Review of Crook's Parallel Gospels

At this year's SBL in Chicago, I took part in a session on Monday afternoon, in the Synoptic Gospels section, that was devoted to  reviewing Zeba Crook's Parallel Gospels.  The other reviewers were Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, Paul Foster and Robert Derrenbacker.  My article review is available here:

Zeba Crook's Parallel Gospels: Review Article
Mark Goodacre

Update (22 April 2014): My conference paper is now revised and published in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature here:

Review of Zeba A. Crook, Parallel Gospels [PDF]
Mark Goodacre

Please cite as: Mark Goodacre, review of Zeba A. Crook, Parallel Gospels: A Synopsis of Early Christian Writing, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2014)

More on the RBL "Rejoinders" Issue

Further to my post yesterday on RBL Innovation: Scholarly Rejoinders to Reviews, see the related post from Tim Bulkeley at Sansblogue.  Bob Buller wrote to Tim and me and I reproduce the following with his permission:

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Let me begin by thanking you for noting the two author responses announced in today's RBL newsletter. I am of course grateful for any publicity that bloggers offer RBL, but I also am curious to see how you, your readers, and other bloggers respond to the notion of authors responding online to reviews published online. That being said, I must note that this "innovation" is not exactly new. The RBL blog has invited comments almost from the beginning (2008), and we published the first authorial response in September 2009 (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/2009/09/20090930-ramelli-and-konstan-terms-for.html). At that time we also established the policy that, although we will not announce all comments in an RBL newsletter, we will announce author responses in a newsletter, so as to promote greater dialogue between reviewer and author. For additional author responses (unfortunately, a small number of authors use the blog to respond), see:

http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/2009/11/20091140-mason-josephus-judea-and.html (December 2009)
http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/2010/12/20101238-williamson-ephesians.html (January 2011)
http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/2011/02/20110206-pervo-making-of-paul.html (February 2011)
http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/2011/02/20110209-terrell-pauls-parallels.html (February 2011)

All of these were, I believe, announced in an RBL newsletter; if any were omitted, it was a mistake, not a matter of policy.

I should also note that RBL blog comments are carefully moderated: commenters must identify themselves either in the comment heading or within the comment (no truly anonymous comments), and we will not publish ad hominem attacks. In short, we hold commenters to the same standards as we expect of our reviewers (see http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/ReviewerInstructions.pdf), in order to promote meaningful and productive dialogue.

Thanks again for your blog posts today. I do hope that more authors and readers will avail themselves of the opportunity to comment on the many reviews that we publish.

Bob Buller
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RBL Innovation: Scholarly Rejoinders to Reviews

Ever had a book review that you would like to issue a rejoinder to?  It's almost always been the policy of journals not to allow a right of reply to authors who feel that they have been hard-done-by in a book review.  But now the SBL Review of Biblical Literature is allowing authors their right to reply in its blog.

The blog format enables authors to add their thoughts on their reviewers in the "comments" and the regular RBL newsletter has begun to draw attention to these.

It will be interesting to see how this develops.  I can imagine someone offering a right humdinger of a response if they feel they have been treated unfairly.  Will this make reviewers more careful to be as fair and accurate as possible?  Will it make them more restrained, their tone more civil?

I must admit to mixed feelings about this.  On one level, it could help to hold reviewers to account.  But on the other hand, it is part of the academic experience to learn to cope with reviews of your work with which you may disagree.  I wonder if the ease of a blog-comment response will encourage too many authors to respond too quickly and too negatively to critiques of their work that may -- on reflection -- help them.

Moreover, sometimes discretion is the better part of valour.  If you have an unfair review, it's sometimes better not to respond.  Knee-jerk responses all too often end up looking petty, pompous or self-indulgent.

Review of Biblical Literature Blog

I would like to join the many other bloggers who have welcomed the arrival today of the new blog for the SBL Review of Biblical Literature. Regular readers will be familiar with my updates of the latest New Testament entries in the RBL. I am now happy to discontinue those updates. If anyone wants to keep abreast of the latest from the RBL via their Reader, or on the web, you know where to go:

Review of Biblical Literature Blog

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

It's time to catch up on the Review of Biblical Literature. These are those from the last two emails and as usual, I am listing those on the New Testament and related topics:

Frederick E. Brenk
With Unperfumed Voice: Studies in Plutarch, in Greek Literature, Religion and Philosophy, and in the New Testament Background
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6275
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
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5896
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
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6363
Reviewed by Thomas W. Gillespie

Rodney J. Decker
Koine Greek Reader: Selections from the New Testament, Septuagint, and Early Christian Writers
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6213
Reviewed by Pierre Johan Jordaan

