Journal of Theological Studies 72/2

Volume 72 Issue 2   October 2021       Articles       Acedia, 'Bourgeois Ennui', and Kingship in the Hebrew Bible and The Epic of Gilgamesh     Ekaterina E Kozlova     Why are Jews Forbidden to Eat Meat and Milk Together? the Function of Eating Restrictions in Human Societies     Eran Viezel; Nir Avieli     Victory as Defeat: Narrative Subversion of Omride Strength in 1 Kings 20     Cat Quine     G. R. Driver's Contribution to Neb's Translation of Psalms 51–100     Ben Clackson     'He Gave to Adam Knowledge': A Competing Creation Tradition in Early Judaism and Early Christianity     Eric R Montgomery   'God has had Mercy on Me': Theology and Soteriology in Philo of Alexandria's de Sacrificiis Abelis et Caini     Scott D Mackie     The Jewishness of Luke–Acts: Locating Lukan Christianity Amidst the Parting of The Ways     David Andrew Smith     'Blessed is the One who Stands in the Beginning' (L. 18): Revisiting Protological Eschatology in the Gospel of Thomas     Simon J Joseph     'Heaven-Bound Dung Beetles': Gregory of Nazianzus and the Ordination of Slaves in the Early Church     Justin M Pigott     Arnobius' Scythians and the Dating of Adversus Nationes     Mattias Gassman   Karl Barth and Nostra Aetate: New Evidence from the Second Vatican Council     Daniel M Herskowitz       Reviews       Reading with the Grain of Scripture     Wesley Thomas Davey     The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama: Murderous Texts. Edited by Caroline Blyth and Alison Jack     John Barton     Has Archaeology Buried the Bible? By William Dever     Walter J Houston     The Textual Basis of English Translations of the Hebrew Bible. By S. C. Daley     J K Elliott     Opening Israel's Scriptures. By Ellen F. Davis     Kirsi Cobb     A Historical Theology of the Hebrew Bible. By Konrad Schmid     Katharine J Dell     The Old Testament Is Dying: A Diagnosis and Recommended Treatment. By Brent A. Strawn     Katharine J Dell     Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible. By Saul Olyan     Pekka Pitkänen     The Performative Dimensions of Rhetorical Questions in the Hebrew Bible: Do You Not Know? Do You Not Hear? By Jim Adams     Katherine E Southwood     The Greek of the Pentateuch: Grinfield Lectures on the Septuagint 2011-2012. By John A. L. Lee     John Screnock     Sennacherib's Campaign Against Judah: A Source Analysis of Isaiah 36–37. By Dan'el Kahn     Isaac Kalimi     Psalms Book 2: An Earth Bible Commentary: "As a Doe Groans". By Arthur Walker-Jones     Katharine J Dell     Water and Water-Related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature: An Eco-Theological Exploration. By Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa     Katharine J Dell     Job: A New Translation. Translated by Edward Greenstein     Patricia Vesely     Job: From Lament to Penitence. By Alexander Breitkopf     Katharine J Dell     Job's Body and the Dramatized Comedy of Moralising. By Katherine E. Southwood     Katharine J Dell     Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs. By Jennifer Andruska     Stefan Fischer     Death and Divine Judgment in Ecclesiastes. By Kumiko Takeuchi     Arthur Jan Keefer     United in Exile, Reunited in Restoration: The Chronicler's Agenda. By Jordan Guy     Isaac Kalimi     Vetus Latina: Die Reste Der altlateinischen Bibel. 7/2: Judith, Fascicules 2–7. Edited by Pierre-Maurice Bogaert and Jean-Claude Haelewyck     H A G Houghton     Scribal Practice, Text and Canon in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Essays in Memory of Peter W. Flint. Edited by John J. Collins and Ananda Geyser-Fouché     Ariel Feldman     Before the Bible. By Judith Newman     Sebastian Selvén     Demons of Change: Antagonism and Apotheosis in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism. By Andrei Orlov     Travis W Proctor     Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Edited by Matthew Novenson     Crispin Fletcher-Louis     Empire, Economics, and the New Testament. By Peter Oakes (with a forward by Bruce Longenecker)     Rachel Coleman     For Your Sake He Became Poor: Ideology and Practice of Gift Exchange between Early Christian Groups. By Georges Massinelli     Hunter Brown     Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity. By Candida R. Moss     Erin M Heim     Resurrection Logic: How Jesus' First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead. By Bruce D. Chilton     Steven Edward Harris     Empty Tomb, Resurrection, Apotheosis. By John Cook     Glenn B Siniscalchi     The Doubt of the Apostles and the Resurrection Faith of the Early Church: The Post-Resurrection Appearance Stories of the Gospels in Ancient Reception and Modern Debate. By J. D. Atkins     Glenn B Siniscalchi     Is Jesus Athene or Odysseus? Investigating the Unrecognisability and Metamorphosis of Jesus in his Post-Resurrection Appearances. By Max Whitaker     Glenn B Siniscalchi     Luke/Acts and the End of History. By Kylie Crabbe     Julie Newberry     John: History, Community, and Ideology. By Francisco Lozada Jr     Benjamin E Reynolds     History of the Pauline Corpus in Texts, Transmissions and Trajectories: A Textual Analysis of Manuscripts from the Second to the Fifth Century. By Chris Stevens     Benjamin Laird     Reading Romans with Roman Eyes: Studies on the Social Perspective of Paul. By James Harrison     Nina Nikki     Participating in Christ: Explorations in Paul's Theology and Spirituality. By Michael J. Gorman     David A deSilva     Scripture Re-envisioned: Christophanic Exegesis and the Making of a Christian Bible. By Bogdan