Review of Biblical Literature March 19, 2009

The following reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature, March 19, 2009

James Rowe Adams
From Literal to Literary: The Essential Reference Book for Biblical Metaphors
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6520
Reviewed by Christine Treu

Moshe Anbar
Prophecy, Treaty-Making and Tribes in the Mari Documents during the Period of the Amorite Kings (From the End of the 19th Century B.C.E. Until 1760 B.C.E.) [Hebrew]
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6061
Reviewed by John Engle

Dianne Bergant
Scripture: History and Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6557
Reviewed by Sean P. Kealy

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert and Martin S. Jaffee, eds.
The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6371
Reviewed by Daniel R. Schwartz

Norman C. Habel and Peter Trudinger, eds.
Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6599
Reviewed by John Painter

Randall Heskett
Messianism within the Scriptural Scrolls of Isaiah
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6108
Reviewed by J. Todd Hibbard

Lynn R. Huber
Like a Bride Adorned: Reading Metaphor in John's Apocalypse
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6551
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas

Bernard S. Jackson
Wisdom-Laws: A Study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6196
Reviewed by Assnat Bartor

Mark Leuchter
The Polemics of Exile in Jeremiah 26-45
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6547
Reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels

Susan Niditch
Judges: A Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6393
Reviewed by Yairah Amit

Susanne Scholz
Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6410
Reviewed by Amelia Devin Freedman

Joseph B. Soloveitchik; edited by David Shatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky, and Reuven Ziegler
Abraham's Journey: Reflections on the Life of the Founding Patriarch
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6398
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Charles H. Talbert
Ephesians and Colossians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6544
Reviewed by Andrew T. Lincoln

Henry A. Virkler and Karelynne Gerber Ayayo
Hermeneutics: Principles and Processes of Biblical Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6255
Reviewed by Oda Wischmeyer

Robert L. Webb and John S. Kloppenborg, eds.
Reading James with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6448
Reviewed by Peter Frick