The Review of Biblical Literature is a publication of the Society of Biblical Literature (http://www.sbl-site.org).

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The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature and listed on the RBL blog (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/):

Michael F. Bird
Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6559
Reviewed by Craig A. Evans

Claire Clivaz
L’ange et la sueur de sang (Lc 22,43-44): Ou comment on pourrait bien encore écrire l’histoire
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7433
Reviewed by Andrew Gregory

Jo Ann Hackett
A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7571
Reviewed by Bernard M. Levinson
Reviewed by James Robson

George H. van Kooten
Paul’s Anthropology in Context: The Image of God, Assimilation to God, and Tripartite Man in Ancient Judaism, Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7182
Reviewed by Joel B. Green

Andrew B. McGowan, Brian E. Daley, and Timothy J. Gaden, eds.
God in Early Christian Thought: Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7423
Reviewed by Mark DelCogliano

Peter Oakes
Reading Romans in Pompeii: Paul’s Letter at Ground Level
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7353
Reviewed by Steven A. Hunt

Anthony Robert Petterson
Behold Your King: The Hope for the House of David in the Book of Zechariah
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7483
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Stanley E. Porter
Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7259
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Heikki Räisänen
The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7356
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Todd D. Still and David G. Horrell, eds.
After the First Urban Christians: The Social-Scientific Study of Pauline Christianity Twenty-Five Years Later
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7477
Reviewed by Ronald R. Clark

Graham H. Twelftree
People of the Spirit: Exploring Luke’s View of the Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7532
Reviewed by Gregory R. Perry

Bruce Wells and F. Rachel Magdalene, eds.
Law from the Tigris to the Tiber: The Writings of Raymond Westbrook
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7362
Reviewed by Anselm Hagedorn

Amy C. Merrill Willis
Dissonance and the Drama of Divine Sovereignty in the Book of Daniel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7619
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

Felipe Blanco Wißmann
“Er tat das Rechte”: Beurteilungskriterien und Deuteronomismus in 1Kön 12-2Kön 25
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7080
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton