Books Received

Azar, Michael G. Exegeting the Jews: The Early Reception of the Johannine “Jews.” The Bible in Ancient Christianity 10. Leiden: Brill, 2016. ISBN 978-90-04-30889-3. Pp. 259. $135.00.

Berzon, Todd S. Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-520-28426-5. Pp. 302. $95.00.

Bock, Darrell L. and Benjamin I. Simpson. Jesus the God-Man: The Unity and Diversity of the Gospel Portrayals. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8010-9778-2. Pp. 208. $19.99.

Boone, Mark J. The Conversation and Therapy of Desire: Augustine’s Theology of Desire in the Cassiciacum Dialogues. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4982-2939-5. Pp. 198. $26.00.

Burke, Tony. Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspective. Cambridge: James Clark & Co, 2015. ISBN 978-0-227-17593-4. Pp. 370. $55.00.

Clair, Joseph. Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-875776-4. Pp. 224. $90.00.

Cohen, Akiva. Matthew and the Mishnah. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe 418. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. ISBN 978-3-16-149960-9. Pp. 636. €119.00.

Cribiore, Raffaella. Between City and School: Selected Orations of Libanius. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-78138-253-0. Pp. 320. £19.99.

Cronnier, Estelle. Les inventions de reliques dans l’Empire romain d’Orient (IVe– VIe s.). Hagiologia 11. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. ISBN 978-2-503-56510-1. Pp. 525. €95.00.

Downs, David J. The Offering of the Gentiles: Paul’s Collection for Jerusalem in Its Chronological, Cultural, and Cultic Contexts. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8028-7313-2. Pp. 222. $35.00.

Hayes, Andrew. Icons of the Heavenly Merchant. Ephrem and Pseudo-Ephrem in the Madrashe in Praise of Abraham of Qidun. Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 45. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4632-0414-3. Pp. 405. $212.10.

Hurtado, Larry W. Why on Earth Did Anyone Become a Christian in the First Three Centuries? The Père Marquette Lecture in Theology 2016. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-62600-504-4. Pp. 144. $15.00.

Jacobs, Andrew S. Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-520-29112-6. Pp. 352. $95.00.

Lévy, Antoine, et al., editors. The Architecture of the Cosmos: St Maximus the Confessor, New Perspectives. Schriften der Luther-Agricola-Gesellschaft 69. Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Society, 2015. ISBN 978-951-9047-78-2. Pp. 355. €36.00.

Macrae, Duncan. Legible Religion: Books, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0674-08871-9. Pp. 272. $49.95.

Manor, T. Scott. Epiphanius’ Alogi and the Johannine Controversy: A Reassessment of Early Ecclesial Opposition to the Johannine Corpus. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 135. Leiden: Brill, 2016. ISBN 978-90-04-30938-8. Pp. 253. $135.00.

Moreschini, Claudio. Apuleius and the Metamorphoses of Platonism. Nutrix: Studies in Late Antique, Medieval and Renaissance Thought 10. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. ISBN 978-2-503-55470-9. Pp. 429. €110.00.

Schleritt, Frank, translator and editor. Hegesipp. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. ISBN 978-3-525-53466-3. Pp. 85. €10.00.

Shoemaker, Stephen J. Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-300-21721-6. Pp. 304. $38.00.

Shuve, Karl. The Song of Songs and the Fashioning of Identity in Early Latin Christianity. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-876644-5. Pp. 256. $105.00.

Sim, Margaret G. A Relevant Way to Read: A New Approach to Exegesis and Communication. Cambridge: James Clark & Co, 2016. ISBN 978-0-227-17442-5. Pp. 140. $35.00

Smith, Kyle. Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia: Martyrdom and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-520-28960-4. Pp. 256. $95.00.

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