Mark W. Hamilton, Thomas H. Olbricht, and Jeffrey Peterson, eds.
Renewing Tradition: Studies in Texts and Contexts in Honor of James W. Thompson
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5715
Reviewed by Nathan Guy

Larry J. Kreitzer
Hierapolis in the Heavens: Studies in the Letter to the Ephesians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6426
Reviewed by Daniel Darko
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace to Power in the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6081
Reviewed by Hector Avalos

B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort
The Greek New Testament with Dictionary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6182
Reviewed by Allan J. McNicol

Stephen C. Barton, ed.
Idolatry: False Worship in the Bible, Early Judaism and Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6399
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Kent E. Brower and Andy Johnson, eds.
Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6347
Reviewed by James M. Howard

David B. Capes, Rodney Reeves, and E. Randolph Richards
Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters, and Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6287
Reviewed by Rodrigo J. Morales

Paul M. Fullmer
Resurrection in Mark's Literary-Historical Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6450
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Edith M. Humphrey, ed.
And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6286
Reviewed by Bart J. Koet

David J. Lull
1 Corinthians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6208
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
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6343
Reviewed by Michael A. Lyons
Reviewed by David Lincicum

Stanley E. Porter, ed.
Paul and His Opponents
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5158
Reviewed by Justin K. Hardin

Review of Biblical Literature Recent

Catch-up post on recent reviews added to the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading; tons of material of interest here:

Paul J. Achtemeier
Jesus and the Miracle Tradition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6183
Reviewed by Michael Labahn

Roland Boer, ed.
Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6214
Reviewed by David W. Williams

Maria Brutti
The Development of the High Priesthood during the Pre-Hasmonean Period: History, Ideology, Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6095
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Leslie Houlden, ed.
Decoding Early Christianity: Truth and Legend in the Early Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6256
Reviewed by Robert M. Bowman Jr.

Karen L. King
The Secret Revelation of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5160
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Douglas E. Oakman
Jesus and the Peasants
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6327
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
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6189
Reviewed by Scott E. McClelland

Tom Thatcher, ed.
What We Have Heard from the Beginning: The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6285
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Nancy M. Tischler
Thematic Guide to Biblical Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6228
Reviewed by Gerbern Oegema

Valerie M. Warrior
Roman Religion
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5576
Reviewed by Honora Howell Chapman

Francis Watson
Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6165
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Efrain Agosto
Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5294
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

L. William Countryman
Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6220
Reviewed by Will Deming

April D. DeConick
The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6163
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep

Oskar Skarsaune and Reidar Hvalvik, eds.
Jewish Believers in Jesus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5985
Reviewed by Elizabeth Boddens Hosang and Bart J. Koet

Roland Boer
Rescuing the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6394
Reviewed by D. A. Carson

April D. DeConick
The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6163
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

John H. Elliott
1 Peter: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6653
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Jane DeRose Evans
The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy of Palestine
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6191
Reviewed by Mark R. Fairchild

Albert V. Garcilazo
The Corinthian Dissenters and the Stoics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6209
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

Suzanne Watts Henderson
Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5298
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Pheme Perkins
Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6212
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

Wayne G. Rollins and D. Andrew Kille, eds.
Psychological Insight into the Bible: Texts and Readings
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6005
Reviewed by E. H. Scheffler

Phillip Sigal
The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth according to the Gospel of Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6145
Reviewed by Roland Deines
Reviewed by Dorothy Jean Weaver

Jan G. van der Watt
An Introduction to the Johannine Gospel and Letters
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6445
Reviewed by Tom Thatcher

Kevin L. Anderson
"But God Raised Him from the Dead": The Theology of Jesus' Resurrection in Luke-Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6246
Reviewed by Lidija Novakovic

Norbert Baumert
Sorgen des Seelsorgers: Übersetzung und Auslegung des ersten Korintherbriefes
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6277
Reviewed by Helmut Schwier

Adela Yarbro Collins
Mark: A Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6221
Reviewed by Edwin Broadhead

Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough, eds.
The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the "Other" in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6193
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Mary Gerhart and Fabian E. Udoh, eds.
The Christianity Reader
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6068
Reviewed by Mark Reasoner

Rowan A. Greer and Margaret M. Mitchell
The "Belly-Myther" of Endor: Interpretations of 1 Kingdoms 28 in the Early Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5977
Reviewed by D. Jeffrey Bingham

Christiana de Groot and Marion Ann Taylor, eds.
Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6110
Reviewed by Athalya Brenner

Andrew M. Mbuvi
Temple, Exile and Identity in 1 Peter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6310
Reviewed by David G. Horrell

André Munzinger
Discerning the Spirits: Theological and Ethical Hermeneutics in Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6172
Reviewed by Lee S. Bond
Reviewed by Victor Paul Furnish

Stephen W. Need
Paul Today: Challenging Readings of Acts and the Epistles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6065
Reviewed by Steve Walton

