Linebaugh, Jonathan Andrew. God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Texts in Conversation. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 152. Leiden: Brill. 2013. 282 pages. $141.00 (Hardback). ISBN 978-9004252943. In this volume, his revised 2011 doctoral thesis from Durham University under John M. G. Barclay, Jonathan Linebaugh seeks to place Romans and Wisdom of Solomon (henceforth Wisdom) in conversation with one another. After setting out the trajectory of his thesis in...

Crispin Fletcher-Louis. Jesus Monotheism, Volume 1, Christological Origins: The Emerging Consensus and Beyond. Cascade Books, 2015. 367 pgs. $43 (Paperback). ISBN 978-1-62032-889-7. Crispin Fletcher-Louis’s Jesus Monotheism sets out in four volumes a new paradigm for the shape and origins of early christological monotheism. The present volume under review lays the foundation for the remainder of the project. Chapter 1 examines the “emerging consensus” concerning the shape and origins of early christological monotheism (pp. 3–30). Gleaning...

Barclay, John. Paul & the Gift. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2015. 582 pages + 74 pages of bibliography and indices. Hardcover. Retail: $70.00. As in Barclay’s previous monographs, though here to greater extent, he has offered the Pauline community an absolute tour de force. This massive tome attempts, through the sophisticated analytic of distinguishing between the six possible ‘perfections’ when speaking of ‘grace’, to move beyond the debates between the New Perspective (and particularly Sanders’ ‘covenantal nomism’) and...