Matthew’s Reaction to Mark’s Innovation – By Michael J. Kok
Michael J. Kok on J. Andrew Doole’s What was Mark for Matthew? If Matthew, Mark, and Luke were students handing in their Gospels as
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Scriptural Texts
Reading Ugaritic – By Ola Wikander
Ola Wikander on John Huehnergard’s An Introduction to Ugaritic The Ugaritic language, spoken and written on the coast of Syria during the Late Bronze Age,
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Literary Criticism and the Composition of the Hebrew Bible – By Juha Pakkala
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
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The Book of Job’s Past, Present, and Future Consequences – By Davis Hankins
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
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Reading Deuteronomy Theologically . . . and Critically – By Mark Leuchter
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
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Praying Ants and Prostrating Beasts – By George Archer
George Archer on Sarra Tlili’s Animals in the Qur’an The classical period of Islamic scholarship produced a fruitful and developed body of commentary on the
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Extra Islam salus est? – By Marco Demichelis
Marco Demichelis on Mohammad Hassan Khalil’s Islam and the Fate of Others and Between Heaven and Hell While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist
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Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity
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
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Metaphor Theory and Societal Change: Exile in the Hebrew Bible – By Katie Heffelfinger
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
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The Canon(s) of the Jewish Scriptures
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
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