Book Reviews

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The Two Cities provides book reviews on a number of topics within biblical studies and theology, and we welcome reviews from outside the regular contributors to the blog. For more information, contact Logan Williams (logan.a.williams@durham.ac.uk).

Review of From Jesus to the New Testament by Jens Schröter

Aug 9, 2014

Jens Schröter. From Jesus to the New Testament: Early Christian Theology and the Origin of the New Testament Canon. Translated by Wayne Coppins. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2013. xiv + 417 pp. Hardcover. $59.95. ISBN: 9781602588226. From Jesus to the New Testament is a translation of Jens Schröter’s 2007 work Von Jesus zum Neuen Testament. The volume comprises a collection of sixteen independently-written essays united by their focus on early Christian history and the formation...

Review of Philippians (Story of God Bible Commentary Series) by Lynn H. Cohick

Aug 2, 2014

Lynn H. Cohick, Philippians. The Story of God Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2013. 320 pgs. Hardcover. Retail $29.99 Cohick’s new commentary on Paul’s epistle to the Philippians is one of two, along with a commentary on the Sermon on the Mount by Scott McKnight, to be released in a new popular level series by Zondervan, called The Story of God Bible Commentary. Both have been written by members of the editorial board for...

Review of Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by Nicholas M. Healy

Jul 26, 2014

Nicholas M. Healy, Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014. 154 pages. Softcover. Retail $23.00. Few contemporary theologians have situated their own projects so explicitly against the “many-faced and historically ambiguous phenomenon” of modern liberalism (whether of the theological or the political varieties) as Stanley Hauerwas.[1] It is no small task therefore to set out to defend the claim that Hauerwas (the much-admired paragon of postliberal theology) is in...

Review of The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature edited by Jean-Sébastien Rey

Jul 24, 2014

Rey, Jean-Sébastien, ed. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 102. Leiden: Brill, 2014. 355 + xvi pages. Hardcover. €121.00 This volume, the latest installment of the prestigious and important Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah series, is devoted to the question of the interrelationship of Pauline literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The collection contains 15 articles (10 in English, 5 in...

Review of Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme by Stephen Westerholm

Jul 19, 2014

There continues to be a swirl of popular interest in the now not-so-new “New Perspective on Paul.” In Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme, Stephen Westerholm attempts “to update and to make more widely accessible earlier work” (viii), and thus demonstrate why he has not been persuaded by recent “revisionist” readings of Paul. The concise work consists of six chapters, each of which attempts to briefly describe key proposals from six scholars associated with the...

Review of Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks by Walter Brueggemann

Jul 12, 2014

Brueggemann, Walter. Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2014. 165 pages. Softcover. Retail: $15.00. In Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks, Walter Brueggemann suggests that the ancient Israelite ideological crisis caused by the destruction of Jerusalem can act as an analogy for the modern American ideological crisis caused by 9/11 and that the prophetic response of ancient Israel should act as the pattern for the modern church’s response. This...

Review of The Role of Works at the Final Judgment edited by Alan P. Stanley.

Jul 10, 2014

Wilkin, Robert N., Thomas R. Schreiner, James D. G. Dunn, Michael P. Barber, and Alan P. Stanley.Four Views On the Role of Works at the Final Judgment. Edited by Alan P. Stanley. Counterpoints. Bible and Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. 234 pages. Softcover. Retail: $17.99. ISBN: 9780310490333 “The Role of Works at the Final Judgement,” edited by Alan Stanley admirably expands Zondervan’s “Counterpoints” series. For those unfamiliar with the series, these volumes bring together divergent...

Review of Jesus Research, ed. James H. Charlesworth

Jun 21, 2014

Edited by James H. Charlesworth; with Brian Rhea and Petr Pokorný. Jesus Research: New Methodologies and Perception. Eerdmans, 2014. 1053 pgs. $35.00 (Paperback). ISBN 978-0-8028-6728-5. The recently released compendium, Jesus Research (2014), is a collection of papers originally presented at the Second Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research (2007). The volume combines the insights of at least 40 of the world’s leading scholars—a true “Who’s Who’ of specialists in Jesus Research” (Charlesworth, 1). Due to the...

Review of Union with Christ in the New Testament by Grant Macaskill

Jun 14, 2014

Macaskill, Grant. Union with Christ in the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 308 pages + 45 pages bibliography and indices. Hardcover. Retail: £75.00 ISBN: 978-0199684298. Long a pillar of Eastern Orthodox theology, theosis has been generating increasing interest across denominational lines in recent years. In Union with Christ in the New Testament, Grant Macaskill (University of St Andrews) utilizes an exegetical, historical, and theological approach to offer significant biblical insights that have far-reaching...

Review of Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism

Jun 7, 2014

Hays, Christopher M. and Christopher B. Ansberry, eds. Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism. London: SPCK, 2013. 241 pgs. Paperback. £17.99 ISBN: 9780281067329. Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism is a collection of essays written in response to the challenges that historical criticism brings to traditional evangelical approaches to the Bible. Rather than being an apologetic defense of conservative methods, this book is unique in helping the reader to think through the implications for faith...

About Book Reviews

Review of From Jesus to the New Testament by Jens Schröter

Review of Philippians (Story of God Bible Commentary Series) by Lynn H. Cohick

Review of Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by Nicholas M. Healy

Review of The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature edited by Jean-Sébastien Rey

Review of Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme by Stephen Westerholm

Review of Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks by Walter Brueggemann

Review of The Role of Works at the Final Judgment edited by Alan P. Stanley.

Review of Jesus Research, ed. James H. Charlesworth

Review of Union with Christ in the New Testament by Grant Macaskill

Review of Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism

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