06 July 2006

Bibliographies:

General Bibliography of Hebrew Bible studies
General Bibliography of New Testament studies
Pauline Studies
Synoptic Gospels
Student Bibliographies

Recent articles available on-line

• Richard H. Anderson, Luke & the Wicked Tenants
• N. T. Wright, "One God, One Lord, One People: Incarnational Christology for a Church in a Pagan Environment" in Ex Auditu: Journal of the North Park Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture

Reviews of recent literature

by Professor McGinn:

• Harry Y. Gamble, Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). Pp. xii + 337.
• Roman Garrison, Redemptive Almsgiving in Early Christianity (JSNTSup 77; Sheffield: JSOT, 1993). Pp. 177. £22.50, $35. ISBN 1-85075-376-8.
• Arland J. Hultgren, The Rise of Normative Christianity (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994). Pp. xiv + 210. Paper $16. ISBN 0-8006-2645-1.
• Gerd Lüdemann, Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1996). Pp. xvi + 335. $24.
• Michael Wise, Martin Abegg, Jr., & Edward Cook, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation (HarperSanFrancisco: 1996). Pp. xiv + 513. $35.00.

by other scholars in the Review of Biblical Literature
RBL archive

• Aichele, George, and Tina Pippin, eds. Violence, Utopia and the Kingdom of God: Fantasy and Ideology in the Bible. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xiv + 157. N.p. (paper).
• Akenson, Donald Harmon. Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. Pp. xi + 658. $ 35 (cloth). Published also by McGill-Queen's University Press; $39.95 (cloth).
• Patrick H. Alexander, David L. Petersen, et al., eds., The SBL Handbook of Style: For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical & Early Christian Studies Hendrickson Publishers, 1999. Pp. 280. $24.95.
• Dale C. Allison, Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 255.
• Althann, Robert. Studies in Northwest Semitic. BibOr 45. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1997. Pp. xii + 205. L 36,000/ $26.00 (paper).
• Herbert W. Bateman, Early Jewish Hermeneutics and Hebrews 1:5-13: The Impact of Early Jewish Exegesis on the Interpretation of a Significant New Testament Passage American University Studies, Series 7--Theology and Religion, 193. New York. Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. xiv + 438. $61.95.
• Bauckham, Richard. God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998. Pp. vii + 79. $12.00.
• Timothy K. Beal, The Book of Hiding: Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther Biblical Limits. London/New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xiv + l52. $22.99 (paper).
• Richard H. Bell, No One Seeks for God: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Romans 1:18-3:20 Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 106. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1998. Pp. Xiv +359. DM 158.00
• Betts, A. V. G., and contributions by eleven other researchers. The Harra and the Hamad: Excavations and Explorations in Eastern Jordan, Volume 1. Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 9. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Pp. xx + 252, 149 figures, 103 tables, and 16 plates. $74.00 (cloth only).
• Bird, Phyllis A. Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israel. Overtures to Biblical Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 291. $20.
• Birnbaum, Ellen. The Place of Judaism in Philo's Thought: Israel, Jews, and Proselytes. Brown Judaica Series 290; Studia Philonica Monographs 2. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. Pp. xviii + 262.
• Matthew Black, An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1998. Pp. xxv + 359. $24.95 (paper).
• Boismard, M.-É. Critique textuelle ou critigue littéraire?: Jean 7.1-51
• Borgen, Peder. Philo of Alexandria, An Exegete for His Time. NovTSup 86. Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill,1997. Pp. x + 332. $112.50.
• Boring, M. Eugene. Disciples and the Bible: A History of Disciples Biblical Interpretation in North America. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1997. 502 pages.
• Botterweck, G. Johannes, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef Fabry. Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Vol. 9. Grand Rapids/Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 1998. Pp. xxxvi + 563. $48.00.
• Breck, John. The Shape of Biblical Language: Chiasmus in the Scriptures and Beyond. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1994. Pp. x + 387. $16.95 (paper).
