Book Reviews

The following books are reviewed: Gunnel André, Det står skrivet – med inblickar mellan raderna: Kommentar till Den svenska evangeliebokens gammaltestamentliga texter (LarsOlov Eriksson) William Baird, History of New Testament Research: Volume 3: From C. H. Dodd to Hans Dieter Betz (Jan H. Nylund) Jennie Barbour, The Story of Israel in the Book of Qohelet: Ecclesiastes as Cultural Memory (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Michael F. Bird och Jason Maston (red.), Earliest Christian History: History, Literature, and Theology: Essays from the Tyndale Fellowship in Honor of Martin Hengel (Tord Fornberg)  Wally V. Cirafesi, Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels: On the Method and Meaning of Divergent Tense-Form Usage in the Synoptic Passion Narratives (Jan H. Nylund) John J. Collins och Daniel C. Harlow (red.), The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (Cecilia Wassén) Göran Eidevall, Sacrificial Rhetoric in the Prophetic Literature of the Hebrew Bible (Blaženka Scheuer) Mark W. Elliott, The Heart of Biblical Theology: Providence Experienced (LarsOlov Eriksson) . Steven Fine (red.), The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah: In Honor of Professor Louis H. Feldman (Stefan Green) Martin Goodman, George H. van Kooten and Jacques T. A. G. M. van Ruiten (ed.), Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives on Kinship with Abraham (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Deryn Guest, Beyond Feminist Biblical Studies (Mikael Larsson) Claudia Camp, Ben Sira and the Men Who Handle Books: Gender and the Rise of Canon-Consciousness (Mikael Larsson) Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen, Prepare the Way of the Lord: Towards a Cognitive Poetic Analysis of Audience Involvement with Characters and Events in the Markan World (Bim Berglund O’Reilly) Tom Holmén (red.), Jesus in Continuum (Tobias Hägerland) Friedrich W. Horn (red.), Paulus Handbuch (Walter Übelacker) Jaeyoung Jeon, The Call of Moses and the Exodus Story: A Redactional-Critical Study in Exodus 3–4 and 5–13 (Jan Retsö) Paul M. Joyce and Diana Lipton, Lamentations Through the Centuries (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Thomas Kazen, Emotions in Biblical Law: A Cognitive Science Approach (Colleen Shantz) Hans-Josef Klauck m.fl. (red.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 4: Birsha – Chariot of Fire (Göran Eidevall) Lee Martin McDonald, Formation of the Bible: The Story of the Church’ s Canon (Magnus Evertsson) vanThanh Nguyen, Peter and Cornelius: A Story of Conversion and Mission (Carl Johan Berglund)  Tiberius Rata, The Covenant Motif in Jeremiah’ s Book of Comfort: Textual and Intertextual Studies of Jeremiah 30–33 (Göran Eidevall) Andrew J. Schmutzer and David M. Howard Jr (ed.), The Psalms: Language for All Seasons of the Soul (David Willgren) Jens Schröter, From Jesus to the New Testament: Early Christian Theology and the Origin of the New Testament Canon (Rikard Roitto) Jens Schröter och Jürgen K. Zangenberg (red.), Texte zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments (Walter Übelacker) Naomi Steinberg, The World of the Child in the Hebrew Bible (Mikael Larsson) Camilla Hélena von Heijne, The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis (Blaženka Scheuer) Klaus Wachtel and Michael W. Holmes (ed.), The Textual History of the Greek New Testament: Changing Views in Contemporary Research (Jan H. Nylund)  J. Ross Wagner, Reading the Sealed Book: Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics (Staffan Olofsson) Cecilia Wassén (red.) Dödahavsrullarna. Innehåll, bakgrund och betydelse (Tord Fornberg) Magnus Zetterholm and Samuel Byrskog (ed.), The Making of Christianity: Conflicts, Contacts, and Constructions: Essays in Honor of Bengt Holmberg (Donald A. Hagner

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Book reviews: Herbert W. Basser with Marsha B. Cohen The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions: A Relevance-based Commentary (Tobias Ålöw) Alicia J. Batten och John S. Kloppenborg (red.) James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions (Leonhard Franke) Bible Works 10  (Bo Krister Ljungberg) Derek R. Brown The God of This Age: Satan in the Churches and Letters of the Apostle Paul (Torsten Löfstedt) William P. Brown (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms  (David Willgren) Constantine R. Campbell Advances in the Study of Greek: New Insights for Reading the New Testament  (Jan H. Nylund) Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford (ed.)  The Shape and Shaping of the Book of Psalms: The Current State of Scholarship (David Willgren) Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, Rolf A. Jacobson and Beth Laneel Tanner  The Book of Psalms (David Willgren) Thomas B. Dozeman, Konrad Schmid och Baruch J. Schwartz (red.)  The Pentateuch: International Perspectives on Current Research (Stig Norin) Ole Jakob Filtvedt The Identity of God’s People and the Paradox of Hebrews (Mikael Tellbe) David Hellholm, Tor Vegge, Øyvind Norderval and Christer Hellholm (eds.) Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (James A. Kelhoffer) Wesley Hill  Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters (Mikael Tellbe) Douglas S. Huffman Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek New Testament (Jan H. Nylund) Thomas Kazen Scripture, Interpretation, or Authority? Motives and Arguments in Jesus’ Halakic Conflicts (Cecilia Wassén) Judith M. Lieu Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century (James A. Kelhoffer) L. Michael Morales (ed.) Cult and Cosmos: Tilting Toward a Temple-Centered Theology (Stefan Green) Mark D. Nanos och Magnus Zetterholm (red.) Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle (Martin Landgren) Carol A. Newsom och Brennan W. Breed Daniel: A Commentary (LarsOlov Eriksson) Maren Niehoff (red.) Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters (Blazenka Scheuer) Kurt L. Noll Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: A Textbook on History and Religion (Richard Pleijel) Ken Parry (ed.)  The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics (Carl Johan Berglund) Ralf Rothenbusch “... abgesondert zur Tora Gottes hin”: Ethnisch-religiöse Identitäten im Esra/Nehemiabuch (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Michael L. Satlow How the Bible Became Holy (Martin Wessbrandt) Birke Siggelkow-Berner Die jüdischen Feste im Bellum Judaicum des Flavius Josephus (Birger Olsson) Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer och Hans M. Barstad (red.) Continuity and Discontinuity: Chronological and Thematic Development in Isaiah 40–66 (Stefan Green) W. Dennis Tucker Jr. Constructing and Deconstructing Power in Psalms 107–150 (David Willgren) Helmut Utzschneider och Wolfgang Oswald Exodus 1–15 (LarsOlov Eriksson) Urban C. Von Wahlde The Gospel and Letters of John, vol. 1:Introduction, Analysis, and Reference  The Gospel and Letters of John, vol. 2: Commentary on the Gospel of John The Gospel and Letters of John, vol. 3: Commentary on the Three Johannine Letters (Birger Olsson) Benjamin L. White Remembering Paul: Ancient and Modern Contests over the Image of the Apostle (Martin Wessbrandt

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Book reviews: Herbert W. Basser with Marsha B. Cohen The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions: A Relevance-based Commentary (Tobias Ålöw) Alicia J. Batten och John S. Kloppenborg (red.) James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions (Leonhard Franke) Bible Works 10  (Bo Krister Ljungberg) Derek R. Brown The God of This Age: Satan in the Churches and Letters of the Apostle Paul (Torsten Löfstedt) William P. Brown (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms  (David Willgren) Constantine R. Campbell Advances in the Study of Greek: New Insights for Reading the New Testament  (Jan H. Nylund) Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford (ed.)  The Shape and Shaping of the Book of Psalms: The Current State of Scholarship (David Willgren) Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, Rolf A. Jacobson and Beth Laneel Tanner  The Book of Psalms (David Willgren) Thomas B. Dozeman, Konrad Schmid och Baruch J. Schwartz (red.)  The Pentateuch: International Perspectives on Current Research (Stig Norin) Ole Jakob Filtvedt The Identity of God’s People and the Paradox of Hebrews (Mikael Tellbe) David Hellholm, Tor Vegge, Øyvind Norderval and Christer Hellholm (eds.) Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (James A. Kelhoffer) Wesley Hill  Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters (Mikael Tellbe) Douglas S. Huffman Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek New Testament (Jan H. Nylund) Thomas Kazen Scripture, Interpretation, or Authority? Motives and Arguments in Jesus’ Halakic Conflicts (Cecilia Wassén) Judith M. Lieu Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century (James A. Kelhoffer) L. Michael Morales (ed.) Cult and Cosmos: Tilting Toward a Temple-Centered Theology (Stefan Green) Mark D. Nanos och Magnus Zetterholm (red.) Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle (Martin Landgren) Carol A. Newsom och Brennan W. Breed Daniel: A Commentary (LarsOlov Eriksson) Maren Niehoff (red.) Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters (Blazenka Scheuer) Kurt L. Noll Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: A Textbook on History and Religion (Richard Pleijel) Ken Parry (ed.)  The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics (Carl Johan Berglund) Ralf Rothenbusch “... abgesondert zur Tora Gottes hin”: Ethnisch-religiöse Identitäten im Esra/Nehemiabuch (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Michael L. Satlow How the Bible Became Holy (Martin Wessbrandt) Birke Siggelkow-Berner Die jüdischen Feste im Bellum Judaicum des Flavius Josephus (Birger Olsson) Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer och Hans M. Barstad (red.) Continuity and Discontinuity: Chronological and Thematic Development in Isaiah 40–66 (Stefan Green) W. Dennis Tucker Jr. Constructing and Deconstructing Power in Psalms 107–150 (David Willgren) Helmut Utzschneider och Wolfgang Oswald Exodus 1–15 (LarsOlov Eriksson) Urban C. Von Wahlde The Gospel and Letters of John, vol. 1:Introduction, Analysis, and Reference  The Gospel and Letters of John, vol. 2: Commentary on the Gospel of John The Gospel and Letters of John, vol. 3: Commentary on the Three Johannine Letters (Birger Olsson) Benjamin L. White Remembering Paul: Ancient and Modern Contests over the Image of the Apostle (Martin Wessbrandt

