{"id":860,"date":"2008-11-23T06:30:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=860"},"modified":"2008-11-20T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T17:39:48","slug":"review-of-biblical-literature-11212008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Review of Biblical Literature &#8211; 11\/21\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hector Avalos<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6504\" target=\"_blank\">Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by J. Harold Ellens<\/p>\n<p>Bob Becking<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6207\" target=\"_blank\">From David to Gedaliah: The Book of Kings as Story and History<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney<\/p>\n<p>Jason Beduhn and Paul Mirecki, eds.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6297\" target=\"_blank\">Frontiers of Faith: The Christian Encounter with Manichaeism in the Acts of Archelaus<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Tobias Nicklas<\/p>\n<p>Roland Boer, ed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6214\" target=\"_blank\">Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Timothy J. Sandoval<\/p>\n<p>Susan Brayford<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6302\" target=\"_blank\">Genesis<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Jan Joosten<\/p>\n<p>Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6203\" target=\"_blank\">Studying the Old Testament: A Companion<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Steed Vernyl Davidson<\/p>\n<p>Stephen K. Catto<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6430\" target=\"_blank\">Reconstructing the First-Century Synagogue: A Critical Analysis of Current Research<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Birger Olsson<br \/>\nReviewed by Jonathan Bernier<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Denzey<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6280\" target=\"_blank\">The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Paul Dilley<\/p>\n<p>Deborah L. Ellens<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6434\" target=\"_blank\">Women in the Sex Texts of Leviticus and Deuteronomy: A Comparative Conceptual Analysis<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Naomi Steinberg<\/p>\n<p>Richard A. Horsley<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6119\" target=\"_blank\">Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Lester L. Grabbe<\/p>\n<p>Paul Joyce<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6431\" target=\"_blank\">Ezekiel: A Commentary<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Corrine Carvalho<br \/>\nReviewed by Steven S. Tuell<\/p>\n<p>Adriane B. Leveen<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6153\" target=\"_blank\">Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by James W. Watts<\/p>\n<p>David R. Nienhuis<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6406\" target=\"_blank\">Not by Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Patrick J. Hartin<\/p>\n<p>Matthew B. Schwartz and Kalman J. Kaplan<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6180\" target=\"_blank\">The Fruit of Her Hands: A Psychology of Biblical Woman<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Corinne Blackmer<\/p>\n<p>Jan G. van der Watt, ed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6044\" target=\"_blank\">Identity, Ethics, and Ethos in the New Testament<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III<\/p>\n<p>G\u00e9za G. Xeravits and J\u00c3\u00b3zsef Zsengell\u00e9r, eds.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreviews.org\/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5900\" target=\"_blank\">The Book of Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology (Papers of the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, P\u00c3\u00a1pa, Hungary, 9-11 June, 2005)<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Pierre Keith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hector Avalos Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence Reviewed by J. Harold Ellens Bob Becking From David to Gedaliah: The Book of Kings as Story and History Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney Jason Beduhn and Paul Mirecki, eds. 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