• Broadhead, Edwin K. Naming Jesus: Titular Christology in the Gospel of Mark. JSNTSup. 175. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. Pp. 192. $57.50 (cloth).
• William P. Brown, The Ethos of the Cosmos: The Genesis of Moral Imagination in the Bible. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. Pp. xviii + 458. $35 (paper).
• Bulembat, Jean Bosco Matand. Noyau et enjeux de l'eschatologie Paulinienne: De l'apocalyptique juive et de l'eschatologie hellénistique dans quelques argumentations de l'apôtre Paul. Etude rhétorico-exégétique de 1 Co 15,35-58; 2 Co 5,1-10 et Rm 8,18-30. BZNW 84, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1997. Pp. xx + 328. DM 188,00.
• Campbell, Barth. Honor, Shame, and the Rhetoric of 1 Peter. SBLDS 160. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998. Pp. x + 266. $39.95 (cloth).
• Campbell, Jonathan G. The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Complete Story. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses, 1998. Pp. xvi + 220, 8 plates. $12.95 (paper).
• Carrell, Peter R. Jesus and the Angels: Angelology and the Christology of the Apocalypse of John. SNTSMS 95. Cambridge, U.K./New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxii + 270. $54.95.
• Carruth, Shawn, and James M. Robinson. Documenta Q: The Data Base of the International Q Project; Q 4:1-13, 16; The Temptations of Jesus; Nazara. Ed. Christoph Heil. Leuven: Peeters, 1996. Pp. xviii + 479. N.P.
• Charalambos Bakirtzis and Helmut Koester, eds., Philippi at the Time of Paul and After His Death. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998. Pp. xvi + 96 + xvi plates.
• Charles, J. Daryl. Virtue amidst Vice: The Catalog of Virtues in 2 Peter 1. JSNTSup 150. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. Pp. 194. £35.00/$50.00.
• Christophersen, Alf Friedrich Lücke (1791 - 1855). Teil 1: Neutestamentliche Hermeutik und Exegese im Zusammenhang mit seinem Leben und Werk; Teil 2: Documente und Briefe. Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann 94/2. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Teil 1: Pp. xii + 470; Teil 2: Pp. x + 499. DM 258.
• Michael Chyutin, The New Jerusalem Scroll from Qumran: A Comprehensive Reconstruction. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 25. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. Pp. 167. $53.50.
• Clark, Douglas R., and John C. Brunt, eds. Introducing the Bible. Volume 1: The Old Testament and Intertestamental Literature. Lanham/New York/Oxford: University Press of America, 1997. Pp. xviii + 627. $49.50.
• Ernest G. Clarke, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan. The Aramaic Bible 5B. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1998. Pp. x + 122. $65.00.
• Cosgrove, Charles H. Elusive Israel: The Puzzle of Election in Romans. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997. Pp. xiv + 146.
• Cotter, Wendy. Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook for the study of New Testament Miracle Stories. The Context of Early Christianity. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. x + 274. $23.99/$75.
• Creach, Jerome F. D. Yahweh as Refuge and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter. JSOTSup 217. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. $55.00.
• James L. Crenshaw, Education in Ancient Israel - Across the Deadening Silence. ABRL. New York/London: Doubleday, 1998. Pp. xiv +305. $34.95.
• Crossan, John Dominic. The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998. Pp. xxxiv + 635. $30.00.
• Croy, N. Clayton. A Primer of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. Pp. xviii + 264. N.p
• R. Alan Culpepper, The Gospel and Letters of John. Interpreting Biblical Texts. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998. Pp. 327.
• Dormeyer, Detlev. The New Testament Among the Writings of Antiquity. Biblical Seminar 55. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 324. $28.50 (paper).
• Thomas B. Dozeman, God at War: Power in the Exodus Tradition. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi + 222. $39.95.
• Dwyer, Timothy. The Motif of Wonder in the Gospel of Mark. JSNTSup 128. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. Pp. 243. $58.50.
• Bart D. Ehrman, After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 436. $26.95 (paper).
