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by Reinhard Feldmeier Baylor University Press, Waco, 2008. 317 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-602580244. REINHARD FELDMEIER'S interpretation of 1 Peter is based in at least two central affirmations. One concerns the [...]

The Bible and Empire: Postcolonial Explorations by R. S. Sugirtharajah Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005. 247 pp. $27.99. ISBN 0-521-53191-8. IN HIS LATEST BOOK, R. S. Sugirtharajah, Professor of Biblical [...]

God and the Crisis of Freedom: Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives by Richard Bauckham Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 2002. 221 pp. $22.95. ISBN 0-664-22479-2. IN THIS WELCOME ACT of public theology, [...]

by John P. Burgess. Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 1998. 186 pp. $20.00. ISBN 0-664-25708-9. Burgess appeals not for better methods of biblical interpretation, but for a piety of the word, [...]

by Wes Howard-Brook Orbis, Maryknoll, NY, 2010. 525 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-157075-892-8. THIS IS A BIG BOOK (more than 500 pages) with a big span (across the biblical traditions) and [...]

The article focuses on theme of Quaestiones Disputatae that was introduced in the 69th General Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas held in Szeged, Hungary. Topics discussed include association of money and sex ethics with politics, synagogue-expulsion theory revealing apolitical nature of Johannine ethics, absence of any evidence for Domitianic persecution and Jesus Christ healing being considered as imperial negotiation.

This article reads Acts 27–28.10 as an ‘aquatic display’ that offers Christ-believers a spectacle of navigating the stormy imperial world. It argues that Pliny's Panegyricus similarly employs aquatic displays to instruct in negotiating the emperor Trajan's power. It identifies four means in Acts 27 that assert Rome's power – judicial, military, economic, and the sea as a contested site where the sovereignties of God and Rome compete and cooperate – and which Christ-believers must negotiate by various means including submission, awareness of danger, courage, social interaction, agency, contribution to well-being, and discernment of and contestive allegiance to God's greater sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins: Diversity, Continuity, and Transformation by George W.E. Nickelsburg Fortress, Minneapolis. 2003. 264 pp. $23.00. ISBN 0-8006-3612-0. THIS IS A 'MUST-READ' book for students, educated lay [...]

by Rudolph Schnackenburg Translated by Robert R. Barr. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2002. 329 pp. $24.00. ISBN 0-8028-4438-3. READERS FAMILIAR WITH Schnackenburg's extensive three-volume commentary on John's Gospel are well aware [...]