We ordered LOTS of books during the pandemic stay at home order. Below are some of the titles we added to our collection in April. Some books may be linked to reviews. Books linked to Review of Biblical Literature require a Society of Biblical Literature membership to see the full review, but you can read a brief description with the link provided.

• 1 & 2 Thessalonians (Zondervan Critical Introductions to the New Testament) by Nijay K. Gupta (2019)
• The Absence of God in Biblical Rape Narratives by Leah Rediger Schulte (2017)
• Acts: Volume 2B (Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary) by Clinton E. Arnold
• Acts of the Apostles and the Rhetoric of Roman Imperialism by Drew W. Billings (2017) 
• All the Fullness of God: The Christ of Colossians by Bonnie Bowman Thurston (2017)
• America’s Religious History: Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation by Thomas S. Kidd (2019)
• Amos: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (The Anchor Yale Bible) by Göran Eidevall (2017)
• Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Palaces, Volume II: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the 10^th ICAANE in Vienna, 25-26 April 2016 edited by Manfred Bietak, Paolo Matthiae and Silvia Prell (2019)
• Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) by Emma Wasserman (2018)
• Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism by Dylan M. Burns (2014) https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10572&CodePage=10572
• Apocalyptic Ecology: The Book of Revelation, the Earth, and the Future by Micah D. Kiel (2017) https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11841&CodePage=11841
• The Apostolic Fathers: A New Translation by Rick Brannan (2017)
• Arabic Christian Theology: A Contemporary Global Evangelical Perspective edited by Andrea Zaki Stephanous (2019)
• Aramaic Magic Bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin: Descriptive List and Edition of Selected Texts by Siam Bhayro, James Nathan Ford, Dan Levene, and Ortal-Paz Saar (2018)
• An Archaeology of Egyptian Monasticism: Settlement, Economy and Daily Life at the White Monastery Federation by Louise Blanke (2019)
• Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt by Henry Colburn (2020)
• The Assurance of Salvation: Biblical Hope for Our Struggles by Robert A. Peterson (2019)
• At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire by Heidi Wendt (2016)
• Basics of Ancient Ugaritic: A Concise Grammar, Workbook, and Lexicon by Michael Williams (2012)
• Basics of Hebrew Discourse: A Guide to Working with Hebrew Prose and Poetry by Matthew H. Patton Frederic Clarke Putnam (2019)
• Before the Bible: The Liturgical Body and the Formation of Scriptures in Early Judaism by Judith H. Newman (2018)
• ‘Behold, the Angels Came and Served Him’: A Compositional Analysis of Angels in Matthew by Kristian A. Bendoraitis (2015)
• Being Jewish in Galilee, 100-200 CE: An Archaeological Study by Rick Bonnie (2019)
• Believers: Faith in Human Nature by Melvin Konner, MD (2019)
• Bible and Transformation: the Promise of Intercultural Bible Reading edited by Hans de Wit and Janet Dyk (2015)
• Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary in Context: Building Competency with Words Occurring 50 Times or More by Miles V. Van Pelt and Gary D. Pratico (2019)
• Biblical Terror: Why Law and Restoration in the Bible Depend Upon Fear by Jeremiah W. Cataldo (2017)
• Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-First Century by Dale B. Martin (2017)
• The Book of Jeremiah (The Bible in Medieval Tradition) edited and translated by Joy A. Schroeder (2017)
• The Books of the Twelve Prophets: Minor Prophets – Major Theologies by Heinz-Josef Fabry (2018)
• Cast Out of the Covenant: Jews and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John by Adele Reinhartz (2018)
• Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People after Vatican II by Gavin D’Costa (2019)
• Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire: Prolegomena to a History of Early Christian Theology by Christoph Markschies, translated by Wayne Coppins (2015)
• Christ’s First Theologian: The Shape of Paul’s Thought by Leander Keck (2015)
• The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Text and Archaeology: A Survey and Analysis of Past Excavations and Recent Archaeological Research with a Collection of Principal Historical Sources by Justin L. Kelley (2019)
• Cognitive Science & the New Testament: A New Approach to Early Christian Research by István Czachesz (2017)
• Colossians (Black’s New Testament Commentaries) by Paul Foster (2016)
• Communities of the Qur’an: Dialogue, Debate and Diversity in the 21^st Century edited by Emran El-Badawi and Paula Sanders (2019)
• A Concise History of Ancient Israel: From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era by Bernd U. Schipper, translated by Michael Lesley (2019)
• Contemporary Theology: An Introduction: Classical, Evangelical, Philosophical & Global Perspectives by Kirk R. MacGregor (2019)
• Costly Obedience: What We can Learn from the Celibate Gay Christian Community by Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets (2019)
• Cultural Apologetics: Renewing the Christian Voice, Conscience, and Imagination in a Disenchanted World by Paul M. Gould (2019)
• Daniel, Volume 30, Revised Edition (Word Biblical Commentary) by John Goldingay (2019)
• Dating Deuteronomy: The Wellhausen Fallacy by Josef Schubert (2018)
• Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann (2005)
• The Development of God in the Old Testament: Three Case Studies in Biblical Theology by Markus Witte (2017)
• The Dionysian Gospel: The Fourth Gospel and Euripides by Dennis R. MacDonald (2017)
• Divine Action and Providence: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics (Los Angeles Theology Conference Series) edited by Oliver D. Crisp and Fred Sanders (2019)
• Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew: The Narrative World of the First Gospel by Anders Runesson (2016)
• Do Christians, Muslims, and Jews Worship the Same God?: Four Views (Counterpoints: Bible & Theology) by John B. Cobb, Jr., Francis J. Beckwith, et al (2019)
• Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream edited by Stephen Mitchell and Philipp Pilhofer (2019)
• Early Jewish Writings edited by Eileen Schuller and Marie-Theres Wacker (2017)
• Encountering World Religions: A Christian Introduction by Irving Hexham (2019)
• Ephesian Women in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Perspective by Elif Hilal Karaman (2018)
• Ephesians (Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament) by Benjamin L. Merkle (2016)  
• Ephesians and Artemis: The Cult of the Great Goddess of Ephesus as the Epistle’s Context by Michael Immendörfer (2017)
• The Eschatology of 1 Peter: Considering the Influence of Zechariah 9-14 by Kelly D. Liebengood (2014)
• Exodus (Apollos Old Testament Commentary) by T. Desmond Alexander (2017)
• Explorations in Interdisciplinary Reading: Theological, Exegetical, and Reception-Historical Perspectives edited by Robbie F. Castleman, Darian R. Locket, and Stephen O. Presley (2017)
• Exploring Zechariah, Volume 1: The Development of Zechariah and Its Role within the Twelve by Mark J. Boda (2017)
• Expressions of Cult in the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period: Manifestations in Text and Material Culture edited by Oren Tal and Zeev Weiss (2017)
• Ezra-Nehemiah: Israel’s Quest for Identity by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (2017)
• Fighting for the King and the Gods: A Survey of Warfare in the Ancient Near East by Charlie Trimm (2017)
• Finding Quiet: My Story of Overcoming Anxiety and the Practices that Brought Peace by J. P. Moreland (2019)
• Five Views on the Extent of the Atonement (Counterpoints: Bible & Theology) by Andrew Louth, Matthew Levering, et al (2019)
• From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity by Kyle Harper (2016)
• Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis: Demosthenes – Cicero – Paul by Nina E. Livesey (2016)
• Gendering War and Peace in the Gospel of Luke by Caryn A. Reeder (2019)
• Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem by Michael Schmidt (2019)
• The God of This Age: Satan in the Churches and Letters of the Apostle Paul by Derek R. Brown (2015)
• The God of Thunder and War in Micah, Habakkuk, and Zechariah by Jamie A. Banister (2018)
• Good Girls, Bad Girls of the New Testament: Their Enduring Lessons by T. J. Wray (2016)  
• The Gospel-Driven Church: Uniting Church-Growth Dreams with the Metrics of Grace by Jared C. Wilson (2019)
• Gospel of Glory: Major Themes in Johannine Theology by Richard Bauckham (2015)
• The Gospel of Mark and the Roman-Jewish War of 66-70 CE: Jesus’ Story as a Contrast to the Events of the War by Stephen Simon Kimondo (2018)
• The Gospel of Matthew on the Landscape of Antiquity by Edwin K. Broadhead (2017)
• Habakkuk by Heath A. Thomas (2018)
• Healing Together: A Guide to Supporting Sexual Abuse Survivors by Anne Marie Miller (2019)
• The Heartbeat of Old Testament Theology: Three Creedal Expressions by Mark J. Boda (2017)
• The Hebrew Bible of Josephus: Main Features by Étienne Nodet (2018)
• The Holy One of Israel by Lenn E. Goodman (2019)
• The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry by Cynthia R. Chapman (2016)
• The Imago Dei as Human Identity: A Theological Interpretation by Ryan S. Peterson (2016)
• In the Fullness of Time: Essays on Christology, Creation, and Eschatology in Honor of Richard Bauckham edited by Daniel M. Gurtner, Grant Macaskill, and Jonathan T. Pennington (2016)
