Book Reviews

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Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World: 1 Corinthians in Its Greco-Roman Social Setting
Mark T. Finney
T. & T. Clark

The Power of Children: The Construction of Christian Families in the Greco-Roman World
Margaret Y. MacDonald
Baylor University Press

The Human Being: A Theological Anthropology
Hans Schwarz
Eerdmans

Confessing Christ for the Church and the World: Studies in Modern Theology
Kimlyn J. Bender
IVP Academic

Reading Koine Greek
Rodney J. Decker
Baker Academic

The Greek Article: A Functional Grammar of ὁ-items in the Greek New Testament with Special Emphasis on the Greek Article
Ronald D. Peters
Brill

Right Kingdom, Wrong Stories: A Backward Reading of Matthew’s Parables
Sam Tsang
Wipf & Stock

Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows: Capable Women of Purpose and Persistence in Luke’s Gospel
F. Scott Spencer
Eerdmans

Aposynagogos and the Historical Jesus in John: Rethinking the Historicity of the Johannine Expulsion
Jonathan Bernier
Brill

Acts: An Exegetical Commentary. Volume 3:15:1–23:35
Craig S. Keener
Baker Academic

The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus
Michael F. Bird
Eerdmans

Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis and Interpretation
G. K. Beale
Baker Academic

Earliest Christian History: History, Literature, and Theology. Essays from the Tyndale Fellowship in Honor of Martin Hengel
Michael F. Bird and Jason Maston
Mohr Siebeck

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World
Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon
Wiley-Blackwell

Mark (Teach the Text Series)
Grant R. Osborne
Baker Books

The Life and Witness of Peter
Larry R. Helyer
IVP Academic

Revisioning, Renewing, Rediscovering the Triune Center: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. Grenz
Derek J. Tidhall, Brian S. Harris, and Jason S. Sexton
Cascade Books

Jonathan Edwards and the Psalms: A Redemptive-Historical Vision of Scripture
David P. Barshinger
Oxford University Press

The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testaments, Legends, Wisdom, and Related Literature
William Loader, Ibolya Balla
Eerdmans

Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Writings of Philo and Josephus and in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
William Loader
Eerdmans

The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in Its Social and Political Context
Michael Peppard
Oxford University Press

Paul through Mediterranean Eyes: Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians
Kenneth E. Bailey
IVP Academic

The Theological Role of Paradox in the Gospel of Mark
Laura C. Sweat
Bloomsbury T&T Clark

The Evangelism Study Bible
R. Larry Moyer
Kregel Publications

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