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Catch-up post on recent reviews added to the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading; tons of material of interest here:

Paul J. Achtemeier
Jesus and the Miracle Tradition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6183
Reviewed by Michael Labahn

Roland Boer, ed.
Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6214
Reviewed by David W. Williams

Maria Brutti
The Development of the High Priesthood during the Pre-Hasmonean Period: History, Ideology, Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6095
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Leslie Houlden, ed.
Decoding Early Christianity: Truth and Legend in the Early Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6256
Reviewed by Robert M. Bowman Jr.

Karen L. King
The Secret Revelation of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5160
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Douglas E. Oakman
Jesus and the Peasants
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6327
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck

Richard Liong-Seng Phua
Idolatry and Authority: A Study of 1 Corinthians 8.1-11.1 in the Light of the Jewish Diaspora
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6189
Reviewed by Scott E. McClelland

Tom Thatcher, ed.
What We Have Heard from the Beginning: The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6285
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Nancy M. Tischler
Thematic Guide to Biblical Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6228
Reviewed by Gerbern Oegema

Valerie M. Warrior
Roman Religion
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5576
Reviewed by Honora Howell Chapman

Francis Watson
Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6165
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Efrain Agosto
Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5294
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

L. William Countryman
Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6220
Reviewed by Will Deming

April D. DeConick
The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6163
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep

Oskar Skarsaune and Reidar Hvalvik, eds.
Jewish Believers in Jesus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5985
Reviewed by Elizabeth Boddens Hosang and Bart J. Koet

Roland Boer
Rescuing the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6394
Reviewed by D. A. Carson

April D. DeConick
The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6163
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

John H. Elliott
1 Peter: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6653
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Jane DeRose Evans
The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy of Palestine
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6191
Reviewed by Mark R. Fairchild

Albert V. Garcilazo
The Corinthian Dissenters and the Stoics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6209
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

Suzanne Watts Henderson
Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5298
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Pheme Perkins
Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6212
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

Wayne G. Rollins and D. Andrew Kille, eds.
Psychological Insight into the Bible: Texts and Readings
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6005
Reviewed by E. H. Scheffler

Phillip Sigal
The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth according to the Gospel of Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6145
Reviewed by Roland Deines
Reviewed by Dorothy Jean Weaver

Jan G. van der Watt
An Introduction to the Johannine Gospel and Letters
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6445
Reviewed by Tom Thatcher

Kevin L. Anderson
"But God Raised Him from the Dead": The Theology of Jesus' Resurrection in Luke-Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6246
Reviewed by Lidija Novakovic

Norbert Baumert
Sorgen des Seelsorgers: Übersetzung und Auslegung des ersten Korintherbriefes
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6277
Reviewed by Helmut Schwier

Adela Yarbro Collins
Mark: A Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6221
Reviewed by Edwin Broadhead

Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough, eds.
The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the "Other" in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6193
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Mary Gerhart and Fabian E. Udoh, eds.
The Christianity Reader
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6068
Reviewed by Mark Reasoner

Rowan A. Greer and Margaret M. Mitchell
The "Belly-Myther" of Endor: Interpretations of 1 Kingdoms 28 in the Early Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5977
Reviewed by D. Jeffrey Bingham

Christiana de Groot and Marion Ann Taylor, eds.
Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6110
Reviewed by Athalya Brenner

Andrew M. Mbuvi
Temple, Exile and Identity in 1 Peter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6310
Reviewed by David G. Horrell

André Munzinger
Discerning the Spirits: Theological and Ethical Hermeneutics in Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6172
Reviewed by Lee S. Bond
Reviewed by Victor Paul Furnish

Stephen W. Need
Paul Today: Challenging Readings of Acts and the Epistles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6065
Reviewed by Steve Walton

Barclay M. Newman, ed.
The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader's Edition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6215
Reviewed by Steven R. Johnson

Bridget Gilfillan Upton
Hearing Mark's Endings: Listening to Ancient Popular Texts through Speech Act Theory
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5220
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Jan G. van der Watt
An Introduction to the Johannine Gospel and Letters
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6445
Reviewed by D. A. Carson

Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just, S.J., and Tom Thatcher, eds.
John, Jesus, and History, Volume 1: Critical Appraisals of Critical Views
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6151
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Timothy K. Beal and Tod Linafelt, eds.
Mel Gibson's Bible: Religion, Popular Culture, and The Passion of the Christ
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5029
Reviewed by William Telford

Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough, eds.
The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the "Other" in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6193
Reviewed by Cynthia M. Baker

David Flusser, with R. Steven Notley
The Sage from Galilee: Rediscovering Jesus' Genius
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6152
Reviewed by Robert L. Brawley

Dan Jaffé
Le talmud et les origines juives du christianisme: Jésus, Paul et les judéo-chrétiens dans la littérature talmudique
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6230
Reviewed by Oskar Skarsaune

Philip S. Johnston, ed.
The IVP Introduction to the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6076
Reviewed by Douglas Estes

Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
Acta Andreae Apocrypha: A New Perspective on the Nature, Intention and Significance of the Primitive Text
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6376
Reviewed by Lee Martin McDonald

Sara Parvis and Paul Foster, eds.
Justin Martyr and His Worlds
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6222
Reviewed by Shawn W. J. Keough

Jaroslav Pelikan
Acts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6099
Reviewed by John B. F. Miller

F. E. Peters
The Voice, the Word, the Books: The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6098
Reviewed by Kirk R. MacGregor

Geza Vermes
The Resurrection: History and Myth
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6389
Reviewed by Tony Costa
Reviewed by Michael R. Licona

Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just, S.J., and Tom Thatcher, eds.
John, Jesus, and History: Volume 1, Critical Appraisals of Critical Views
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6151
Reviewed by Mark A. Matson

David Catchpole
Jesus People: The Historical Jesus and the Beginnings of Community
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6187
Reviewed by Paul Foster

Zev Garber, ed.
Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5161
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Thomas J. Kraus
Ad fontes: Original Manuscripts and Their Significance for Studying Early Christianity: Selected Essays
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6295
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett

Amy-Jill Levine, ed., with Maria Mayo Robbins
A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5408
Reviewed by Heike Omerzu

Yuzuru Miura
David in Luke-Acts: His Portrayal in the Light of Early Judaism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6199
Reviewed by Steven Cox

Stephen W. Need
The Gospels Today: Challenging Readings of John, Mark, Luke and Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6066
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

Birger A. Pearson
Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6053
Reviewed by Philip L. Tite

Richard D. Phillips
Hebrews
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6070
Reviewed by Knut Backhaus

Brant Pitre
Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of the Exile: Restoration Eschatology and the Origin of the Atonement
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5514
Reviewed by John A. Dennis

Laurence M. Vance
Guide to Prepositions in the Greek New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6269
Reviewed by Paul Elbert

Robby Waddell
The Spirit of the Book of Revelation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6122
Reviewed by Jan A. du Rand

Mark Wilson
Charts on the Book of Revelation: Literary, Historical, and Theological Perspectives
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6229
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Magnus Zetterholm, ed.
The Messiah in Early Judaism and Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6217
Reviewed by James H. Charlesworth

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