David’s Truth in Israel’s Imagination and Memory
Walter Brueggemann
Fortress, Minneapolis, 1985. 128 pp. $15.00. ISBN 0-8006-1865-3.
This popular work, now available again, is an examination of four David narratives from 1 and
2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles that explores four distinct “modes of truth” concerning David.

Spirituality of the Psalms
Walter Brueggemann
Facets. Fortress, Minneapolis, 1984/2002. 76 pp. $6.00. ISBN 0-8006-3450-0.
An abridged version of Brueggemann’s The Message of the Psalms (1984), this is a brief introduction to
the author’s hermeneutical approach of orientation—disorientation—new orientation.

Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther
Michael V. Fox
Second Edition. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2001. 333 pp. $26.00.
ISBN 0-8028-4881-8.
This new edition includes an update on Esther
scholarship since the book’s original 1991 publication.

A Reassessment of Biblical Elohim
Joel S. Burnett
SBLDS 183. Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2001.
172 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 1-58983-016-4.
This work explores how a word originally used as
a Canaanite expression for deity became an
important substitute for the Divine Name and
played a role in the development of Yahwism.

Introducing the Old Testament
John Drane
Completely Revised and Updated. Fortress, Minneapolis, 2001.
366 pp. $26.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8006-3432-2.
In addition to taking into account recent scholarship,
this revision of a 1987 publication
includes the major deuterocanonical books and
attends to such issues as spirituality and ethics.

Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Emanuel Tov
Second Revised Edition. Fortress, Minneapolis, 2001.
456 pp. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8006-3429-2.
The new edition of this standard reference work
takes account of new publications of biblical
texts and the changes in viewpoint these new
findings have occasioned.

Introducing Biblical Hebrew
Allen P. Ross
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2001. 596 pp. $39.99
(cloth). ISBN 0-8010-2147-2.
This textbook teaches grammar and the basic
elements of syntax, geared toward exegetical and
critical study of the text of scripture.

Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary: Learning Words by
Frequency and Cognate
George M. Landes
SBL Resources for Biblical Study 41. Society of Biblical
Literature, Atlanta, 1961/2001. 218 pp. $19.95. ISBN 1-
58983-003-2.
This second edition retains the basic structure of
A Student’s Vocabulary of Biblical Hebrew (the
division of words by frequency into groups of
verbal roots and their cognates), and improves
on it by enlarging the Hebrew type size and
dividing the lists into groups of manageable size.

Rethinking the Synoptic Problem
Edited by David Alan Black and David R. Beck
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2001. 160 pp. $16.99.
ISBN 0-8010-2281-9.
This evaluation of the relationship between the
Synoptic Gospels includes a presentation by
William Farmer of the Two-Gospel Hypothesis,
as well as discussions of Markan priority and the
nature of Q.

Paul, Apostle of God’s Glory in Christ: A Pauline Theology
Thomas R. Schreiner
InterVarsity, Downers Grove, 2001. 504 pp. $29.99. (cloth).
ISBN 0-8308-2651-3.
Schreiner argues that the “center” of Paul’s theology
is the supremacy of God in and through the
Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Pathos
Edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Jerry L. Sumney
SBLSS 16. Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2001. 245
pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-58983-011-3.
These essays investigate the use of pathos, or
arguments from emotion, in ancient literature
and explore how Paul used the persuasive art to
sway his readers.

Revisiting Paul’s Doctrine of
Justification: A Challenge to the New Perspective
Peter Stuhlmacher
InterVarsity, Downers Grove, 2001. 108 pp. 39.95. ISBN 0-
8308-2661-0.
Stuhlmacher and Donald Hagner, whose essay
also appears in this volume, argue that Paul’s
doctrine of justification is not simply a polemical
argument in the Jew-Gentile debate but is central
to Paul’s understanding of God’s salvific act in
Christ.

The Faith of Jesus Christ: The Narrative
Substructure of Galatians 3:1–4:11
Richard B. Hays
Second Edition. The Biblical Resource Series. Eerdmans,
Grand Rapids, 2001. 360 pp. $25.00. ISBN 0-8028-4957-1.
This work, which in 1983 both summarized and
touched off much of the debate about pistis
Christou (faith in Christ/faith of Christ), is
offered in a new edition, with a preface in which
Hays discusses the interpretive issues raised by
his book.

First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and
the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity
Shelly Matthews
Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford
University Press, Stanford, 2001. 164 pp. $ 49.50 (cloth).
ISBN 0-8047-3592-1.
Focusing on texts in Josephus’s Antiquities and
the New Testament book of Acts, Matthews
examines women’s involvement in missionary
religions of antiquity.

Into God’s Presence: Prayer in the New Testament
Edited by Richard N. Longenecker
McMaster New Testament Studies. Eerdmans, Grand
Rapids, 2001. 305 pp. $28.00. ISBN 0-8028-4883-4.
The twelve essays in this volume examine the
biblical, Greco-Roman, and Jewish backgrounds
of New Testament prayer and the depictions of
prayer in the Gospels, Acts, Paul, Hebrews–Jude,
and Revelation.

Peake’s Commentary on the Bible
Edited by Matthew Black and H. H. Rowley
Routledge, New York, 1962/2001. 1126 pp. $39.95. ISBN
0-415-26355-7.
This popular and influential commentary is
newly available in a paperback edition.

The Trinity Guide to the Bible: An
Introductory Study Guide to the Books
of the Bible and the Apocrypha
Richard H. Hiers
Trinity Press International, Harrisburg, 2001. 320 pp.
$30.00. ISBN 1-56338-340-3.
This concise volume summarizes historical, literary,
and theological themes and discusses each
book of the Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New
Testament.

To What End Exegesis? Essays Textual,
Exegetical, and Theological
Gordon D. Fee
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2001. 388 pp. $26.00. ISBN 0-
8028-4925-3.
These essays represent Fee’s twenty-five years as a
New Testament scholar, with the majority on
Pauline topics.

Understanding Difficult Scriptures in a Healing Way
Matthew Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, and Dennis Linn
Paulist, New York, 2001. 112 pp. $12.95. ISBN 0-8091-
4029-2.
The Linns contend that even biblical texts that
seem to present an unloving or frightening
image of God, when properly contextualized and
interpreted, offer good news of a God who is
consistently loving, healing, and salvific.

The Measure of a Man
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Facets. Fortress, Minneapolis, 2001. 55 pp. $6.00. ISBN 0-
8006-3449-7.
King’s meditations “What Is Man?” and “The
Dimensions of a Complete Life,” along with several
black-and-white photos, are included in this
pocket-size edition.

Knowing the Triune God: The Work of
the Spirit on Practices of the Church
Edited by James J. Buckley and David S. Yeago
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2001. 293 pp. $29.00. ISBN 0-
8028-4804-4.
These authors call for a “catholic and evangelical”
theology that focuses on knowing the triune
God through the practices of the church.

God & Time: Four Views
Edited by Gregory E. Ganssle
InterVarsity, Downers Grove, 2001. 247 pp. $17.99. ISBN 0-
8308-1551-1.
Four Christian philosophers tackle the problem
of an eternal God and a time-bound universe,
each understanding eternity differently in terms
of timelessness, omnitemporality, and divine
temporality.

Religion in a Secular City: Essays in Honor of Harvey Cox
Edited by Arvind Sharma
Trinity Press International, Harrisburg, 2001. 328 pp.
$48.00 (cloth). ISBN 1-56338-337-3.
In this Festschrift, contributors discuss Cox’s
career and reflect his interests in world religions,
liberation theology, and religion and culture.

Secular Theology: American Radical
Theological Thought
Edited by Clayton Crockett
Routledge, New York, 2001. 249 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-415-
25052-8.
These essays argue that secularity, far from
opposing religious practice and belief, is in fact
concerned with possibilities for thinking about
religion and the sacred.

Jerusalem: House of Prayer for All Peoples in the
Three Monotheistic Religions
Edited by Alviero Niccacci
Franciscan Printing Press, Jerusalem, 2001. 193 pp.
$20.00. ISBN 965-516-006-8.
This set of symposium papers and responses
considers the place of Jerusalem in biblical and
other religious texts as well as in Jewish, Islamic,
and Christian traditions.

Earth Habitat: Eco-Injustice and the Church’s Response
Edited by Dieter Hessel and Larry Rasmussen
Fortress, Minneapolis, 2001. 250 pp. $20.00. ISBN 0-
8006-3295-8.
Nineteen eco-theologians consider questions of
the role of Christianity and Christian churches in
the response to the endangerment of the planet
and its reconstruction.

Looking into the Future: Evangelical Studies in Eschatology
Edited by David W. Baker
ETS Studies. Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2001. 383 pp.
$29.99. ISBN 0-8010-2279-7.
These essays explore how eschatology impinges
worship, ethical living, and the presentation and
defense of one’s faith.

The Pre-Wrath Rapture View: An Examination and Critique
Renald E. Showers
Kregel, Grand Rapids, 2001. 255 pp. $13.99. ISBN 0-8254-
3698-2.
The “pre-wrath rapture” view, situated between
the “mid-tribulation” and “post-tribulation”
views of Christ’s return, is the topic of this critique,
which agrees with some of the view’s biblical
premises but argues that others are contrary
to scripture.

Ethical Dilemmas in the New Millennium
Edited by Francis A. Eigo
2 vols. Proceedings of the Theology Institute of Villanova
University, vols. 32-33. Villanova University Press, Villanova,
2000, 2001. 190 pp. (vol. 1); 250 pp. (vol. 2). $15.00.
ISBN 0-87723-069-2 (vol. 1); 0-87723-071-4 (vol. 2).
These volumes address sexual morality, bioethics,
social ethics, environmental ethics, terrorism,
and genocide.

Operation World: When We Pray God Works
Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk
Paternoster, Carlisle, U.K., 2001. 798 pp. $14.99. ISBN 1-
85078-357-8.
This guide offers a country-by-country summary
of geography, peoples, economy, politics, and
religion (including numbers of adherents), as
well as “Answers to Prayer” and “Challenges for
Prayer.”

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