Journal: Bulletin for Biblical Research
Volume: BBR 15:1 (NA 2005)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

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Book Reviews

Recent Work in the Synoptic Gospels

The Synoptic Gospels: An Introduction. By Keith F. Nickle. Revised and Expanded. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001. Pp. viii + 215. ISBN 0-664-22349-4. $19.95.

A Guide to the Gospels and Acts. By David Wenham and Steve Walton. Volume 1 of Exploring the New Testament. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity, 2001. Pp. xii + 302. ISBN 0-8308-2555-X. $24.99.

Studying the Synoptic Gospels: Origin and Interpretation. 2nd edition. By Robert H. Stein. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001. Pp. 302. ISBN 0-8010-2258-4. $26.99.

The Reliability of the Gospel Tradition. By Birger Gerhardsson. Foreword by Donald A. Hagner. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 2001. Pp. xxiv + 143. ISBN 1-56563-667-8. $14.95.

Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels. By Richard Bauckham. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. Pp. xxi + 343. ISBN 0-8028-4999-7. $24.00.

Isaiah’s Christ in Matthew’s Gospel. By Richard Beaton. SNTSMS 123. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 242. ISBN 0-521-81888-5. $75.00.

Matthew’s Trilogy of Parables: The Nation, the Nations and the Reader in Matthew 21.28-22.14. By Wesley G. Olmstead. SNTSMS 127. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. ix + 281. ISBN 0-521-83154-7. $70.00.

An Aramaic Approach to Q: Sources for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. By Maurice Casey. SNTSMS 122. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 210. ISBN 0-521-81723-4. $75.00.

Jesus’ Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark’s Early Readers. By Peter G. Bolt. SNTSMS 125. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xx + 360. ISBN 0521-83036-2. $80.00.

The Original Language of the Lukan Infancy Narrative. By Chang-Wook Jung. JSNTSup 267. London: T. & T. Clark, 2004. Pp. xi + 249. ISBN 0-56708205-9. $130.00.

Useful guides, introductions, and technical studies in the Synoptic Gospels, in the English language, continue to appear in great numbers. This review considers a selection. The first three books are introductions. The next two are thematic studies, one treating the reliability and historicity of the Gospels, the other the role and importance of women in the Gospels. Two studies treat

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Matthew, one treats Q, one treats Mark, and the last one offers a study of Luke’s infancy narrative. The studies of Q and Luke are linguistic, with the former emphasizing Aramaic and the latter...

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