We ordered a lot of books in the month of May! Below are some of the titles we added to our collection. 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 Corinthians (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament) by Paul Gardner (2018)
• 1 Peter: Reading against the Grain by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (2015)
• 1-2 Thessalonians (Wisdom Commentary) by Florence M. Gillman, Mary Ann Beavis, and HyeRan Kim-Cragg (2016)
• XV Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies: Munich, 2013 edited byWolfgang Draus, Michaël, N. van der Meer, and Martin Meiser (2016)
• About Tell Tweini (Syria): Artefacts, Ecofacts and Landscape: Research Results of the Belgian Mission edited by Joachim Bretschneider and Greta Jans (2019)
• The Acts of John by Richard I. Pervo (2016)
• Acts of Interpretation: Scripture, Theology, and Culture edited by S. A. Cummins and Jens Zimmermann (2018)
• Ambrosiaster’s Commentary on the Pauline Epistles: Romans by Theodore S. de Bruyn, Stephen A. Cooper, and David G. Hunter (2017)
• Ancient Apocryphal Gospels (Interpretation, Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church) by Markus Bockmuehl (2017)
• Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts by Richard K. Emmerson (2018)
• Apostle of Persuasion: Theology and Rhetoric in the Pauline Letters by James W. Thompson (2020)
• The Apostle Paul: His Life, Thought, and Letters by Stanley E. Porter (2016)
• Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish Antiquity by Jill Hicks-Keeton (2018)
• The Art of Divination in the Ancient Near East: Reading the Signs of Heaven and Earth by Stefan M. Maul (2018)
• Basil of Caesarea by Stephen M. Hildebrand (2018)
• Bedouin Culture in the Bible by Clinton Bailey (2018)
• “Because I Am Greek”: Polyonymy as an Expression of Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt by Sandra Coussement (2016)
• The Beloved Apostle?: The Transformation of the Apostle John into the Fourth Evangelist by Michael J. Kok (2017)
• Beware the Evil Eye: The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World: Volume 3: The Bible and Related Sources by John H. Elliott (2016)
• Beware the Evil Eye: The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World: Volume 4: Postbiblical Israel and Early Christianity through Late Antiquity by John H. Elliott (2017)
• The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field edited by Yvonne Sherwood (2017)
• Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories: A Student’s Guide to Nouns in the Old Testament by J. David Pleins (2017)
• Biblical Theology: Past, Present, and Future edited by Carey Walsh and Mark W. Elliott (2016)
• The Body of Jesus: A Spatial Analysis of the Kingdom in Matthew by Patrick Schreiner (2016)
• The Book of Esther and the Typology of Female Transfiguration in American Literature by Ariel Clark Silver (2018)  
• The Book of the Twelve and Beyond: Collected Essays of James D. Nogalski by James D. Nogalski (2017)
• The Books of Haggai and Malachi (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament) by Mignon R. Jacobs (2017)
• “But Their Faces Were All Looking Up”: Author and Reader in the Protevangelium of James by Eric M. Vanden Eykel (2016)
• Children in Ancient Israel: The Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia in Comparative Perspective by Shawn W. Flynn (2018) https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=12731&CodePage=12731
• The City in the Hebrew Bible: Critical, Literary and Exegetical Approaches edited by James K. Aitken and Hilary F. Marlow (2018)  
• Civilized Piety: The Rhetoric of Pietas in the Pastoral Epistles and the Roman Empire by T. Christopher Hoklotubbe (2017)
• The Coinage of Herod Antipas: A Study and Die Classification of the Earliest Coins of Galilee by Aaron J. Kogon and Jean-Philippe Fontanille (2018) https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=12584&CodePage=12584
• Conceptual Blending in Early Christian Discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Pastoral Metaphors in Patristic Literature by Aleksander Gomola (2018) https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=12310&CodePage=12310
• Confucius: The Man and the Way of Gongfu by Peimin Ni (2016)
• Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire by Duncan Fishwick (2014)
• Daniel’s Son of Man in Mark: A Redefinition of the Jerusalem Temple and the Formation of a New Covenant Community by Robert S. Snow (2016)
