Composite Citations in Antiquity

2018.05.07 | Adams, Sean A. and Seth M. Ehorn, eds. Composite Citations in Antiquity: Jewish Graeco-Roman, and Early Christian Uses. Vol 1. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Reviewed by R. Jarrett Van Tine, University of St. Andrews This work is the first of a two-volume set addressing the curious literary technique of composite citation (CC). […]

Snapshots of Evolving Traditions

2018.05.06 | Liv Ingeborg Lied and Hugo Lundhaug, eds. Snapshots of Evolving Traditions: Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology. TU 175. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. xviii + 366 pages. Reviewed by Garrick V. Allen, Dublin City University. This collection of thirteen articles, many of which were originally presented in a workshop […]

Prokop von Gaza: Der Genesiskommentar

2018.04.05 | Karin Metzler (ed). Prokop von Gaza. Eclogarum in libros historicos veteris testamenti epitome. Teil 1: Der Genesiskommentar. GCSnF, 22. Berlin–München–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2015. Pp. clxiv + 490. Hardcover. Reviewed by Samuel Pomeroy, KU Leuven. Choricius of Gaza praised his predecessor Procopius (c. 470–530) as a pagan sophist. Procopius’s literary output confirms no […]

Micah: A Commentary

2018.02.04 | Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, Micah: A Commentary, OTL (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2015). Reviewed by Mark Glanville Daniel L. Smith-Christopher has produced a new commentary on Micah in the Old Testament Library series. This commentary follows an earlier commentary on Micah in this respected series by James Luther Mays, published in 1976.1 The body […]

Isidore de Péluse, Lettres III

2018.01.03 | Pierre Évieux and Nicolas Vinel, eds. Isidore de Péluse, Lettres III (1701-2000). Sources Chrétiennes 586. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2017. Reviewed by Madalina Toca, KU Leuven. Isidore de Péluse, Lettres III (1701-2000) is the third volume with Isidore’s letters in the Sources Chrétiennes series (SC 586), edited and translated in French by the late Pierre Évieux with the […]

The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity

2018.01.02 | Jörg Frey and John R. Levison, eds. The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Ekstasis 5. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017. Reviewed by Jesse D. Stone, University of St Andrews. This volume gathers together essays produced as part of an interdisciplinary project on the historical roots of early Christian pneumatology […]

A Question of Beginnings, a Debate without End

2018.01.01 | Jürgen van Oorshot and Markus Witte (eds.). The Origins of Yahwism. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft 484. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. Review article by Kurtis Peters, University of British Columbia. Introduction Among the long-standing controversial subjects in biblical studies the discussion surrounding the geographical and cultural origins of Yahweh worship sits […]

Perceiving the Other

2017.12.29 | Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Wolfgang Grünstäudl, and Matthew Thiessen, eds. Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. WUNT 394. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. Reviewed by Max Botner, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Scholars of religion are becoming increasingly attuned to the ways in which groups represent and conceive of the “other.”

Paul and Ancient Rhetoric

2017.12.28 | Stanley Porter and Bryan R. Dyer (editors), Paul and Ancient Rhetoric: Theory and Practice in the Hellenistic Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xviii + 330 pp.  Reviewed by Emanuel Conțac, Pentecostal Theological Institute of Bucharest Almost forty years have passed since Hans Dieter Betz published his landmark commentary on Galatians (1979) which marked […]

La Théologie Byzantine et sa tradition (VIe-VIIe siècles)

2017.12.27 | Carmelo Giuseppe Conticello (ed.), La Théologie Byzantine et sa tradition I/1 (VIe-VIIe siècles) (Corpus Christianorum; Turnhout: Brepols, 2015). IV+805pp. Reviewed by Mark W. Elliott, University of St Andrews. We are told at the outset of this large and handsome volume that theology will be understood more widely than just doctrinal issues to include […]