• Inconsistency in the Torah: Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism by Joshua A. Berman (2017)
• Insights from African American Interpretation by Mitzi J. Smith (2017)
• An Introduction to Biblical Law by William S. Morrow (2017)
• The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul by John J. Collins (2017)
• The Irony of Power: The Politics of God within Matthew’s Narrative by Dorothy Jean Weaver (2017)
• Jesus in Asia by R. S. Sugirtharajah (2018)
• Jesus, Skepticism & the Problem of History: Criteria & Context in the Study of Christian Origins edited by Darrell L. Bock and J. Ed Komoszewski (2019)
• Jesus the Priest by Nicholas Perrin (2018)
• Jews and Anti-Judaism in Esther and the Church by Tricia Miller (2015)
• John and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context edited by R. Alan Culpepper and Paul N. Anderson (2017)
• Jonah, Second Edition: A Discourse Analysis of the Hebrew Bible (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament) by Kevin J. Youngblood (2019)
• Joseph: Portraits through the Ages by Alan T. Levenson (2016)
• Joshua (The Story of God Bible Commentary) by Lissa M. Wray Beal (2019)
• Judges & Ruth (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) by Laura A. Smit & Stephen E. Fowl (2018)
• The Kingdom of God: A Biblical Theology (Biblical Theology for Life) by Nicholas Perrin (2019)
• Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah by Ian D. Wilson (2017)  
• Lamentations (Wisdom Commentary) by Gina Hens-Piazza (2017)
• The Last Years of Paul Essays from the Tarragona Conference, June 2013 edited by Armand Puig i Tàrrech, John M. G. Barclay, and Jörg Frey (2015)
• Life in Kings: Reshaping the Royal Story in the Hebrew Bible (Ancient Israel and Its Literature) by A. Graeme Auld (2017)
• Liquid Scripture: The Bible in a Digital World by Jeffrey S. Siker (2017)
• Love, Loss, and Abjection: The Journey of New Birth in the Gospel of John by Melanie Baffes (2016)
• The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism by Jon D. Levenson (2016)
• Lucifer of Cagliari and the Text of 1-2 Kings by Tuukka Kauhanen (2018)
• Macedonia – Alexandria: Monumental Funerary Complexes of the Late Classical and Hellenistic Age by Dorota Gorzelany (2019)
• A Man Attested by God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels by J. R. Daniel Kirk (2016)
• Maternal Grief in the Hebrew Bible by Ekaterina E. Kozlova (2017)  
• Matthew’s Theological Grammar: The Father and the Son by Joshua E. Leim (2015)
• Middle Babylonian Literary Texts from the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection, Jena by Elyze Zomer (2019)
• The Mosaic of Atonement: An Integrated Approach to Christ’s Work by Joshua M. McNall (2019)
• Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah (Wisdom Commentary) by Wilda C. M. Gafney (2017)  
• Negotiating the Disabled Body: Representations of Disability in Early Christian Texts by Anna Rebecca Solevåg (2018)
• A New Heaven, A New Earth: The Bible and Catholicity by Dianne Bergant (2016)
• A New People in Christ: Adam, Israel, and Union with Christ in Romans by Wendel Sun (2018)
• Old Testament Conceptual Metaphors and the Christology of Luke’s Gospel by Gregory R. Lanier (2018)
• The Opening of John’s Narrative (John 1:19-2:22): Historical, Literary, and Theological Readings from the Colloquium Ioanneum 2015 in Ephesus edited by R. Alan Culpepper and Jörg Frey
• The Origin of Divine Christology by Andrew Ter Ern Loke (2017)  
• The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age by Steven Weitzman (2017)
• Others and the Construction of Early Christian Identities edited by Raimo Hakola, Nina Nikki and Ulla Tervahauta (2013)
• The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough (2018)
• Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by Jörg Rüpke (2018)
• The Parables After Jesus: Their Imaginative Receptions Across Two Millennia by David B. Gowler (2017)
• Patristic and Medieval Atonement Theory: A Guide to Research by Junius Johnson (2016)
• Paul and His Letters: Thinking with Josephus by F. F. A. Asiedu (2020)
• Paul: Windows on His Thought & His World by Maria Pascuzzi (2014)  
• Philemon: Imagination, Labor, and Love by Robert Seesengood (2017)  
• Philippians, Colossians, Philemon (Wisdom Commentary) by Elsa Tamez, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Claire Miller Colombo, and Alica J. Batten (2017)
• Proverbs and the Formation of Character by Dave Bland (2015)  
• Psalms Old and New: Exegesis, Intertextuality, and Hermeneutics by Ben Witherington III (2017)
• Pseudepigraphy and Ethical Argument in the Pastoral Epistles by Lewis R. Donelson (2015)
• Puzzling the Parables of Jesus: Methods and Interpretation by Ruben Zimmermann (2015)
• The Rationale for Aniconism in the Old Testament: A Study of Select Texts by Manoja Kumar Korada (2017)