Gabriel Bucur     Adrian N Guiu     Writing the History of Early Christianity: From Reception to Retrospection. By Markus Vinzent     Ilaria L E Ramelli     The Church of Antioch and the Eucharistic Traditions (ca. 35–130 CE). By Amiel Drimbe     Alistair C Stewart     The Coherence of "Gnosticism". By Einar Thomassen     Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski     Valentinian Christianity: Texts and Translations. Translated by Geoffrey S. Smith     Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski     How the Spirit Became God: The Mosaic of Early Christian Pneumatology. By Kyle Hughes. Foreword by Matthew Bates     Janet Sidaway     Die Prologtexte zu den Psalmen von Origenes und Eusebius. Edited by Cordula Bandt, Franz Xaver Risch, and Barbara Villani     Samuel Pomeroy     Origeniana Duodecima: Origen's Legacy in the Holy Land—A Tale of Three Cities: Jerusalem, Caesarea and Bethlehem. Proceedings of the 12th International Origen Congress, Jerusalem, 25–29 June, 2017. Edited by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Oded Irshai, Aryeh Kofsky, Hillel Newman, and Lorenzo Perrone     Joseph S O'Leary     Visions and Faces of the Tragic: The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature. By Paul M. Blowers     Josef Lössl     Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity: The Christianisation of a Literary Form. By Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil     Carolinne White     Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors By Morwenna Ludlow     Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu     Breaking the Mind: New Studies in the Syriac Book of Steps. Edited by Kristian S. Heal and Robert A. Kitchen     Marcus Plested     Jérôme: Commentaire sur Daniel. Introduction, text, translation, notes, and index by Régis Courtray     Michael Winterbottom     The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th–6th Centuries) : Augustine of Hippo, His Contemporaries and Early Reception. By Matthieu Pignot     Richard Finn, OP     Le ministère sacerdotal dans la tradition syriaque primitive. By Tanious Bou Mansour     Nathan Witkamp     The History of John the Son of Zebedee: Introduction, Texts, and Translations. By Jacob Lollar     Alistair C Stewart     The Life of the Syrian Saint Barsauma: Eulogy of a Hero of the Resistance to the Council of Chalcedon. Translated by Andrew N. Palmer     Sebastian P Brock     The Cross in the Visual Culture of Late Antique Egypt. By Gillian Spalding-Stracey     Elizabeth S Bolman     The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics: Patristic Philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus. By Johannes Zachuber     Joseph S O'Leary     De l'image à l'Image: Réflexions sur un concept clef de la doctrine de la divinisation de Saint Maxime le Confesseur. By Elie Ayroulet     Andrew Louth     St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons: Theology and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Byzantium. By Torstein Theodor Tollefsen     Andrew Louth     Petrus Abaelardus: Sermones. Edited by L. J. Engels and C. Vande Veire     Michael Winterbottom     Rupertus Tuitiensis: Anulus seu dialogus de sacramentis fidei. Edited by A. Magoga     Michael Winterbottom     Gregory Palamas: The Hesychast Controversy and the Debate with Islam. Translated with an introduction and notes by Norman Russell     Alexandros Chouliaras     Regensburg Article 5 on Justification: Inconsistent Patchwork or Substance of True Doctrine? By Anthony N. S. Lane     Timothy J Wengert     John of the Cross: Desire, Transformation, and Selfhood. By Sam Hole     Edward Howells     Richard Hooker: The Architecture of Participation. By Paul Anthony Dominiak     T L Holtzen     The Covenant of Works: The Origins, Development, and Reception of the Doctrine. By J. V. Fesko     Harrison Perkins     Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment: Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. By Jonathan C. P. Birch     David Horkott     The Heart of Dogmatics: Christology and Christocentrism in Herman Bavinck. By Bruce Pass     Donald K McKim     God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology. By Nathaniel Gray Sutanto     Donald K McKim     The Holy Spirit as Communion: Colin Gunton's Pneumatology of Communion and Frank Macchia's Pneumatology of Koinonia. By I. Leon Harris     Terry J Wright     The God Who Acts in History: The Significance of Sinai. By Craig Bartholomew     Terry J Wright     Providence: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Account. By Mark W. Elliott     Terry J Wright     Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and the World. By Leland Royce Harper     Rodney Holder     The Reconstruction of Resurrection Belief. By Peter Carnley     Andrew T Loke     History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology. By N. T. Wright     John Frederick     God in a Single Vision: Integrating Philosophy and Theology. By David Brown. Edited by Christopher R. Brewer and Robert MacSwain     Andrew Moore     Remorse: A Christian Perspective. By Anthony Bash     Joseph S Spoerl     Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ. By Brian Brock     Joanna Collicutt     A Christian's Guide Through the Gender Revolution: Gender, Cisgender, Transgender, and Intersex. By Vincent E. Gil     Robin Gill     The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought. Edited by Caryl Emerson, George Pattison, and Randall Poole     Hugh Wybrew       Books Received       Books Received: (of which space precludes the publication of a review)