Barclay M. Newman, ed.
The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader's Edition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6215
Reviewed by Steven R. Johnson

Bridget Gilfillan Upton
Hearing Mark's Endings: Listening to Ancient Popular Texts through Speech Act Theory
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5220
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Jan G. van der Watt
An Introduction to the Johannine Gospel and Letters
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6445
Reviewed by D. A. Carson

Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just, S.J., and Tom Thatcher, eds.
John, Jesus, and History, Volume 1: Critical Appraisals of Critical Views
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6151
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Timothy K. Beal and Tod Linafelt, eds.
Mel Gibson's Bible: Religion, Popular Culture, and The Passion of the Christ
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5029
Reviewed by William Telford

Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough, eds.
The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the "Other" in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6193
Reviewed by Cynthia M. Baker

David Flusser, with R. Steven Notley
The Sage from Galilee: Rediscovering Jesus' Genius
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6152
Reviewed by Robert L. Brawley

Dan Jaffé
Le talmud et les origines juives du christianisme: Jésus, Paul et les judéo-chrétiens dans la littérature talmudique
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6230
Reviewed by Oskar Skarsaune

Philip S. Johnston, ed.
The IVP Introduction to the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6076
Reviewed by Douglas Estes

Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
Acta Andreae Apocrypha: A New Perspective on the Nature, Intention and Significance of the Primitive Text
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6376
Reviewed by Lee Martin McDonald

Sara Parvis and Paul Foster, eds.
Justin Martyr and His Worlds
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6222
Reviewed by Shawn W. J. Keough

Jaroslav Pelikan
Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6099
Reviewed by John B. F. Miller

F. E. Peters
The Voice, the Word, the Books: The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6098
Reviewed by Kirk R. MacGregor

Geza Vermes
The Resurrection: History and Myth
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6389
Reviewed by Tony Costa
Reviewed by Michael R. Licona

Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just, S.J., and Tom Thatcher, eds.
John, Jesus, and History: Volume 1, Critical Appraisals of Critical Views
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6151
Reviewed by Mark A. Matson

David Catchpole
Jesus People: The Historical Jesus and the Beginnings of Community
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6187
Reviewed by Paul Foster

Zev Garber, ed.
Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5161
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Thomas J. Kraus
Ad fontes: Original Manuscripts and Their Significance for Studying Early Christianity: Selected Essays
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6295
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett

Amy-Jill Levine, ed., with Maria Mayo Robbins
A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5408
Reviewed by Heike Omerzu

Yuzuru Miura
David in Luke-Acts: His Portrayal in the Light of Early Judaism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6199
Reviewed by Steven Cox

Stephen W. Need
The Gospels Today: Challenging Readings of John, Mark, Luke and Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6066
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

Birger A. Pearson
Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6053
Reviewed by Philip L. Tite

Richard D. Phillips
Hebrews
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6070
Reviewed by Knut Backhaus

Brant Pitre
Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of the Exile: Restoration Eschatology and the Origin of the Atonement
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5514
Reviewed by John A. Dennis

Laurence M. Vance
Guide to Prepositions in the Greek New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6269
Reviewed by Paul Elbert

Robby Waddell
The Spirit of the Book of Revelation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6122
Reviewed by Jan A. du Rand

Mark Wilson
Charts on the Book of Revelation: Literary, Historical, and Theological Perspectives
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6229
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Magnus Zetterholm, ed.
The Messiah in Early Judaism and Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6217
Reviewed by James H. Charlesworth

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading. In the tradition of always bigging up fellow-bibliobloggers, it is good to see a strong review for Michael Bird's new book. Since I am teaching Paul this term, I am encouraged to read it:

Michael F. Bird
The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6245
Reviewed by Martin Meiser

William P. Brown, ed.
Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6118
Reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg

Reta Halteman Finger
Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6181
Reviewed by Steve Walton

Ronald E. Heine
Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church: Exploring the Formation of Early Christian Thought
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6283
Reviewed by Martin C. Albl

James A. Metzger
Consumption and Wealth in Luke's Travel Narrative
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6160
Reviewed by Kenneth Litwak

Ruth Anne Reese
2 Peter and Jude
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6349
Reviewed by Wilhelm Pratscher

David M. Scholer, ed.
Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century: Pivotal Essays by E. A. Judge
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6185
Reviewed by Tsalampouni Ekaterini

I will also catch up with the backlog of RBL alerts soon.

