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The following books are reviewed: James W. Aageson, Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church (James Starr) John J. Ahn, Exile as Forced Migrations: A Sociological, Literary, and Theological Approach on the Displacement and Resettlement of the Southern Kingdom of Judah (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Harold W. Attridge, Essays on John and Hebrews (David Svärd) Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel: ‘God Crucified’ and Other Studies on the New Testament’s Christology of Divine Identity (Anders Ekenberg) E. Ben Zvi and C. Levin (eds.), The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and Its Historical Contexts (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Christoph Berner, Die Exoduserzählung: Das literarische Werden einer Ursprungslegende Israels (Göran Eidevall) Michael F. Bird, Crossing over Sea and Land: Jewish Missionary Activity in the Second Temple Period (Tobias Hägerland) John Byron, Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition: Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the First Sibling Rivalry (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Jens Börstinghaus, Sturmfahrt und Schiffbruch. Zur lukanischen Verwendung eines literarischen Topos in Apostelgeschichte 27,1–28,6 (Tord Fornberg) Christopher L. Carter, The Great Sermon Tradition as a Fiscal Framework in 1 Corinthians: Towards a Pauline Theology of Material Possessions (Tobias Hägerland) David W. Chapman, Ancient Jewish and Christian Perceptions of Crucifixion (Torleif Elgvin) John Day (red.), Prophecy and Prophets in Ancient Israel (Stefan Green) Malin Ekström, Allvarsam parodi och möjlighetens melankoli. En queerteoretisk analys av Ruts bok (Mikael Larsson) Anthony Heacock, Jonathan Loved David: Manly Love in the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Sex (Mikael Larsson) Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul: The Material Spirit (Mathias Sånglöf) Hans Furuhagen, Bibeln och arkeologerna: Om tro, myter och historia (Magnus Ottosson) Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor, Enduring Exile: The Metaphorization of Exile in the Hebrew Bible (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Katie M. Heffelfinger, I am Large, I Contain Multitudes: Lyric Cohesion and Conflict in Second Isaiah (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter (red.), Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus (Lars-Göran Alm) Moyer V. Hubbard, Christianity in the Greco-Roman World: A Narrative Introduction (Hanna Stenström) Kristin Joachimsen, Identities in Transition: The Pursuit of Isa. 52:13–53:12 (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) James A. Kelhoffer, Persecution, Persuasion and Power: Readiness to Withstand Hardship as a Corroboration of Legi-imacy in the New Testament (Birger Olsson) Helen Kraus, Gender Issues in Ancient and Reformation Translations of Genesis 1–4 (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Hans Leander, Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark from a Postcolonial Perspective (Hanna Stenström) Margaret Y. MacDonald, Colossians, Ephesians (Martin Wessbrandt) Jodi Magness, Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus (Bim Berglund) Hilary Marlow, Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics: Re-Reading Amos, Hosea, and First Isaiah (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Marko Marttila, Collective Reinterpretation in the Psalms (Stig Norin) Eric F. Mason och Kevin B. McCruden (red.), Reading the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Resource for Students (David Börjesson) Jason Maston, Divine and Human Agency in Second Temple Judaism and Paul (Blaženka Scheuer) Margaret M. Mitchell, Paul, the Corinthians and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics (Jennifer Nyström) Halvor Moxnes, Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism: A New Quest for the Nineteenth-Century Historical Jesus (Hans Leander) Mogens Müller, The Expression ‘Son of Man’ and the Development of Christology: A History of Interpretation (Tobias Hägerland) Birger Olsson, Johannesbreven (Jonas Holmstrand) Stellan Ottosson, Jesus, Paulus och kärleken (Tobias Månsson) Mladen Popovíc (ed.), Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism (Torleif Elgvin) Stanley E. Porter (ed.), Paul’ s World (James Starr) Volker Rabens, The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul: Trans- formation and Empowering for Religious-Ethical Life (Samuel Svensson) Kent Aaron Reynolds, Torah as Teacher: The Exemplary Torah Student in Psalm 119 (LarsOlov Eriksson) Anders Runesson, O att du slet itu himlen och steg ner: Om Jesus, Jonas Gardell och Guds andedräkt (Tord Fornberg) Anna Runesson, Exegesis in the Making: Postcolonialism and New Testament Studies (Hans Leander) Heikki Räisänen, The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians (Anders Runesson) Klaus Seybold, Studien zu Sprache und Stil der Psalmen (LarsOlov Eriksson) Craig A. Smith, Timothy’ s Task, Paul’ s Prospect: A New Reading of 2 Timothy (James Starr) Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, For the Comfort of Zion: The Geographical and Theological Location of Isaiah 40–55 (Göran Eidevall) Jakob Wöhrle, Die frühen Sammlungen des Zwölfprophetenbuches (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Jakob Wöhrle, Der Abschluss des Zwölfprophetenbuches (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer)

