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Volume 43; Issue 3

Religious Studies Review

Volume 43; Issue 3

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The American Academy of Religion Exploratory Session on Marian Apparitions and Theoretical Problems in Religious Studies (2015)

Krebs, Jill M., Laycock, Joseph

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Psi and Psychedelics; Meditation and Mysticism: Religion, Science, and Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

Barnard, G. William

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Alien Abductions, Flying Saints, and Parapsychology: Grappling with the “Super Natural”

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2017

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Marian Apparitions in Trans-Historical and Socio-Political Contexts: Interpreting the Virgin Mary's Appearances from Maryland to Manila, Fatima to Florence

Park, Karen Elizabeth

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus. Edited by Gregory Price Grieve and Daniel Veidlinger. Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture, 1. New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. viii + 232; figures, tables. Hardback. $145.00.

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Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds: Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917. By Vassili Schedrin. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 292; plates. Cloth, $49.99.

Stampfer, Shaul

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Religious Dynamics Under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism. A Sourcebook. Edited by BjörnBentlage, MarionEggert, Hans MartinKrämer, and StefanReichmuth. Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions, 154. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2

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Short Reviews of Recent Publications

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Believing and Debunking Spiritualism with Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini in Tony Oursler's Imponderable

Sheppard, Christian

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Online Resources

Elwell, J. Sage

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2017

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Possessions, Neoliberalism, and American Religion: An Interview with Sean McCloud

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Japan's Sexual Gods: Shrines, Roles and Rituals of Procreation and Protection. By Stephen Turnbull. Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 49. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015. Pp. xxxiii + 406. Hardback, $165.00.

Wilkinson, Gregory

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Issue Information

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A Handbook to Old Testament Exegesis. By William P. Brown. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 363. $35.00.

Mayfield, Tyler

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Hospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-First Century: The Crisis of Spiritual Care on the NHS. 2nd ed. By Christopher Swift. Explorations in Practical, Pastoral, and Empirical Theology. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xx + 204. $34.95.

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The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender. Edited by Donald L.Boisvert and CarlyDaniel-Hughes. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. vi + 271. $37.73.

Arel, Stephanie N.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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The Perfectly Simple Triune God: Aquinas and his Legacy. By D. Stephen Long. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2016. Pp. xxvi + 422; paper, $49.00.

Kilcrease, Jack D.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Systematic Theology: Volume 1: Doctrine of God. By Katherine Sonderegger. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2015. Pp. xxv + 538. Hardcover, $49.00.

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2017

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Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy: On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. By John J. Collins. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2015. Pp. x + 389. Paper, $34.00.

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2017

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Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism. By Marcus Boon, Eric Cazdyn, and Timothy Morton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 296. Ebook $10.00-$24.00. Paperback, $24.90.

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Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime. By Yoshiko Okuyama. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. Pp. xvii + 243. Hardback, $100.00; paper, $46.99.

Wilkinson, Gregory

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Beyond the Secular West. Edited by AkeelBilgrami. Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 1. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 263. Cloth, $32.37; paper, $15.72.

Schneider, Rachel C.

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2017

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God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships. By Matthew Vines. New York: Convergent Books, 2015. Pp. 213. Paper, $14.99.

Zingarelli-Sweet, Desirae

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Transgender, Intersex, and Biblical Interpretation. By Teresa J. Hornsby and Deryn Guest. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2016. Pp. viii + 123. Paper, $25.85.

Siker, Jeffrey S.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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english

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The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology. Edited by RobertKolb, IreneDingel, and L'UbomirBatka. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 651. Hardcover, $150.00.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Advocating for Justice: An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures. By Stephen Offutt, F. David Bronkema, Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, Robb Davis, and Gregg Okesson. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016. Pp. viii + 216. Paper, $23.00

Anderson, Braden P.

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2017

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Reclaiming Pietism: Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition. By Roger E. Olson and Christian T. Collins Winn. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans., 2015. Pp. xiii + 190. Paper, $18.00.

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Religious Studies Review

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Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany. By Zachary Purvis. Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 271. Cloth, $100.00.

Aubert, Annette G.

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2017

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Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection. Edited by Michelle VossRoberts. Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Pp. vi + 326. Hardback, $110.00; paper, $27.60.

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Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief: New Perspectives. Edited by AdamGreen and EleonoreStump. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 295. $99.99.

Porot, Christophe

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2017

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A Mystical Philosophy: Transcendence and Immanence in the Works of Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch. By Donna J. Lazenby. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 344. Hardback, $114.00; paperback, $39.95.

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Politics for a Pilgrim Church: A Thomistic Theory of Civic Virtue. By Thomas J. Bushlack. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2015. Pp. v + 271. Paper, $35.00.