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading (composite post of the last three announcements):

Bradford B. Blaine Jr.
Peter in the Gospel of John: The Making of an Authentic Disciple
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6111
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Markus Bockmuehl and Donald A. Hagner, eds.
The Written Gospel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5285
Reviewed by David C. Sim

Sebastian Brock
The Bible in the Syriac Tradition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5853
Reviewed by H. F. van Rooy

Gregory W. Dawes
Introduction to the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6043
Reviewed by Randall L. McKinion

Jane DeRose Evans
The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy of Palestine
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6191
Reviewed by Mark A. Chancey

Victor Paul Furnish
1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6202
Reviewed by Eduard Verhoef

Paul M. Hoskins
Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6241
Reviewed by Mary L. Coloe
Reviewed by Nicholas H. Taylor

Ådna Jostein, ed.
The Formation of the Early Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6032
Reviewed by Markus Oehler

Bart J. Koet
Dreams and Scripture in Luke-Acts: Collected Essays
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6036
Reviewed by David L. Tiede

Jerome H. Neyrey
Give God the Glory: Ancient Prayer and Worship in Cultural Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6113
Reviewed by Tony Costa

Birger A. Pearson
Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6053
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

Calvin J. Roetzel
2 Corinthians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6204
Reviewed by Frank J. Matera

Karl Friedrich Ulrichs
Christusglaube: Studien zum Syntagma pistis Christou und zum paulinischen Verständnis von Glaube und Rechtfertigung
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6022
Reviewed by Günter Röhser

Ward Blanton
Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6059
Reviewed by Claire Clivaz

Brian Brock
Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6049
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Albert Eichhorn; trans. Jeffrey Cayzer
The Lord's Supper in the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6154
Reviewed by Sakari Hakkinen

Volker Gäckle
Die Starken und die Schwachen in Korinth und in Rom: Zu Herkunft und Funktion der Antithese in 1Kor 8,1-11,1 und in Röm 14,1-15,13
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6018
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Mike Graves and David M. May
Preaching Matthew: Interpretation and Proclamation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6164
Reviewed by Craig S. Keener

Fredrik Lindgard
Paul's Line of Thought in 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:10
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6015
Reviewed by Thomas Schmeller

Mark Roncace and Patrick Gray, eds.
Teaching the Bible through Popular Culture and the Arts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6192
Reviewed by Leonard Greenspoon

Brian S. Rosner
Greed as Idolatry: The Origin and Meaning of a Pauline Metaphor
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6103
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

John H. Elliott
Conflict, Community, and Honor: 1 Peter in Social-Scientific Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6127
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Cristina Grenholm and Daniel Patte, eds.
Gender, Tradition and Romans: Shared Ground, Uncertain Borders
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5208
Reviewed by Angela Standhartinger

John Paul Heil
Ephesians: Empowerment to Walk in Love for the Unity of All in Christ
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5930
Reviewed by Timothy Gombis

Lieve M. Teugels and Rivka Ulmer, eds.
Midrash and Context: Proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 SBL Consultation on Midrash
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6008
Reviewed by Alex P. Jassen

Joseph B. Tyson
Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6126
Reviewed by Dieter T. Roth

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literaturean under the NT and related heading:

François Bovon
Luke the Theologian: Fifty-Five Years of Research (1950-2005)
Reviewed by Eric Noffke

Beverly Roberts Gaventa
Our Mother Saint Paul
Reviewed by Angela Standhartinger

Daniel M. Gurtner
The Torn Veil: Matthew's Exposition of the Death of Jesus
Reviewed by Tony Costa

Othmar Keel
Die Geschichte Jerusalems und die Entstehung des Monotheismus
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

Martin O'Kane
Painting the Text: The Artist as Biblical Interpreter
Reviewed by Dan W. Clanton Jr.

John Piper
The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright
Reviewed by Don Garlington

Lance Byron Richey
Roman Imperial Ideology and the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Warren Carter

Diane M. Sharon and Kathryn F. Kravitz, eds.
Bringing the Hidden to Light: The Process of Interpretation: Studies in Honor of Stephen A. Geller
Reviewed by Adele Berlin

Christopher J. H. Wright
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative
Reviewed by Christopher N. Chandler

Review of Biblical Literature: More catch-up

Some more catching up on the SBL Review of Biblical Literature, which now brings us up to date:

John Barton
The Nature of Biblical Criticism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5957
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Roland Boer
Symposia: Dialogues concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6128
Reviewed by Henning Graf Reventlow

Andrew Chester
Messiah and Exaltation: Jewish Messianic and Visionary Traditions and New Testament Christology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5919
Reviewed by Martin Karrer

Zeba A. Crook
Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6452
Reviewed by Dietmar Neufeld

A. Andrew Das
Solving the Romans Debate
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5772
Reviewed by Don Garlington

Max Küchler and Karl Matthias Schmidt, eds.
Texte-Fakten-Artefakte: Beiträge zur Bedeutung der Archäologie für die neutestamentliche Forschung
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5965
Reviewed by Gabriele Faßbeck

