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Book Reviews

Old Testament

John H. Walton
The Lost World of Genesis OneReviewed by Seulgi L. Byun

Leo G. Perdue
Wisdom Literature: A Theological HistoryReviewed by Seulgi L. Byun

Samuel L. Adams
Wisdom in Transition: Act and Consequence in Second Temple InstructionReviewed by Tremper Longman III

John Goldingay
Psalms. 3 vols.: Psalms 1–41, Psalms 42–89, and Psalms 90–150Reviewed by Willem A. VanGemeren

Woodrow Kroll
Proverbs: The Pursuit of God’s WisdomReviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

New Testament

Dale C. Allison Jr
The Historical Christ and the Theological JesusReviewed by Darrell L. Bock

Paul Barnett
Finding the Historical ChristReviewed by Darrell L. Bock

Bart Ehrman
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them)Reviewed by Darrell L. Bock

Gary M. Burge, Lynn H. Cohick, and Gene L. Green
The New Testament in Antiquity: A Survey of the New Testament within Its Cultural ContextsReviewed by Paul J. Brown

Steve Levy
Bible OverviewReviewed by Paul J. Brown

Michael F. Bird
Introducing Paul: The Man, His Mission and His MessageReviewed by Christopher R. Bruno

Brevard S. Childs
The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline CorpusReviewed by Christopher R. Bruno

Stanley E. Porter, ed.
Hearing the Old Testament in the New TestamentReviewed by Douglas Campbell

Terry L. Wilder, J. Daryl Charles, and Kendell Easley, eds.
Faithful to the EndReviewed by Douglas Campbell

Darian Lockett
Purity and Worldview in the Epistle of JamesReviewed by Mariam J. Kamell

Michael J. Gorman
Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative SoteriologyReviewed by Douglas J. Moo

David G. Peterson
The Acts of the ApostlesReviewed by Carl Park

Stephen H. Travis
Christ and the Judgement of God: The Limits of Divine Retribution in New Testament ThoughtReviewed by Thomas R. Schreiner

David A. deSilva
Seeing Things John’s Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of RevelationReviewed by Stephen B. Smith

James L. Resseguie
The Revelation of John: A Narrative CommentaryReviewed by Stephen B. Smith

Andrew Gregory and Christopher Tuckett, eds.
Trajectories through the New Testament and the Apostolic FathersReviewed by H. Drake Williams III

History and Historical Theology

James T. Dennison Jr., ed.
Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation: Volume 1, 1523–1552Reviewed by Matthew Barrett

Fisher Humphreys and Philip Wise
FundamentalismReviewed by Kevin T. Bauder

Jean-Louis Quantin
The Church of England and Christian Antiquity: The Construction of a Confessional Identity in the 17th CenturyReviewed by Andrew V. Cinnamond

Thomas J. Nettles
James Petigru Boyce: A Southern Baptist StatesmanReviewed by Nathan A. Finn

Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos, eds.
Orthodox Readings of AugustineReviewed by Keith Goad

John Owen
Communion with the Triune GodReviewed by Jason Meyer

Gregory A. Wills
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859–2009Reviewed by Andrew David Naselli

Faith Cook
Fearless Pilgrim: The Life and Times of John BunyanReviewed by Bennett Rogers

Mark A. Noll
The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global FaithReviewed by Mark Rogers

Systematic Theology and Bioethics

Alan Spence
Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed. Guides for the PerplexedReviewed by Uche Anizor

Charles M. Wood
The Question of ProvidenceReviewed by Uche Anizor

Richard C. Gamble
The Whole Counsel of God: God’s Mighty Acts in the Old TestamentReviewed by Matthew Barrett

Alan Spence
The Promise of Peace: A Unified Theory of AtonementReviewed by Jordan P. Barrett

Keith Ward
Divine Action: Examining God’s Role in an Open and Emergent UniverseReviewed by C. John Collins

Stephen J. Nichols
Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us about Suffering and SalvationReviewed by William Edgar

Bruce L. McCormack, ed.
Justification in Perspective: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges; The Gospel of Justification in Christ: Where Does the Church Stand Today?Reviewed by Kent Eilers

Steven B. Sherman
Revitalizing Theological Epistemology: Holistic Evangelical Approaches to the Knowledge of GodReviewed by Paul Kjoss Helseth

N. T. Wright
Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s VisionReviewed by David Mathis

Thomas Albert Howard
Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German UniversityReviewed by Mark McDowell

Douglas F. Kelly
Systematic Theology, Volume One: Grounded in Holy Scripture and Understood in Light of the Church (The God Who Is: The Holy Trinity)Reviewed by Jason S. Sexton

Daniel J. Treier and David Lauber, eds.
Trinitarian Theology for the Church: Scripture, Community, WorshipReviewed by Jason S. Sexton

Mark S. Gignilliat
Karl Barth and the Fifth Gospel: Barth’s Theological Exegesis of IsaiahReviewed by Charles K. Telfer

Richard Viladesau
The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the Catacombs to the Eve of the RenaissanceReviewed by Jeremy R. Treat

Scot McKnight
The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the BibleReviewed by Timothy Ward

Robert M. Bowman Jr. and J. Ed. Komoszewski
Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of ChristReviewed by David H. Wenkel

Ethics and Pastoralia

Bryan Chapell
Christ-Centered Worship: Letting the Gospel Shape Our PracticeReviewed by Scott Aniol

BibleWorks 8: Software for Biblical Exegesis and Research; Logos Bible Software 3 with the Libronix Digital Library SystemReviewed by Alec J. Lucas

Kevin DeYoung
Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will: or, How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc.Reviewed by Andrew David Naselli

Timothy Keller
Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that MattersReviewed by Andrew David Naselli

C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters: First Ever Full-cast Dramatization of the Diabolical ClassicReviewed by Andrew David Naselli

Edited by Robert L. Hubbard (OT) and Gordon D. Fee (NT)
The New International Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. 40 vols.Reviewed by Andrew David Naselli

Book Notes

Barry J. Beitzel
The New Moody Atlas of the BibleReviewed by Andrew David Naselli

Douglas Bond
The Betrayal: A Novel on John CalvinReviewed by Andrew David Naselli

John Bunyan
The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to ComeReviewed by Andrew David Naselli

Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck
Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized ReligionReviewed by Andrew David Naselli

Timothy Keller
The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian FaithReviewed by Andrew David Naselli