NEW BOOK REVIEWS FROM THE REVIEW OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE:

I'm behind on these, so here are the last two weeks' worth in a mass. As usual, I include those on the Hebrew Bible and Judaism, as well as such on the New Testament and early Christianity which spark my interest.


Blenkinsopp, Joseph
Isaiah 40-55: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Reviewed by Francis Landy

Borgman, Paul
Genesis: The Story We Haven't Heard
Reviewed by Jan Lion-Cachet

Kaltner, John
Inquiring of Joseph: Getting to Know a Biblical Character through the Qur'an
Reviewed by Rudolph De Wet Oosthuizen

Pleins, J. David
The Social Visions of the Hebrew Bible: A Theological Introduction
Reviewed by Mark Boda

Sharp, Carolyn J.
Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah: Struggles for Authority in the
Deutero-Jeremianic Prose
Reviewed by Kathleen Mary O'Connor

Ehrman, Bart D.
Lost Scriptures: BooksThat Did Not Make It into the New Testament
Reviewed by Michael Kaler

McLay, R. Timothy
The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament Research
Reviewed by Robert Hiebert

McLay, R. Timothy
The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament Research
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas

Goodman, Martin, Jeremy Cohen, and David Sorkin, eds.
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
Reviewed by Hanna Liss

Ben Zvi, Ehud
The Signs of Jonah: Reading and Rereading in Ancient Yehud
Reviewed by Aaron Schart

Ben Zvi, Ehud
The Signs of Jonah: Reading and Rereading in Ancient Yehud
Reviewed by Kenneth Craig

Cross, Frank Moore
Leaves from an Epigrapher's Notebook: Collected Papers in Hebrew and West Semitic Palaeography and Epigraphy
Reviewed by Joseph R Cathey

Peri, Chiara
Il regno del nemico
Reviewed by Michael Duggan

Shachter, Jay F., translator
The Commentary of Abraham Ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch: Volume 5: Deuteronomy
Reviewed by Mayer Gruber

Gillman, Florence Morgan
Herodias: At Home in That Fox's Den
Reviewed by Donna Wallace

Hurtado, Larry W.
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
Reviewed by Moschos Goutzioudis

Hurtado, Larry W.
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas

Lieu, Judith
Image and Reality: The Jews in the World of the Christians in the Second Century
Reviewed by Russell Arnold

Neusner, Jacob, ed.
Dictionary of Ancient Rabbis: Selections from The Jewish Encyclopedia
Reviewed by Joshua L. Moss