Review of Biblical Literature 18 February 2009

The latest reviews added to the Review of Biblical Literature on February 18, 2009, are as follows:

Bill T. Arnold and Bryan E. Beyer
Encountering the Old Testament: A Christian Survey
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6473
Reviewed by Elmer A. Martens

Gabriele Boccaccini, ed.
Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6135
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Mark J. Boda, Daniel K. Falk, and Rodney A. Werline, eds.
Seeking the Favor of God, Volume 2: The Development of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6148
Reviewed by Carla Sulzbach

Ignacio Carbajosa
Las características de la versión siríaca de los Salmos: Sal 90-150 de la Peshitta
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5748
Reviewed by José Alvarez

Victor A. Copan
Saint Paul as Spiritual Director: An Analysis of the Concept of the Imitation of Paul with Implications and Applications to the Practice of Spiritual Direction
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6243
Reviewed by V. Henry T. Nguyen

Sidnie White Crawford
Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6524
Reviewed by Stephen A. Reed

Jan Dusek
Les manuscrits araméens du Wadi Daliyeh et la Samarie vers 450-332 av. J.-C.
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6319
Reviewed by Aaron Koller

Michael Attyah Flower
The Seer in Ancient Greece
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6620
Reviewed by John Mason

David G. Horrell
1 Peter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6662
Reviewed by Peter H. Davids

Martin Illert, ed.
Doctrina Addai; De imagine Edessena = Die Abgarlegende; Das Christusbild von Edessa
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6797
Reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

Temba L. J. Mafico
Yahweh's Emergence as "Judge" among the Gods: A Study of the Hebrew Root Spt
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6798
Reviewed by Robert Wafawanaka

Daniel Marguerat
Les Actes des Apôtres (1-12)
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6249
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Herman J. Selderhuis
Calvin's Theology of the Psalms
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6513
Reviewed by Mark Elliott

Ekkehard W. Stegemann; Christina Tuor-Kurth and Peter Wick, eds.
Paulus und die Welt
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6239
Reviewed by Jens Herzer

Graham H. Twelftree
In the Name of Jesus: Exorcism among Early Christians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6407
Reviewed by David Frankfurter