Category: Book Reviews
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Books for Smart Kids Who Want to Be Smarter
Read more: Books for Smart Kids Who Want to Be SmarterI can still recall with near perfect clarity the margin notes on my first college paper. I was taking Introduction to Political Thought, and remember looking at my TA’s comments with wonderment. What does “tautology” mean? I was baffled. As much as I wanted to believe that I was adequately prepared for college—I had at…
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Review of Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing by Richard Horsley
Read more: Review of Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing by Richard HorsleyRichard A. Horsley. Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing. Biblical Performance Criticism Volume 9. Cascade Books, 2013. 2014. 340 pgs. $32.00. Paperback. Richard Horsley’s, Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing, is volume nine of the Wipf and Stock series Biblical Performance Criticism. Due to significant overlap in the content of several of the…
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Review of Reading the Sealed Book by J. Ross Wagner
Read more: Review of Reading the Sealed Book by J. Ross WagnerJ. Ross Wagner. Reading the Sealed Book: Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2014. 308 pages. Softcover. Retail: $49.95. Reading the Sealed Book is a work concerned with Septuagint hermeneutics, especially as it pertains to Isaiah. For those not familiar with Septuagint hermeneutics, the first chapter alone…
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Review of The Oral Ethos of the Early Church by Joanna Dewey
Read more: Review of The Oral Ethos of the Early Church by Joanna DeweyJoanna Dewey. The Oral Ethos of the Early Church: Speaking, Writing, and the Gospel of Mark. Biblical Performance Criticism Volume 8. Cascade Books, 2013. 204 pgs. $24.00. Paperback. Joanna Dewey’s recent volume, The Oral Ethos of the Early Church: Speaking, Writing, and the Gospel of Mark, represents one of the many important studies in Wipf…
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Review of The World of the New Testament edited by Joel Green and Lee Martin McDonald
Read more: Review of The World of the New Testament edited by Joel Green and Lee Martin McDonaldJoel Green and Lee Martin McDonald, editors. The World of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013. 640 pages. Hardcover. $49.99. The World of the New Testament (WNT) is a reference work covering a wide range of topics relating the historical background of the New Testament (NT). The volume is divided into forty seven…
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Review of From Jesus to the New Testament by Jens Schröter
Read more: Review of From Jesus to the New Testament by Jens SchröterJens Schröter. From Jesus to the New Testament: Early Christian Theology and the Origin of the New Testament Canon. Translated by Wayne Coppins. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2013. xiv + 417 pp. Hardcover. $59.95. ISBN: 9781602588226. From Jesus to the New Testament is a translation of Jens Schröter’s 2007 work Von Jesus zum Neuen Testament….
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Review of Philippians (Story of God Bible Commentary Series) by Lynn H. Cohick
Read more: Review of Philippians (Story of God Bible Commentary Series) by Lynn H. CohickLynn H. Cohick, Philippians. The Story of God Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2013. 320 pgs. Hardcover. Retail $29.99 Cohick’s new commentary on Paul’s epistle to the Philippians is one of two, along with a commentary on the Sermon on the Mount by Scott McKnight, to be released in a new popular level series…
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Review of Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by Nicholas M. Healy
Read more: Review of Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by Nicholas M. HealyNicholas M. Healy, Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014. 154 pages. Softcover. Retail $23.00. Few contemporary theologians have situated their own projects so explicitly against the “many-faced and historically ambiguous phenomenon” of modern liberalism (whether of the theological or the political varieties) as Stanley Hauerwas.[1] It is no…
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Review of The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature edited by Jean-Sébastien Rey
Read more: Review of The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature edited by Jean-Sébastien ReyRey, Jean-Sébastien, ed. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 102. Leiden: Brill, 2014. 355 + xvi pages. Hardcover. €121.00 This volume, the latest installment of the prestigious and important Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah series, is devoted to the question of…
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Review of Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme by Stephen Westerholm
Read more: Review of Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme by Stephen WesterholmThere continues to be a swirl of popular interest in the now not-so-new “New Perspective on Paul.” In Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme, Stephen Westerholm attempts “to update and to make more widely accessible earlier work” (viii), and thus demonstrate why he has not been persuaded by recent “revisionist” readings of Paul. The concise…