Review of Biblical Literature April 19, 2008

Philip S. Alexander
The Mystical Texts: Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and Related Manuscripts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5270
Reviewed by Samuel Thomas

John Barton
The Nature of Biblical Criticism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5957
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Roland Boer
Symposia: Dialogues concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6128
Reviewed by Henning Graf Reventlow

Andrew Chester
Messiah and Exaltation: Jewish Messianic and Visionary Traditions and New Testament Christology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5919
Reviewed by Martin Karrer

Zeba A. Crook
Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6452
Reviewed by Dietmar Neufeld

A. Andrew Das
Solving the Romans Debate
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5772
Reviewed by Don Garlington

Max Küchler and Karl Matthias Schmidt, eds.
Texte-Fakten-Artefakte: Beiträge zur Bedeutung der Archäologie für die neutestamentliche Forschung
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5965
Reviewed by Gabriele Faßbeck

Tremper Longman III
Proverbs
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5585
Reviewed by Timothy J. Sandoval

Edward P. Meadors
Idolatry and the Hardening of the Heart: A Study in Biblical Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6077
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

James M. Robinson
Jesus: According to the Earliest Witness
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5812
Reviewed by Robert A. Derrenbacker Jr.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6159
Reviewed by Warren Carter

James W. WattsRitual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5976
Reviewed by Hanna Liss
Reviewed by Mark McEntire

Paul R. Williamson
Sealed with an Oath: Covenant in God's Unfolding Purpose
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5817
Reviewed by Matthew S. Harmon