Review of Biblical Literature: May 23, 2009

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature on May 23, 2009:

Ismo O. Dunderberg
Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6868
Reviewed by Marvin Meyer

Elisabeth Esch-Wermeling
Thekla-Paulusschülerin wider Willen? Strategien der Leserlenkung in den Theklaakten
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7042
Reviewed by Richard I. Pervo

Israel Finkelstein and Amihai Mazar; edited by Brian B. Schmidt
The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6147
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Richard A. Horsley, ed.
In the Shadow of Empire: Reclaiming the Bible as a History of Faithful Resistance
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6889
Reviewed by Roland Boer

Tal Ilan, Tamara Or, Dorothea Salzer, Christiane Steuer, and Irina Wandrey, eds.
A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud: Introduction and Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6875
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Walter C. Kaiser, Darrell L. Bock, and Peter Enns; edited by Kenneth Berding and Jonathan Lunde
Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6904
Reviewed by Stephen Moyise

David Marcus, ed.
Biblia Hebraica Quinta: Ezra and Nehemiah
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6644
Reviewed by Andrew Steinmann

Russell Pregeant
Knowing Truth, Doing Good: Engaging New Testament Ethics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6689
Reviewed by M. Eugene Boring

Leo G. Perdue, ed.
Scribes, Sages, and Seers: The Sage in the Eastern Mediterranean World
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6864
Reviewed by James L. Crenshaw

Tammi J. Schneider
Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6691
Reviewed by Ellen White

David Valeta
Lions and Ovens and Visions: A Satirical Reading of Daniel 1-6
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6927
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

H. G. M. Williamson, ed.
Understanding the History of Ancient Israel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6732
Reviewed by Walter Dietrich

Robert W. Yarbrough
1, 2, and 3 John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6903
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas