These book reviews from September-October, 2013, may be of interest to some readers of this blog (ordered by author and book, not reviewer):

Bates, M.W., Hermeneutics of the Apostolic Proclamation: The Center of Paul’s Method of Scriptural Interpretation (by B. Blackwell)

Berges, U.F., Isaiah: The Prophet and His Book (by M.A. Sweeney)

Boadt, L., et al., Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction (by R.G. Smith)

Bockmuehl, M., Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory: The New Testament Apostle in the Early Church (by J-F Racine)

Brenner, A. and G.A. Yee, Exodus and Deuteronomy (by S. Scholz)

Clines, D.J.A. and E. van Wolde, A Critical Engagement: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of J. Cheryl Exum (by G. Savran)

Coloe, M.L. and T. Thatcher, John, Qumran, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Sixty Years of Discovery and Debate
(by J. Frey)

Ehrman, B. Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics (by D. Lincicum)

Ehrman, B. and M.W. Holmes, The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on Status Quaestiones (by Y-J. Lin)

Feldt, L., The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha
(by M. Hundley)

Fleming, D.E., The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition
(by M. Suriano)

Gillingham, S., Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms: Conflict and Convergence  (by D.W. Stowe)

Hanneken, T.R., The Subversion of the Apocalypses in the Book of Jubilees (by R. Foster)

Kalimi, I., New Perspectives on Ezra-Nehemiah: History and Historiography, Text, Literature, and Interpretation (by A.E. Steinmann)

Litwa, M.D., We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul’s Soteriology
(by T. Costa)

MacDonald, N., et al., Genesis and Christian Theology (by C.B. Ansberry)

Marchal, J.A., Studying Paul’s Letters: Contemporary Perspectives and Methods
(by R.N. Stegmann)

McLean, B.H., New Testament Greek: An Introduction (by D.L. Smith)

Moss, C., The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
(by N.C. Croy)

Pao, D.W., Colossians and Philemon (ZECNT) (by A. K-J)

Crenshaw, J.L., Reading Job: A Literary and Theological Commentary
(by R.G. Smith)

Sampley, J.P. and P. Lampe, Paul and Rhetoric (by D. Estes)

Talbott, R.F., Jesus, Paul, and Power: Rhetoric, Ritual, and Metaphor in Ancient Mediterranean Christianity
(by J.W. van Henten)

Trebilco, P., Self-Designations and Group Identity in the New Testament
(by B. J. Oropeza)

Walton, J.H., Job (by M.A. Shields)

van der Watt, J.G. and R. Zimmerman, Rethinking the Ethics of John (by E.S. Wendy)

van Wijk-Bos, J.W.H., Reading Samuel: A Literary and Theological Commentary (by K-P. Adam)

Zakovitch, Y., Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch (by R. Hendel)