The following books are reviewed: Klaus-Peter Adam, Friedrich Avemarie och Nili Wazana (red.), Law and Narrative in the Bible and in Neighbouring Ancient Cultures (Josef Forsling) Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll, Paul A. Holloway och James A. Kelhoffer (red.), Women and Gender in Ancient Religions: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Hanna Stenström) Dale C. Allison, Volker Leppin, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish och Eric Ziolkowski (red.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, v. 3 (Göran Eidevall) Dale C. Allison, Volker Leppin, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish och Eric Ziolkowski (red.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, v. 5 (Mikael Larsson) Joseph L. Angel, Otherworldly and Eschatological Priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Torleif Elgvin) Eve-Marie Becker och Anders Runesson (red.), Mark and Matthew I: Comparative Readings: Understanding the Earliest Gospels in their First-century Settings (Tobias Hägerland) Bob Becking, Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Construction of Early Jewish Identity (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) April D. DeConick, Holy Misogyny: Why the Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter (Hanna Stenström) Daniel R. Driver, Brevard Childs, Biblical Theologian: For the Church’ s One Bible (LarsOlov Eriksson) Göran Eidevall och Blaženka Scheuer (red.), Enigmas and Images: Studies in Honor of Tryggve N. D. Mettinger (Stig Norin) Weston W. Fields, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Full History (Cecilia Wassén) Miriam Goldstein, Karaite Exegesis in Medieval Jerusalem: The Judeo-Arabic Pentateuch Commentary of Yūsuf ibn Nūḥ and Abū al-Faraj Hārūn (Lena- Sofia Tiemeyer) Leif Hongisto, Experiencing the Apocalypse at the Limits of Alterity (Hanna Stenström) Jan Joosten, The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew: A New Synthesis Elaborated on the Basis of Classical Prose (Ulf Bergström) Christos Karakolis, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr och Sviatoslav Rogalsky (red.), Gospel Images of Jesus Christ in Church Tradition and in Biblical Scholarship (Mikael Sundkvist) Thomas Kazen, Issues of Impurity in Early Judaism (Cecilia Wassén) Chris Keith, Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee (Tobias Ålöw) Anthony Le Donne, The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology, and the Son of David (Jennifer Nyström) Kenneth Liljeström (red.), The Early Reception of Paul (Martin Wessbrandt) Aren M. Maeir, Jodi Magness and Lawrence H. Schiffman (ed.), ‘Go Out and Study the Land’ (Judges 18:2): Archaeological, Historical and Textual Studies in Honor of Hanan Eshel (Torleif Elgvin) David L. Mathewson, Verbal Aspect in the Book of Revelation: The Function of Greek Verb Tenses in John’s Apocalypse (Jan H. Nylund) Robert K. McIver, Memory, Jesus, and the Synoptic Gospels (Jennifer Nyström) Sun Myung Lyu, Righteousness in the Book of Proverbs (Bo Johnson) Stefan Nordenson, Genom honom skapades allt: En exegetisk studie om Kristi preexistens och medlarfunktion i Nya testamentet (Hanna Stenström) Stefan Nordgaard Svendsen, Allegory Transformed: The Appropriation of Philonic Hermeneutics in the Letter to the Hebrews (Johannes Imberg) Donna Lee Petter, The Book of Ezekiel and Mesopotamian City Laments (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Stanley E. Porter, Jeffrey T. Reed och Matthew Brook O’Donnell, Fundamentals of New Testament Greek (Jan H. Nylund) Stanley E. Porter och Jeffrey T. Reed, Fundamentals of New Testament Greek: Workbook (Jan H. Nylund) Karl Olav Sandnes, The Gospel ‘According to Homer and Virgil’: Cento and Canon (Maria Sturesson) Tanja Schultheiss, Das Petrusbild im Johannesevangelium (Finn Damgaard) William A. Tooman, Gog of Magog: Reuse of Scripture and Compositional Technique in Ezekiel 38–39 (Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer) Paul Trebilco, Self-designations and Group Identity in the New Testament (Rikard Roitto) Caroline Vander Stichele och Hugh Pyper (red.), Text, Image, and Otherness in Children’s Bibles: What Is in the Picture? (Mikael Larsson) Patricia Walters, The Assumed Authorial Unity of Luke and Acts: A Reassessment of the Evidence (Carl Johan Berglund) Amanda Witmer, Jesus, the Galilean Exorcist: His Exorcisms in Social and Political Context (Jennifer Nyström)