• Elwell, Walter A., and Robert W. Yarbrough, eds. Readings from the First-Century World: Primary Sources for New Testament Study. Encountering Biblical Studies. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998. Pp. 223. $19 (paper).
• Timo Eskola, Theodicy and Predestination in Pauline Soteriology. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/100. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1998. Pp. xvi + 353. DM 128.00 (paper).
• Farmer, William R., et al. The International Bible Commentary: A Catholic and Ecumenical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1998. Pp lii + 1,918 + 16 plates. $89.50.
• Fehribach, Adeline. The Woman in the Life of the Bridegroom: A Feminist Historical-Literary Analysis of the Female Characters in the Fourth Gospel
• Fonseca, Adolfo M. Costaño. DIKAIOSUNE en Mateo. Una interpretación teológica a partir de 3,15 y 21,32
• Ford, Richard Q. The Parables of Jesus: Recovering the Art of Listening. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997, Pp. viii + 183 pages.
• Frankel, Rafael. Wine and Oil Production in Antiquity in Israel and Other Mediterranean Countries. JSOT/ASOR Monograph Series 10. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. Pp. 230 + CD-ROM. $135 (cloth).
• Gaines, Janet Howe. Music in the Old Bones: Jezebel through the Ages. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii + 208. N.p.
• Garrow, A. J. P. Revelation. New Testament Readings. London/New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xii + 140. $19.99 (paper).
• Gelander, Shamai. The Good Creator: Literature and Theology in Genesis 1-11. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 147. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997. Pp. 140. $49.95.
• Gillingham, Susan E. One Bible, Many Voices: Different Approaches to Biblical Studies. Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 1999. Pp. xx + 280. $19.00 (paper).
• Gleis, Matthias. Die Bamah
• Robert Karl Gnuse, No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplements 241. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. Pp. 392. $78.00.
• Goldman, Shalom. The Wiles of Women/the Wiles of Men: Joseph and Potifar's Wife in Ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic Folklore. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. Pp. xxxiii + 189. $49.50/$16.95.
• Frank H. Gorman, Jr., Divine Presence and Community: A Commentary on the Book of Leviticus. International Theological Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Edinburgh: Handsel, 1997. Pp. xii + 163. $18.00 (paper).
• Gruen, Erich S. Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xx + 335. $38.00.
• Hallo, William W., and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., eds. The Context of Scripture: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World.Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1997. Pp. xviii + 599. $109.50.
• Harrington, Daniel J. Invitation to the Apocrypha. Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. Pp viii + 222. $16 (paper).
• Hays, Richard B. First Corinthians. Interpretation. Louisville: John Knox Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 299. $24.00.
• André Heinze, Johannesapokalypse und johanneischen Schriften: Forschungs- und traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen BWANT 142. Stuttgart/Berlin/Cologne: Kohlhammer, 1998. Pp. 400. DM 89,00 (paper).
• Hill, Andrew E. Malachi: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. AB 25D. New York: Doubleday, 1998. Pp. xliv + 436. $37.95.
• James K. Hoffmeier, Israel in Egypt: Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 244. $35.00.
• Holt, Else K.(ed.) Alle der ånder skal lovprise Herren! Det Gamle Testamente i tempel, synagoge og kirke. Forlaget Anis, Frederiksberg 1998, 304 pp. N.p.
• Horbury, William. Jews and Christians in Contact and Controversy
• Horrell, David G. The Social Ethos of the Corinthian Correspondence: Interests and Ideology from 1 Corinthians to 1 Clement. Studies of the New Testament and Its World. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1996. Pp. xvi + 395. $54.95.
• Richard A. Horsley and John S. Hanson, Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements at the Time of Jesus. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International. Pp. xxxix + 271. $16. (paper).
• Hotze, Gerhard. Paradoxien bei Paulus: Untersuchungen zu einer elementaren Denkform in Seiner Theologie. NTAbh, N.F. 33; Münster: Aschendorff, 1997.
