Book Reviews

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Donald Hannan Akenson, Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus, reviewed by Zeba Antonin Crook Bernhard W. Anderson, Contours of Old Testament Theology, reviewed by Brian Peckham R. Dean Anderson, Glossary of Greek Rhetorical Terms, reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg Verbin John Ma. Asgeirsson, Kristen de Troyer and Marvin W. Meyer, From Quest to Q: Festschrift James M. Robinson, reviewed by Alan Kirk Wesley J. Bergen, Elisha and the End of Prophetism, reviewed by Patricia Dutcher-Walls Terence L. Donaldson, ed., Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima, reviewed by Roger Beck Karl P. Donfried and Peter Richardson, eds., Judaism and Christianity in First-Century Rome, reviewed by Terence L. Donaldson Renate Egger-Wenzel, Von der Freiheit Gottes, anders zu sein: Die zentrale Rolle der Kapital 9 und 10 für das Ijobbuch, reviewed by John L. McLaughlin Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus, reviewed by Joan Campbell Paul Hoffmann, Thomas Hieke and Ulrich Bauer. Synoptic Concordance: A Greek Concordance to the First Three Gospels in Synoptic Arrangement, statistically evaluated, including occurrences in Acts, reviewed by Robert A. Derrenbacker, Jr. Sylvia C. Keesmaat, Paul and His Story, reviewed by John A. Bertone Lee I. Levine, The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years, reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg Verbin Frank J. Matera, New Testament Christology, reviewed by James W, Knight Roland Murphy and Elizabeth Huwiler, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, reviewed by Randall Heskett Frans Neirynck and Joseph Verheyden. The Gospel of Matthew and the Sayings Source Q: A Cumulative Bibliography 1950-1995, reviewed by Robert A. Derrenbacker Geert van Oyen, The Interpretation of the Feeding Miracles in the Gospel of Mark, reviewed by Alex Damm John Painter, Just James: The Brother of Jesus in History and Tradition, reviewed by Alicia Batten Calvin Roetzel, Paul: The Man and the Myth, reviewed by Kenneth A. Fox Hal Taussig, Jesus before God: The Prayer Life of the Historical Jesus, reviewed by Alan Kirk Stephen G. Wilson and Michel Desjardins, eds., Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity, reviewed by Zeba Antonin Crook William DiPuccio, The Interior Sense of Scripture: The Sacred Hermeneutics ofJohn W. Nevin, reviewed by Jean-François Racine Peter King, Western Monasticism: A History of the Monastic Movement in the Latin Church, reviewed by Greg Peters Geoffrey Wainwright, Lesslie Newbigin: A Theological Life, reviewed by Victor Shepherd Patricia Parachini, Lay Preaching: State of the Question, reviewed by Mario O. D'Souza James F. Puglisi, The Process of Admission to Ordained Ministry: A Comparative Study. Volume II: The First Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and Wesleyan Rites, reviewed by Michael Attridge Patricia Wilson-Kastner, Sacred Drama: A Spirituality of Christian Liturgy, reviewed by Mario O. D'Souza Walter Wink, ed., Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches, reviewed by Helen Goggin Cynthia S.W. Crysdale, Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today, reviewed by Heather A. Chappell Erwin Fahlbusch, et al., eds., The Encyclopedia of Christianity, reviewed by Joseph Mangina Ivone Gebara., Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation., reviewed by Dorothy McDougall Gilbert Narcisse, Les raisons de Dieu: arguments de convenance et esthiique theologique selon saint Thomas d'Aquin et Hans Urs von Balthasar., reviewed by Gilles Mongeau Gordon W. Lathrop, Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology, reviewed by Timothy Dutcher-Walls Donald Wiebe, The Politics of Religious Studies. The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy, reviewed by Peter Slater