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)

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ARTIKLAR Thure Stenström: Livsåskådning och litterär form Lars Thunberg: Identitetsproblem och livsvärde hos några aktuella svenska lyriker Inger Selander: Amerikanska influenser i nordiska psalm- och sångböcker Gösta Wrede: Dop och kyrkotillhörighet LITTERATUR Norman C. Habel: The Book of Job. A Commentary. Anm. av Tryggve N. D. Mettinger John H. Elliott: A Home for the Homeless. A Sociological Exegesis of 1 Peter, Its Situation and Strategy. Anm. av Bengt Holmberg Geert Hallbäck: Strukturalisme og eksegese. Modellanalyser af Markus 5, 21–43. Anm. av Trond Skinstad DISKUSSIONSINLÄGG Erik Aurelius: Människans frihet och gudsbegreppet Anders Jeffner: Svar till Erik Aurelius

ARTIKLAR René Kieffer och Birger Olsson: Exegetik på 90-talet Halvor Moxnes: Sosialantropologi i bibeltolkningen. Det Nye Testamente i lys av middelhavskulturen Hanna Stenström: Feministisk exegetik Walter Übelacker: Retorisk analys och Nya testamentet. En kort presentation Mikael Winninge: Den intertestamentala litteraturen och Nya testamentet LITTERATUR Birger Gerhardsson: Fridriclisen Odeberg Aulén Nygren. Fyra teologer. Erik Heen: Anton Fridriclisen (1888-1953). A Bibliography. Anm. av Birger Olsson Samuel Byrskog: Jesus the Only Teacher. Didactic Authority and Transmission in Ancient Israel. Anm. av Hans Kvalbein Peter Stuhlmacher: Biblische Theologie des Neuen Testaments, Band 1. Grundlegung, Von Jesus zu Paulus. Anm. av Dieter Mitternach Thomas R. Schreiner: The Law and Its Fulfillment. A Pauline Theology of the Law. Anm. av Dieter Mitternacht Chow, John K.: Patronage and Power. A Study of Social Networks in Corinth. Anm. av Anders Eriksson Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr: Heidenapostel aus Israel. Die jüdische Identität des Paulus nach ihrer Darstellung in seinen Briefen. Anm. av Walter Übelacker Loveday Alexander: The preface to Luke's Gospel. Literary convention and social context in Luke 1.1-4 and Acts 1.1. Anm. av Lars Rydbeck Jahrbuch der Europäischen Gesellschaft für die theologische Forschung von Frauen. Vol 1. och 2. P.W. van der Horst: Hellenism — Judaism — Christianity. Essays on their Interaction. Anm. av Birger Olsson Jerker Blomqvist: Grekiska för teologer. En introduktion. Anm. av Samuel Byrskog AKTUELLT TfMS — Tidskrift för Mellanösternstudier IN MEMORIAM Nils G. Holm: Hans Åkerberg in memoriam

