Review of Biblical Literature June 8, 2009

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

A. Berlejung and P. van Hecke, eds.
The Language of Qohelet in Its Context: Essays in Honour of Prof. A. Schoors on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6794
Reviewed by Max Rogland

Joshua A. Berman
Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6939
Reviewed by Mark Leuchter

Constantine R. Campbell
Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6873
Reviewed by C. Michael Robbins

Sang Youl Cho
Lesser Deities in the Ugaritic Texts and the Hebrew Bible: A Comparative Study of Their Nature and Roles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7005
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

A.-F. Christidis, ed.
A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6748
Reviewed by Douglas Estes

Lowell K. Handy
Jonah's World: Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6865
Reviewed by Karl Moller

Richard A. Horsley
Jesus in Context: Power, People, and Performance
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6716
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Peter Jeffery
The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled: Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5627
Reviewed by J. Harold Ellens

Anke Joisten-Pruschke
Das religiöse Leben der Juden von Elephantine in der Achämenidenzeit
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6625
Reviewed by Robert A. Kugler

Katrin Keita
Gottes Land: Exegetische Studien zur Land-Thematik im Hoseabuch in kanonischer Perspektive
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6486
Reviewed by Sven Petry

Edward W. Klink III
The Sheep of the Fold: The Audience and Origin of the Gospel of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6594
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Chaim Navon
Genesis and Jewish Thought
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6438
Reviewed by Bradley Embry

Albert Pietersma and Benjamin G. Wright III, eds.
A New English Translation of the Septuagint and the Other Greek Translations Traditionally Included υnder That Title
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6729
Reviewed by Wolfgang Kraus

Thomas R. Schreiner
New Testament Theology: Magnifying God in Christ
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6526
Reviewed by Panayotis Coutsoumpos

Katherine M. Stott
Why Did They Write This Way? Reflections on References to Written Documents in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6672
Reviewed by Werner H. Kelber

David Shepherd, ed.
Images of the Word: Hollywood's Bible and Beyond
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6913
Reviewed by Christopher Fuller