Edward P. Meadors
Idolatry and the Hardening of the Heart: A Study in Biblical Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6077
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

James M. Robinson
Jesus: According to the Earliest Witness
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5812
Reviewed by Robert A. Derrenbacker Jr.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6159
Reviewed by Warren Carter

Mary L. Coloe
Dwelling in the Household of God: Johannine Ecclesiology and Spirituality
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5968
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Ronald Herms
An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World: The Narrative Function of Universal Language in the Book of Revelation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6046
Reviewed by David L. Barr

Timothy Paul Jones
Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5937
Reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg

Jan Joosten and Peter J. Tomson, eds.
Voces Biblicae: Septuagint Greek and Its Significance for the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6063
Reviewed by Hans Ausloos

J. A. (Bobby) Loubser
Oral and Manuscript Culture in the Bible: Studies on the Media Texture of the New Testament-Explorative Hermeneutics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5924
Reviewed by Alan Kirk

Nicholas Perrin
Thomas, The Other Gospel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5983
Reviewed by Kenneth D. Litwak

Don Sausa
The Jesus Tomb: Is It Fact or Fiction? Scholars Chime In
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6131
Reviewed by Mark R. Fairchild

John L. Thompson
Reading the Bible with the Dead: What You Can Learn from the History of Exegesis That You Can't Learn from Exegesis Alone
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6102
Reviewed by John Sandys-Wunsch

D. Francois Tolmie
Persuading the Galatians: A Text-Centred Rhetorical Analysis of a Pauline Letter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6016
Reviewed by Steven A. Hunt

Elaine M. Wainwright
Women Healing/Healing Women: The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6129
Reviewed by John J. Pilch

Ulrich Wilckens
Theologie des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1: Geschichte der urchristlichen Theologie: Part 1: Geschichte des Wirkens Jesu in Galiläa; Part 2: Jesu Tod und Auferstehung und die Entstehung der Kirche aus Juden und Heiden; Part 3: Die Briefe des Urchristetums: Paulus und seine Schüler, Theologen aus dem Bereich judenchristlicher Heidenmission; Part 4: Die Evangelien, die Apostelgeschichte, die Johannesbriefe, die Offenbarung und die Entstehung des Kanons
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5986
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Joan Cecelia Campbell
Kinship Relations in the Gospel of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6074
Reviewed by Ritva H. Williams

Daniel K. Falk
The Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures among the Dead Sea Scrolls
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6011
Reviewed by Matthew Goff

Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, and K. F. Diethard Römheld, eds.
Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5822
Reviewed by Jason Tatlock

John Fotopoulos, ed.
The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5899
Reviewed by Michael Labahn
Reviewed by Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr

Paul M. Fullmer
Resurrection in Mark's Literary-Historical Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6329
Reviewed by John Dart

James K. Mead
Biblical Theology: Issues, Methods, and Themes
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5941
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Romano Penna
Lettera ai Romani: II. Rm 6-11
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5681
Reviewed by Lee S. Bond

William Varner
The Way of the Didache: The First Christian Handbook
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6037
Reviewed by Jonathan A. Draper

Review of Biblical Literature Catch-up Post

The latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament and related heading:

Loveday C. A. Alexander
Acts in Its Ancient Literary Context: A Classicist Looks at the Acts of the Apostles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5963
Reviewed by Chrys C. Caragounis

Markus Bockmuehl and James Carleton Paget, eds.
Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6001
Reviewed by Joshua Ezra Burns

Frances Taylor Gench
Encounters with Jesus: Studies in the Gospel of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6069
Reviewed by John Painter

L. Ann. Jervis
At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6138
Reviewed by Thomas W. Gillespie

Robert Kysar
John: The Maverick Gospel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5982
Reviewed by Dirk G. van der Merwe

Terence C. Mournet
Oral Tradition and Literary Dependency: Variability and Stability in the Synoptic Tradition and Q
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6021
Reviewed by Robert K. McIver

Geert van Oyen and Tom Shepherd, eds.
The Trial and Death of Jesus: Essays on the Passion Narrative in Mark
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6062
Reviewed by Adam D. Winn

Gerald O. West, ed.
Reading Other-Wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6042
Reviewed by Erhard S. Gerstenberger
Reviewed by Gosnell Yorke

Beate Ego and Helmut Merkel, eds.
Religiöses Lernen in der biblischen, frühjüdischen und früjchristlichen Überlieferung
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6030
Reviewed by Wilhelm Pratscher

Eldon Jay Epp
Junia: The First Woman Apostle
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=4958
Reviewed by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis

Ivan Shing Chung Kwong
The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke: Its Foregrounded Messages
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5903
Reviewed by Steven Runge

Philip L. Mayo
"Those Who Call Themselves Jews": The Church and Judaism in the Apocalypse of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5405
Reviewed by Jack T. Sanders

John Howard Schütz
Paul and the Anatomy of Apostolic Authority
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6082
Reviewed by Graydon F. Snyder

Tommy Wasserman
The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5824
Reviewed by Stephen D. Patton

Herbert W. Bateman IV, ed.
Four Views on the Warning Passages in Hebrews
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6052
Reviewed by Felix H. Cortez

Martin Brändl
Der Agon bei Paulus: Herkunft und Profil paulinischer Agonmetaphoik
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6017
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Keith Augustus Burton
The Blessing of Africa: The Bible and African Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6067
Reviewed by J. N. K Mugambi

Joseph A. Fitzmyer
The One Who Is to Come
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6079
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Staley

Kathy L. Gaca and L. L. Welborn, eds.
Early Patristic Readings of Romans
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5194
Reviewed by David A. Creech

Ilze Kezbere
Umstrittener Monotheismus: Wahre und falsche Apotheose im lukanischen Doppelwerk
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5756
Reviewed by Knut Backhaus

David Milson
Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Late Antique Palestine: In the Shadow of the Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5849
Reviewed by Jonathan L. Reed

George T. Montague
Understanding the Bible: A Basic Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5984
Reviewed by Gosnell Yorke

Valerie M. Warrior
Roman Religion
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5576
Reviewed by Edmund P. Cueva

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament and related heading (with a catch-up megapost to come):

Paul N. Anderson
The Fourth Gospel and the Quest for Jesus: Modern Foundations Reconsidered
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5879
Reviewed by John Painter

April D. DeConick
The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation: With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5655
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Mikael C. Parsons
Body and Character in Luke and Acts: The Subversion of Physiognomy in Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5830
Reviewed by Pieter J. J. Botha
Reviewed by Patrick E. Spencer

Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele, eds.
Moving beyond New Testament Theology? Essays in Conversation with Heikki Räisänen
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5492
Reviewed by Jan van der Watt

Richard L. Rohrbaugh
The New Testament in Cross-Cultural Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5956
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

C. Kavin Rowe
Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5966
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett

Brad H. Young
Meet the Rabbis: Rabbinic Thought and the Teachings of Jesus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5912
Reviewed by Verlyn D. Verbrugge

Review of Biblical Literature megapost

Here is the latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature, incorporating the last three or four updates:

Egbert Ballhorn and Georg Steins, eds.
Der Bibelkanon in der Bibelauslegung: Methodenreflexionen und Beispielexegesen
Reviewed by Daniel R. Driver

Richard J. Cassidy
Four Times Peter: Portrayals of Peter in the Four Gospels and at Philippi
Reviewed by Patrick J. Hartin

Ira Brent Driggers
Following God through Mark: Theological Tension in the Second Gospel
Reviewed by Elliott Maloney

Robert J. Karris, ed. and trans.
Works of St. Bonaventure: Commentary on the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Mark Elliott

Dale C. Allison Jr.
Studies in Matthew: Interpretation Past and Present
Reviewed by Bogdan G. Bucur

John J. Collins and Craig A. Evans, eds.
Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Reviewed by Matthew Goff

Jeffrey A. Gibbs
Matthew 1:1--11:1
Reviewed by Charles L. Quarles

John H. Hayes and Carl R. Holladay
Biblical Exegesis: A Beginner's Handbook
Reviewed by David Allen

William Loader
The New Testament with Imagination: A Fresh Approach to Its Writings and Themes
Reviewed by Séan P. Kealy

Jerry L. Sumney
Philippians: A Greek Student's Intermediate Reader
Reviewed by Robert Keay

Cilliers Breytenbach, Johan C. Thom, and Jeremy Punt, eds.
The New Testament Interpreted: Essays in Honour of Bernhard C. Lategan
Reviewed by Douglas Estes

David Buttrick
Speaking Conflict: Stories of a Controversial Jesus
Reviewed by John J. Pilch

J. W. Childers and D. C. Parker, eds.
Transmission and Reception: New Testament Text-Critical and Exegetical Studies
Reviewed by Erroll F. Rhodes

Rachel Hallote
Bible, Map, and Spade: The American Palestine Exploration Society, Frederick Jones Bliss, and the Forgotten Story of Early American Biblical Archaeology
Reviewed by Eric M. Meyers

Aquila H. I. Lee
From Messiah to Preexistent Son: Jesus's Self-Consciousness and Early Christian Exegesis of Messianic Psalms
Reviewed by Sam Janse

Richard W. Swanson
Provoking the Gospel of Matthew: A Storyteller's Commentary, Year A
Reviewed by Deborah Thompson Prince

David E. Aune, ed.
Rereading Paul Together: Protestant and Catholic Perspectives on Justification
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn
Reviewed by Philip F. Esler

Giorgio Jossa
Jews or Christians? The Followers of Jesus in Search of Their Own Identity
Reviewed by Michael F. Bird

John S. Kloppenborg
The Tenants in the Vineyard: Ideology, Economics, and Agrarian Conflict in Jewish Palestine
Reviewed by Richard L. Rohrbaugh

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And a bonus also:

The Bible and Critical Theory
Volume 4, Number 1 (February 2008)
Edited by Dr. Julie Kelso with
Associate Editor Dr Roland Boer

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Melody D. Knowles, Esther Menn, John Pawlikowski, and Timothy J. Sandoval, eds., Contesting Texts: Jews and Christians in Conversation about the Bible
Reviewed by Michael Carden

R. S. Sugirtharajah, ed., Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World
Reviewed by Bridget Culpepper

Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism
Reviewed by Judith E. McKinlay

Wesley J. Bergen and Armin Siedlecki, eds., Voyages in Uncharted Waters: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation in Honour of David Jobling
Reviewed by Peter D. Miscall

Marcel Danesi, The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice
Reviewed by Mark Sneed

Andrew P. Wilson, Transfigured: A Derridean Rereading of the Markan Transfiguration
Reviewed by Mark Sneed

Elaine M. Wainwright, Women Healing/Healing Women: The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity
Reviewed by Kristi Upson-Saia

James G. Crossley, Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (26-50 CE)
Reviewed by Richard Walsh

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading. One of these, The Messiah in the Old and New Testaments, was mentioned earlier this week by Mike Bird on Euangelion, and I am tempted to comment on it here (Charlesworth's review, not Bird's), but I'll see if I have a moment. One other note (added Friday, 12.40pm): the review of A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha is listed as by "James Elliott" but this should be J. K. Elliott (Keith Elliott).

Brian J. Abasciano
Paul's Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9.1-9: An Intertextual and Theological Exegesis
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5248
Reviewed by Thomas Gillespie

François Bovon
Luc le théologien
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6379
Reviewed by Claire Clivaz

Luke Timothy Johnson
Hebrews: A Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5445
Reviewed by Wolfgang Kraus

Melody Knowles, Esther Menn, John Pawlikowski, and Timothy Sandoval, eds.
Contesting Texts: Jews and Christians in Conversation about the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5843
Reviewed by Ithamar Gruenwald

Amy-Jill Levine, ed., with Maria Mayo Robbins
A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5408
Reviewed by James Elliott

Edmondo F. Lupieri; Maria Poggi Johnson and Adam Kamesar, trans.
A Commentary on the Apocalypse of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5885
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas

George W. E. Nickelsburg
Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism and Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5904
Reviewed by Tony Costa

Stanley E. Porter, ed.
The Messiah in the Old and New Testaments
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5947
Reviewed by Michael F. Bird
Reviewed by James Hamilton Charlesworth

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament and related headings:

Stanisław Bazyliński
A Guide to Biblical Research: Introductory Notes
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5286
Reviewed by Jeremy Punt

Douglas A. Campbell
The Quest for Paul's Gospel: A Suggested Strategy
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=4794
Reviewed by Matt Jackson-McCabe

Gordon D. Fee
Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5820
Reviewed by Don Garlington
Reviewed by Matthew Montonini

Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5556
Reviewed by Claudio Zamagni

Pieter W. van der Horst
Jews and Christians in Their Graeco-Roman Context: Selected Essays on Early Judaism, Samaritanism, Hellenism, and Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6056
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

There is a typo on p. 6 of the review of Campbell, "But even if “we” should approach the question of eschatological realities with humility, does that meant that Paul did?"

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

This is a catch-up Review of Biblical Literature post, incorporating the last two updates, all those under the New Testament and related heading. I am particularly pleased to see strong reviews for a couple of books in the Library of New Testament Studies series:

John M. G. Barclay, trans.
Flavius Josephus: Against Apion
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5844
Reviewed by René Bloch

Jeannine K. Brown
Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5915
Reviewed by Tony Costa

Philip F. Esler and Ronald A. Piper
Lazarus, Mary and Martha: A Social-Scientific and Theological Reading of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5948
Reviewed by Peter Phillips

Thomas R. Hatina, ed.
Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels: Vol. 1: The Gospel of Mark
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5480
Reviewed by David du Toit

Christine Helmer, ed.
The Multivalence of Biblical Texts and Theological Meanings
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5580
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Dan Jaffé
Le Talmud et les origines juives du christianisme: Jésus, Paul et les judéo-chrétiens dans la littérature talmudique
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6057
Reviewed by Bogdan G. Bucur

Robert Tannehill
The Shape of Luke's Story: Essays on Luke-Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5723
Reviewed by Robert F. O'Toole

