Book Reviews

Review of Biblical Literature/Journal of Biblical Literature

The following reviews have been published in the Review of Biblical Literature on their website.

Derhetorizing Paul

Derhetorizing Paul: A Dynamic Perspetive on Pauline Theology and the Law. Lauri Thurén (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity International Press, 2002).

The Bible and Homosexual Practices

The Bible and Homosexual Practices: Texts and Hermeneutics. Robert A. J. Gagnon (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2001).

Homosexuality, Science and the "Plain Sense" of Scripture

Homosexuality, Science and the "Plain Sense" of Scripture. David Balch, ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000).

Discourse of Power

Paul and the Discourse of Power, Sandra Polaski (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). Also published in Journal of Biblical Literature.

Power & Prejudice

Power & Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of Mark. Brenda Schildgen (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999).

 

RSR Review

The following reviews have been published in the Religious Studies Review, though I have not seen the hardcopy edition to verify their locations.

Reader Response

Reader Response Interpretation of the Letter of James, Randall Webber (San Francisco: International Scholars Press, 1996).

Reading the NT

How to Read the New Testament: An Introduction to Linguistic and Historical-Critical Methodology, Wilhelm Egger, ed. and with an introduction by Hendrikus Boers (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996).

Deconstructing the NT

Deconstruction the New Testament, David Seeley (Leiden/New York: E.J. Brill, 1997).

Justifying Language

Justifying Language: Paul and Contemporary Literary Theory, Kevin Mills. Studies in Literature and Religion (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996)

H-Rhetor

The following reviews have been published on H-Net, an on-line community of humanities scholars. You may view them at that cite by subscribing to H-Rhetor, a list dedicated to rhetoric and composition. They are located at H-Rhetor Reviews.

Negation and Subjectivity

Negation, Subjectivity and The History of Rhetoric, Victor Vitanza (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1997).

Pre/Text website

Theory, Text, Context

Theory, Text, Context: Issues in Greek Rhetoric and Oratory, Christopher Lyle Johnstone, ed. (Albany, NY: SUNY, 1997).

Rhetorical Hermeneutics

Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science, Alan Gross and William Keith, eds. (Albany, NY: SUNY, 1997). [This review was also published by Metascience: An International Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science NS. 12 (1997), 107.]

Scriptura

The following review was published in Scriptura: Journal for the Study of Theology in South Africa 50 (1994), 90-94.

Corinthian Womyn Prophets

The Corinthian Women Prophets: Reconstruction through Paul's Rhetoric, Antoinette Wire (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1990).

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