Scruggs, Mathew D.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Jesus Christ, the New Face of Social Progress. Edited by Peter J. Cassarella. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2015. Pp. 380. $45.00.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Journey Toward Justice: Personal Encounters in the Global South. By Nicholas P. Wolterstorff. Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013. Pp. xiv + 253. Paper, $22.00.

Dehm, Zachary R.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Freedom of Religion or Belief: An International Law Commentary. By Heiner Bielefeldt, Nazila Ghanea, and Michael Wiener. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. v + 660. Hardback, £125.00/$210.00.

Roberts, Caroline K.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism. By Isaac Weiner. North American Religions Series. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 249. Cloth, $89.00; paper, $27.00.

McIvor, Méadhbh

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2017

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Religion Around Shakespeare. By Peter Iver Kaufman. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. Pp. 264. Cloth, $34.95.

Middleton, Darren J. N.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Graham Greene's Narrative in Spain: Criticism, Translations and Censorship (1939-1975). By Mónica Olivares Leyva. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Pp. 170. Cloth, £41.99.

Middleton, Darren J. N.

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2017

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American War: A Novel. Fiction. By Omar El Akkad. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. Pp. 333. $26.95.

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2017

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Mourner's Bench: A Novel. Fiction. By Sanderia Faye. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2015. Pp. 371. $19.95.

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2017

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This Deep Pierian Spring: An Account of the Human Quest for Meaning. By M. F. Sia and S. Sia. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Pp. 272. Cloth, £47.99; paper, £29.99.

Middleton, Darren J. N.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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God's Servants, the Prophets. By Bryan D. Bibb. All in the Bible. Macon, GA: Smyth and Helwys, 2014. Pp. vviii + 200. $16.00.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Prophets, Prophecy, and Ancient Israelite Historiography. Edited by Mark J.Boda and Lissa M. Wray Beal. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013. Pp. xii + 400. $54.50.

Greenwood, Kyle R.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry. By Cynthia R. Chapman. The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 336. $85.00.

Mayfield, Tyler

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Jeremiah: Prophecy in a Time of Crisis. By Mary E. Mills. Phoenix Guides to the Old Testament 20. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix, 2015. Pp. 195. $19.95.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Haggai and Zechariah 1-8: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text. By Max Rogland. Baylor Handbooks on the Hebrew Bible. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2016. Pp. vii-xii + 250. $29.95.

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Women of War, Women of Woe: Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters. Edited by Marion AnnTaylor and ChristianaDe Groot. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2016. Pp. x + 278. $35.00.

Mayfield, Tyler

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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A Companion to Greek Literature. Edited by M.Hose and D.Schenker. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Pp. xix + 552; illustrations, maps. Cloth, $195.00.

Clay, Jenny Strauss

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Religious Studies Review

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2017

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Legible Religion: Books, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture. By Duncan MacRae. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 272. Cloth, $49.95.

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Ritual Und Religion Im Archaischen Sizilien. Formations- Und Transformationsprozesse Binnenländischer Kultorte Im Kontext Kultureller Kontakte. By Birgit Öhlinger. Italiker Bd. 4. Wiesbaden, Germany: Reichert, 2015. Pp. 239; plates, map. Cloth, N.p.

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2017

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Diagoras of Melos: A Contribution to the History of Ancient Atheism. By Marek Winiarczyk. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 350. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. Pp. 224. $126.00.

Clay, Jenny Strauss

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2017

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Rituals and Christian Beginnings: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis. Risto Uro. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 230. Cloth, $115.50.

Ascough, Richard S.

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2017

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Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek: Have- and Be Constructions. By Klaas Bentein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 392. Cloth, $125.00.

Fickenscher, James

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A Syntax Guide for Readers of the Greek New Testament. By Charles Lee Irons. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic, 2016. Pp. 629. $39.99.

Prothro, James B.

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2017

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Intermediate Greek Grammar: Syntax for Students of the New Testament. By David L. Mathewson and Elodie Ballantine Emig. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016. Pp. xxiii + 307. Cloth, $32.99.

Richardson, Philip

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2017

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Religion and Female Body in Ancient Judaism and its Environment. Edited by Géza G.Xeravits. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, 28. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015. Pp. viii + 270. Cloth, $112.00.

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The Oral Gospel Tradition. By James D. G. Dunn. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2013. Pp. x + 390. Paper, $45.00.

Bauser, Kimberly

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2017

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Jesus and the Last Supper. By Brant Pitre. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2015. Pp. xiv + 690. Cloth, $40.00.

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Poverty, Wealth, and Empire: Jesus and Postcolonial Criticism. By Michael J. Sandford. New Testament Monographs, 35. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014. Pp. viii + 214. Cloth, $70.00.

Christian, Michelle

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The Jesus Movement and its Expansion: Meaning and Mission. By Seán Freyne. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2014. Pp. xii + 383. Paper, $35.00.

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Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels. By Richard B. Hays. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 504. Cloth, $49.95.

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Hellenistic Dimensions of the Gospel of Matthew: Background and Rhetoric. By Robert S. Kinney. WUNT II, 414. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. Pp. xv + 338. Paper, $134.00.

Crowe, Brandon D.

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Lifting the Veil: 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 in Light of Jewish Homiletic and Commentary Traditions. By Michael Cover. Beihefte zur Zeischrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, 210. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015. Pp. xvi + 345. Cloth, $140.00.

Prothro, James B.

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Discovering Romans: Content, Interpretation, Reception. By Anthony C. Thiselton. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2016. Pp. xii + 297. Paper, $22.00.

Richardson, Philip

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2017

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Between Jesus and Paul: Studies in the Earliest History of Christianity. By Martin Hengel. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013. Pp. xx + 221. Paper, $29.95.

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Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity. Edited by Susan J.Wendel and David M.Miller. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2016. Pp. xiii + 271. Paper, $35.00.

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Religion and Competition in Antiquity. Edited by DavidEngels and Petervan Nuffelen. Collection Latomus, 343. Brussels, Belgium: Editions Latomus, 2014. Pp. 307. Paper, $64.00.

Ascough, Richard S.

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2017

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Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity. By Dirk Rohmann. Studies in Text Transmission, 135. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. Pp. xi + 360. $140.

Wright, Brian J.

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The World of Medieval Monasticism: Its History and Forms of Life. By Gert Melville. Translated by James DMixson. Cistercian Studies, 263. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 372; maps. Paper, $56.49.

Michael, Allison Zbicz

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John Chrysostom on Divine Pedagogy: The Coherence of his Theology and Preaching. By David Rylaarsdam. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxvi + 317. $105.00.

Chronister, Andrew C.

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Theophilus of Alexandria and the First Origenist Controversy: Rhetoric and Power. By Krastu Banev. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 233. $90.00.

Chronister, Andrew C.

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Robert Holcot. By John T. Slotemaker and Jeffrey C. Witt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xxii + 359. Paper, $35.00.

Kitanov, Severin V.

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Leo Strauss: On the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History. By Jeffrey A. Bernstein. SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015. Pp. xxix + 228. Cloth $91.44; paper, $24.95.

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German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy. By Vivian Liska. Jewish Literature and Culture, 1. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 201; Cloth, $80.00; paper, $30.00.

Creighton, Matthew

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The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud. Edited by MarkhamGeller. IJS Studies in Judaica, 16. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015. Pp. xii + 403, plates. Cloth, $181.00.

Stampfer, Shaul

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2017

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Building on the Ruins of the Temple: Apologetics and Polemics in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. By Adam Gregerman. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 165. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. Pp. xiv + 266. €115.

Higginbotham, Andrew W.

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Yudisher Theriak: An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism. By Zalman Avi of Aufhausen. Edited and translated by Morris M.Faierstein. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 180; plate. $44.99.

Stampfer, Shaul

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Edited by Peter E.Pormann. Oxford: D. S. Brewer for Corpus Christi College, 2015. Pp. vi +122. Cloth, $90.00.

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Halachische Literatur in Aschkenas in Den Jahren 1350-1500. By Vladislav Zeev Slepoy. Schriften der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, 19. Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. Pp. vii + 339; plate. Cloth, €42.

Stampfer, Shaul

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Religion in the Mirror of Law: Eastern European Perspectives from the Early Modern Period to 1939. Edited by YvonneKleinmann, StephanStach, and TracieWilson. Studien zur europaischen Rechtsgeschichte, 280. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2016. Pp

Stampfer, Shaul

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Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906. By Ellie R. Schainker. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 339. $65.00.

Starr, David B.

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Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Seltzer. Edited by Brian Smollett and Christian Wiese. The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 44. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015. Pp. xvi + 449. Cloth, $214.

Stampfer, Shaul

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music. Edited by Joshua S.Walden. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii + 293. Cloth, $89.99; paper, $29.99; eBook, $24.00.

Stein, Amanda Ruppenthal

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Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service and the “Ground Zero Mosque” Controversy. By Rosemary R. Corbett. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 287, $25.00.

Bennett, Clinton

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Female Personalities in the Qur'an and Sunna: Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi‘i Islam. By Rawand Osman. Routledge Persian and Shi‘i Studies Series. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 200. Cloth, $148.00.

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Moral Agents and their Deserts: The Character of Mu῾tazilite Ethics. By Sophia Vasalou. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 252. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $27.95.

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African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century. By Annalisa Butticci. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 189. Cloth, $39.95.

