My buddy, Sean Adams, has published a really helpful study of Jewish literature and genres in the Greco-Roman world.  Greek Genres and Jewish Authors: Negotiating Literary Culture in the Greco-Roman Era (Baylor University Press, 2020) Why did you write this book, Greek Genres and Jewish Authors? I did not set out with the intention to write this book. It began as a postdoctoral project that was going to look at a handful of Jewish authors (Luke, Paul, Philo, and Josephus) and… Read more

Daniel M. Gurtner, Introducing the Pseudepigrapha of Second Temple Judaism: Message, Context, and Significance (Baker Academic, 2020). Dr. Daniel Gurtner has written a helpful textbook on the Jewish Pseudepigrapha, a set of texts of used and misused in New Testament studies. Learn more from Gurtner about his new book in this interview. What is the Pseudepigrapha? DMG: Generally, these are writings that celebrate some figure from Israel’s past. I say “generally” because this by no means accounts for them. Technically, the term… Read more

Congratulations to my wonderful colleagues Volker Rabens, Jacqueline N. Grey, and Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn on publishing this robust volume: KEY APPROACHES TO BIBLICAL ETHICS.  Table of Contents Part 1 How to Approach Ethics in the Bible: A Dialogue on the Fundamental Methodological Questions of Biblical Ethics “How to Read Biblical Texts Ethically: The New Method of “Implicit Ethics” for Analyzing Biblical Ethics”/Ruben Zimmerman “Reading Biblical Texts Ethically: A Discussion of Ruben Zimmermann’s Method of “Implicit Ethics” from an Old Testament Perspective”/Markus… Read more

My friend Patrick Gray (Rhodes College) is editor of an exciting new project, The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament—24 chapters, 400 pages. It is a bit surprising to me that Cambridge had not already published a CCNT (after all, the volumes on Paul and the Gospels are now in second editions). But this looks to be a really impressive volume covering a range of the key issues and texts in New Testament studies. Patrick was kind enough to share with… Read more