Books Received — 2013

Assis, Elie. The Book of Joel: A Prophet between Calamity and Hope. LHBOTS 581. Pp. xiv + 289. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Cloth, $120.00.

Bar-Yosef, Hamutal. (Lea Goldberg). Pp. 351. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2012. Paper.

Barclay, Michael. Sacred Relationships: Biblical Wisdom for Deepening our Lives Together. Pp. xiii + 131. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2013. Paper, $16.95.

Ben Zvi, Ehud and Christoph Levin, eds. Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah. FAT 85. Pp. xiv + 360. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. Cloth, €99,00.

Blenkinsopp, Joseph. David Remembered: Kingship and National Identity in Ancient Israel. Pp. xii + 219. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. Paper, $26.00.

Bock, Darrell L. and James H. Charlesworth, eds. Parables of Enoch: A Paradigm Shift. Jewish and Christian Texts in Contexts and Related Studies 11. Pp. xxv + 410. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Cloth, $120.00.

Bos, James M. Reconsidering the Date and Provenance of the Book of Hosea: The Case for Persian-Period Yehud. LHBOTS 580. Pp. xii + 186. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Cloth, $110.00.

Charles, J. Daryl, ed. Reading Genesis 1–2: An Evangelical Conversation. Pp. xxi + 240. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2013. Paper, $24.95.

Cook, Johann and Hermann-Josef Stipp, eds. Text-Critical and Hermeneutical Studies in the Septuagint. VTSup 157. Pp. xvii + 493. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Cloth, $171.00.

Cook, John A. Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb: The Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Biblical Hebrew. LSAWS 7. Pp. xvi + 384. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2012. Cloth, $54.50.

Cook, John A. and Robert D. Holmstedt. Beginning Biblical Hebrew: A Grammar and Illustrated Reader. Pp. 139 + 93 + 90. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013. Paper, $39.99.

Dillon, Richard J. The Hymns of Saint Luke: Lyricism and Narrative Strategy in Luke 1–2. CBQMS 50. Pp. x + 181. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2013. Paper, $15.00.

Elyada, Aya. A Goy who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany. Pp. xvii + 260. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Cloth, $60.00.

Eshel, Amir. Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past. Pp. xi + 355. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Cloth, $40.00.

Frolov, Serge. Judges. FOTL 6B. Pp. xv + 374. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. Paper, $55.00.

García Bachmann, Mercedes L. Women at Work in the Deuteronomistic History. Pp. xv + 413. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013. Paper, $54.95.

Gelander, Shamai. (The religious experience in the Psalms). The Biblical Encyclopaedia Library 29. Pp. + 207 + xii. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2013. Paper.

George, Mark K., ed. Constructions in Space IV: Further Developments in Examining Ancient Israel’s Social Space. LHBOTS 569. Pp. xvi + 201. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Cloth, $140.00.

Grunhaus, Naomi. The Challenge of Received Tradition: Dilemmas of Interpretation in Radak’s Biblical Commentaries. Pp. xvi + 258. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Cloth, $74.00.

Hendel, Ronald. The Book of Genesis: A Biography. Pp. xii + 287. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Cloth, $24.95.

Huehnergard, John. An Introduction to Ugaritic. Pp. xviii + 222 + 51 plates. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2012. Cloth, $69.95.

Jackson, Maureen. Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Pp. xv + 254. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. Cloth, $65.00.

Kim, Dong-Hyuk. Early Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew, and Linguistic Variability: A Sociolinguistic Evaluation of the Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts. VTSup 156. Pp. xvii + 184. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Cloth, $133.00.

Koller, Aaron J. The Semantic Field of Cutting Tools in Biblical Hebrew: The Interface of Philological, Semantic, and Archaeological Evidence. CBQMS 49. Pp. xxii + 356. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2012. Paper, $32.00.

Lasker, Daniel J., ed. (Jewish thought and Jewish belief). Goldstein-Goren Library of Jewish Thought 15. Pp. 293 (Hebrew) + 186 (English). Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2012. Cloth.

Lee, Eun-Woo. Crossing the Jordan: Diachrony Versus Synchrony in the Book of Joshua. LHBOTS 578. Pp. xiv + 237. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Cloth, $110.00.

Loader, William. Making Sense of Sex: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature. Pp. vii + 168. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013...