• Hübner, Hans. An Philemon, An die Kolosser, An die Epheser
• J. Gerald Janzen, Exodus. Westminster Bible Companion. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997. Pp. xii + 275. $18.00 (paper).
• Hans J. Lundager Jensen, Gammel Testamentlig Religion. En indføring. Frederiksberg: Forlaget, Denmark: ANIS, 1998. Pp 29+261. DKr 298.
• Jacob Jervell, Die Apostelgeschichte. KEK 3. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. Pp. 635. DM 198.
• Jobling, David. 1 Samuel. Berit Olam: Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1998. Pp. x + 330. $34.95.
• Johnson, Elizabeth A. Friends of Gods and Prophets: A Feminist Theological Reading of the Communion of the Saints. New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1999. 306 pages. $19.95 (paper).
• Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, Revised edition, 1999. Pp. xvi + 694. n.p.
• Kalmin, Richard. The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity
• Jey J. Kanagaraj, 'Mysticism' in the Gospel of John: An Inquiry into its Background. JSNTSup 158. Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 356.
• Kassis, Riad Aziz. The Book of Proverbs and Arabic Proverbial Works. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum LXXIV. Leiden/Boston/Köln:Brill, 1999. Pp. xiv + 318.
• Keck, Leander E., et al., eds. The New Interpreter's Bible. Volume 2: Numbers, Deuteronomy, Introduction to Narrative Literature, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998. Pp. xviii + 1388. $70.00.
• Keel, Othmar, and Christoph Uehlinger. Gods, Goddesses, and Images of God in Ancient Israel. Translated by Thomas H. Trapp. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998. Pp. x + 465. n.p.
• Keel, Othmar. Goddesses and Trees, New Moon and Yahweh: Ancient Near Eastern Art and the Hebrew Bible. JSOTSup 261. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 207. £35/$57.50.
• Keener, Craig S. A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
• Kern, Philip H. Rhetoric and Galatians: Assessing an Approach to Paul's Epistle. SNTSMS 101. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 304.
• Kilian, Rudolf. Studien zu alttestamentlichen Texten und Situationen. Stuttgarter Biblische Aufsatzbände 28. Stuttgart: Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1999. Pp. 299. N.P.
• Kirk, Alan. The Composition of the Sayings Source: Genre, Synchrony, and Wisdom Redaction of Q. NovTSup 91. Leiden/Boston/Cologne: Brill, 1998. Pp. xiv + 443. N.P.
• Helmut Koester, ed., Pergamon, Citadel of the Gods: Archaeological Record, Literary Description, and Religious Development. Harvard Theological Studies 46. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998. Pp. xx + 443 + map. $45.00.
• Köstenberger, Andreas J. The Missions of Jesus and the Disciples according to the Fourth Gospel: With Implications for the Fourth Gospel's Purpose and the Mission of the Contemporary Church. Grand Rapids/Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 1998. Pp. xvi + 271. $30.00 (paper)
• Kratz, Reinhard G. Studien zur Septuaginta und zum hellenistischen Judentum. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 24. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1999. Pp X + 298 S. DM 198,00 (cloth).
• Kraemer, Ross Shepard. When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii + 365. $60.00
• James L. Kugel, Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible as It Was at the Start of the Common Era. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii + 1055.
• Helge S. Kvanvig, Historisk Bibel og bibelsk historie: Det gamel testamentes teologi som historie og fortelling. Kritiansand, Høyskoleforlaget AS: Norwegian Academic Press, 1999. 352pp. $68.00 (cloth).
• Laansma, Jon. “I Will Give You Rest:” The Rest Motif in the New Testament with Special Reference to Mt 11 and Heb 3-4. WUNT 2/98. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1997. Pp. xvi + 459. DM 128.00 (paper).
• Alice L. Laffey, The Pentateuch: A Liberation-Critical Reading. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. Pp. vij + 216. $21.00.
• Timothy S. Laniak, Shame and Honor in the Book of Esther. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 165. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998. pp. xiii + 205. Cloth: $34.95.
