Review of Biblical Literature April 9, 2009

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature on April 9, 2009

Jacques Cazeaux
La contre-épopée du désert: Essai sur Exode-Lévitique Nombres
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6270
Reviewed by Philippe Guillaume

Craig A. Evans and Emmanuel Tov, eds.
Exploring the Origins of the Bible: Canon Formation in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6846
Reviewed by Everett Ferguson

Travis L. Frampton
Spinoza and the Rise of Historical Criticism of the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6418
Reviewed by Seán P. Kealy

John Goldingay
The Message of Isaiah 40-55: A Literary-Theological Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5219
Reviewed by Francis Landy

Robert P. Gordon, ed.
The God of Israel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6404
Reviewed by Bruce A. Power

Daniel M. Gurtner and John Nolland, eds.
Built upon the Rock: Studies in the Gospel of Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6500
Reviewed by J. Christopher Edwards

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

Justin K. Hardin
Galatians and the Imperial Cult: A Critical Analysis of the First-Century Social Context of Paul's Letter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6651
Reviewed by Wilhelm Pratscher

John Jarick
2 Chronicles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6531
Reviewed by Louis C. Jonker

Leonid Kogan, Natalia Koslova, Sergey Loesov, and Sergei Tishchenko, eds.
Babel und Bibel 3: Annual of Ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament and Semitic Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6742
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Larry J. Kreitzer
Philemon
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6680
Reviewed by Torrey Seland

Carmel McCarthy, ed.
Biblia Hebraica Quinta: Deuteronomy
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6643
Reviewed by Mark McEntire

Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck, eds.
Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity: Pagan, Judaic, Christian
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6314
Reviewed by Mark D. Nanos

Mikeal C. Parsons
Body and Character in Luke and Acts: The Subversion of Physiognomy in Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5830
Reviewed by Glenn E. Snyder

Judith Perkins
Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6938
Reviewed by Ilaria Ramelli

Ephraim Radner
Leviticus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6607
Reviewed by Leigh Trevaskis

Walther Sallaberger
Das Gilgamesch-Epos: Mythos, Werk und Tradition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6490
Reviewed by Gerhard Karner

Patrick E. Spencer
Rhetorical Texture and Narrative Trajectories of the Lukan Galilean Ministry Speeches: Hermeneutical Appropriation by Authorial Readers of Luke-Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6444
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

David T. Sugimoto
Female Figurines with a Disk from the Southern Levant and the Formation of Monotheism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6467
Reviewed by Aren Maeir

David Andrew Thomas
Revelation 19 in Historical and Mythological Context
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6642
Reviewed by David L. Barr

Steven J. Voris
Preaching Parables: A Metaphorical Interfaith Approach
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6630
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck