
The Jewish Annotated New Testament. Edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler
This volume introduces the text of the New Testament along with 30 brief essays by some 50 Read more…
Enjoy book reviews by top scholars on wide-ranging topics in religion, archaeology and Biblical studies.
• 04/17/2012

The Jewish Annotated New Testament. Edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler
This volume introduces the text of the New Testament along with 30 brief essays by some 50 Read more…
• 04/17/2012

Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible by Emanuel Tov.
This third edition of Tov’s enlightening treatise is the necessary handbook for the understanding and practice of the art and science of Read more…
• 04/17/2012

Molten Color by Karol B. Wight.
This book was directly inspired by the Molten Color exhibit that Wight installed at the Getty Villa for its reopening in 2006, and virtually all Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Oxford University Press has published more than 300 “short introductions” to almost every imaginable topic (and some, frankly, that I never would have imagined). Among them are the two diminutive Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Examine the history of horses in Ziony Zevit’s review of Deborah O’Daniel Cantrell’s The Horsemen of Israel: Horses and Charioty in Monarchic Israel. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Uzi Leibner’s new book reports the results of an archaeological survey of the eastern Galilee. The survey provides important details about Israel in the Roman period, as well as the Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Eilat Mazar’s new book chronicles her career from its beginnings with her grandfather, famed Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar, to her discovery of King Solomon’s wall at the Ophel in Jerusalem, Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Steven Fine reviews the book Chronicles of the Land: Archaeology in the Israel Museum Jerusalem edited by Michal Dayagi-Mendels and Silvia Rozenberg. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Shaye J.D. Cohen reviews Jodi Magness’s book Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

In her book The Sisters of Sinai, author Janet Soskice recounts the remarkable adventure that led to the discovery of the Sinai Palimpsest. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

David Nicolle’s new book takes a look at the Order of Hospitallers, a military order of the Christian Crusades. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Discovered in the caves above Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls have provided scholars with important information about the Jewish communities that resided in the environs of Qumran. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Reading Genesis: Ten Methods edited by Ronald Hendel provides new approaches to Genesis Bible study and is a new tool that explains how to study the Bible effectively. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

In The Historical Jesus: An Essential Guide, New Testament and Dead Sea Scroll scholar James H. Charlesworth uses historical evidence to answer the question: Did Jesus exist? Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Magen Broshi reviews Miriam C. Davis’ biography of British archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon, one of the most famous archaeologists to excavate in the Holy Land. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Ronny Reich’s book on excavating the City of David, reviewed here by Jane Cahill West, reveals Jerusalem history through the eyes of one of it’s most noted archaeologists. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Biblical scholar and priest Philip J. King’s has written the book he “always wanted to write” about his spiritual journey, scholarship and Bible interpretations, reviewed here by James Strange. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Gertrude Bell: archaeologist, feminist, stateswoman and Iraq’s first director of antiquities. Georgina Howell’s Gertrude Bell biography, reviewed here by Julia M. Asher-Greve, documents the life of this fascinating woman. Read more…
• 03/21/2012

Ahron Horovitz’s book on the City of David, reviewed here by Jane Cahill West, covers Jerusalem history with lavish illustrations and summaries of archaeological debates about ancient Jerusalem history. Read more…