• LaVerdiere, Eugene. The Beginning of the Gospel: Introducing the Gospel of Mark. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1999. Two volumes. Volume 1: xvi + 227. $24.95. Volume 2: x +368. $29.95.
• Niels Peter Lemche, Prelude to Israel's Past: Background and Beginnings of Israelite History and Identity. Translated by F. F. Maniscalco. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1998. Pp. xvi + 247.
• Timothy H. Lim, Holy Scripture in the Qumran Commentaries and Pauline Letters. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997. Pp. xiv + 221. $75.00.
• James S. McLaren, Turbulent Times? Joshephus and Scholarship on Judaea in the First Century CE. JSPSup 29. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 312. $85.00.
• Bruce J. Malina and Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Social-Science Commentary on the Gospel of John. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. Pp. x + 326. $19.00 (paper).
• Manns, Frédéric. Une approche juive du Nouveau Testament. Fr Initiations bibliques. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1998. Pp. 298. F 195.
• Marguerat, Daniel, and Yvan Bourquin. How to Read Bible Stories: An Introduction to Narrative Criticism. Translated by John Bowden. London: SCM Press, 1999. Pp. ix + 190. £12.95 (paper).
• Markschies, Christoph. Zwischen den Welten Wandern: Strukturen des antiken Christentums
• Martignani, Luigi. "Il mio giorno": Indagine esegetico-teologica sull'uso del termine hemera nel quarto vangelo
• Martin, Raymond. The Elusive Messiah: A Philosophical Overview of the Quest for the Historical Jesus. Raymond Martin. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 236. $25.00.
• Martyn, J. Louis. Galatians: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. AB 33A. New York: Doubleday, 1997. Pp. xxiv + 614. $39.95.
• Mayordomo-Marin, Moisés. Den Anfang Hören: Leserorientierte Evangelienexegese am Beispiel von Matthäus 1-2
• Esther Marie Menn, Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38) in Ancient Jewish Exegesis: Studies in Literary Form and Hermeneutics. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 51. Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1997. Pp. xvi + 412. $142.75.
• David Merling, Sr., The Book of Joshua: Its Theme and Role in Archaeological Discussions. Andrews University Seminary Doctoral Dissertation Series 23. Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 1997. Pp. 353 + xvii.
• Montague, George T. Understanding the Bible: A Basic Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1997. Pp. vi + 239. $19.95 (paper).
• Muchiki, Yoshiyuki. Egyptian Proper Names and Loanwords in North-West Semitic. SBL Dissertation Series 173. Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature. Pp. xxv + 357. $48 (cloth).
• Murphy, Roland E. The Book of Job: A Short Reading. New York: Paulist Press, 1999. Pp. vii + 137. $14.95 (paper).
• Richard D. Nelson, The Historical Books. IBT. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998. Pp.190.
• Neufeld, Thomas R. Yoder. Put on the Armour of God: The Divine Warrior from Isaiah to Ephesians. JSNTSup 140. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. Pp. 182. $45.00.
• Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck, eds., Judaism in Late Antiquity. Part Three. Where We Stand: Issues and Debates in Ancient Judaism. Volume Two. Handbook of Oriental Studies 41. Leiden/Boston/Cologne: Brill, 1999. Pp. xii + 228.
• Newman, Judith H. Praying by the Book: The Scripturalization of Prayer in Second Temple Judaism. SBL Early Judaism and Its Literature 14. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1999. Pp. vii + 283. $49.00 (cloth).
• Newton, Derek. Deity and Diet: The Dilemma of Sacrificial Food at Corinth. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 169. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 434. N.p.
• Johannes Nissen and Sigfred Pedersen, New Readings in John: Literary and Theological Perspectives: Essays from the Scandinavian Conference on the Fourth Gospel in Århus 1997. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplements 182. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. Pp.269. $85.
• John N. Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 40-66. NICOT. Grand Rapids/Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 1998. Pp. xviii + 755. L32.99/$48.00.
• Painter, John. Just James: The Brother of Jesus in History and Tradition. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 326.
