Here’s the latest from RBL. There is plenty to enjoy here. Especially noteworthy are reviews from Stephen J. Patterson and Daniel Kirk. Regular readers will note that Dan Kirk was the first recipient of the RAQASOTWA, which is of course coveted the world over.

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Richard Bauckham
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5650
Reviewed by Stephen J. Patterson

Michaela Bauks and Christophe Nihan, eds.
Manuel d’exégèse de l’Ancien Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7037
Reviewed by Uwe Becker

Per Jarle Bekken
The Word Is Near You: A Study of Deuteronomy 30:12-14 in Paul’s Letter to the Romans in a Jewish Context
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6835
Reviewed by J. R. Daniel Kirk

Eric Cline
From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6770
Reviewed by Chad Spigel

Yehudah B. Cohn
Tangled Up in Text: Tefillin and the Ancient World
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6972
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed
In Search of Paul: How Jesus’ Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7180
Reviewed by Elliott Maloney

Walter Dietrich; Joachim Vette, trans.
The Early Monarchy in Israel: The Tenth Century B.C.E.
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6144
Reviewed by Jeremy Hutton

Lee M. Fields
Hebrew for the Rest of Us: Using Hebrew Tools without Mastering Biblical Hebrew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7008
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Mary Healy
The Gospel of Mark
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6898
Reviewed by Francis J. Moloney

Jennifer L. Koosed
(Per)Mutations of Qohelet: Reading the Body in the Book
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5250
Reviewed by Harold C. Washington

Judith M. Lieu
I, II, and III John: A Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6802
Reviewed by John Painter

Gonzalo Rubio, Steven Garfinkle, Gary Beckman, and Daniel Snell; Mark Chavalas, ed.
Current Issues and the Study of the Ancient Near East
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6776
Reviewed by Aren Maeir

J. Verheyden, G. Van Belle, and J. G. van der Watt, eds.
Miracles and Imagery in Luke and John: Festschrift Ulrich Busse
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6709
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge