Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (November 15, 2012)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Ancient Near East and Second Temple Judaism

• Phillip R. Callaway, The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium, reviewed by Stephen Reed
• Benedikt Eckhardt, ed., Jewish Identity and Politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
• Oded Lipschits and David S. Vanderhooft, The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah, reviewed by Aren Maeir
• Annick Payne, Hieroglyphic Luwian: An Introduction with Original Texts, reviewed by Robert Holmstedt

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Marlene Crüsemann, Die pseudepigraphen Briefe an die Gemeinde in Thessaloniki: Studien zu ihrer Abfassung und zur jüdisch-christlichen Sozialgeschichte, reviewed by Lars Kierspel
• James A. Kelhoffer, Persecution, Persuasion and Power: Readiness to Withstand Hardship as a Corroboration of Legitimacy in the New Testament, reviewed by Alexander Stewart
• Dale B. Martin, New Testament History and Literature: The Open Yale Courses Series, reviewed by Cornelis Bennema
• Roger Pearse, ed., Eusebius of Caesarea: Gospel Problems and Solutions, reviewed by Michael F. Bird
• L. L. Welborn, An End to Enmity: Paul and the “Wrongdoer” of Second Corinthians, reviewed by B. J. Oropeza

Miscellaneous

• J. W. Rogerson, An Introduction to the Bible (3rd ed), reviewed by Bob Becking