Book Reviews
Authors: Peckham Brian , McLaughlin John , Irwin William , Davies Gordon , Becker Dennis , Harvey John , Williams Tyler , Taylor Marion , Burke Donald , McLaughlin John , Irwin Brian , Arnal William , Hartin Patrick , Fox Kenneth , Graham Susan , Smith Daniel , Kloppenborg John , Brown Schuyler , Sabean John , Jacobsen Douglas , Nazar David , Mohammed OVey , Vaage Rivkah , Culp Daryl , Wiebe Donald , Cormie Lee , Marmur Dow , Donovan Daniel , Harink Douglas , LeMarquand Grant , Duggan John , Mercier Ronald , Van Stekelenburg Laetitia , Paleczny Barbara , Robertson Greg , Harland Gordon 
Published: March 2013

Gosta W. Ahlstrom with Gary O. Rollefson, The History of Ancient Palestine, reviewed by Brian Peckham Rainer Albertz, A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period. Vol. I: From the Beginnings to the End of the Monarchy. Vol. 2: From the Exile to the Maccabees, reviewed by John L. McLaughlin Samuel E. Balentine, Prayer in the Hebrew Bible: The Drama of Divine-Human Dialogue, reviewed by William H. Irwin Mervin Breneman, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther., reviewed by Gordon Davies Athalya Brenner, ed., A Feminist Companion to Genesis, reviewed by Dennis Becker Walter Brueggemann, Texts Under Negotiation: The BibLe and Postmodern Imagination, reviewed by John E. Harvey Johannes C. de Moor and Wilfred O.E. Watson, eds., Verse in Ancient Near Eastern Prose, reviewed by Tyler F. Williams Cheryl J. Exum and David J. Clines, eds., The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Marion Ann Taylor J.P. Fokkelman, Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel. Vol. 4: Vow and Desire (J Sam. 1-12), reviewed by John E. Harvey Philip J. King, Jeremiah: An Archaeological Companion, reviewed by Donald E. Burke Jon D. Levenson, The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism, reviewed by Dennis Becker Kim Ian Parker, Wisdom and Law in the Reign of Solomon, reviewed by John E. Harvey Leo G. Perdue, Bernard Brandon Scott and William J. Wiseman, eds., In Search ofWisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie, reviewed by John L. McLaughlin Glen Taylor, Yahweh and the Sun: The Biblical and Archaeological Evidence, reviewed by Patrick D. Miller and Andrew G. Vaughn Wesley I. Toews, Monarchy and Religious Institution in Israel Under Jeroboam I., reviewed by John L. McLaughlin Benton J. White, Taking the Bible Seriously: Honest Differences about Biblical lnterpretation, reviewed by Brian P. Irwin Schuyler Brown, The Origins of Christianity: A Historical Introduction to the New Testament., reviewed by William E. Arnal Timothy B. Cargal, Restoring the Diaspora: Discursive Structure and Purpose in the Epistle of James, reviewed by Patrick J. Hartin Robert W. Funk and Roy W. Hoover, eds., The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus, reviewed by William E. Amal Wilfrid J. Harrington, Revelation, reviewed by Kenneth Fox Robert Jewett, Saint Paul at the Movies: The Apostle's Dialogue with American Culture., reviewed by Susan Lochrie Graham Bradley H. McLean, ed., Origins and Method: Towards a New Understanding of Judaism and Christianity. Essays in Honour of John C. Hurd, reviewed by Daniel A. Smith Hajo Uden Meijboom, A History and Critique of the Origin of the Marean Hypothesis 1835-1866: A Contemporary Report Rediscovered, reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg Walter Wink, Cracking the Gnostic Code: The Powers in Gnosticism, reviewed by Schuyler Brown Paul R. Dekar, For the Healing of the Nations: Baptist Peacemakers, reviewed by John W. Sabean John G. Stackhouse, Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character, reviewed by Douglas Jacobsen George E. Tinker, Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide, reviewed by David Nazar Takeuchi Yoshinori, ed., Buddhist Spirituality: Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, Early Chinese, reviewed by Ovey N. Mohammed Jorge Garcia Antezana, ed., Liberation Theology and Sociopolitical Transformation, reviewed by Rivkah Vaage Frank T. Birtel, ed., Reasoned Faith: Essays on the Interplay of Faith and Reason, reviewed by Daryl Culp Adina Davidovich, Religion as a Province of Meaning: The Kantian Foundations of Modern Theology, reviewed by Donald Wiebe Philip Hefner, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture and Religion, reviewed by Donald Wiebe Alfred T. Hennelly, ed., Santo Domingo and Beyond: Documents and Commentaries from the Historic Meeting of the Latin American Bishops' Conference, reviewed by LeeCormie Benjamin Ish-Shalom, Rav Avraham Itzhak HaCohen Kook: Between Rationalism and Mysticism, reviewed by Dow Marmur Karl-Josef Kuschel and Hermann Haring, eds., Hans Küng: New Horizons for Faith and Thought, reviewed by Daniel Donovan Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, reviewed by Douglas K. Harink Jacob K. Olupona and Sulayman S. Nyang, eds., Religious Plurality in Africa: Essays in Honour of John S. Mbiti, reviewed by Grant LeMarquand Raimon Panikkar, The Cosmotheandric Experience: Emerging Religious Consciousness., reviewed by John F. Duggan Thomas L. Schubeck, Liberation Ethics: Sources, Models, and Norms, reviewed by Ronald Mercier Wilfred Cantwell Smith, What Is Scripture? A Comparative Approach, reviewed by Laetitia van Stekelenburg Leonard Swidler, The Meaning of Life at the Edge of the Third Millennium, reviewed by Ovey N. Mohammed Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era: A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos, reviewed by John F. Duggan Emilie M. Townes, ed., A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering, reviewed by Barbara Paleczny Charles M. Wood, The Formation of Christian Understanding: Theological Hermeneutics., reviewed by Greg Robertson Delores S. Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk, reviewed by Barbara Paleczny Daniel F. Rice, Reinhold Niebuhr and John Dewey; An American Odyssey., reviewed by Gordon Harland