Review of Biblical Literature Oct 3, 2008

Here are the new reviews that have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature. Of particular interest is the Global Bible Commentary edited by Daniel Patte. The other is the commentary on Matthew by Ben Withierington. With the large number of books he published, I wonder how he would find the time to do so. Any wise words for the budding NT scholar?

Andrew Bernhard
Other Early Christian Gospels: A Critical Edition of the Surviving Greek Manuscripts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6346
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett

Augusto Cosentino
Il battesimo gnostico: Dottrine, simboli e riti iniziatici nello gnosticismo
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6339
Reviewed by Birger A. Pearson

Katharine J. Dell
The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5595
Reviewed by Dorothy Akoto

Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, and K.F. Diethard Römheld, eds.
Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5822
Reviewed by James W. WattsJoel B. Green1 Peter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6348
Reviewed by Paul J. Achtemeier

John Paul Hozvicka
A Primer on Biblical Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6088
Reviewed by John Vassar

Steven L. McKenzie and John Kaltner
The Old Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6198
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Daniel Patte, ed.
Global Bible Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6489
Reviewed by Alexander Negrov

Finny Philip
The Origins of Pauline Pneumatology: The Eschatological Bestowal of the Spirit upon Gentiles in Judaism and in the Early Development of Paul's Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6028
Reviewed by Justin K. Hardin

Aicha Rahmouni; J. N. Ford, trans.
Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6322
Reviewed by James R. Getz Jr.

Varda Sussman
Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land: Saucer Lamps: From the Beginning to the Hellenistic Period: Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6340
Reviewed by Noam Adler

Ben Witherington III
Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5436
Reviewed by David C. Sim