New Books in Biblical Studies

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Girolamo Zanchi, "Confession of the Christian Religion" (Reformation, 2025)
Jun 5, 2025 – 33:04
Nathan S. French, "A Theocentric Interpretation of הדעת טוב ורע" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
May 22, 2025 – 29:33
Kirsten Macfarlane, "Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 21, 2025 – 45:49
Marc Katz, "Yochanan's Gamble: Judaism's Pragmatic Approach to Life" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
May 18, 2025 – 50:56
Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)
May 17, 2025 – 30:41
David Resnick, "Empowered or Abused: The Bible's Plan to Stop Battlefield Rape and Reduce Sexual Abuse" (BfoT, 2025)
May 3, 2025 – 28:32
Timothy Twining, "The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 1, 2025 – 01:10:06
Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)
Apr 30, 2025 – 01:11:57
John Van Maaren, "The Gospel of Mark's Judaism and the Death of Christ as Ransom for Many" (Mohr Siebeck, 2025)
Apr 26, 2025 – 30:10
Jerome Gellman, "The Problem of God in Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 23, 2025 – 31:44
Patrick Schreiner, "The Ascension of Christ: Recovering a Neglected Doctrine" (Lexham Press, 2020)
Apr 22, 2025 – 28:12
Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Apr 21, 2025 – 43:35
Samuel Ross, "Qur’an Commentary and the Biblical Turn: A History of Muslim Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Apr 20, 2025 – 01:26:58
Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts
Apr 19, 2025 – 58:33
Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)
Apr 18, 2025 – 41:51
Jonathan Bryant, "Compassion and the Characterization of the Markan Jesus" (Brill, 2024)
Apr 17, 2025 – 40:52
Nicholas J. Moore, "The Open Sanctuary: Access to God and the Heavenly Temple in the New Testament" (Baker Academic, 2024)
Apr 13, 2025 – 47:04
Timothy A. Brookins, "Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Corinthians: Paul, Stoicism, and Spiritual Hierarchy" (Eerdmans, 2024)
Mar 27, 2025 – 01:00:52
Timothy Bertolet, "The Obedience of Sonship: Adamic Obedience and the Heavenly Ascension in Hebrews" (Fontes Press, 2023)
Mar 26, 2025 – 30:31
"T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism" (T&T Clark, 2019)
Mar 21, 2025 – 31:09
Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Mar 17, 2025 – 50:18
Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)
Mar 4, 2025 – 01:00:33
Sejong Chun, "Paul’s New Creation: Vision for a New World and Community" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Feb 23, 2025 – 30:10
Arthur Jan Keefer, "Proverbs 1-9 as an Introduction to the Book of Proverbs" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Feb 17, 2025 – 25:45
Luke Woo, "The Spatiotemporal Eschatology of Hebrews: Priestly Participation in the Heavenly Tabernacle" (T&T Clark, 2024)
Feb 16, 2025 – 24:43
Angela Roskop Erisman, "The Wilderness Narratives in the Hebrew Bible: Religion, Politics, and Biblical Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 4, 2025 – 15:53
Bernd U. Schipper, "The Hermeneutics of Torah: Proverbs 2, Deuteronomy, and the Composition of Proverbs 1–9" (SBL Press, 2021)
Jan 28, 2025 – 01:27:32
Joel M. Rothman, "The Cosmic Journey in the Book of Revelation: Apocalyptic Cosmology and the Experience of Story-Space" (T&T Clark, 2023)
Jan 28, 2025 – 21:02
On the Book of Psalms: Exploring the Prayers of Ancient Israel by Nachum Sarna
Jan 26, 2025 – 35:58
Constantine R. Campbell, "Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek" (Zondervan Academic, 2024)
Jan 25, 2025 – 51:27
David Anthony Basham, "Paul, the Temple, and Building a Metaphor" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jan 21, 2025 – 21:50
Shmuel Goldin, "Unlocking the Torah Text" (Gefen Books, 2014)
Jan 18, 2025 – 28:39
Alec Goldstein, "Maimonides on the Book of Exodus" (Kodesh Press, 2019)
Jan 16, 2025 – 37:06
Yitzchak Etshalom, "Amos: The Genius of Prophetic Rhetoric" (Maggid, 2024)
Jan 14, 2025 – 24:28
Jonathan Sacks, "The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Genesis" (Koren, 2024)
Jan 4, 2025 – 54:12
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
Dec 31, 2024 – 26:14
David Dejong, "A Prophet Like Moses (Deut 18:15, 18): The Origin, History, and Influence of the Mosaic Prophetic Succession" (Brill, 2022)
Dec 27, 2024 – 19:47
Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 25, 2024 – 01:02:12
Andre Villeneuve, "Divine Marriage from Eden to the End of Days: Communion with God as Nuptial Mystery in the Story of Salvation" (Wipf and Stock, 2021)
Dec 22, 2024 – 18:38
Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee, "The Illustrated Cairo Genizah" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
Dec 11, 2024 – 01:03:57
A. J. Berkovitz, "A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Dec 9, 2024 – 01:11:23
Yii-Jan Lin, "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale UP, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024 – 48:42
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, "In Search of Jonathan: Jonathan Between the Bible and Modern Fiction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 17, 2024 – 01:04:49
Naomi S. S. Jacobs, "Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink: A Commentary" (Brill, 2018)
Nov 8, 2024 – 01:00:47
Dominick Hernández, "The Prosperity of the Wicked: A Theological Challenge in the Book of Job and in Ancient Near Eastern Literature" (Gorgias Press, 2022)
Oct 24, 2024 – 23:05
Bruce Gordon, "The Bible: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024 – 01:16:58
Peter Joshua Atkins, "The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4: Reading Across the Human-Animal Boundary" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Oct 16, 2024 – 44:42
Harrison Perkins, "Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction" (Lexham Academic, 2024)
Oct 1, 2024 – 35:30
Katharine J. Dell, "The Lord by Wisdom Founded the Earth" (Baylor UP, 2023)
Sep 13, 2024 – 16:06
Marilynne Robinson, "Reading Genesis" (FSG, 2024)
Sep 12, 2024 – 33:06