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Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2017.11.09 Jane McAuliffe, ed., The Qur’ān: A Revised Translation. Origins. Interpretations and Analysis. Sounds, Sights, and Remedies. The Qur’ān in America. Norton Critical Editions: Ancient, Classical, and Medieval Eras. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-393-92705-4. Pp. 688. $31.25. Paperback. Carlos A. Segovia Saint Louis University Although the book will ...
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Rodney A. Caruthers II reviews “The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative”
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2017.07.08 Futre Pinheiro, M., Judith Perkins, Richard I. Pervo, eds., The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 16. Eelde: Groningen: Barkhuis; Groningen University Library, 2012. ISBN: 9789491431210. Pp. xx + 230. €70.00. Hardcover. Rodney A. Caruthers II University of Michigan Introduction The Ancient Novel and Early Christian ...
Read More »Robert Foster reviews “Persepolis and Jerusalem: Iranian Influence on the Apocalyptic Hermeneutic” by Jason M. Silverman
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2017.07.07 Jason M. Silverman, Persepolis and Jerusalem: Iranian Influence on the Apocalyptic Hermeneutic. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 558. London: T&T Clark, 2012. ISBN: 9780567205513. Pp. 320. £106.20. Hardback. Robert Foster Madonna University Did Persian Zoroastrianism inspire the apocalyptic turn among various Jewish sects of the early Second Temple Period? It is a ...
Read More »Simon Crisp reviews “The Language and Literature of the New Testament: Essays in Honor of Stanley E. Porter’s 60th Birthday”
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2017.07.06 K. Fuller Dow, Craig A. Evans, and Andrew W. Pitts, eds., The Language and Literature of the New Testament: Essays in Honor of Stanley E. Porter’s 60th Birthday. Biblical Interpretation Series 150. Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN: 978-90-04-33489-2. Pp. xxv + 821. $271.00. Hardback. Simon Crisp Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing University of Birmingham, ...
Read More »Rafael Rodríguez reviews “Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity” (ed. Karl Galinsky)
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2017.07.05 Karl Galinsky, ed., Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780198744764. Pp. xiv + 406. $135.00. Hardcover. Rafael Rodríguez Johnson University “Memory studies have burgeoned, nay exploded, in the past three decades” (v). Thus opens this collection of essays from the Memoria Romana project. Karl Galinsky provides a ...
Read More »Albert Baumgarten reviews “Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast” by Aaron Hughes
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2017.03.04 Aaron W. Hughes, Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast. New York: New York University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4798-8585-5. Pp. 319. $35.00. Hardcover. Albert I. Baumgarten Bar Ilan University i Aaron Hughes’ book, Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast opens with the observation that: Jacob Neusner is one of the most important scholars in the history ...
Read More »Rewriting Ancient Jewish History
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2017.02.03 Amram Tropper, Rewriting Ancient Jewish History: The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. ISBN: 1138641480. Pp. viii + 220. $140.00. Hardback. Joshua Schwartz Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel As I sat down to write this review, I could not but think of Prof. Jacob ...
Read More »Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2017.02.02 Mark Finney, Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife: Body and Soul in Antiquity, Judaism and Early Christianity. New York and London: Routledge, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-138-64765-7. 203 pp. $140.00 cloth/ebook. John Granger Cook LaGrange College Mark Finney’s short monograph on resurrection, hell, and the afterlife in ancient paganism, Judaism, and ...
Read More »People under Power: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Empire
Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2017.02.01 Michael Labahn and Outi Lehtipuu, eds., People under Power: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Empire. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015. ISBN:9789089645890. Pp 272. € 99,00. Hardback. Nadav Sharon The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The purpose of this volume is to present a variety of ancient Jewish and Christian responses to the ...
Read More »Paul the Jew
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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