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Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2016.12.15 Gabriele Boccaccini and Carlos A. Segovia, Paul The Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016. ISBN: 9781451479805. Pp 386. $79.00. Hardcover. George Carras Washington and Lee University This volume rereads Paul as a Jew; it is timely, contextual, historical, and offers current developments in one of the ...
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Paul and the Gentile Problem
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2016.12.14 Matthew Thiessen, Paul and the Gentile Problem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-19-027175-6. Pp 336. $74.00. Hardcover. Kathy Ehrensperger Research Professor of the New Testament in Jewish Context Abraham Geiger College School of Jewish Theology University of Potsdam, Germany In conversation with a wide range of scholars, Matthew Thiessen presents a rich volume ...
Read More »Renaming Abraham’s Children
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2016.12.13 Robert B. Foster, Renaming Abraham’s Children: Election, Ethnicity, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Romans 9. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe 421. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. ISBN: 978-3-16-154483-5. Pp XVIII + 327. 89.00 €. Sewn paper. Paula Fredriksen The Hebrew University, Jerusalem Who is the “Israel” that Paul claims will be saved, ...
Read More »Josephus’ Interpretation of the Books of Samuel
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2016.10.11 Michael Avioz, Josephus’ Interpretation of the Books of Samuel. Library of Second Temple Studies 86. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. ISBN: 9780567608802. Pp. v + 254. $112.00. Hardback. Yonatan Binyam Florida State University While recent decades have seen an increase in the scholarly attention paid to portions of Josephus’s rewriting of biblical texts, relatively few ...
Read More »Paul and the Apocalyptic Triumph
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2016.10.12 Michael E. Peach, Paul and the Apocalyptic Triumph: An Investigation of the Usage of Jewish and Greco-Roman Imagery in 1 Thess. 4:13–18. Apocalypticism: Cross-disciplinary Approaches 1. New York/Bern: Peter Lang, 2016. ISBN: 9781454190097. Pp XII + 198. $83.95. Hardback. Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez Brite Divinity School In this study, Michael E. Peach argues that Paul skillfully ...
Read More »BibleWorks 10
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2016.10.09 BibleWorks 10. Copyright © 1992-2015 BibleWorks, LLC. Programmed by Michael S. Bushell, Michael D. Tan, and Glenn L. Weaver. $389.00. USB Flash Drive/Download. Isaac W. Oliver Bradley University For many years, I have used BibleWorks for personal research and classroom instruction. Over the years this software program has continued to evolve in its complexity, a reflection ...
Read More »Jacques le Juste, frère de Jésus de Nazareth
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2016.10.10 Simon Claude Mimouni, Jacques le Juste, frère de Jésus de Nazareth, et l’histoire de la communauté nazoréenne / chrétienne de Jérusalem du Ier au IVe siècle. Paris: Bayard, 2015. ISBN: 2227487011. Pp 616. 34.90 €. Hardcover. Ilaria L.E. Ramelli Catholic University – Angelicum – Princeton This dense and methodic monograph by Simon-Claude Mimouni ...
Read More »D’une identité à l’autre ? La communauté judéo-chrétienne de Jérusalem (66-135)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2016.10.08 Jonathan Bourgel, D’une identité à l’autre ? La communauté judéo-chrétienne de Jérusalem (66-135). Preface by Dan Jaffé. Paris: Éd. du Cerf, 2015. ISBN: 978-2-204-10068-7. Pp. 320. 35.00€. Stéphanie Binder Bar-Ilan University Broaching a variety of topics and ancient texts, Jonathan Bourgel’s monograph explores the character of the Judeo-Christian community of Jerusalem in the framework of ...
Read More »How the Bible Became Holy
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2016.08.07 Michael L. Satlow, How the Bible Became Holy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780300171914. Pp. 368. $35.00. Cloth. Gregory S. Paulson Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung Münster, Germany In How the Bible Became Holy, Michael Satlow, Professor of Religious and Judaic Studies at Brown University, attempts to cultivate a fresh narrative ...
Read More »The Quranic Noah and the Making of the Islamic Prophet
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2016.08.06 Carlos A. Segovia, The Quranic Noah and the Making of the Islamic Prophet: A Study of Intertextuality and Religious Identity Formation in Late Antiquity. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — Tension, Transmission, Transformation 4. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. ISBN: 9783110403497. Pp. xvi + 154. 99.95 € / $140.00. Hardcover. [Segovia’s Quranic Noah was also reviewed ...
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