Abstract: 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. 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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