Review of Biblical Literature Jan 27, 2009

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature:

Philip S. Alexander
The Targum of Lamentations: Translated, with a Critical Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6381
Reviewed by Jan-Wim Wesselius

Margaret Barker
Temple Themes in Christian Worship
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6478
Reviewed by Mary L. Coloe

Paul C. Burns, ed.
Jesus in Twentieth Century Literature, Art, and Movies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6498
Reviewed by Tsalampouni Ekaterini
Reviewed by Richard Walsh

Bruce Chilton
Abraham's Curse: The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6397
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney

John Day, ed.
Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6455
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Timothy Edwards
Exegesis in the Targum of Psalms: The Old, the New, and the Rewritten
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6282
Reviewed by Joachim Vette

William A. Ford
God, Pharaoh and Moses: Explaining the Lord's Actions in the Exodus Plagues Narrative
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6242
Reviewed by Hee Suk Kim
Reviewed by Brian D. Russell

J. Harold Greenlee
The Text of the New Testament: From Manuscript to Modern Edition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6605
Reviewed by J. K. Elliott

Robert H. Gundry
The Old Is Better: New Testament Essays in Support of Traditional Interpretations
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6484
Reviewed by Michael F. Bird

Thomas Krüger, Manfred Oeming, Konrad Schmid, and Christoph Uehlinger, eds.
Das Buch Hiob und seine Interpretationen: Beiträge zum Hiob-Symposium auf dem Monte Verità vom 14.-19. August 2005
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6266
Reviewed by Philippe Guillaume

Stuart S. Miller
Sages and Commoners in Late Antique 'Erez Israel: A Philological Inquiry into Local Traditions in Talmud Yerushalmi
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6563
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Francis J. Moloney
The Living Voice of the Gospels
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6130
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Risto Nurmela
The Mouth of the Lord Has Spoken: Inner-biblical Allusions in Second and Third Isaiah
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5565
Reviewed by Christophe Nihan

U. B. Schmid, with W. J. Elliott and D. C. Parker
The New Testament in Greek IV: The Gospel according to St. John: Volume 2: The Majuscules
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6303
Reviewed by Marcus Sigismund

Kenton L. Sparks
God's Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6514
Reviewed by Arthur Boulet
Reviewed by Jeffrey A. Gibbs

Clinton Wahlen
Jesus and the Impurity of Spirits in the Synoptic Gospels
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6982
Reviewed by Mark D. Batluck

Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
Recovering Jesus: The Witness of the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6535
Reviewed by V. George Shillington