• Reading Acts by Joshua W. Jipp (2018)
• Reading Dionysus: Euripides’ Bacchae and the Cultural Contestations of Greeks, Jews, Romans, and Christians by Courtney J. P. Friesen (2015)
• Reading Isaiah: A Literary and Theological Commentary by Hyun Chul Paul Kim (2016)
• Reading John by Christopher W. Skinner (2015)
• Reading Revelation in Context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism edited by Ben C. Blackwell, John K. Goodrich, and Jason Maston (2019)
• Reconceiving Infertility: Biblical Perspectives on Procreation & Childlessness by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden (2015)
• Redescribing Jesus’ Divinity Through a Social Science Theory: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Forgiveness and Divine Identity in Ancient Judaism and Mark 2:1–12 by Beniamin Pascut (2017)
• Reign and Religion in Palestine: The Use of Sacred Iconography in Jewish Coinage by Anne Lykke (2015)
• A Relevant Way to Read: A New Approach to Exegesis and Communication by Margaret G. Sim (2016)
• Religion As We Know It: An Origin Story by Jack Miles (2020)
• Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism 200 BCE-CE 200 by C. D. Elledge (2017)
• Revelation: A Handbook on the Greek Text by David L. Mathewson (2016)
• Sacred Tradition in the New Testament: Tracing Old Testament Themes in the Gospels and Epistles by Stanley E. Porter (2016)
• Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King by Matthew W. Bates (2017)
• The Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives edited by Jan Dušek (2018)
• A Scriptural Theology of Eucharistic Blessings by Susan I. Bubbers (2013)
• A Seal Upon the Heart: God’s Wisdom and the Meaning of Marriage – A Devotional by Timothy Keller (2019)
• Septuaginta: Paralipomenon Liber II (Vetus Testamentum Graecum)edited by Robert Hanhart (2014)
• The Son of Mary: The Family of Jesus and the Community of Faith in the Fourth Gospel by Margaret Wesley (2015)
• Spirit and Sacrament: An Invitation to Eucharismatic Worship by Andrew Wilson (2018)
• A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity by Richard E. Payne (2015)
• The Story of Jesus in History and Faith: An Introduction by Lee Martin McDonald (2013)
• The Studia Philonica Annual XXIX, 2017: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism edited by David T. Runia and Gregory E. Sterling
• Studies in Isaiah: History, Theology, and Reception edited by Tommy Wasserman, Greger Andersson, and David Willgren (2017)
• A Study Companion to Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Second Edition by Ryan P. Bonfiglio (2014)
• Subtle Citation, Allusion, and Translation in the Hebrew Bible edited by Ziony Zevit (2017)
• Suffering in the Face of Death: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Its Context of Situation by Bryan R. Dyer (2017)
• The Tekenu and Ancient Egyptian Funerary Ritual by Glennise West (2019)
• That He Might Be Revealed: Water Imagery and the Identity of Jesus in the Gospel of John by Rhonda G. Crutcher (2015)
• Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, Volume 16: Aramaic Dictionary edited by Holger Gzella (2018)
• The Theology of the Body: Human Love in the Divine Plan by John Paul II (1997)
• Trajectories of Justice: What the Bible Says about Slaves, Women, and Homosexuality by Robert Karl Gnuse (2015)  
• Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality (Sather Classical Lectures, Volume 73) by Tonio Hölscher (2018)
• A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible: Seeing and Knowing God’s Word by Tim Challies and Josh Byers (2019)
• Visualizing Emotions in the Ancient Near East edited by Sara Kipfer (2017)
• Vox Petri: A Theology of Peter by Gene L. Green (2019)
• Washing Away Sin: An Analysis of the Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible and Its Influence by Lesley R. DiFransico (2016)
• What Has Jerusalem to Do with Beijing?: Biblical Interpretation from a Chinese Perspective by K. K. Yeo (2018)
• When Gods Speak to Men: Divine Speech According to Textual Sources in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin edited by Stéphanie Anthonioz, Alice Mouton, and Daniel Petit (2019)
• When I Die, Bury Me Well: Death, Burial, Almsgiving, and Restoration in the Book of Tobit by Francis M. Macatangay (2016)
• When Texts Are Canonized (Brown Judaic Studies) by Timothy H. Lim (2017)
• Who Needs the Old Testament?: Its Enduring Appeal and Why the New Atheists Don’t Get It by Katharine Dell (2017)
• Why Christ Matters: Toward a New Testament Christology by Leander Keck (2015)
• Women in the story of Jesus: The Gospels through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters edited by Marion Ann Taylor and Heather E. Weir (2016)
• Zondervan Essential Companion to Christian History by Stephen Backhouse (2019)