Book Reviews
Authors: Bergen Wesley , McReady Wayne , Batten Alicia , Kloppenborg John , Davies Gordon , Maier Harry , Oakman Douglas , Lincoln Andrew , Muir Stephen , Harland Philip , Racine Jean-Francois , Donaldson Terence , Smith Daniel , Janzen Anna , Campbell Douglas , Plevnik Joseph , Badley Jo-Ann , Gowler David , Tataryn Myroslaw , Ediger Gerald , Harland Gordon , Yoo Young-Sik , Crawford Galea Kate , Cole Penny , McConvey Patrick , Laporte Jean-Marc , Langstaff Keith , McDougall Dorothy , Guenther Heinz , Redcliffe Gary , Marmur Dow , Moeller Pamela , Van Seters Arthur , Wells Harold , Donovan Daniel , Dunn Stephen , Mohammed Ovey , Teevan Donna , Klempa William , Gordon Dorcas , Dempsey Michael , Duggan John , Leonard Ellen , Mercier Ronald , Slater Peter , Shepherd Loraine , Williams John , McQueen Moira , Schweitzer Don , Ngien Dennis , Verbin Nehama 
Published: March 2013

Lyle M. Eslinger, House of God or House of David: The Rhetoric of 2 Samuel 7, reviewed by Wesley J. Bergen

F. García Martínez, A. Hilhorst and C.J. Labuschagne, eds., The Scriptures and the Scrolls: Studies in Honour of A.S. van der Woude on the Occasion of His 65th Birthdayreviewed by Wayne O. McCready

Tal Ilan, Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine, reviewed by Alicia Batten

Henning Graf Reventlow and William R. Farmer, eds., Biblical Studies and the Shifting of Paradigms, 1850-1914, reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg

Josef Schreiner, Theologie des Altens Testamentsreviewed by Gordon F. Davies

Graham Anderson, Sage, Saint and Sophist: Holy Men and Their Associates in the Early Roman Empire, reviewed by Harry O. Maier

Richard Bauckham, ed., The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting. Vol. 4: Palestinian Setting, reviewed by Douglas E. Oakman

G.B. Caird, New Testament Theologyreviewed by Andrew T. Lincoln

Stevan L. Davies, Jesus the Healer: Possession, Trance, and the Origins of Christianity, reviewed by Stephen C. Muir

Philip F. Esler ed., Modelling Early Christianity: Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in Its Context, reviewed by Douglas E. Oakman

Steven J. Friesen, Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Familyreviewed by Philip A. Harland

J. Harold Greenlee, Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism, reviewed by Jean-François Racine

Scott J. Hafemann, Paul, Moses, and the History of Israel: The Letter/Spririt Contrast and the Argument from Scripture in 2 Corinthians3 , reviewed by Terence L. Donaldson

J. Albert Harrill, The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity, reviewed by Daniel A. Smith

Charles W. Hedrick, Parables as Poetic Fictions. The Creative Voice of Jesus, reviewed by Alicia Batten

Edith McEwan Humphrey, The Ladies and the Cities: Transformation and Apocalyptic Identity in Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, the Apocalypse and The Shepherd of Hermas, reviewed by Philip A. Harland

Bruce J. Malina, On the Genre and Message of Revelation: Star Visions and Sky Journeysreviewed by Anna Janzen

Edward P. Meadors, Jesus the Messianic Herald of Salvation: A Study of Q and Mark, reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg

Mark D. Nanos, The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context of Paul's Letter, reviewed by Douglas A. Campbell

Earl J. Richard, First and Second Thessalonians, reviewed by Joseph Plevnik

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, ed., Searching the Scriptures. Vol. 2: A Feminist Commentary, reviewed by Jo-Ann Badley

Torrey Seland, Establishment Violence in Philo and Luke: A Study of Nonconformity to the Torah and Jewish Vigilante Reactions, reviewed by David B. Gowler

Charles H. Talbert, The Apocalpse: A Reading of the Revelation of John, reviewed by Joseph Plevnik

Norbert A. Brox, A Concise History of the Early Church, reviewed by Myroslaw I. Tataryn

Adolf Ens, Subjects or Citizens? The Mennonite Experience in Canada, 1870-1925reviewed by Gerald C. Ediger

Brian J. Fraser, Church. College. and Clergy: A History of Theological Education at Knox College, Toronto, reviewed by Gordon Harland

A. Hamish Ion, The Cross and the Rising Sun. Vol. 2: The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, 1865-1945., reviewed by Young-sik Yoo

Andrew Kadel, Matrology; A Bibliography of Writings by Christian Women from the First to the Fifteenth Centuries, reviewed by Kate Crawford Galea

Bernard McGinn, The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism. Vol. 2: The Growth of Mysticism: Gregory the Great through the Twelfth Centuryreviewed by Penny J. Cole

Marcello Azevedo, The Consecrated Life: Crossroads and Directions, reviewed by Patrick McConvey

Robert Barron, Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master, reviewed by Jean-Marc Laporte

Patrick Grant, Out of Contradiction: Meditations Towards a Contemporary Spirituality, reviewed by Keith Langstaff

Maurice Hamington, Hail Mary? The Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Catholicism, reviewed by Dorothy McDougall

John C. Hoffman, Faith-full Stories: The Narrative Road to Religion, reviewed by Heinz O. Guenther

Patricia O'Connell Killen and John de Beer, The Art of Theological Reflection, reviewed by Gary L. Redcliffe

Jack N. Lightstone, Frederick B. Bird et al, Ritual and Ethnic Identity: A Comparative Study of the Social Meaning of Liturgical Ritual in Synagogues, reviewed by Dow Marmur

Melanie A. May, A Body Knows: A Theopoetics of Death and Resurrection, reviewed by Pamela Ann Moeller

Marie Anne Mayeski, Dhuoda: Ninth Century Mother and Theologian, reviewed by Kate P. Crawford Galea

Paul Scott Wilson, The Practice of Preaching, reviewed by Arthur Van Seters

Richard J. Bauckham, The Theology of Jürgen Moltmann, reviewed by Harold Wells

Wolfgang Bienert and Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, eds., Handbook of Catholic Theologyreviewed by Daniel Donovan

Leonardo Boff, Ecology and Liberation: A New Paradigm, reviewed by Stephen Dunn

John B. Carman, Majesty and Meekness: A Comparative Study of Contrast and Harmony in the Concept of God, reviewed by Ovey N. Mohammed

Cynthia S.W. Crysdale, ed., Lonergan and Feminism, reviewed by Donna Teevan

Johann Sebastian Drey, Brief Introduction to the Study of Theology, reviewed by Daniel Donovan

Gary A. Gaudin and Douglas John Hall, eds., Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971); A Centenary Appraisal, reviewed by Harold Wells

B.A. Gerrish, Grace and Gratitude: The Eucharistic Theology of John Calvin, reviewed by William Klempa

Julie M. Hopkins, Towards a Feminist Christology: Jesus of Nazareth, European Women, and the Christological Crisis, reviewed by Dorcas Gordon

Tibor Horvath, Eternity and Eternal Life: Speculative Theology and Science in Discoursereviewed by Michael T. Dempsey

Ada María Isasi-Díaz, En la Lucha/In the Struggle: Elaborating a Mujerista Theology, reviewed by John F. Duggan

Morny Joy and Eva K. Neurnaier-Dargyay, eds., Gender, Genre and Religion: Feminist Reflections, reviewed by Ellen M. Leonard

Philip S. Kaufman, Why You Can Disagree and Remain a FaithfUl Catholic, reviewed by Ronald A. Mercier

Hans Küng, Christianity: Essence, History and Future, reviewed by Daniel Donovan

Pan-Chiu Lai, Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Religions: A Study of Paul Tillich's Thought, reviewed by Peter Slater

Gerhard May, Creatio Ex Nihilo: The Doctrine of “Creation Out of Nothing ” in Early Christian Thought, reviewed by Myroslaw Tataryn

Hedwig Meyer-Wilmes, Rebellion on the Borders: Feminist Theology between Theory and Praxis, reviewed by Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd

Joseph Monti, Arguing About Sex: The Rhetoric of Christian Sexual Morality, reviewed by Ronald A. Mercier

David Morrison, What Do Churches Really Believe? Dialogue: Christianity in Canada, reviewed by John R. Williams

Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor, Richard A. McCormick and the Renewal of Moral Theology, reviewed by Moira M. McQueen

Randall Otto, The God of Hope: The Trinitarian Vision of Jürgen Moltmann, reviewed by Don Schweitzer

William C. Placher, Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology, and Scripture, reviewed by Dennis Ngien

Stephen G. Post, Spheres of Love: Toward a New Ethics of the Family, reviewed by Ronald A. Mercier

Stephen G. Post, The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease, reviewed by Ronald A. Mercier

Kendall Soulen, The God of Israel and Christian Theology, reviewed by Nehama Verbin

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology, reviewed by Pamela Dickey Young

R.S. Sugirtharajah, ed., Frontiers in Asian Christian Theology, reviewed by Ovey N. Mohammed

William P. Thompson, The Struggle for Theology's Soul: Contesting Scripture in Christology, reviewed by Daniel Donovan

John F. Wippel, Medieval Reactions to the Encounter between Faith and Reason, reviewed by Jean Marc Laporte