Books Received

Allen, Pauline, Majella Franzmann, and Rick Strelan. “I Sowed Fruits into Hearts” (Odes Sol. 17:13): Festschrift for Professor Michael Lattke. Early Christian Studies 12. Strathfield NSW: St Pauls Publications, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9752138-6-5. Pp. xix + 250.

Augustine. Essential Sermons. Translated by Edmund Hill, O.P., introduction and notes by Daniel E. Doyle, edited by Boniface Ramsey. The Works of St. Augustine. A Translation for the 21st Century. Part III: Homilies. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-56548-276-0. Pp. 440. $29.95 (paper).

Becker, Adam H. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8122-3934-8. Pp. xvi + 298. $69.95.

Becker, Adam H. and Annette Yoshiko Reed, editors. The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8006-6209-7. Pp. xiii + 410. $29 (paper).

Bell, David N. A Cloud of Witnesses: An Introduction to the Development of Christian Doctrine to ad 500. Second revised edition. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87907-218-6. Pp. 235.

Bell, Thomas J. Peter Abelard after Marriage: The Spiritual Direction of Heloise and Her Nuns through Liturgical Song. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87907-311-4. Pp. xxxvii + 346.

Brondos, David A. Fortress Introduction to Salvation and the Cross. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8006-6216-5. Pp. xiv + 220. $20 (paper).

Byassee, Jason. Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with Augustine. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8028-4012-7. Pp. xiv + 290. $32 (paper).

Cross, F. L. and E. A. Livingston, editors. Dictionary of the Christian Church. Third edition. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59856-250-7. Pp. xxxvii + 1786. $49.95 (paper).

Finger, Reta Halteman. Roman House Churches for Today: A Practical Guide for Small Groups. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8028-0764-9. Pp. xii + 207. $15 (paper).

Greer, Rowan A. and Margret M. Mitchell. The “Belly-Myther” of Endor: Interpretations of 1 Kingdoms 28 in the Early Church. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007. ISBN 978-1-58983-120-9. Pp. clvii + 189. $39.95 (paper).

Groppone, Antonio. Omelie origeniane nella traduzione di Rufino: In confronto con i testi greci. Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 103. Roma: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2007. ISBN 88-7961-111-9. Pp. 414.

Hester, Kevin L. Eschatology and Pain in St. Gregory the Great: The Christological Synthesis of Gregory’s Morals on the Book of Job. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84227-437-8. Pp. xii + 155. £19.99.

Hillel, Daniel. The Natural History of the Bible: An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13363-0. Pp. 354. $24.50 (paper).

Horn, Cornelia B. Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine: The Career of Peter the Iberian. Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-927753-7. Pp. xx + 509. $199.

Humphrey, Edith M. And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8010-3157-1. Pp. 240. $22.99 (paper).

Johnsén, Henrik Rydell. Reading John Climacus: Rhetorical Argumentation, Literary Convention and the Tradition of Monastic Formation. Lund: Lund University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-91-977212-1-9. Pp. xv + 303.

Laiou, Angeliki E. and Cécile Morrisson. The Byzantine Economy. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-61502-0. Pp. xii + 270. $32.99 (paper).

Macy, Gary. The Hidden History of Women’s Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-518970-4. Pp. xiv + 260. $25.

Miller, Stuart S. Sages and Commoners in Late Antique ’Erez Israel: A Philological Inquiry into Local Traditions in Talmud Yerushalmi. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 111. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. ISBN 978-3-16-148567-1. Pp...