Books Received — 2012

Bakhos, Carol and M. Rahim Shayegan, eds. The Talmud in Its Iranian Context. TSAJ 135. Pp. xviii + 270. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. Cloth, €89,00. $117.84.

Bartholomew, Craig G. and David J. H. Beldman, eds. Hearing the Old Testament: Listening for God's Address. Pp. xvii + 475. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012. Paper, $20.00.

Baskin, Judith R., ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. Pp. xlvii + 716. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Cloth, $250.00.

Bodner, Keith. Jeroboam's Royal Drama. Biblical Refigurations. Pp. x + 167. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Paper, $27.95.

Boyarin, Jonathan. Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side. Pp. xii + 209. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. Cloth, $24.95.

Carr, David M. The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction. Pp. xii + 524. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Cloth, $74.00.

Cohen, Shaye J. D. The Significance of Yavneh and Other Essays in Jewish Hellenism. TSAJ 136. Pp. xv + 614. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. Cloth, €169,00. $223.80.

Dever, William G. The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect. Pp. x + 436. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012. Paper, $25.00.

Florentin, Moshe, ed. (Samaritan elegies: A collection of lamentations, admonitions, and poems of praising God). Pp. 268. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2012. Cloth.

Gerstenberger, Erhard S. Israel in the Persian Period: The Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E. Translated by Siegfried S. Schatzmann. Biblical Encyclopedia 8. Pp. xviii + 575. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. Paper, $65.95.

Grumberg, Karen. Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature. Pp. xiv + 287. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Cloth, $39.95.

Henze, Matthias, ed. A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism. Pp. xv + 568. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012. Paper, $50.00.

Joosten, Jan. The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew: A New Synthesis Elaborated on the Basis of Classical Prose. Jerusalem Biblical Studies 10. Pp. viii + 507. Jerusalem: Simor, 2012. Cloth, $75.00.

Kalimi, Isaac, ed. Jewish Bible Theology: Perspectives and Case Studies. Pp. xii + 276. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2012. Cloth, $49.50.

Kaminsky, Joel S. and Joel N. Lohr. The Torah: A Beginner's Guide. Pp. xi + 200. Oxford: Oneworld, 2011. Paper, $14.95.

Klawans, Jonathan. Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism. Pp. xiv + 373. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Cloth, $74.00.

Kraus, Helen. Gender Issues in Ancient and Reformation Translations of Genesis 1-4. Oxford Theological Monographs. Pp. xiii + 242. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Cloth, $125.00.

Lasine, Stuart. Weighing Hearts: Character, Judgment, and the Ethics of Reading the Bible. By Stuart Lasine. LHBOTS 568. Pp. xviii + 302. New York: T & T Clark, 2012. Cloth, $160.00.

Marks, Herbert, ed. The English Bible: The King James Version, The Old Testament. New York: W. W. Norton. Pp. xxviii + 2274 + maps. Paper, $22.50.

Matt, Daniel C. The Zohar: Translation and Commentary. Vol. 6. Pritzker Edition. Pp. xii + 452. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. Cloth, $55.00.

Mintz, Alan. Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Pp. xviii + 521. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Cloth, $65.00.

Neusner, Jacob. Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism. Studies in Judaism. Pp. vii + 188. Lanham: University Press of America, 2012. Paper.

———. Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Seventh Series: More Essays on the History, Literature, and Theology of Judaism. Studies in Judaism. Pp. vii + 82. Lanham: University Press of America, 2012. Paper, $24.99.

———. Rabbi David: A Documentary Catalogue. Studies in Judaism. Pp. xvii + 189. Lanham: University Press of America, 2012. Paper, $32.99.

———. The Rabbinic System: How the Aggadah and the Halakhah Complement Each Other. Studies in Judaism. Pp. vii + 303 Lanham: University Press of America, 2012. Paper, $36.99.

Neusner, Jacob, Bruce D. Chilton, and Alan J. Avery-Peck, eds. Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order: Describing, Analyzing, and Comparing Systems of the Formative Age. Studies in Religion and the Social Order. Pp. x + 376. Lanham: University Press of America, 2011. Paper, $38.95.

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