• The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John by Peter Claver Ajer (2016)
• Death’s Dominion: Power, Identity, and Memory at the Fourth-Century Martyr Shrine by Nathaniel J. Morehouse (2016)
• Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink: A Commentary by Naomi S. S. Jacobs (2018)
• Demons: What the Bible Really Says about the Powers of Darkness by Michael S. Heiser (2020)
• Development of an Icon: Solomon Before and After King David by John W. Herbst (2016)
• The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations: An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives by Robert D. Miller II (2018)
• Dying and Deliverance: Searching Paul’s Law-Gospel Tension by Gary E. Gilthvedt (2016)
• Ecclesia and Ethics: Moral Formation and the Church edited by E. Allen Jones III, John Frederick, John Anthony Dunne, Eric Lewellen, and Janghoon Park (2016)
• Ecological Aspects of War: Engagements with Biblical Texts edited by Anne Elvey and Keith Dyer with Deborah Guess (2017)
• Elijah, Yahweh, and Baal by Hermann Gunkel, edited and translated by K. C. Hanson (2014)
• Eloquence Divine: In Search of God’s Rhetoric by Phillip Arrington (2017)
• Emperors and Usurpers: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s ‘Roman History’ Books 79(78) –80(80) (A.D. 217-229) by Andrew G. Scott (2018)
• The Epistle to the Ephesians by Karl Barth (2017)
• Ethics in 1 Peter: The Imitatio Christi and the Ethics of Suffering in 1 Peter and the Gospel of Mark, A Comparative Study by Elritia Le Roux (2018)
• Exclusion and Judgment in Fellowship Meals: The Socio-historical Background of 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 by Lanuwabang Jamir (2016)
• Exploring Moral Injury in Sacred Texts edited by Dr. Joseph McDonald (2017)
• Exploring Zechariah, Volume 2: The Development and Role of Biblical Traditions in Zechariah by Mark J. Boda (2017)
• Ezra and the Second Wilderness by Philip Y. Yoo (2017)
• Ezra-Nehemiah (Historical Commentary on the Old Testament) by Bob Becking (2018)
• The Female Ruse: Women’s Deception & Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible by Rachel E. Adelman (2017)
• The Family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Interpretations by Carol Bakhos (2014)
• ‘For She Has Heard’: The Standing Stone in Joshua 24 and the Development of a Covenant Symbol by Elizabeth Berne DeGear (2015)
• Four Testaments: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita: Sacred Scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism by Brian Arthur Brown (2016)
• Friendship and Virtue Ethics in the Book of Job by Patricia Vesely (2019)
• Genesis as Torah: Reading Narrative as Legal Instruction by Brian Neil Peterson (2018)
• The Gospel According to Heretics: Discovering Orthodoxy through Early Christological Conflicts by David E. Wilhite (2015)
• The Gospel According to Luke: Volume I (Luke 1-9:50) by Michael Wolter (2016)
• The Gospel According to Luke: Volume II (Luke 9:51-24) by Michael Wolter (2017)
• Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman (2020)
• Hebrews (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture) by Mary Healy (2016)
• Helping Jesus Fulfill Prophecy by Robert J. Miller (2016)
• The Hermeneutics of Divine Testing: Cosmic Trials and Biblical Interpretation in the Epistle of James and Other Jewish Literature by Nicholas Ellis (2015)
• Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts by Frank Dicken (2014)
• Heroines, Heroes and Deity: Three Narratives of the Biblical Heroic Tradition by Dolores G. Kamrada (2016)
• Hidden Criticism?: The Methodology and Plausibility of the Search for a Counter-Imperial Subtext in Paul by Christoph Heilig (2017)
• The History of the University of Oxford, Volume I: The Early Oxford Schools by J. I. Catto (1984)
• The History of the University of Oxford, Volume II: Late Medieval Oxford by J. I. Catto and Ralph Evans (1993)
• The History of the University of Oxford, Volume III: The Collegiate University by James McConica (1986)
• The History of the University of Oxford, Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford by Nicholas Tyacke (1997)
• The History of the University of Oxford, Volume V: The Eighteenth Century by L. S. Sutherland and L. G. Mitchell (1986)
• The History of the University of Oxford, Volume VI: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 1 by M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys (1998)
• The History of the University of Oxford, Volume VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2 by M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys (2000)
• The History of the University of Oxford, Volume VIII: The Twentieth Century by Brian Harrison (1994)
• How Children Read Biblical Narrative: An Investigation of Children’s Readings of the Gospel of Luke by Melody R. Briggs (2017)
• Imprecation as Divine Discourse: Speech Act Theory, Dual Authorship, and Theological Interpretation by Kit Barker (2016)
• The Integrity of 2 Corinthians and Paul’s Aggravating Absence by Christopher D. Land (2015)
• Intermediate Greek Grammar: Syntax for Students of the New Testament by David L. Mathewson and Elodie Ballantine Emig (2016)
• Interpreting the Text: Essays on the Old Testament, Its Reception & Its Study by Roger Tomes (2015)
• Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature edited by Jeremy Corley and Geoffrey David Miller (2019)
• Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics: A Comprehensive Framework for Hearing God in Scripture by Craig G. Bartholomew (2015)
• Introduction to the New Testament, Reference Edition by Carl R. Holladay (2017)
• Inventing the Passion: How the Death of Jesus Was Remembered by Arthur J. Dewey (2017)
• The Invention of God by Thomas Römer, translated by Raymond Geuss (2015)  
• The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus by Jan Assmann, translated by Robert Savage (2018)
• Jesus and His Enemies: Narrative Conflict in the Four Gospels by Robert R. Beck (2017)  
• Jesus Followers in the Roman Empire by Paul B. Duff (2017)
• Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: Mandating a Better Righteousness by Jack R. Lundbom (2015)
• The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought edited by Benjamin E. Reynolds and Loren T. Stuckenbruck (2017)
• John: An Earth Bible Commentary: Supposing Him to be the Gardener by Margaret Daly-Denton (2017)
• John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel by Troels Engberg-Pedersen (2017)
• Judea Under Roman Domination: The First Generation of Statelessness and Its Legacy by Nadav Sharon (2017)  
• A Kingdom for a Stage: Political and Theological Reflection in the Hebrew Bible by Mark W. Hamilton (2018)
• Layer by Layer: A Primer on Biblical Archaeology by Ellen White (2019)
• The Letter to the Romans: A Linguistic and Literary Commentary by Stanley E. Porter (2015)
• Marriage by Capture in the Book of Judges: An Anthropological Approach by Katherine E. Southwood (2017)
• The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel by Steven Fine (2016)
• The Messiah of Peace: A Performance-Criticism Commentary on Mark’s Passion-Resurrection Narrative by Thomas E. Boomershine (2015)
• Metaphors and Social Identity Formation in Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians by Kar Yong Lim (2017)
• Money and Possessions by Walter Brueggemann (2016)
• Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews edited by Katherine M. Hockey, Madison N. Pierce and Francis Watson (2019)
• The New Cambridge History of the Bible, Volume 2: From 600 to 1450 edited by Richard Marsden and E. Ann Matter (2012)
• The New Cambridge History of the Bible, Volume 3: From 1450 to 1750 edited by Euan Cameron (2016)
• The New Cambridge History of the Bible, Volume 4: From 1750 to the Present edited by John Riches (2015)  
• The New Testament in the Graeco-Roman world: Articles in Honour of Abe Malherbe edited by Marius Nel, Jan G. van der Watt, and Fika J. van Rensburg (2015)
• New Testament Philology: Essays in Honor of David Alan Black by Melton Bennett Winstead (2018)
• New Theologies of the Old Testament and History: The Function of History in Modern Biblical Scholarship by Petr Sláma (2017)  
• The Offering of the Gentiles: Paul’s Collection for Jerusalem in Its Chronological, Cultural, and Cultic Contexts by David J. Downs (2016)
• Oral Tradition and Synoptic Verbal Agreement: Evaluating the Empirical Evidence for Literary Dependence by T. M. Derico (2016)
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology: Two-Volume Set by Samuel E. Balentine (2015)
• The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets edited by Carolyn J. Sharp (2016)
• The Parables in Q by Dieter T. Roth (2018)
• Parabolic Figures or Narrative Fictions?: Seminal Essays on the Stories of Jesus by Charles W. Hedrick (2016)
• Paul and the Synoptic Jesus Tradition by Heinz Hiestermann (2017)
• Paul’s Letters and the Construction of the European Self by Fatima Tofighi (2017)
• Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle by Paula Fredriksen (2017)
• The Pausal System: Divisions in the Hebrew Biblical Text as Marked by Voweling and Stress Position by E. J. Revell (2015)
• The Pentateuch: Introducing the Torah by Thomas B. Dozeman (2017)
• Persuading God: Rhetorical Studies of First-Person Psalms by Davida H. Charney (2017)
• Porphyry in Fragments: Reception of an Anti-Christian Text in Late Antiquity by Ariane Magny (2014)
• Possessions and Family in the Writings of Luke: Questioning the Unity of Luke’s Ethics by Stefan Nordgaard (2017)
• Proverbs (Wisdom Commentary) by Alice Ogden Bellis (2018)
• Psalms for You by Christopher Ash (2020)
• The Psalms of the Faithful: Luther’s Early Reading of the Psalter in Canonical Context by Brian T. German (2017)
• The Psalter as Witness: Theology, Poetry, and Genre; Proceedings from the Baylor University-University of Bonn Symposium on the Psalter edited by W. Dennis Tucker, Jr. and W. H. Bellinger, Jr. (2017)
• Q, the First Writing about Jesus by Yoseop Ra (2016)
• The Quest for Mark’s Sources: An Exploration of the Case for Mark’s Use of First Corinthians by Thomas P. Nelligan (2015)
• The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity by Peter Brown (2015)
• Reading Ruth in Asia edited by Jione Havea and Peter H. W. Lau (2015)
• Reading the Gospel of Mark as a Novel by Geert Van Oyen, translated by Leslie Robert Keylock (2014)
• Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah: The Most perfect Model of the Prophetic Poetry by J. Blake Couey (2015)
• Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond edited by Lorenzo Verderame and Agnés Garcia-Ventura (2020)
• Redescribing the Gospel of Mark edited by Barry S. Crawford and Merrill P. Miller (2017)
• Reflections on the Existence of God: A Series of Essays by Richard E. Simmons III (2019)
• The Reformation to the Modern Church edited by Keith D. Stanglin (2014)
• Representing Zion: Judgement and Salvation in the Old Testament by Frederik Poulsen (2015)  
• Resurrection: A Guide for the Perplexed by Lidija Novakovic (2016)
• Rethinking Biblical Scholarship: Changing Perspectives 4 by Philip R. Davies (2014)
• Romans 7 and Christian Identity: A Study of the ‘I’ in Its Literary Context by Will N. Timmins (2017)
• Ruth (Wisdom Commentary) by Alice L. Laffey and Mahri Leonard-Fleckman (2017)
• The Sabbath Complete: And the Ascendency of First-Day Worship by Terrence D. O’Hare (2011)
• Sacrifice and Atonement: Psychological Motives and Biblical Patterns by Stephen Finlan (2016)
• A Samoan Reading of Discipleship in Matthew by Vaitusi Nofoaiga (2017)
• Scribal Composition: Malachi as a Test Case by Sheree Lear (2018)
• Scribal Culture and Intertextuality by Jiseong James Kwon (2016)
• Scripture’s Knowing: A Companion to Biblical Epistemology by Dru Johnson (2015)
• The Shape of the Writings by Julius Steinberg and Timothy J. Stone (2015)
• Stepping to the Dance: The Training of a Family by Carolyn Cressy Wells (1998)
• The Straight Mind in Corinth: Queer Readings Across 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 by Gillian Townsley (2017)
• The Testimony of the Exalted Jesus in the Book of Revelation by Sarah S. U. Dixon (2017)
• That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation by David Bentley Hart (2019)
• A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament by Mark W. Hamilton (2018)
• To All the Nations: Lutheran Hermeneutics and the Gospel of Matthew edited by Kenneth Mtata and Craig Koester (2015)
• Translation Theory and the Old Testament in Matthew: The Possibilities of Skopos Theory by Woojin Chung (2017)
• Two Puzzling Baptisms:First Corinthians 10:1-5 and 15:29; Studies in Their Judaic Background by Roger David Aus (2017)
• The Urban World and the First Christians edited by Steve Walton, Paul R. Trebilco, and David W. J. Gill (2017)
• Use of the Third Person for Self-Reference by Jesus and Yahweh: A Study of Illeism in the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Texts and its Implications for Christology by Roderick Elledge (2017)
• Ushering in a New Republic: Theologies of Arrival at Rome in the First Century BCE by Trevor S. Luke (2014)  
• Where is God in the Megilloth?: A Dialogue on the Ambiguity of Divine Presence and Absence by Brittany N. Melton (2018)
• Witnessing a Prophetic Text in the Making: The Literary, Textual and Linguistic Development of Jeremiah 10:1-16 by Noam Mizrahi (2019)
• Women of War, Women of Woe: Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters edited by Marion Ann Taylor and Christiana De Groot (2016)