Dating Acts in Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts

2021.9.15 | Karl L. Armstrong. Dating Acts in Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts. LNTS 637. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2021. Review by Daniel B. Glover, Lee University. Karl L. Armstrong’s new monograph, Dating Acts in Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts, presents what he calls a new, historiographic approach to identifying the date of Acts. Bucking […]

Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism

2021.8.14 | Benjamin E. Reynolds and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds). Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism: Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 106; Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN: 978-9004349759. Review by R. B. Jamieson, Capitol Hill Baptist Church. Among the four canonical Gospels, the Christology of John is often taken to […]

To Recover What Has Been Lost

2021.6.13 | Tucker S. Ferda, Daniel Frayer-Griggs, and Nathan C. Johnson (eds). “To Recover What Has Been Lost”: Essays on Eschatology, Intertextuality, and Reception History in Honor of Dale C. Allison Jr. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 183; Leiden: Brill, 2021. ISBN: 978-90-04-44350-1. Review by Jonathan Rowlands, St. Mellitus College. The essays collected in this Festschrift are grouped into […]

Modern and Ancient Literary Criticism of the Gospels

2021.5.12 | Robert Matthew Calhoun, David P. Moessner, and Tobias Nicklas, eds. Modern and Ancient Literary Criticism of the Gospels. WUNT 451. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. Review by Charles Nathan Ridlehoover,  Columbia Biblical Seminary. Modern and Ancient Literary Criticism of the Gospels is the product of a conference at Texas Christian University in November 2018. The conference commemorated […]

The Book of Kings and Exilic Identity

2021.5.11 | Nathan Lovell. The Book of Kings and Exilic Identity: 1 and 2 Kings as a Work of Political Historiography. LHBOTS 708; London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2021. ISBN 9780567695338 (electronic version). Review by D. Allen Hutchison, Stellenbosch University. The Book of Kings and Exilic Identity: 1 and 2 Kings as a Work of Political […]

Mark 13 and the Return of the Shepherd

2021.4.10 | Paul Sloan. Mark 13 and the Return of the Shepherd: The Narrative Logic of Zechariah in Mark. Library of New Testament Studies 604. London: T&T Clark, 2019. Review by Samuel Freney, Bible Society of Australia. In my experience, the best books—certainly the best technical books—are those that engage you as a reader in a […]

Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations

2021.4.9 | Barbara Roggema, Alexander Treiger, eds. Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations. Arabic Christianity 2. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020. ISBN: 9789004414945. Review by Adrian C. Pirtea, University of Vienna. Despite many significant advances over the past decades, Arabic Christian literature remains one of the least explored literary corpora of Eastern and Oriental Christianity. In part, this […]

An Apostolic Gospel

2021.3.8 | Francis Watson. An Apostolic Gospel: The “Epistula Apostolorum” in Literary Context. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 179. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-108-84041-5. Review by Julia D. Lindenlaub, University of Edinburgh. Francis Watson’s already wide-ranging work in gospels within and beyond the canon is here expanded with a new translation of a […]

Scribal Habits in Sixth-Century Greek Purple Codices

2021.3.7 | Elijah Hixson. Scribal Habits in Sixth-Century Greek Purple Codices. NTTSD 61. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ISBN: 978-90-04-39990-7.  Review by Matthew Burks, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Currently, Dr. Elijah Hixson works as a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. Previously, Hixson was a Research Associate for Dirk Jongkind at […]

Reading with the Grain of Scripture

2021.2.6 | Richard B. Hays. Reading with the Grain of Scripture. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020. ISBN: 978-0-8028-7845-8. Review by Charles Nathan Ridlehoover, Columbia Biblical Seminary. Students and scholars of the New Testament hardly need an introduction to Richard Hays. Hays has written ground-breaking scholarship on the letters of Paul and New Testament ethics, and his latest full-length […]