• Painter, John. Mark's Gospel: Worlds in Conflict. New Testament Readings. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xvii + 245. $65.00/$24.99.
• Perkins, Pheme. Ephesians. Abingdon New Testament Commentaries. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1997. Pp. 160. $19.95
• Peterson, Brian K. Eloquence and the Proclamation of the Gospel in Corinth. SBLDS 163. Atlanta: Scholars, 1998. Pp. xiv + 209. $29.95.
• Petr Pokorný, Theologie der lukanischen Schriften. FRLANT 174. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck Ruprecht, 1998. Pp. 225. DM 48,00.
• Porter, Stanley E., and Jeffrey T. Reed, eds. Discourse Analysis and the New Testament: Approaches and Results. JSNT Supplement Series170; Studies in New Testament Greek 4. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. Pp. 425. $85 (cloth).
• Mark Allan Powell, Fortress Introduction to the Gospels. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. Pp. viii + 184. $14.00 (paper).
• Powell, Mark Alan. Jesus as a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee
• Adele Reinhartz, "Why Ask My Name?" Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 226. $39.95 (cloth).
• Riley, Gregory J. One Jesus, Many Christs: How Jesus Inspired Not One True Christianity, But Many: The Truth about Christian Origins. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997. Pp. viii + 228. $22.00.
• Arnold M. Rothstein, Re-Thinking Biblical Story and Myth: Critical Essays of Biblical Interpretation. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1998. Pp. x + 98. $24.50/44.00.
• Rubenstein, Jeffrey L. The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods. BJS 302. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 361. $49.95.
• Schäfer, Peter, and Mark R. Cohen, eds. Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco. Studies in the History of Religions 77. Leiden: Brill, 1998. Pp. vi + 450. Cloth DGL 275.46, $154.
• Luise Schottroff, Silvia Schroer and Marie-Theres Wacker, Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women's Perspective. Trans. Martin and Barbara Rumscheidt. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. Pp. xvi + 270 (paper).
• Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. The Book of Revelation. Justice and Judgment. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998. Second edition. Pp. xii + 243. $21.00 (paper).
• Schüssler, Karlheinz (herausg.) Das sahidische Alte und Neue Testament, sa 49-92. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998. Pp. viii + 129 DM 88,00.
• Sneed, Mark R., ed. Concepts of Class in Ancient Israel. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism, no. 201. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. Pp. xiii + 126. N.p.
• Sven K. Soderlund and N. T. Wright, Romans and the People of God: Essays in Honor of Gordon D. Fee on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Grand Rapids/Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 1999. Pp. xii + 311. $35.00/£22.99.
• Spatafora, Andrea. From the “Temple of God” to God as the Temple: A Biblical Theological Study of the Temple in the Book of Revelation. Tesi Gregoriana Serie Teologia 27. Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1997. Pp. 338. L 35.000/$25.00 (paper)
• S. David Sperling, The Original Torah: The Political Intent of the Bible's Writers. Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History. New York/London: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 185. $40.00.
• Starbuck, Scott R. A. Court Oracles in the Psalms: The So-Called Royal Psalms in their Ancient Near Eastern Context. SBL Dissertation Series 172. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1999. Pp. xx + 271. n.p.
• Georg Strecker, History of New Testament Literature. Trans. Calvin Katter, with Hans-Joachim Mollenhauer. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997. Pp. xiv + 238. $24.00 (paper).
• Taylor SJ, Michael J. Paul, His Letters, Message and Heritage: A Reflective Commentary. New York: Alba House, 1997. Pp. xxiii + 256. n.p.
• Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz, The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide. Translated by John Bowden from Der historische Jesus: Ein Lehrbuch (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1996). Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998. Pp. xxix + 642.
• Throckmorton Jr., Burton H. Jesus Christ. The Message of the Gospels. The Hope of the Church. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998. Pp. xii + 145. n.p. (paper).
• Tovey, Derek. Narrative Art and Act in the Fourth Gospel. JSNTSup 151. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. Pp.296. $74.00/£45.00
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