Review of Biblical Literature December 1, 2009

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

Stephanie Dalley
Esther's Revenge at Susa: From Sennacherib to Ahasuerus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6731
Reviewed by Aaron Koller

Susan R. Garrett
No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6921
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas

Beverly Roberts Gaventa
Our Mother Saint Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5972
Reviewed by Pamela Eisenbaum

James M. Howard
Paul, the Community, and Progressive Sanctification: An Exploration into Community-Based Transformation within Pauline Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6681
Reviewed by Ron Clark

Jeremy F. Hultin
The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity and Its Environment
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6707
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Christine E. Joynes, ed.
Perspectives on the Passion: Encountering the Bible through the Arts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6950
Reviewed by Christopher Rowland

André LaCocque
Onslaught against Innocence: Cain, Abel, and the Yahwist
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6714
Reviewed by Mark McEntire

Bernard M. Levinson
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6786
Reviewed by Karla Suomala

Thomas E. Levy, P. M. Michele Daviau, Randall W. Younker, and May Shaer, eds.
Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6791
Reviewed by Aren Maeir

Steve Mason
Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins: Methods and Categories
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7010
Reviewed by Sean Freyne

Tim Newton
The Forgotten Gospels: Life and Teachings of Jesus Supplementary to the New Testament: A New Translation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7159
Reviewed by Thomas Bergholz

Maria-Zoe Petropoulou
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7056
Reviewed by Adele Reinhartz

John F. A. Sawyer
A Concise Dictionary of the Bible and Its Reception
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7064
Reviewed by C. L. Seow

Stephen Sizer
Zion's Christian Soldiers? The Bible, Israel and the Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6781
Reviewed by Faydra Shapiro

Gerhard H. Visscher
Romans 4 and the New Perspective on Paul: Faith Embraces the Promise
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7088
Reviewed by Don Garlington

Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm
Preaching the Gospel of Mark: Proclaiming the Power of God
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6891
Reviewed by Antipas L. Harris