Book Reviews

Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard, ed. Dictionary of the Ancient Near East Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000 Reviewed By Brent A. Strawn Candler School of Theology Emory University Atlanta, GA James Limburg Psalms Westminster Bible Companion; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000 Reviewed By Brent A. Strawn Candler School of Theology Emory University Atlanta, GA Bass, Dorothy C. and Vol£, Miroslav, editors Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002 Reviewed By Ben Devan Smith, Mark S. Untold Stories: The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century Peabody, MA. Hendrickson, 2001 Reviewed By Brent A. Strawn Candler School of Theology Emory University Atlanta, G

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law offers the most up-to-date and extensive treatment of biblical law attempted in a comparable genre. The work focuses biblical law, its nature, collections, and genres, such as the Book of the Covenant, the Deuteronomic Code, the Decalogue/Ten Commandments, testimony and witnesses, trial procedure, judges, law in the New Testament, etc. It also focuses on the ancient contexts of biblical law, such as everyday law in ancient Israel, the Middle Assyrian Laws, the Laws of Lipit-Ishtar, Greco-Roman law, the Twelve Tablets, Early Jewish Law, etc. Lastly, it includes the afterlife and influence of biblical law, especially via and on English Common Law and jurisprudence in the United States.https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cslr-books/1034/thumbnail.jp

On priesting. Part 2 (Audio)

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The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life

This book investigates the meaning of happiness in light of biblical scholarship and developments in the study of happiness, especially via positive psychology. Nine chapters that focus on the Bible (five on the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, four on the New Testament) are accompanied by three that evaluate the theme and the biblical chapters via the disciplines of systematic theology, practical theology, and counselling psychology. An introduction frames the project in terms of the meaning (often vaguely or ill-defined) of happiness, and a conclusion offers a first attempt at writing a biblical theology of happiness.https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cslr-books/1050/thumbnail.jp

The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life

This book investigates the meaning of happiness in light of biblical scholarship and developments in the study of happiness, especially via positive psychology. Nine chapters that focus on the Bible (five on the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, four on the New Testament) are accompanied by three that evaluate the theme and the biblical chapters via the disciplines of systematic theology, practical theology, and counselling psychology. An introduction frames the project in terms of the meaning (often vaguely or ill-defined) of happiness, and a conclusion offers a first attempt at writing a biblical theology of happiness.https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cslr-books/1050/thumbnail.jp