Thursday, 15 November 2007

Review of Biblical Literature, November 14, 2007

The latest Review of Biblical Literature is out. The following books are reviewed. Worthwhile mentioning the is the review of the work of my colleague, Y. V. Koh, Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth.

Pancratius Beentjes
"Happy the One who Meditates on Wisdom" (Sir. 14,20): Collected Essays on the Book of Ben Sira
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5855
Reviewed by Benjamin G. Wright III

Mark J. Boda, Daniel K. Falk, and Rodney A. Werline, eds.
Seeking the Favor of God: Volume 1: The Origins of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5693
Reviewed by Albert L. A. Hogeterp

Kurt Erlemann, Karl Leo Noethlichs, Klaus Scherberich, and Jürgen Zangenberg, eds.
Neues Testament und Antike Kultur (4 vols.)
Band 1: Prolegomena; Quellen; Geschichte
Band 2: Familie; Gesellschaft; Wirtschaft
Band 3: Weltauffassung; Kult; Ethos
Band 4: Karten, Abbildungen, Register
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5828
Reviewed by Joseph Verheyden

Meik Gerhards
Die Aussetzungsgeschichte des Mose: Literar- und traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu einem Schlüsseltext des nichtpriesterschriftlichen Tetrateuch
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5426
Reviewed by Eckart Otto

Graeme GoldsworthyGospel-Centered Hermeneutics: Foundations and Principles of Evangelical Biblical Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5878
Reviewed by Erwin Ochsenmeier

Hermann Gunkel; trans. by K. William Whitney Jr.
Creation and Chaos in the Primeval Era and the Eschaton: A Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 1 and Revelation 12
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5560
Reviewed by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

Stanley Hauerwas
Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5839
Reviewed by John Nolland

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

Y. V. Koh
Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5870
Reviewed by Stefan Fischer

Josep Rius-Camps and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger
The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition; Volume 2: Acts 6:1-12:25: From Judea and Samaria to the Church in Antioch
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5489
Reviewed by Jacob M. Caldwell

Dorothee Soelle; trans. by Nancy Lukens-Rumscheidt and Martin Lukens-RumscheidtThe Mystery of Death
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5863
Reviewed by Cornel W. du Toit

Timo Veijola
Das fünfte Buch Mose (Deuteronomium): Kapitel 1,1-16,17
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5475
Reviewed by Christoph Levin

D. H. Williams, ed.Tradition, Scripture, and Interpretation: A Sourcebook of the Ancient Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5657
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

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