Review of Biblical Literature, May 14, 2008

I am a bit late in posting the new reviews that have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature on May 14, 2008:


Loveday C. A. Alexander
Acts in Its Ancient Literary Context: A Classicist Looks at the Acts of the Apostles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5963
Reviewed by Chrys C. Caragounis


Markus Bockmuehl and James Carleton Paget, eds.
Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6001
Reviewed by Joshua Ezra Burns


Frances Taylor GenchEncounters with Jesus: Studies in the Gospel of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6069
Reviewed by John Painter


L. Ann. Jervis
At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6138
Reviewed by Thomas W. Gillespie


Robert Kysar
John: The Maverick Gospel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5982
Reviewed by Dirk G. van der Merwe


Terence C. Mournet
Oral Tradition and Literary Dependency: Variability and Stability in the Synoptic Tradition and Q
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6021
Reviewed by Robert K. McIver

Geert van Oyen and Tom Shepherd, eds.
The Trial and Death of Jesus: Essays on the Passion Narrative in Mark
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6062
Reviewed by Adam D. Winn

Gershom M. H. Ratheiser
Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible: The End of Old Testament Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5882
Reviewed by Walter Brueggemann

Gerald O. West, ed.
Reading Other-Wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6042
Reviewed by Erhard S. Gerstenberger
Reviewed by Gosnell Yorke