Book Reviews

The following books are reviewed: Klaus-Peter Adam, Friedrich Avemarie och Nili Wazana (red.), Law and Narrative in the Bible and in Neighbouring Ancient Cultures (Josef  Forsling) Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll, Paul A. Holloway och James A. Kelhoffer (red.), Women and Gender in Ancient Religions: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Hanna Stenström) Dale C. Allison, Volker Leppin, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish och Eric Ziolkowski (red.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, v. 3 (Göran Eidevall) Dale C. Allison, Volker Leppin, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish och Eric Ziolkowski (red.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, v. 5 (Mikael Larsson) Joseph L. Angel, Otherworldly and Eschatological Priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Torleif Elgvin) Eve-Marie Becker och Anders Runesson (red.), Mark and Matthew I: Comparative Readings: Understanding the Earliest Gospels in their First-century Settings (Tobias Hägerland) Bob Becking, Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Construction of Early Jewish Identity (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) April D. DeConick, Holy Misogyny: Why the Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter (Hanna Stenström)  Daniel R. Driver, Brevard Childs, Biblical Theologian: For the Church’ s One Bible (LarsOlov Eriksson) Göran Eidevall och Blaženka Scheuer (red.), Enigmas and Images: Studies in Honor of Tryggve N. D. Mettinger (Stig Norin) Weston W. Fields, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Full History (Cecilia Wassén) Miriam Goldstein, Karaite Exegesis in Medieval Jerusalem: The Judeo-Arabic Pentateuch Commentary of Yūsuf ibn Nūḥ and Abū al-Faraj Hārūn (Lena- Sofia Tiemeyer) Leif Hongisto, Experiencing the Apocalypse at the Limits of Alterity (Hanna Stenström) Jan Joosten, The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew: A New Synthesis Elaborated on the Basis of Classical Prose (Ulf Bergström) Christos Karakolis, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr och Sviatoslav Rogalsky (red.), Gospel Images of Jesus Christ in Church Tradition and in Biblical Scholarship (Mikael Sundkvist) Thomas Kazen, Issues of Impurity in Early Judaism (Cecilia Wassén) Chris Keith, Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee (Tobias Ålöw) Anthony Le Donne, The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology, and the Son of David (Jennifer Nyström) Kenneth Liljeström (red.), The Early Reception of Paul (Martin Wessbrandt)  Aren M. Maeir, Jodi Magness and Lawrence H. Schiffman (ed.), ‘Go Out and Study the Land’ (Judges 18:2): Archaeological, Historical and Textual Studies in Honor of Hanan Eshel (Torleif Elgvin)  David L. Mathewson, Verbal Aspect in the Book of Revelation: The Function of Greek Verb Tenses in John’s Apocalypse (Jan H. Nylund) Robert K. McIver, Memory, Jesus, and the Synoptic Gospels (Jennifer Nyström) Sun Myung Lyu, Righteousness in the Book of Proverbs (Bo Johnson) Stefan Nordenson, Genom honom skapades allt: En exegetisk studie om Kristi preexistens och medlarfunktion i Nya testamentet (Hanna Stenström) Stefan Nordgaard Svendsen, Allegory Transformed: The Appropriation of Philonic Hermeneutics in the Letter to the Hebrews (Johannes Imberg) Donna Lee Petter, The Book of Ezekiel and Mesopotamian City Laments (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Stanley E. Porter, Jeffrey T. Reed och Matthew Brook O’Donnell, Fundamentals of New Testament Greek (Jan H. Nylund) Stanley E. Porter och Jeffrey T. Reed, Fundamentals of New Testament Greek: Workbook (Jan H. Nylund) Karl Olav Sandnes, The Gospel ‘According to Homer and Virgil’: Cento and Canon (Maria Sturesson)    Tanja Schultheiss, Das Petrusbild im Johannesevangelium (Finn Damgaard)  William A. Tooman, Gog of Magog: Reuse of Scripture and Compositional Technique in Ezekiel 38–39 (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Paul Trebilco, Self-designations and Group Identity in the New Testament (Rikard Roitto) Caroline Vander Stichele och Hugh Pyper (red.), Text, Image, and Otherness in Children’s Bibles: What Is in the Picture? (Mikael Larsson) Patricia Walters, The Assumed Authorial Unity of Luke and Acts: A Reassessment of the Evidence (Carl Johan Berglund) Amanda Witmer, Jesus, the Galilean Exorcist: His Exorcisms in Social and Political Context (Jennifer Nyström