Biblia Hebraica Leningradensia
Edited by Aron Dotan
Hendrickson, Peabody, 2001. 1264 pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 1-56563-089-0.

Revised and retypeset from the 1973 edition published in Tel Aviv, this volume offers an edition of one of the oldest masoretic witnesses of the complete Hebrew Bible.

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Dynamics of Diselection: Ambiguity in Genesis 12–36 and Ethnic Boundaries in Post-Exilic Judah
R. Christopher Heard
Semeia Studies. Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2001. 224 pp. $29.95. ISBN 1-58983-001-6.

Heard looks at the strange stories in Genesis 12–36, including those of Lot, Ishmael, and Esau, and argues that the ambiguity in these narratives is a strategy to promote ethnic exclusivity in post-exilic Judah.

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Studies in the Early Text of the Gospels and Acts: The Papers of the First Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
Edited by D. G. K. Taylor
SBL Text-Critical Studies. Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 1999. 283 pp. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-88414-007-5.

This collection of papers represents recent study in the field of textual criticism, discussing both methods of study and specific texts.

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New Testament Judaism: Collected Works of David Daube, Vol. II
Edited by Calum Carmichael
Studies in Comparative Legal History. Robbins Collection, Berkeley, 2000. 923 pp. $60.00 (cloth). ISBN 1-882239-04-0.

Well over half a century of scholarship is represented here, comprising Daube’s work on the Hellenistic and Rabbinic background to New Testament literature.

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Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Society: A Sociological Approach
Anthony J. Saldarini
Biblical Resource Series. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2001. 351 pp. $28.00. ISBN 0-8028-4358-1.

This resource on leading groups in Palestinian society, first published in 1998, has been reissued with a new foreword.

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Reading Biblical Narrative: A Practical Guide
J. P. Fokkelman
Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 1999. 216 pp. $22.95. ISBN 0-664-22263-3.

This guidebook employs literary categories such as narrator, action, time, and point of view in the reading of biblical narratives, using 2 Kings 4:1–7 as an example.

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Mikhail Bakhtin and Biblical Scholarship: An Introduction
Barbara Green
Semeia Studies. Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2000. 205 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-88414-020-2.

Beginning with an introduction to Bakhtin’s life and work, this book makes a case for continued and increasing use of the insights of this literary and cultural theorist in biblical studies.

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Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity
Charles E. Hill
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2001. 344 pp. $30.00. ISBN 0-8028-4634-3.

This updated edition of a 1992 publication traces the connections between early Christian understandings of the millennium and Jewish and early Christian beliefs about the soul’s fate after death.

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Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority
J. Samuel Preus
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001. 228 pp. $54.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-521-80013-7.

Preus reads Spinoza’s 1670 Theological-Political Treatise in light of the conflict between Spinoza and his contemporaries regarding biblical interpretation.

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William Tyndale: A Biography
David Daniell
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1994/2001. 429 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-300-06880-8.

This major and acclaimed biography of Tyndale is newly reissued in a paperback edition.

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Conversion in the Wesleyan Tradition
Edited by Kenneth J. Collins and John H. Tyson
Abingdon, Nashville, 2001. 300 pp. $27.00. ISBN 0-687-09107-1.

This collection of essays from leading Wesleyan scholars considers the topic of conversion from biblical, historical, theological, and practical points of view.

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The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal
Edited by Vinson Synan
Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2001. 448 pp. $29.99 (cloth). ISBN 0-7852-4550-2.

Essays by Synan and others trace the history of the charismatic movement, beginning January 1, 1901, emphasizing its worldwide scope and presence in many denominations.

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God for a Secular Society: The Public Relevance of Theology
Jürgen Moltmann
Fortress, Minneapolis, 1999. 292 pp. $20.00. ISBN 0-8006-3184-6.

This collection of essays, originally presented as lectures or parts of other publications, reiterates Moltmann’s emphasis on Christian discipleship in a wounded and dangerous world.

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The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis
Edited by John Polkinghorne
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2001. 224 pp. $22.00. ISBN 0-8028-4885-0.

The authors of essays in this collection share a conviction that a grasp of God’s kenotic (self-emptying) activity is crucial to understanding the Christian doctrine of creation and its relation to the scientific enterprise.

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Beyond Cloning: Religion and the Remaking of Humanity
Edited by Ronald Cole-Turner
Trinity Press International, Harrisburg, 2001. 160 pp. $17.00. ISBN 1-56338-317-9.

These articles address the science of cloning and genetic engineering, exploring the ethical issues from varied and sometimes conflicting viewpoints.

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Teaching Mission in a Global Context
Edited by Patricia Lloyd-Sidle and Bonnie Sue Lewis
Geneva Press, Louisville, 2001. 151 pp. $16.95. ISBN 0-664-50154-0.

Teachers of evangelism and missiology discuss their work in this volume, chronicling the changes that the field has seen in the past few decades. While all the contributors are Presbyterian, the issues involved range far beyond Presbyterian seminaries alone.

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A New Call to Mission: Help for Perplexed Churches
Alan Neely
Smyth & Helwys, Macon, 2000. 120 pp. $16.00. ISBN 1-57312-296-3.

Neely studies the roles of denominational agencies and individual congregations in the changing Baptist context, offering suggestions for hands-on projects to help a church revitalize its mission awareness and programs.

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Soul Friend: Spiritual Direction in the Modern World
Kenneth Leech
New Revised Edition. Morehouse, Harrisburg, 2001. 272 pp. $16.95. ISBN 0-8192-1888-X.

This revised edition of the classic book on spiritual direction (first published in 1977) removes non-inclusive language and adds material related to recent changes in society.

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The Abingdon Preaching Manual: 2002 Edition
Edited by Charles Bugg
Abingdon, Nashville, 2001. 464 pp. $20.00. ISBN 0-687-08198-X.

This perennial resource offers a call to worship, pastoral prayer, and sermon briefs for the Old Testament, Epistle, and Gospel lessons for each Sunday in 2002, following the Revised Common Lectionary, Year A.

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