Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2021.01.04 Matthew Thiessen. Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020. Pp. 256. ISBN: 9781540964878. $35.00. Paperback. Christine HayesYale University Arriving in California to begin my doctoral education in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, I was handed a ...

Liora Goldman. Those Who Hold Fast to the Ordinances: The Qumran Community and Its Exegesis in Light of the Pesharim in the Damascus Document. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2019. ₪ 76. [Hebrew] Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2020.09.05 Noam MizrahiTel Aviv University I It is one of paradoxes that characterize the field of Qumran studies that, contrary to what one might ...

Mark S. Kinzer. Jerusalem Crucified, Jerusalem Risen: The Resurrected Messiah, the Jewish People, and the Land of Promise. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-5326-5337-7. Pp. 325. $39. Paperback. Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2020.07.04 Jocelyn McWhirterAlbion College In Jerusalem Crucified, Jerusalem Risen, Mark Kinzer presents a meticulous argument about the indispensable role of the Jewish people, the land of Israel, ...

    Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2020.02.03   Rivka Nir. The First Christian Believer: In Search of John the Baptist. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-910928-55-4. Pp. 300. $45. Hardback.   James McGrath Butler University   Rivka Nir’s book The First Christian Believer: In Search of John the Baptist offers a challenge to those who utilize the Gospels ...

  Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2020.02.02   Jennifer Otto. Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-19-882072-7. Pp. xi + 231. Hardcover: $93.   Carson Bay University of Bern    Philo of Alexandria is distinctive both as an ancient Mediterranean author/personality and as an object of scholarly inquiry. ...

    Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2020.02.01   Jonathan Miles Robker. Balaam in Text and Tradition. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 131. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. ISBN: 978-3-16-156355-3. Pp. xiii + 402. 124.00 €. Cloth.   Ethan Schwartz Harvard University   Balaam son of Beor is one of the most elusive and captivating characters in the Hebrew Bible. Known best ...

  Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.11.12   Anders Runesson. Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew: The Narrative World of the First Gospel. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8006-9959-8. Pp. 544. $99. Hardcover.    Brian Allen   For nearly two thousand years euangelion (good news) has been proclaimed, first by Jesus and his Jewish followers, and later by the Christian ...

  Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.11.11   David Hamidović, Xavier Levieils, Christophe Mézange, eds. Encyclopédie des messianismes juifs dans l’Antiquité. Biblical Tools and Studies 33. Leuven: Peeters, 2017. ISBN: 9789042935549. Pp. 527. 94 €. Hardcover.   Matthew V. Novenson, The Grammar of Messianism. An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780190255022. Pp. ...

    Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.11.10   Meredith J. C. Warren, Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature. Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series 14. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781628372380. Pp. xv + 189. $29.95. Paperback.   Rafael Rodríguez Johnson University   Intellectual discourse, of both the ancient and the modern varieties, prefers to conduct itself ...

    Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2019.08.10   David S. Powers, Zayd. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780812246179. Pp. 192. $59.95 USD. Cloth.   Ze’ev Maghen Professor of Persian Language and Islamic History Bar-Ilan University   The salience and significance of Judeo-Christian topoi in early Islamic historiography cannot be overstated.  The many latter-day attempts (most of them ...