– Kevin Brown begins a study on the Christology of the Gospel of Mark.

– Nick Norelli discusses praying to Jesus from Jn. 14.14 and then Jn. 14 and 16 and what it means to “call on the name of the Lord“.

– Derek Ouellette talks about the nature of “Israel” in Rom. 11: Part One; Part Two.

– Nijay Gupta ponders what Paul meant by “fellow prisoner”.

– Tim Gombis asks if it is helpful to boil Christianity down to its minimal elements.

– Michael Bird finishes his series on the church and Israel.

– Tripp Fuller says “God takes sides.”

– Mason Slater asks, “What ever happened to original sin?” This reminded me of something G.K. Chesterton said on the subject.

– Joshua McManaway wrote a post on Athanasius’ Letter to Marcellinus.

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

Alicia J.Batten
Friendship and Benefaction in James
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7811
Reviewed
by Oda Wischmeyer

Michael W. Duggan
The Consuming Fire: A Christian
Guide to the Old Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7754
Reviewed
by Wilhelm J. Wessels

Steven J. Friesen, Daniel N. Schowalter, and James
C. Walters, eds.
Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and
Society
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7855
Reviewed
by Dennis E. Smith

Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
Gossip and Gender:
Othering of Speech in the Pastoral Epistles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7637
Reviewed
by Korinna Zamfir

Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
Keys to Second Corinthians:
Revisiting the Major Issues
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7776
Reviewed
by Victor Paul Furnish
Reviewed by vanThanh Nguyen

David S.
Powers
Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last
Prophet
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7466
Reviewed
by Joel Stephen Williams

Christopher Rollston
Writing and Literacy in
the World of Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7813
Reviewed
by Johannes Schnocks
Reviewed by Ian Young

Robert L. Webb and Duane F.
Watson, eds.
Reading Second Peter with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments
of the Letter of Second Peter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7626
Reviewed
by David K. Burge