Below are some of the books we added to our collection in September. 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.
- About Death Penalty Reflections on Legal History: From the Code of Hammurabi and Sumerian Precursors up to Germanic Law, the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages by Volker Krey (2019)
- Adopting the Stranger as Kindred in Deuteronomy (Ancient Israel and Its Literature) by Mark R. Glanville (2018)
- Ancient Cookware from the Levant: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective by Gloria London (2016)
- Ancient Law, Ancient Society by edited by Dennis P. Kehoe and Thomas A. J. McGinn (2017)
- Anthropology and New Testament Theology edited by Jason Maston and Benjamin E. Reynolds (2018)
- Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine by Karel van der Toorn (2019)
- The Birth of the Gospels as Biographies: With Analyses of Two Challenging Pericopae by Jean-Noël Aletti translated by Peggy Manning Meyer (2017)
- Borderline Virginities: Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity by Sissel Undheim (2018)
- Bullae from the Shara Temple: With Contributions by Hamza Shahad Al-Harbi and Adelheid Otto (Cuneiform Texts from the Iraqi Excavations at Umma (Jokha)) by Nawala Ahmed Al-Mutawalli, Khalid Salim Ismael, and Walther Sallaberger (2019)
- A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions by Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley (2009)
- Daughters in the Hebrew Bible by Kimberly D. Russaw (2018)
- Excavations in the Plain of Antioch III: Stratigraphy, Pottery, and Small Finds from Chatal Höyük in the Amuq Plain, (Part 1: Text & Part 2: Catalog & Plates) by Marina Pucci (2019)
- The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath by Joe Lieberman (2011)
- Gospel Patrons: People Whose Generosity Changed the World by John Rinehart (2013)
- The Hittite Gilgamesh (The Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplemental Series, Number 6) by Gary Beckman (2019)
- In the Lands of Sumer and Akkad: New Studies: A Conference in Honor of Jacob Klein on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday edited by Mordechai Cogan (2018)
- An Introduction to Israel’s Wisdom Traditions by John L. McLaughlin (2018)
- Introduction to Old Assyrian by N. J. C. Kouwenberg and K. R. Veenhof (2019)
- John 13-21 (Truth for Today Commentary) by David L. Lipe (2019)
- The Kingship of Jesus in the Gospel of John by Sehyun Kim (2018)
- Le-ma’an Ziony: Essays in Honor of Ziony Zevit edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn and Gary A. Rendsburg (2017)
- Mediterranean Families in Antiquity: Households, Extended Families, and Domestic Space edited by Sabine R. Huebner and Geoffrey Nathan (2017)
- Mesopotamia in the Ancient World: Impact, Continuities, Parallels: Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of the Melammu Project Held in Obergurgl, Austria, November 4-8, 2013 edited by Robert Rollinger and Erik van Dongen (2015)
- Miracles and the Kingdom of God: Christology and Social Identity in Mark and Q by Myrick C. Shinall Jr. (2018)
- Movement and Mobility between Egypt & the Southern Levant in the 2nd Millennium BCE edited by S. Cohen & M. J. Adams (2019)
- The Myth of the Dying Church: How Christianity is Actually Thriving in America and the World by Glenn T. Stanton (2019)
- New Testament Christianity in the Roman World (Essentials of Biblical Studies) by Harry O. Maier (2019)
- New Testament Lexicography: Introduction – Theory – Method (Fontes et Subsidia ad Bibliam Pertinentes) by Jesús Peláez and Juan Mateos (2018)
- Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research edited by Matthias Armgardt, Benjamin Kilchör, and Markus Zehnder (2019)
- Pastor Paul: Nurturing a Culture of Christoformity in the Church by Scot McKnight (2019)
- Psalms 73-150 (Reformation Commentary on Scripture: Old Testament VIII) by Herman J. Selderhuis (2018)
- Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity by John David Penniman (2017)
- Reading Jesus’ Bible: How the New Testament Helps Us Understand the Old Testament by John Goldingay (2017)
- The Rental of Houses in the Neo-Babylonian Period (VI – V Centuries BC) by Stefan Zawadzki (2018)
- Seeking out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 BCE – 400 CE) by Ze’ev Safrai (2018)
- “The Spirit Helps Our Weakness”: Rom 8:26a in Light of Paul’s Missiological Purpose for Writing the Letter to the Romans by Thomas A. Vollmer (2018)
- Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration II (Bo 6151 – Bo 9535) by Oguz Soysal and Basak Yildiz Gülsen(2019)
- Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids: Learnings and Conclusions from New Archaeological Investigations and Discoveries edited by Christoph Baumer and Mirko Novák (2019)
- The Vehement Jesus: Grappling with Troubling Gospel Texts by David J. Neville (2017)
- What If…God has Other Plans?: Finding Hope When Life Throws You the Unexpected by Charles R. Swindoll (2019)
- You Found Me: New Research on How Unchurched Nones, Millennials, and Irreligious Are Surprisingly Open to Christian Faith by Rick Richardson (2019)