Review of Biblical Literature 3rd April 2009

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature. Note the reviews on Neil Elliot's The Arrogance of the Nation, and Joseph Fitzmyer's commentary on 1 Corinthians.

Piotr Bienkowski, Christopher Mee, and Elizabeth Slater, eds.
Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society: Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5108
Reviewed by Raymond Person

Gerald L. Borchert
Worship in the New Testament: Divine Mystery and Human Response
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6648
Reviewed by Tony Costa

Thomas L. Brodie
Proto-Luke: The Oldest Gospel Account: A Christ-Centered Synthesis of Old Testament History Modelled Especially on the Elijah-Elisha Narrative
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6054
Reviewed by Gerbern S. Oegema

Stephanie Lynn Budin
The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6566
Reviewed by Mayer Gruber
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Roland Deines
Die Gerechtigkeit der Tora im Reich des Messias: Mt 5,13-20 als Schlüsseltext der matthäischen Theologie
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6024
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Neil Elliott
The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6481
Reviewed by Glenn E. Snyder
Reviewed by Graydon F. Snyder
Reviewed by Ben Witherington III

Weston W. Fields
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Short History
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6369
Reviewed by Eric F. Mason

Benjamin Fiore
The Pastoral Epistles: First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6157
Reviewed by Matthew D. Montonini

Joseph A. Fitzmyer
First Corinthians: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6687
Reviewed by Anthony C. Thiselton

Matthew E. Gordley
The Colossian Hymn in Context: An Exegesis in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Hymnic and Epistolary Conventions
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6564
Reviewed by Vincent Pizzuto

Wouter J. Hanegraaf, ed.
Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6316
Reviewed by David E. Aune

Edith M. HumphreyAnd I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6286
Reviewed by Greg Carey

Matthias Köckert
Die Zehn Gebote
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6248
Reviewed by Paul Sanders

Andreas J. Kostenberger and Scott R. Swain
Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and John's Gospel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6661
Reviewed by Mary Coloe

Oded Lipschits, Gary N. Knoppers, and Rainer Albertz, eds.
Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E.
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6106
Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager

Linda M. MacCammon
Liberating the Bible: A Guide for the Curious and Perplexed
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6631
Reviewed by Martin Meiser

Chaim Miller, ed.
The Gutnick Edition Chumash: With Rashi's Commentary, Targum Onkelos and Haftaros with a Commentary Anthologized from Classic Rabbinic Texts and the Works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6652
Reviewed by Jason Kalman

Eckart Reinmuth
Anthropologie im Neuen Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6907
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Robert Rezetko
Source and Revision in the Narratives of David's Transfer of the Ark: Text, Language, and Story in 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 13, 15-16
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6463
Reviewed by Terrance A. Clarke

Eric A. Seibert
Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative: A Rereading of 1 Kings 1-11
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5656
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins