Magdala: A Galilean Town
March 18, 2019
BY LARRY HURTADO on March 5, 2019 For anyone seriously interested in Galilee in the time of Jesus, the recently published multi-author volume edited by Richard Bauckham is a must-read: Magdala… READ MORE
Category: External Reviews
An Irish Dante: Micheal O’Siadhail
February 11, 2019
BY MORIAH SPECIALE on March 2019 Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other people,” but for the poet Micheal O’Siadhail, hell is a highly specific group of other people. Among… READ MORE
Finding Rest in the Haven reviewed “Exploring Biblical Backgrounds”
BY KEVIN McKISSICK on February 11, 2019 Dodson, Derek S., and Katherine E. Smith. Exploring Biblical Backgrounds: A Reader in Historical & Literary Contexts. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018. 260 pp.;… READ MORE
Art, economics, science, and all that jazz…
BY ANDREW HAMILTON on February 4, 2019 The Five Quintets, by Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail, is a gloriously unfashionable book. In an age of lyrics it is a long, conversational poem… READ MORE
Christian Scholar’s Review Hamman’s “Growing Down”
BY DAN SARTOR on December 15, 2018 How is the presence of ubiquitous personal technological devices shaping human development and interpersonal relations? How might persons navigate this technological revolution in… READ MORE
The Bible & Culture 7 Part Series Review of Bauckham
January 25, 2019
BY BEN WITHERINGTON in January 2019 In this seven part series, Ben Witherington reviews Magdala of Galilee: A Jewish City in the Hellenistic and Roman Period edited by Richard Bauckham. Within this… READ MORE
Asian American Ethics and Identity Review
January 23, 2019
BY JIMMY MCCARTHY on January 18, 2019 … Asian American Christian Ethics is an edited volume featuring twelve authors from multiple ethnic backgrounds and Christian traditions. Its diversity seems straightforward: Korean,… READ MORE
Reading Religion review of “Baptists Through the Centuries”
January 18, 2019
Reviewed BY LYDIA HOYLE on January 11, 2019 David W. Bebbington’s Baptists Through the Centuries explores the Baptist tradition across four centuries and several continents. Building primarily on published research, Bebbington works… READ MORE
Friends Journal review of “Resurrecting Wounds”
BY TOM PAXSON on January 1, 2019 Christianity was born in trauma, but do we recognize its implications? The psychological‐social‐spiritual trauma, which is Rambo’s focus, disrupts pre‐trauma patterns of experience:… READ MORE
Book Review: The Elder Testament by Christopher Seitz
BY SPENCER ROBINSON on January 1, 2019 Christopher Seitz intends The Elder Testament to be a “theological introduction to the canonical unity of the Scriptures of Israel.” Christopher Seitz has written many… READ MORE