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On the basis of a close reading of the pericope of the healing of the boy with a mute spirit as it is recorded in Mark 9:14–29, I argue that Mark intended Jesus’ enigmatic answer “this kind can can come out only through prayer and fasting” (Mark 9:29, NRSV) to be a lesson for his readers on how to prepare for exorcisms. Like the disciples who failed to cast out the mute demon while Jesus’ was being transfigured, so too Mark’s readers must prepare for exorcisms by prayer and fasting, for Jesus is not present with them the way he was for his disciples during most of his earthly ministry.

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The following books are reviewed: Heinrich Assell, Stefan Beyerle och Christfried Böttrich (red.), Beyond Biblical Theologies, (Hanna Stenström) Jean-Dominique Barthélemy, Studies in the Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project (LarsOlov Eriksson) Brennan W. Breed, Nomadic Texts: A Theory of Biblical Reception History (Mikael Larsson) Walter Brueggemann och William H. Bellinger Jr, Psalms (David Willgren) Sean Burt, The Courtier and the Governor: Transformation of Genre in the Nehemiah Memoir (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Chrys C. Caragounis, New Testament Language and Exegesis: A Diachronic Approach (Dan Nässelqvist) Cavan W. Concannon, “When You Were Gentiles”: Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence (Adam Sabir) Ovidiu Creangă (red.), Men and Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond (Mikael Larsson) Ovidiu Creangă och Peter-Ben Smit (red.), Biblical Masculinites Foregrounded (Mikael Larsson) Roland Deines, Acts of God in History: Studies Towards Recovering a Theological Historiography (Tobias Ålöw) Anders Ekenberg, Jonas Holmstrand och Mikael Winninge (red.), 2000 år med Paulus (Hans Leander) Magnus Evertsson, Liknelser och läsningar: Reception av liknelseberättelser ur Lukasevangeliet, kapitel 10–15, i predikoutkast för Svenska kyrkan 1985–2013 (Karl Olav Sandnes) Josef Forsling, Composite Artistry in Numbers: A Study in Biblical Narrative Conventions (Ola Wikander) Ida Fröhlich and Erkki Koskenniemi (eds.), Evil and the Devil (Torsten Löfstedt) Susan Gillingham, A Journey of Two Psalms: The Reception of Psalms 1 and 2 in Jewish and Christian Tradition (David Willgren) Raimo Hakola, Nina Nikki and Ulla Tervahauta (eds.), Others and the Construction of Early Christian Identities (Cecilia Wassén) Thomas Hieke and Tobias Nicklas (eds.), The Day of Atonement: Its Interpretation in Early Jewish and Christian Traditions (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Yulin Liu, Temple Purity in 1–2 Corinthians (Martin Wessbrandt) Peter W. Martens, Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life (Carl Johan Berglund) Gerson Lameck Mgaya, Spiritual Gifts: A Sociorhetorical Interpretation of 1 Cor 12–14 (Mikael Tellbe) Takayoshi Oshima, Babylonian Poems of Pious Sufferers (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Stanley E. Porter och Eckhard J. Schnabel (red.), On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries: Festschrift for Grant R. Osborne on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (LarsOlov Eriksson) Jacques T. A. G. M. van Ruiten, Abraham in the Book of Jubilees: The Rewriting of Genesis 11:26–25:10 in the Book of Jubilees 11:14–23:8 (Stefan Green) C. A. Strine, Sworn Enemies: The Divine Oath, the Book of Ezekiel, and the Polemic of Exile (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Michel Tuval, From Jerusalem Priest to Roman Jew: On Josephus and the Paradigms of Ancient Judaism (Gunnar Haaland) Markus Vinzent, Marcion and the Dating of the Synoptic Gospels (Martin Wessbrandt) Georg A. Walser, Old Testament Quotations in Hebrews: Studies in their Textual and Contextual Background (Tommy Wasserman) Ellen White, Yahweh’ s Council: Its Structure and Membership (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Al Wolters, Zechariah (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Lorne R. Zelyck, John among the Other Gospels: The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Extra-Canonical Gospels (Carl Johan Berglund)