Bongmba, Elias Kifon

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Religion, NGOs and the United Nations: Visible and Invisible Actors in Power. Edited by JeremyCarrette and HughMiall. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. ix + 302. Cloth, $102.60.

Bongmba, Elias Kifon

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In the Shadow of Moses: New Jewish Movements in Africa and the Diaspora. Edited by Daniel Lis, William E. S. Miles, and Tudor Parfitt. Los Angeles, CA: Tsehai Publishers, 2016. Pp. ix + 257. Paperback, $29.95.

Bongmba, Elias Kifon

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Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada: Critical Essays on Contemporary Trends. Edited by JasonZuidema. Editions SR, 38. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. Pp. xi + 457. Cloth, $85.00 CDN.

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The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China. By Sébastien Billioud and Joël Thoraval. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 332. Hardback, $99.00; paperback, $29.95.

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Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan. By Heather Blair. Harvard East Asia Monographs, 376. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center & Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 345. Hardback, $49.95.

Wilkinson, Gregory

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Classical Confucian Political Philosophy: A New Interpretation. By Loubna El Amine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 218. Hardback, $39.95.

Kirkland, Russell

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Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity: From the Latter Han Dynasty (25-220) to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). By Stephen Eskildsen. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 387. Har

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Daoist Priests of the Li Family: Ritual Life in Village China. By Stephen Jones. St. Petersburg, FL: Three Pines Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 406. Paperback, $42.95.

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From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls. New Approaches to the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions. Edited by Justin ThomasMcDaniel and LynnRansom. The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Studies in Manuscript Culture, 1. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Decoding Dao: Reading the Dao De Jing ( Tao Te Ching ) and the Zhuangzi ( Chuang Tzu ). By Lee Dian Rainey. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. Pp. xii + 255. Hardback, $95.95; paperback, $41.95.

Kirkland, Russell

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The Bible and Asia: From the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age. By R. S. Sugirtharajah. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. 320. Hardback, $32.50.

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Daoist Lives: Narrative and Practice. Edited by FranciscusVerellen and VincentGoossaert. Daoism: Religion, History and Society, 8. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2016. Pp. 284. Paperback, $19.50.

Hendrischke, Barbara

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Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah: The Most Perfect Model of Prophetic Poetry. By J. Blake Couey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 247. $110.00.

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The Al-Baqara Crescendo: Understanding the Qur'an's Style, Narrative Structure and Running Themes. By Nevin Reda. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2017. Pp. xl + 250. Paper, $33.00.

Elbasani, Arolda

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The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis. Edited by Steven E.Runge and Christopher J.Fresch. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016. Pp. xxvii + 658. $49.99.

Prothro, James B.

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Buddhist and Christian Responses to the Kowtow Problem in China. By Eric Reinders. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. x + 187. Hardback, $114.00.

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Early Modern Women and the Problem of Evil: Atrocity and Theodicy. By Jill Graper Hernandez. New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xiii + 148. Paperback, $44.95.

Naylor, Marshall Scott

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God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality and the Transformation of Finitude. By Linn Tonstad. New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 299. Hardcover, $145.00.

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Called to Lead: Paul's Letters to Timothy for a New Day. By Anthony B. Robinson and Robert W. Wall. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2012. Pp. vii + 239. Paper, $25.00.

Saunders, Craig D.

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Teaching the I Ching ( Book of Changes ). By Geoffrey Redmond and Tze-ki Hon. American Academy of Religion, Teaching Religious Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii + 290. Hardback, $78.00.

Kirkland, Russell

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Gender in Judaism and Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage. Edited by FiroozehKashani-Sabet and Beth SWegner. New York: New York University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 372. Cloth, $89.00; paper, $30.00.

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Civil Disagreement: Personal Integrity in a Pluralistic Society. By Edward Langerak. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 170. Paper, $29.95.

Dehm, Zachary R.

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity. Edited by Lamin Sanneh and Michael J. McClymond. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. Pp. ix + 758. Cloth, $225.00.

Bongmba, Elias Kifon

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Exit West. Fiction. By Mohsin Hamid. New York: Riverhead Books, 2017. Pp. 231. $26.00.

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Literary Forms of Argument in Early China. Edited by JoachimGentz and DirkMeyer. Sinica Leidensia, 123. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015. Pp. x + 353. Hardback, $166.00.

Hendrischke, Barbara

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The Journal of Wu Yubi: The Path to Sagehood. Translated, with Introduction and Commentary by M. Theresa Kelleher. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett , 2013. Pp. xliv + 187. Cloth, $40.00; paperback, $13.00.

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Greek for Everyone: Introductory Greek for Bible Study and Application. By A. Chadwick Thornhill. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016. Pp. xvi + 252. Paper, $24.99.

Prothro, James B.

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