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Literary Criticism and the Composition of the Hebrew Bible – By Juha Pakkala

February 10, 2014May 22, 2014

Juha Pakkala on David M. Carr’s The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction One cannot understand the history and religion of ancient Israel ... [Read More]

The Book of Job’s Past, Present, and Future Consequences – By Davis Hankins

January 27, 2014May 22, 2014

Davis Hankins on C.L. Seow’s Job 1-21: Interpretation and Commentary. An irony pervades the practice of writing the critical biblical commentary: quite often, the biblical ... [Read More]

Reading Deuteronomy Theologically . . . and Critically – By Mark Leuchter

January 27, 2014May 22, 2014

Mark Leuchter on Jerry Hwang’s The Rhetoric of Remembrance: An Investigation of the “Fathers” in Deuteronomy For those who regard the Bible as sacred ... [Read More]

How We Choose to Write History

December 17, 2013May 22, 2014

David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate ... [Read More]

Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity

December 9, 2013May 22, 2014

Paula Fredriksen on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely ... [Read More]

Metaphor Theory and Societal Change: Exile in the Hebrew Bible – By Katie Heffelfinger

November 19, 2013January 27, 2014

Katie Heffelfinger on Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor Enduring Exile: The Metaphorization of Exile in the Hebrew Bible Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts. Last January’s ... [Read More]

The Canon(s) of the Jewish Scriptures

November 18, 2013November 18, 2013

Edmon L. Gallagher on Timothy H. Lim’s The Formation of the Jewish Canon We don’t know where the Bible came from. It took shape over ... [Read More]

The Ethical Vision in the Gospel and Letters of John – By Wendy E.S. North

September 24, 2013February 24, 2014

Wendy E.S. North on eds. Jan G. van der Watt & Ruben Zimmermann’s Rethinking the Ethics of John We search the Gospel of John in ... [Read More]

How Ancient Jewish Letter-writing Shaped the New Testament – By M. Eugene Boring

June 12, 2013February 24, 2014

M. Eugene Boring on Lutz Doering’s Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes ... [Read More]

A Key Figure’s Most Important Investigations on the Septuagint

June 4, 2013October 28, 2013

Gilles Dorival on Jan Joosten’s Collected Studies on the Septuagint Dans ce livre, Jan Joosten a réuni dix-sept articles portant sur la Septante ... [Read More]

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