Stephen Voorwinde
Jesus' Emotions in the Fourth Gospel: Human or Divine?
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5120
Reviewed by William R. G. Loader

Young S. Chae
Jesus as the Eschatological Davidic Shepherd: Studies in the Old Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and in the Gospel of Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5605
Reviewed by Daniel M. Gurtner

Craig Cooper, ed.
Politics of Orality: (Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece, Vol. 6)
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5821
Reviewed by Jonathan A. Draper

John Paul Heil
Ephesians: Empowerment to Walk in Love for the Unity of All in Christ
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5930
Reviewed by Gosnell L. Yorke

George H. van Kooten, ed.
The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses: Perspectives from Judaism, the Pagan Graeco-Roman World, and Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5697
Reviewed by Sabrina Inowlocki

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
Jesus and Paul: Parallel Lives
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5975
Reviewed by Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J.

Grant R. Osborne
The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5731
Reviewed by Oda Wischmeyer

Rosemary Radford Ruether, ed.
Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5858
Reviewed by Mary L. Coloe

Megan Hale Williams
The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5676
Reviewed by Jonathan Yates

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading:

Christian Blumenthal
"Es wird aber kommen der Tag des Herrn" : Eine textkritische Studie zu 2Petr 3,10
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5974
Reviewed by Jörg Frey

Catharine Edwards and Greg Woolf, eds.
Rome the Cosmopolis
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=3221
Reviewed by Jonathan L. Reed

Mark W. Hamilton, Thomas H. Olbricht, and Jeffrey Peterson, eds.
Renewing Tradition: Studies in Texts and Contexts in Honor of James W. Thompson
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5715
Reviewed by Korinna Zamfir

Ulrich Luz; Helmut Koester, ed.; James Crouch, trans.
Matthew 1-7: A Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5787
Reviewed by David Sim
Reviewed by Charles L. Quarles

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

I am gradually working through the email backlog and have reached Boxing Day, when someone at SBL headquarters was not taking the day off and sent out a list of the latest reviews to be added to the Review of Biblical Literature. Of particular interest, under these NT related titles, is Christopher Tuckett's excellent review of Bauckham (though it contains a typo that needs fixing, "Two main chapters deal with more generally with what Bauckham . . ."):

Paul N. Anderson
The Fourth Gospel and the Quest for Jesus: Modern Foundations Reconsidered
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5879
Reviewed by Edward W. Klink III

Richard Bauckham
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5650
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett

Lukas Bormann
Bibelkunde: Altes und Neues Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5458
Reviewed by Markus Oehler

Philip F. Esler and Ronald A. Piper
Lazarus, Mary and Martha: A Social-Scientific and Theological Reading of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5948
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Barbara Fuß
Neutestamentliches Griechisch: Ein Lernbuch zu Wortschatz und Formenlehre
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5797
Reviewed by G. J. (Gerhard) Swart

David E. Garland and Diana R. Garland
Flawed Families of the Bible: How God's Grace Works through Imperfect Relationships
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5838
Reviewed by Jason B. Hood

Andrew Lincoln
Hebrews: A Guide
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5732
Reviewed by Martin Karrer

John L. Meech
Paul in Israel's Story: Self and Community at the Cross
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5725
Reviewed by Mark Reasoner

Jens-W. Taeger; Dietrich-Alex Koch and David Bienert, eds
Johanneische Perspektiven: Aufsätze zur Johannesapokalypse und zum johanneischen Kreis 1984-2003
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5604
Reviewed by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Happy New Year from the NTGateway Weblog. I am just back from a most enjoyable if very tiring trip to England over the Christmas period, and I am looking forward to getting back to blogging again in this fifth year of the blog. To start things off, a bread-and-butter post with the latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament and related heading:

Greg Carey
Ultimate Things: An Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5659
Reviewed by Lorenzo DiTommaso

A. Andrew Das
Solving the Romans Debate
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5772
Reviewed by David J. Downs

Martin Hengel; Claus-Jürgen Thornton, ed.
Studien zur Christologie: Kleine Schriften IV
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5799
Reviewed by Lidija Novakovic

Larry W. Hurtado, ed.
The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of an American Treasure Trove
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5716
Reviewed by Juan Hernández Jr.

Victor Matthews
Manners and Customs in the Bible: An Illustrated Guide to Daily Life in Bible Times
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5735
Reviewed by Aaron Koller

Santiago Guijarro Oporto
Jesús y sus primeros discípulos
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5851
Reviewed by Ruben Dupertuis

Guy Waters
The End of Deuteronomy in the Epistles of Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5789
Reviewed by Kenneth D. Litwak

Karen Strand Winslow
Early Jewish and Christian Memories of Moses' Wives: Exogamist Marriage and Ethnic Identity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5726
Reviewed by Amelia Devin Freedman