Covenant—Concepts of Berit, Diatheke, and Testamentum

2025.08.04 | Christian A. Eberhart and Wolfgang Kraus, eds. Covenant—Concepts of Berit, Diatheke, and Testamentum. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 506. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. Review by Levi Baker, William Tennent School of Theology. Arising from a 2019 interdisciplinary conference at the Lanier Theological Library, this volume of twenty-eight essays explores various aspects of covenant across the […]

The Apologists and Paul

2025.01.03 | Todd D. Still and David E. Wilhite. The Apologists and Paul. Pauline and Patristic Scholars in Debate. London: T&T Clark, 2024. Pp. xiv + 346. ISBN: 9780567715456. Review by Jonathon Lookadoo, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Republic of Korea Many thanks to T&T Clark for providing a review copy. The Apologists and […]

The Lailashi Codex

2025.01.02 | Thea Gomelauri (with a contribution by Joseph Ginsberg). The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry (Oxford, UK: Taylor Institution Library, 2023).  Review by Teófilo Correa, Adventist International Institute of Advance Studies (AIIAS)  The Lailashi Codex is an ancient Hebrew manuscript, considered the earliest nearly complete surviving medieval version of the Pentateuch (Ori […]

Antioch, Nicaea, and the Synthesis of Constantinople

2025.01.01 | Dragos Andrei Giulea. Antioch, Nicaea, and the Synthesis of Constantinople: Revisiting Trajectories in the Fourth-Century Christological Debates. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 200. Brill, 2024. 309 pp. Review by Ched Spellman, Cedarville University. In this monograph, Dragoș Andrei Giulea undertakes an ambitious revisioning of the intellectual landscape of the fourth-century theological debates. Challenging […]

The Apostle to the Foreskin: A Review Article

2024.10.07 |  Ryan D. Collman. The Apostle to the Foreskin: Circumcision in the Letters of Paul. BZNW 259. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023. Review article by Paul T. Sloan, Houston Christian University. “Foreskin” stretches across Paul’s letters as a part of various discourses concerning proper Law-keeping and the relation of Jews and gentiles to one another, to Abraham, […]

Divination and Philosophy in the Letters of Paul

2024.09.06 |  Matthew T. Sharp. Divination and Philosophy in the Letters of Paul. Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Review by Joshua W. Jipp, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. This revised doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Edinburgh, takes as its starting point the question: “if Paul claims to convey the […]

The Gospel of the Son of God

2024.08.05 | James M. Neumann. The Gospel of the Son of God: Psalm 2 and Mark’s Narrative Christology. LNTS 688. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2024.  Review by Kendall A. Davis, University of Edinburgh. In this published version of his dissertation completed at Princeton Theological Seminary under the supervision of Dale Allison, James Neumann argues not only that […]

Canon Formation

2024.05.04 | W. Edward Glenny and Darian R. Lockett, eds. Canon Formation: Tracing the Role of Sub-Collections in the Biblical Canon. London: T & T Clark, 2023. Review by Levi Baker, William Tennent School of Theology. Over the past two decades there has been increasing interest in the sub-collections that comprise the Jewish and Christian biblical […]

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 […]