New and recent titles in SBL's Spring 2004 catalog represent the work of authors and editors in twelve countries: Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, The Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Switzerland, South Africa, and United States.

Australia

Elusions of Control: Biblical Law on the Words of Women

Jione Havea, United Theological College, North Parramatta

Canada

Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation

Arthur Walker-Jones, University of Winnipeg

England

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries

Emma C. Clarke (editor and translator), The Latymer School, North London (with John M. Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin, and Jackson P. Hershbell, University of Minnesota)

France

Mesopotamian Chronicles

Jean-Jacques Glassner, French National Center for Scientific Research

Germany

Israel in Exile: The History and Literature of the Sixth Century B.C.E.

Rainer Albertz, University of Munster



The City in the Valley: Biblical Interpretation and Urban Theology

Dieter Georgi, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main

Ireland

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries

John M. Dillon (editor and translator), Trinity College, Dublin (with Emma C. Clarke, The Latymer School, North London, and Jackson P. Hershbell, University of Minnesota)

Israel

Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha: Toward the Original of the Apocalypse of Abraham

Alexander Kulik, Hebrew University



Jerusalem as Jesus Knew It

Ronny Reich, University of Haifa

The Netherlands

Epics of Sumerian Kings: The Matter of Aratta

Herman Vanstiphout, University of Groningen



Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse

Caroline Vander Stichele (editor), University of Amsterdam, (with Todd Penner, Austin College, Sherman, TX)

Papua New Guinea

Secondary Parallelism: A Study of Translation Technique in LXX Proverbs

Gerhard Tauberschmidt, Wycliffe Bible Translators

Switzerland

The Earliest Text of the Hebrew Bible: The Relationship between the Masoretic Text and the Hebrew Base of the Septuagint Reconsidered

Adrian Schenker (editor), University of Fribourg

South Africa

Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity

Jonathan A. Draper (editor), University of Natal



Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Southern Africa

Jonathan A. Draper (editor), University of Natal

United States

Psalms in Community: Jewish and Christian Textual, Liturgical, and Artistic Traditions

Harold W. Attridge, Yale Divinity School, and Margot E. Fassler, Yale Divinity School, (editors)



Developments in Genre between Post-Exilic Penitential Prayers and the Psalms of Communal Lament

Richard J. Bautch, St. Edward's University



Redescribing Christian Origins

Ron Cameron, Wesleyan University, and Merrill P. Miller, University of North Carolina, Pembroke (editors)



Rewriting the Sacred Text: What the Old Greek Texts Tell Us about the Literary Growth of the Bible

Kristin De Troyer, Claremont School of Theology



Forgiveness in a Wounded World: Jonah's Dilemma

Janet Howe Gaines, University of New Mexico



Godly Fear: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Greco-Roman Critiques of Superstition

Patrick Gray, Rhodes College



The Sword of Goliath: David in Heroic Literature

Stanley Isser, State University of New York, Albany



Apologetic Discourse and the Scribal Tradition: Evidence of the Influence of Apologetic Interests on the Text of the Canonical Gospels

Wayne C. Kannaday, Newberry College



Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric

George A. Kennedy (editor), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill



Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible

Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan (editor), Graduate Theological Union



New Testament Masculinities

Stephen D. Moore, Drew University Theological School, and Janice Capel Anderson, University of Idaho (editors)



Between Text and Artifact: Integrating Archaeology in Biblical Studies Teaching

Milton C. Moreland (editor), Rhodes College



Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200-539 B.C.E.

Lawrence J. Mykytiuk, Purdue University



The Text of Matthew in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea

Jean-Francois Racine, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley



Innovations in Hebrew Poetry: Parallelism and the Poems of Sirach

Eric D. Reymond, St. John's University and Long Island University



Locating Paul: Places of Custody as Narrative Settings in Acts 21-28

Matthew L. Skinner, Luther Seminary



Where to Live: The Hermeneutical Significance of Paul's Citations from Scripture in Galatians 3:1-14

Andrew H. Wakefield, Campbell University Divinity School

Citation: , " International Scholarship and SBL Publishing," SBL Forum , n.p. [cited Aug 2004]. Online:http://sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleID=293