 13.03.2015

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

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.
A Commentary on Judges and Ruth
Reviewed by Mark E. Biddle

John W. Daniels Jr.
Gossiping Jesus: The Oral Processing of Jesus in John’s Gospel
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

John Goldingay
Isaiah 56-66: Introduction, Text, and Commentary
Reviewed by Johanna Erzberger

Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie, and Ruben Zimmermann, eds.
Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John
Reviewed by Craig R. Koester

Demetrios S. Katos
Palladius of Helenopolis: The Origenist Advocate
Reviewed by Jon F. Dechow

Phillip J. Long
Jesus the Bridegroom: The Origin of the Eschatological Feast as a Wedding Banquet in the Synoptic Gospels
Reviewed by Marianne Blickenstaff

Roberto Martínez
The Question of John the Baptist and Jesus’ Indictment of the Religious Leaders: A Critical Analysis of Luke 7:18–35
Reviewed by Brian C. Dennert
Reviewed by Bart J. Koet

Benjamin J. Segal
A New Psalm: The Psalms as Literature
Reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia

N. T. Wright
Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul, 1978–2013
Reviewed by Russell Morton

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Resenhas na RBL – 09.03.2015

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

Olivier Artus
Loi et Justice dans la Littérature du Proche-Orient ancien
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Gary M. Beckman, Trevor R. Bryce, and Eric H. Cline
The Ahhiyawa Texts
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Keith Bodner
Elisha’s Profile in the Book of Kings: The Double Agent
Reviewed by Gerhard Karner

Walter Brueggemann
Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks
Reviewed by LeAnn Snow Flesher

Katharine J. Dell
Interpreting Ecclesiastes: Readers Old and New
Reviewed by Mark Sneed

Robert Geis
Exegesis and the Synoptics
Reviewed by Jeffrey Paul García

Wilfred J. Harrington
Reading Mark for the First Time
Reviewed by Jeff Jay

Thomas R. Hatina
New Testament Theology and its Quest for Relevance: Ancient Texts and Modern Readers
Reviewed by Gary M. Burge

John Huehnergard
An Introduction to Ugaritic
Reviewed by Philip C. Schmitz

Hans Leander
Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark from a Postcolonial Perspective
Reviewed by Angela N. Parker

M. David Litwa
Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God
Reviewed by Joseph Verheyden

Siobhan Dowling Long
The Sacrifice of Isaac: The Reception of a Biblical Story in Music
Reviewed by Deborah W. Rooke

Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica, eds.
Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not: Evaluating Empire in New Testament Studies
Reviewed by Russell Morton

Sarah J. K. Pearce
The Words of Moses: Studies in the Reception of Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period
Reviewed by Sven Petry

Kenneth C. Way
Donkeys in the Biblical World: Ceremony and Symbol
Reviewed by Brent Strawn

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Resenhas na RBL – 27.02.2015

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

Angelika Berlejung and Michael P. Streck, eds.
Arameans, Chaldeans, and Arabs in Babylonia and Palestine in the First Millennium B.C.
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Matthew J. Goff
4QInstruction
Reviewed by Kenneth Atkinson
Reviewed by Jeffrey P. Garcia

T. Michael W. Halcomb
Entering the Fray: A Primer on New Testament Issues for the Church and Academy
Reviewed by C. Jason Borders

Andrew T. Lincoln
Born of a Virgin? Reconceiving Jesus in the Bible, Tradition, and Theology
Reviewed by Marianne Blickenstaff

Mark McEntire
Portraits of a Mature God: Choices in Old Testament Theology
Reviewed by Ginny Brewer-Boydston

Bert Newton
Subversive Wisdom: Sociopolitical Dimensions of John’s Gospel
Reviewed by Benjamin Reynolds

Chantal Reynier
Pour lire la lettre de Saint Paul aux Romains
Reviewed by Abson Joseph

Thomas Richter and Sarah Lange
Das Archiv des Idadda: Die Keilschrifttexte aus den deutsch-syrischen Ausgrabungen 2001–2003 im Königspalast von Qatna
Reviewed by Jan-Wim Wesselius

Frank Williams, trans.
The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Books II and III: De Fide
Reviewed by Simon Gathercole

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Resenhas na RBL – 13.02.2015

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

Philippe Abadie
Des héros peu ordinaires: Théologie et histoire dans le livre des Juges
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Michael Carasik, ed.
The Commentators’ Bible: The JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot: Numbers
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

Jeffrey L. Cooley
Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East: The Reflexes of Celestial Science in Ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite Narrative
Reviewed by Stephen C. Russell

Rebecca S. Hancock
Esther and the Politics of Negotiation: Public and Private Spaces and the Figure of the Female Royal Counselor
Reviewed by Christine Mitchell
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Annewies van den Hoek and John J. Herrmann Jr.
Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise: Iconographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Lee M. Jefferson

Brian Howell
In the Eyes of God: A Contextual Approach to Biblical Anthropomorphic Metaphors
Reviewed by Michael B. Hundley

Simon J. Joseph
Jesus, Q, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Judaic Approach to Q
Reviewed by Michael Labahn

Shula Keshet
‘Say You Are My Sister’: Danger, Seduction, and the Foreign in Biblical Literature and Beyond
Reviewed by Nancy Nam Hoon Tan

Nili Wazana
All the Boundaries of the Land: The Promised Land in Biblical Thought in Light of the Ancient Near East
Reviewed by Esias E. Meyer

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Resenhas na RBL – 06.02.2015

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

Daniel I. Block
Beyond the River Chebar: Studies in Kingship and Eschatology in the Book of Ezekiel
Reviewed by Sven Petry

Reinhard Feldmeier
Power, Service, Humility: A New Testament Ethic
Reviewed by David Briones

David G. Firth
1 and 2 Samuel: A Kingdom Comes
Reviewed by Ralph Henson

Martha Himmelfarb
Between Temple and Torah: Essays on Priests, Scribes, and Visionaries in the Second Temple Period and Beyond
Reviewed by L. Michael Morales

Cornelia Linde
How to Correct the Sacra Scriptura? Textual Criticism of the Bible between the Twelfth and Fifteenth Century
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Kim Lan Nguyen
Chorus in the Dark: The Voices of the Book of Lamentations
Reviewed by Charles William Miller

Jesse E. Robertson
The Death of Judas: The Characterization of Judas Iscariot in Three Early Christian Accounts of his Death
Reviewed by Lee M. Jefferson

Michael Trainor
About Earth’s Child: An Ecological Listening to the Gospel of Luke
Reviewed by C. Jason Borders

David Trobisch
A User’s Guide to the Nestle-Aland 28 Greek New Testament
Reviewed by Michael W. Holmes
Reviewed by Jan Krans

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Resenhas na RBL – 30.01.2015

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

Michael F. Bird
1 Esdras: Introduction and Commentary on the Greek Text in Codex Vaticanus
Reviewed by Bob Becking

Michael F. Bird
Jesus Is the Christ: The Messianic Testimony of the Gospels
Reviewed by Susan Wendel

Andrew Cain, ed.
Jerome’s Epitaph on Paula: A Commentary on the Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae with an Introduction, Text, and Translation
Reviewed by Matthew Kraus

Reinhard Feldmeier
Macht—Dienst—Demut: Ein neutestamentlicher Beitrag zur Ethik
Reviewed by William R. G. Loader

David E. Fredrickson
Eros and the Christ: Longing and Envy in Paul’s Christology
Reviewed by Scott S. Elliott
Reviewed by Elliott C. Maloney

Ronald F. Hock
The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Commentaries on Aphthonius’s Progymnasmata
Reviewed by Christopher J. Kuhl

John R. Kohlenberger III, ed.
NIV Greek and English New Testament
Reviewed by Haley Goranson

Chee-Chiew Lee
The Blessing of Abraham, the Spirit, and Justification in Galatians: Their Relationship and Significance for Understanding Paul’s Theology
Reviewed by Chad Chambers

George Lyons
Galatians: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition
Reviewed by Troy Martin

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Resenhas na RBL – 23.01.2015

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

Pauline Allen
John Chrysostom, Homilies on Paul’s Letter to the Philippians
Reviewed by Julien M. Ogereau

Richard S. Ascough, Philip A. Harland, and John S. Kloppenborg
Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook
Reviewed by Steve Walton

Robert L. Cavin
New Existence and Righteous Living: Colossians and 1 Peter in Conversation with 4QInstruction and the Hodayot
Reviewed by Roy R. Jeal

Musa W. Dube, Andrew M. Mbuvi, and Dora R. Mbuwayesango, eds.
Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations
Reviewed by Peter Claver Ajer

Anne Marie Kitz
Cursed Are You! The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts
Reviewed by Stephen C. Russell

Antti Laato
Who Is the Servant of the Lord? Jewish and Christian Interpretations on Isaiah 53 from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Reviewed by Alphonso Groenewald

Jack R. Lundbom
Biblical Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism
Reviewed by Joel Barker

Graham Stanton; Markus Bockmuehl and David Lincicum, eds.
Studies in Matthew and Early Christianity
Reviewed by Donald A. Hagner

Georg A. Walser
Old Testament Quotations in Hebrews: Studies in Their Textual and Contextual Background
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

Ziony Zevit
What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?
Reviewed by John Walton

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Resenhas na RBL – 16.01.2015

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

Gary A. Anderson
Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition
Reviewed by Timothy Sandoval

Aaron Chalmers
Exploring the Religion of Ancient Israel: Prophet, Priest, Sage and People
Reviewed by Thomas Wagner

Raymond F. Collins
Second Corinthians
Reviewed by B. J. Oropeza

Philip R. Davies and Thomas Römer, eds.
Writing the Bible: Scribes, Scribalism and Script
Reviewed by Stephen Reed

A. E. Harvey
Is Scripture Still Holy? Coming of Age with the New Testament
Reviewed by Christopher Holmes

Tawny L. Holm
Of Courtiers and Kings: The Biblical Daniel Narratives and Ancient Story-Collections
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

Eugene E. Lemcio
Travels with St. Mark: GPS for the Journey. A Pedagogical Aid
Reviewed by Kenneth Litwak

Michael E. Stone
An Editio Minor of the Armenian Version of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
Reviewed by Adam Carter McCollum

Rannfrid I. Thelle
Approaches to the “Chosen Place”: Accessing a Biblical Concept
Reviewed by Eckart Otto

Heath A. Thomas
Poetry and Theology in the Book of Lamentations: The Aesthetics of an Open Text
Reviewed by Miriam Bier

Donald M. Walter and Gillian Greenberg, trans.; George A. Kiraz and Joseph Bali, eds.
The Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets according to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation: The Twelve Prophets
Reviewed by H. F. van Rooy

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