The following books are reviewed: Herbert W. Basser with Marsha B. Cohen, The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions: A Relevance-based Commentary (Tobias Ålöw) Alicia J. Batten och John S. Kloppenborg (red.), James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions (Leonhard Franke) Bible Works 10 (Bo Krister Ljungberg) Derek R. Brown, The God of This Age: Satan in the Churches and Letters of the Apostle Paul (Torsten Löfstedt) William P. Brown (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms (David Willgren) Constantine R. Campbell Advances in the Study of Greek: New Insights for Reading the New Testament (Jan H. Nylund) Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford (ed.), The Shape and Shaping of the Book of Psalms: The Current State of Scholarship (David Willgren) Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, Rolf A. Jacobson and Beth Laneel Tanner, The Book of Psalms (David Willgren) Thomas B. Dozeman, Konrad Schmid och Baruch J. Schwartz (red.) The Pentateuch: International Perspectives on Current Research (Stig Norin) Ole Jakob Filtvedt The Identity of God’s People and the Paradox of Hebrews (Mikael Tellbe) David Hellholm, Tor Vegge, Øyvind Norderval, and Christer Hellholm (eds.), Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (James A. Kelhoffer) Wesley Hill, Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters (Mikael Tellbe) Douglas S. Huffman, Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek New Testament (Jan H. Nylund) Thomas Kazen, Scripture, Interpretation, or Authority? Motives and Arguments in Jesus’ Halakic Conflicts (Cecilia Wassén) Judith M. Lieu, Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century (James A. Kelhoffer) L. Michael Morales (ed.), Cult and Cosmos: Tilting Toward a Temple- Centered Theology (Stefan Green) Mark D. Nanos och Magnus Zetterholm (red.), Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First- Century Context to the Apostle (Martin Landgren) Carol A. Newsom och Brennan W. Breed, Daniel: A Commentary (LarsOlov Eriksson) Maren Niehoff (red.), Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters (Blaženka Scheuer) Kurt L. Noll, Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: A Textbook on History and Religion (Richard Pleijel) Ken Parry (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics (Carl Johan Berglund) Ralf Rothenbusch, “... abgesondert zur Tora Gottes hin”: Ethnisch-religiöse Identitäten im Esra/Nehemiabuch (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Michael L. Satlow, How the Bible Became Holy (Martin Wessbrandt) Birke Siggelkow-Berner, Die jüdischen Feste im Bellum Judaicum des Flavius Josephus (Birger Olsson) Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer och Hans M. Barstad (red.), Continuity and Discontinuity: Chronological and Thematic Development in Isaiah 40–66 (Stefan Green) W. Dennis Tucker Jr., Constructing and Deconstructing Power in Psalms 107–150 (David Willgren) Helmut Utzschneider och Wolfgang Oswald, Exodus 1–15 (LarsOlov Eriksson) Urban C. Von Wahlde, The Gospel and Letters of John, vol. 1: Introduction, Analysis, and Reference, (Birger Olsson) Urban C. Von Wahlde, The Gospel and Letters of John, vol. 2: Commentary on the Gospel of John (Birger Olsson) Urban C. Von Wahlde, The Gospel and Letters of John, vol. 3: Commentary on the Three Johannine Letters (Birger Olsson) Benjamin L. White, Remembering Paul: Ancient and Modern Contests over the Image of the Apostle (Martin Wessbrandt)

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The following books are reviewed: Aichele, George, Simulating Jesus: Reality Effects in the Gospels (Joel Kuhlin) Amos, Roger, Hypocrites or Heroes? The Paradoxical Portrayal of the Pharisees in the New Testament (Tobias Ålöw) Collins, John J., Encounters with Biblical Theology (Stig Norin) Dochhorn Jan, Susanne Rudnig-Zelt, and Benjamin Wold (eds.), Das Böse, der Teufel und Dämonen – Evil, the Devil, and Demons (Torsten Löfstedt) Ehrman, Bart D., Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Εarliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior (Joel Kuhlin) England Emma och William John Lyons (red.), Reception History and Biblical Studies: Theory and Practice (Mikael Larsson) Fewell, Danna Nolan (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative (Josef Forsling) Gordon, Robert P. and Hans M. Barstad (eds.), “Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela”: Prophecy in Israel, Assyria and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Magnus Halle) Giuntoli Federico and Konrad Schmid (eds.), The Post-Priestly Pentateuch: New Perspectives on Its Redactional Development and Theological Profiles (Jan Retsö) Hayes, Elizabeth R. och Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (red.), “I Lifted My Eyes and Saw”: Reading Dream and Vision Reports in the Hebrew Bible (Stefan Green) Heilig, Christoph, Hidden Criticism? The Methodology and Plausibilituy of the Search for a Counter-Imperial Subtext in Paul (Joel Kuhlin) Kim, Yeong Seon, The Temple Administration and the Levites in Chronicles (Jan Retsö) Klein, Anja, Geschichte und Gebet: Die Rezeption der biblischen Geschichte in den Psalmen des Alten Testaments (LarsOlov Eriksson) Klink III, Edward W., och Darian R. Lockett. Understanding Biblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice (Bo Krister Ljungberg) Knoppers, Gary N., Jews and Samaritans: The Origins and History of Their Early Relations (Cecilia Wassén) Markschies, Christoph, Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire: Prolegomena to a History of Early Christian Theology (Carl Johan Berglund) Mettinger, Tryggve N. D., Reports from a Scholar’s Life: Select Papers on the Hebrew Bible (Cian Power) Neusner, Jacob och Alan J. Avery Peck (red.); William Scott Green och Günter Stemberger (rådgivande red.), Encyclopedia of Midrash. Biblical Interpretation in Formative Judaism. Volume I-II (Tobias Ålöw) Porter, Stanley E. och David I. Yoon (red.), Paul and Gnosis (Paul Linjamaa) Smith, Geoffrey S., Guilt By Association: Heresy Catalogues in Early Christianity (Martin Wessbrandt) Strauss, Mark L. och Paul E. Engle (red.), Remarriage After Divorce in Today’s Church (Bo Krister Ljungberg) Willgren, David, The Formation of the ‘Book’ of Psalms: Reconsidering the Transmission and Canonization of Psalmody in Light of Material Culture and the Poetics of Anthologies (Anja Klein) Wright, Tom, The Day the Revolution Began: Rethinking the Meaning of Jesus’ Crucifixion (Mikael Tellbe)

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