Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.12.07 Annette Yoshiko Reed. Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. Pp. xxx+555. ISBN: 978-3-16-154476-7. 174 €. Hardcover. Philippe TherrienUniversité de Lausanne/Université Laval In this volume, Annette Yoshiko Reed explores the construction of religious identity in sources traditionally referred to by scholars as “Jewish-Christian” (or “Judaeo-Christian”). She intends to determine what they ...
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Isaac Oliver Reviews The Nations in the Divine Economy (W. Campbell)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.12.06 William S. Campbell. The Nations in the Divine Economy: Paul’s Covenantal Hermeneutics and Participation in Christ. Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018. Pp. Xii + 410. ISBN: 9781978700758. $126.00. Hardback. Isaac W. OliverBradley University William S. Campbell has devoted his life to studying the writings of Paul, especially how they relate to Judaism and shed ...
Read More »Susan Marks Reviews Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (Ehrensperger & Sheinfeld, eds)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.12.08 Kathy Ehrensperger and Shayna Sheinfeld, eds. Gender and Second-Temple Judaism. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 260. ISBN: 978-1-9787-0786-3. $105.00. Hardback. Susan MarksNew College of Florida As an important methodology for investigating early Judaism, the study of gender has made great strides in the past decades. It has developed from the first critical attempts ...
Read More »Theron Clay Mock Reviews Apocalypse as Holy War (Wasserman)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.08.08 Emma Wasserman. Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul. AYBRL. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. 352. ISBN: 9780300204025. $65.00. Hardcover. Theron Clay Mock III, he/him/his ([email protected])Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich To imitate Max Müller: the scholar who knows only Paul does not know him.[1] This failure to ...
Read More »Darrell Bock Reviews Luke’s Jewish Eschatology (with a Response by Oliver)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.08.07 Isaac W. Oliver. Luke’s Jewish Eschatology: The National Restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 304. ISBN: 9780197530580. $99.00. Hardback Darrell L. BockDallas Theological Seminary For centuries, there has been a consensus that the New Testament taught that the church has totally replaced or superseded Israel in God’s program. That ...
Read More »Gavin McDowell Reviews Le Coran des historiens (Amir-Moezzi and Dye, eds.)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.08.06 Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi and Guillaume Dye, eds. Le Coran des historiens I. Études sur le contexte et la genèse du Coran; II. Commentaire et analyse du texte coranique. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2019. Pp. 3408. ISBN: 9781978700758. € 89,00. Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi and Guillaume Dye, eds. Le Coran des historiens III. Bibliographie. Prepared by Paul Neuenkirchen. ...
Read More »Joseph Scales Reviews Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (Eyal Ben-Eliyahu)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.01.05 Eyal Ben-Eliyahu. Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. Xii + 195. ISBN: 978–0–520–29360–1. $95.00. Hardcover. Joseph ScalesUniversity of Birmingham This volume builds on Eyal Ben-Eliyahu’s previous work, Between Borders (Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2012, published in Hebrew). It is a welcome arrival which brings ...
Read More »Gavin McDowell Reviews Die Kurze Chronographische Paleja
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.01.01 Sabine Fahl and Dieter Fahl with the assistance of Evgenij Vodolazkin and Tat’jana Rudi. Die Kurze Chronographische Paleja, Band 1: Kritische Edition mit deutscher Übersetzung, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2019. ISBN 978-3-579-08059-8. Pp. 752. €198. Hardcover. Dieter Fahl, Sabine Fahl, and Christfried Böttrich with the assistance of Michail Shibaev and Ivan Christov. Die Kurze Chronographische ...
Read More »Joshua Scott Reviews Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.01.02 Chris Keith, Helen K. Bond, Christine Jacobi, and Jens Schröter, eds. Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries. 3 vols. London: T&T Clark, 2020. ISBN: 9780567000194. £ 405. Hardback. Joshua ScottUniversity of Michigan In recent years, approaches to Jesus Studies have broadened to include the interpretive lenses of postcolonialism, social linguistics, gender studies, ...
Read More »Daniel Gurtner Reviews Torah, Temple, and Transaction (Alex Ramos)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.01.03 Alex J. Ramos. Torah, Temple, and Transaction: Jewish Religious Institutions and Economic Behavior in Early Roman Galilee. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020. Pp. xxvii + 250. ISBN: 978-1-9787-0450-3. $95.00. Hardback. Daniel M. GurtnerCrestwood, Kentucky This book is the author’s doctoral dissertation from the University of Pennsylvania (2017). In it Ramos examines the role ...
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