The State of New Testament Studies

2020.1.2 | Scot McKnight and Nijay K. Gupta, eds. The State of New Testament Studies: A Survey of Recent Research. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019. ISBN: 9780801098796. Review by Charles Nathan Ridlehoover, Columbia International Seminary. The State of New Testament Studies begins with the story of an aspiring academic (Gupta) entering seminary with the goal of […]

Toward Decentering the New Testament

2020.1.1 | Mitzi J. Smith and Yung Suk Kim. Toward Decentering the New Testament: A Reintroduction. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-5326-0465-2. Review by Jonathan Rowlands, University of Nottingham. Toward Decentering the New Testament is an introduction to the New Testament authored by Mitzi J. Smith—an African-American woman biblical scholar—and Yung Suk Kim—an Asian-American […]

The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity

2019.12.17 | Eva Mroczek. The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. pp xi+269. ISBN: 9780190886080. Review by Shelby Bennett, Trinity Western University. Eva Mroczek makes a powerful contribution to re-thinking a central concept in Judaism and Christianity: “canon.” She explores and challenges the role and purpose of those who composed […]

The Lord’s Prayer

2019.11.16 | C. Clifton Black. The Lord’s Prayer. Interpretation. Louisville: WJK, 2018. ISBN: 978-0664234898. Review by Charles Nathan Ridlehoover, Columbia International Seminary. C. Clifton Black has been the Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary since 1999. Black’s previous appointments include Southern Methodist University, the University of Rochester, and Duke University. […]

Simply Come Copying

2019.11.15 | Alan Taylor Farnes. Simply Come Copying: Direct Copies as Test Cases in the Quest for Scribal Habits. WUNT II 481. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. XV + 253 pp. ISBN 978-3-16-156981-4. Review by Matthew Burks, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Alan Taylor Farnes currently teaches adjunctly at Brigham Young University. He completed his doctoral degree […]

Die Briefe des Ignatios von Antiochia

2019.10.14 | Thomas Johann Bauer and Peter von Möllendorff, eds. Die Briefe des Ignatios von Antiochia: Motive, Strategien, Kontexte. Millennium-Studien 72. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. pp. viii + 288. ISBN: 9783110604467. Review by Jonathon Lookadoo, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Republic of Korea. This volume edited by Bauer and von Möllendorff finds its origins […]

Christobiography

2019.10.13 | Craig S. Keener. Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2019. ISBN 978-0-8028-7675-1. Review by Charles Nathan Ridlehoover, Columbia International Seminary. Scholars in the New Testament guild need no introduction to the work of Craig Keener. Keener has been one of the modern masters of long-form scholarship in […]

A Latin-Greek Index of the Vulgate New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers

2019.10.12 | Theodore A. Bergren. A Latin-Greek Index of the Vulgate New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers. WUNT 403. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. ISBN 978-3-16-156024-8. Review by Dan Batovici, KU Leuven. The structure of this volume—published in the primary WUNT series—is straight forward: a brief introduction explaining the intention of the volume, a short bibliography […]

The Translation Style of Old Greek Habakkuk

2019.10.11 | James A. E. Mulroney. The Translation Style of Old Greek Habakkuk: Methodological Advancement in Interpretative Studies of the Septuagint. FAT II 86. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. ISBN 978-3-16-154386-9. Review by Adam W. Jones, London School of Theology. While research in the field of Septuagint translation technique is not a new concept, there has […]

Memory and the Jesus Tradition

2019.9.10 | Alan Kirk. Memory and the Jesus Tradition. The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries 2. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. ISBN 978-0-56-768024-2. Review by Charles Nathan Ridlehoover. Alan Kirk is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University. Kirk provides the second installment in the newly minted Reception of […]