Luke the Chronicler

2024.04.03 | Mark S. Giacobbe. Luke the Chronicler: The Narrative Arc of Samuel-Kings and Chronicles in Luke-Acts. Bible Interpretation Series 211. Brill, 2023. 289 pp. $144.00.  Review by Ched Spellman, Cedarville University. In the opening of the Gospel of Luke, the author includes a prologue that overviews his purpose in writing this “orderly narrative” and identifies elements […]

The Things that Make for Peace

2024.03.02 | Jesse P. Nickel. The Things that Make for Peace: Jesus and Eschatological Violence. BZNW 244. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021. Review by Kendall A. Davis, University of Edinburgh. In this revision of his PhD thesis, Jesse Nickel seeks to answer the following question: “how does understanding eschatology and violence together … enable us to make […]

The Memory of Ignatius of Antioch

2024.01.01 | Frazer MacDiarmid. The Memory of Ignatius of Antioch: The Martyr as a Locus of Christian Identity, Remembering and Remembered. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.581. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. Pp. xii + 269. ISBN: 9783161614996. Review by Jonathon Lookadoo, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Republic of Korea Frazer MacDiarmid employs memory as […]

Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11–22

2023.11.08 | Oscar E. Jiménez. Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11–22: Motion towards Maximal Proximity and Higher Status. Linguistic Biblical Studies 20. Leiden: Brill, 2022. pp. xiii + 221. Review by Kai Akagi, Rikkyo University. Oscar E. Jiménez’s Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11–22: Motion towards Maximal Proximity and Higher Status is the published version of […]

Trauma Theory, Trauma Story

2023.10.07 | Sarah Emanuel, Trauma Theory, Trauma Story; A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma, Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation, Leiden, Brill, 2021. Review by Sébastien Doane, Université Laval. In her work titled Trauma Theory, Trauma Story: A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma, Sarah Emanuel, an Assistant Professor at Loyola […]

Christ: The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings Vols. 3 and 4

2023.09.07 | Mark DelCogliano, ed. Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy. Vol. 3 of The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xlvii + 778. ISBN: 978-1-107-06213-9. [Hardback]. Mark DelCogliano, ed. Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond. Vol. 4 of The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. […]

Markan Typology

2023.06.06 | Jonathan Rivett Robinson. Markan Typology: Miracle, Scripture and Christology in Mark 4:35–6:45. LNTS 678. London: T&T Clark, 2023. Review by Kendall A. Davis, University of Edinburgh. In his recently revised dissertation, Jonathan Rivett Robinson explores the use of typology in several miracle passages in Mark’s Gospel. Robinson’s study contributes to the study of intertextuality […]

Contesting Languages

2023.02.05 | Ekaputra Tupamahu. Contesting Languages: Heteroglossia and the Politics of Language in the Early Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.  Review by Isaac T. Soon, Crandall University, Moncton, NB. The author begins the book with three subjects that experience struggle at the site of language: Medea, the Corinthian community, and Tupamahau himself. From its first […]

The Shema in John’s Gospel

2023.02.04 | Lori A. Baron. The Shema in John’s Gospel. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe, 574. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. Review by R. B. Jamieson, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC. What causes John’s Gospel to stand out when set against the backdrops of the Synoptic Gospels, the whole New Testament, and early Judaism? In The […]

Philosophy at the Festival

2023.02.03 | Byron MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition. Mnemosyne Supplements 461; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022. Review by Robert G. T. Edwards; University of Göttingen. Gregory of Nazianzus’ seven Festal Orations, preached at Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, and Pentecost during his short-lived episcopacy in Constantinople from 379 […]