The Spirit and the Word: Prophecy and Tradition in Ancient Israel
Sigmund Mowinckel
Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies. Fortress, Minneapolis, 2002. 174 pp. $16.00. ISBN 0-8006-3487-X.
This volume reprints Mowinckel’s 1946 Prophecy and Tradition, with the addition of two earlier published essays.

The Faith of Israel: A Theological Survey of the Old Testament
William J. Dumbrell
Second Edition. Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2002. 347 pp. $25.99. ISBN 0-8010-2532-X.
This updated edition takes account of scholarship since the early 1980s, when this textbook was originally published.

Symbol and Rhetoric in Ecclesiastes: The Place of Hebel in Qohelet’s Work
Douglas B. Miller
Academia Biblica. Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2002. 238 pp. $32.95. ISBN 1-58983-029-6.
This dissertation considers the place of the word hebel (“vapor,” “vanity”) and concludes that Qohelet understands life to be not absurd, but limited and complicated.

The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith
Walter Brueggemann
Second edition. Overtures to Biblical Theology. Fortress, Minneapolis, 2002. 225 pp. $18.00. ISBN 0-8006-3462-4.
In the preface to this new edition, Brueggemann discusses five major developments in Old Testament studies that were not on the horizon when this book was first issued. The work also includes an updated bibliography.

Readings from the Ancient Near East
ed. Bill T. Arnold and Bryan E. Beyer
Encountering Biblical Studies. Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2002. 240 pp. $21.99. ISBN 0-8010-2292-4.
The readings here offered are divided into four categories, by the biblical texts they illuminate: Penteteuch; Historical Books; Poetic Books; and Prophetic Books.

Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew
Gary A. Long
Hendrickson, Peabody, 2002. 189 pp. $19.95. ISBN 1-56563-713-5.
This companion to Hebrew textbooks uses English grammar to help the beginning student learn grammatical concepts such as parts of speech; tense, aspect, mood, and voice of verbs; phrases; and clauses.

A Feminist Companion to Luke
ed. Amy-Jill Levine
Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings. Sheffield Academic Press, New York, 2002. 315 pp. $29.95. ISBN 1-84127-174-8.
This collection of fourteen essays, some previously published and some newly available, bring feminist questions to Lukan texts.

New Light on Luke: Its Purpose, Sources and Literary Context
Barbara Shellard
JSNT Supplement Series. Sheffield Academic, New York, 2002. 340 pp. $115.00 (cloth). ISBN 1-84127-236-1.
Arguing that sources and purpose are closely related, Shellard posits that the author of Luke used all three other now canonical gospels to compose his story of Jesus, and seeks to demonstrate how this hypothesis illuminates Luke’s purpose.

Jesus’ Attitude towards the Law: A Study of the Gospels
William Loader
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2002. 573 pp. $50.00. ISBN 0-8028-4903-2.
This study investigates not only the canonical Gospels, but also Q, Thomas, and other non-canonical Gospels, to show how each author presents Jesus’ attitude toward Torah.

Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts
K.C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman
Fortress, Minneapolis, 2002. 235 pp. $23.00. ISBN 0-8006-3470-5.
This work focuses on social institutions to help the reader understand the context in which Jesus and his contemporaries lived and interacted. A CD-ROM of the book is also included.

Concordance to the New Testament
ed. I. Howard Marshall
Sixth Edition. T & T Clark, New York, 2002. 1121 pp. $100.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-587-08571-6.
This volume is a revised and reset edition of the classic Moulton and Geden concordance. New Greek fonts offer greater visual clarity.

Greek for Preachers
Joseph M. Webb and Robert Kysar
Chalice, St. Louis, 2002. 195 pp. $24.99. ISBN 0-8272-1244-5.
Intended to aid in sermon production, this book specifies necessary tools for working with the Greek NT, shows how to use an interlinear Greek-English text, and discusses how to use the study of Greek in creating a sermon.

The Bible in Modern Culture: Baruch Spinoza to Brevard Childs
Roy A. Harrisville and Walter Sundberg
Second Edition. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2002. 361 pp. $25.00. ISBN 0-8028-3992-4.
For this edition, the editors have added three new chapters in the story of modern biblical scholarship, detailing the work of Schlatter, Ricoeur, and Childs.

In Search of the Early Christians
Wayne A. Meeks
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002. 313 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-09142-7.
These essays represent three decades of Meeks’s work and reprint some familiar classics as well as more recently published works.

The Free Church and the Early Church: Bridging the Historical and Theological Divide
ed. D. H. Williams
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2002. 196 pp. $24.00. ISBN 0-8028-4986-5.
These essays point Protestant congregations struggling with lack of grounding in ecclesiastical and theological tradition toward a renewed appreciation of their heritage in Christianity’s patristic roots.

God
James Byrne
New Century Theology. Continuum, New York, 2001. 120 pp. $22.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-8264-5169-1.
Byrne discusses the utter ineffability of God and our attempts to express a reality greater than ourselves through the symbol of the Divine.

Silence and the Word
ed. Oliver Davies and Denys Turner
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2002. 227 pp. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-521-8178-8.
These essays, by writers well known for their works on spirituality, explore how apophasis (negation) is found not only in “mystical” texts but also in mainstream Christianity, and how it can aid understanding of the Christian faith.

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology
ed. Susan Frank Parsons
Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2002. 268 pp. $20.00. ISBN 0-521-66327-X.
Those familiar with the field will recognize many names of authors in this collection of essays on the shape and themes of feminist theology.

Your Word is Truth: A Project of Evangelicals and Catholics Together
ed. Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2002. 178 pp. $20.00. ISBN 0-8028-0508-6.
The authors of these essays, while not denying that Protestants and Catholics differ on the relationship of scripture and tradition, identify points of contact between the two communions and seek to recast old disputes in a new light.

Hope for Your Future: Theological Voices from the Pastorate
ed. William H. Lazareth
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2002. 230 pp. $16.00. ISBN 0-8028-4961-X.
This volume, written by pastor-theologians, considers the relationship between theology and science and what both have to say about the nature and destiny of humans and the world.

Spirituality for Ministry
Urban T. Holmes III
Library of Episcopalian Classics. Morehouse, Harrisburg, 2002 (1982). 194 pp. $16.95. ISBN 0-8192-1916-9.
This classic in the field of spirituality is once again available in print.

Hidden Spring: The Spiritual Dimension of Therapy
Thomas Hart
Second Edition. Fortress, Minneapolis, 2002. 164 pp. $15.00. ISBN 0-8006-3576-0.
This book, which seeks to integrate spirituality and psychotherapy, is reissued with an updated bibliography.

The Conviction of Things Not Seen: Worship and Ministry in the 21st Century
ed. Todd Johnson
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2002. 236 pp. $22.99. ISBN 1-58743-032-0.
This Festschrift for Robert Webber encourages theological reflection on contemporary worship and the new challenges faced by today’s church leaders.

The Word Disclosed: Preaching the Gospel of John
Gail R. O’Day
Revised and Expanded Edition.Chalice, St. Louis, 2002. 151 pp. $19.99. ISBN 0-8272-4245-X.
Added to this popular book on preaching John are new or extensively revised sermons on lectionary texts from John.

With God in the Crucible: Preaching Costly Discipleship
Peter Storey
Abingdon, Nashville, 2002. 175 pp. $15.00. ISBN 0-687-05253-X.
These sermons show Storey’s involvement in the struggle against apartheid during his years as a Methodist pastor, bishop, and president of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and the South African Council of Churches.

Love Taking Shape: Sermons on the Christian Life
Gilbert Meilaender
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2002. 128 pp. $15.00. ISBN 0-8028-3952-5.
These sermons by a distinguished Christian ethicist reflect on inner renewal, care for the neighbor, and longing to rest in God.

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