The article is based on the author’s dissertation The Book of Revelation: A Vision of the Ultimate Liberation or the Ultimate Backlash? A Study in 2Cfh Century Interpretations of Rev 14:1-5, with special emphasis on Feminist Exegesis (Uppsala, 1999). A brief introduction is made to the reception of apocalyptic texts, especially New Testament ones, in feminist theology. Feminist readings are, however briefly, related to the uses and non-uses of apocalyptic texts in Christian theology in general. The main focus in the article is on one specific apocalyptic writing, the Book of Revelation (= Rev.) and its use of female and sexual imagery, including the classical dichotomies of Virgin and Harlot. The sketch is followed by a discussion of the interpretations of Rev. by two feminist exegetes, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Tina Pippin. These two represent different understandings of the possibility to integrate Rev. in constructive feminist theological work. The differences between Schüssler Fiorenza and Pippin are related to their respective feminist theoretical positions. A theme throughout the article is the necessity of «usable futures», of visions of the future which give hope and strength to those struggling for change in the present. Therefore, it ends in the same way as the author's dissertation: with some brief glimpses of other apocalypses than those we find in Rev., glimpses of possibly usable futures.

Søren Kierkegaard’s favourite gospel was a passage from the Sermon on the Mountain, the well-known parable of the fowls of the air and the lilies of the field (St. Matthew 6:24-34). No less than four times did he write commentaries on this text, three of which are to be found in his Edifying Discourses and the fourth in a posthumous pamphlet, called Judge for Yourselves. Kierkegaard cherished this text because he found it in tune with his own predilection for childish simplicity and sincerity. But first and foremost he used the text to launch violent attacks against the Danish State Church and its indulgence with superficial materialism, against the aesthetic way of life and against the world of learning. The fowls of the air and the lilies of the field represent by their mere existence a more authentic way of life.

The article is a personal account of the author’s experience of teaching at both an arts and a business school, and of sometimes bringing the arts and the business students together in the classroom. Some times the outcomes are rather predictable, as when the artists look more inside and towards the future, while the business students tend to look more out side and towards the past. Other times the results are less in line with what politicians and others might believe, as when it is the business students that learn entrepreneurial thinking from the artists, and not necessarily the other way around.

Per S. Ridderstad om Stina Hansson Svensk bröllopsdiktning under 1600- och 1700-talen. Renässansrepertoarernas framväxt, blomstring och tillbakagång Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet 2011, 526 s. Valborg Lindgärde om Pieta van Beek The first female student: Anna Maria van Schurman (1636) Utrecht: Igitur 2010, 280 s. Christina Svensson om Anna Cullhed Hör mänsklighetens röst. Bengt Lidner och känslans språk Lund: ellerströms förlag 2011, 415 s. Sofi Qvarnström om Aristoteles Retoriken. Översättning, noter och inledning av Johanna Akujärvi, med introduktion av Janne Lindqvist Grinde Ödåkra: Retorikförlaget 2012, 236 s. Johan Stenström om Ulf Peder Olrog Studier i folkets visor Utgivna och kommenterade av Mathias Boström, Märta Ramsten och Karin Strand. Stockholm: Svenskt visarkiv i samarbete med Samfundet för visforskning, 2010, 307 s. (Skrifter utg. av svenskt visarkiv, 31.) Mats Jansson om Lars Elleström Visuell ikonicitet i lyrik. En intermedial undersökning med speciellt fokus på svenskspråkig lyrik från sent 1900-tal Gidlunds förlag: Möklinta 2011, 168 s. Anders Nilsson om Clas Zilliacus (red.) Erhållit Europa/ vilket härmed erkännes. Henry Parland-studier Helsingfors/Stockholm: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland/Atlantis 2001, 237 s. (Skrifter utg. av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 750) Peter Henning & Paul Tenngart om Jacques Rancière Den okunnige läraren. Fem lektioner i intellektuell frigörelse Göteborg: Glänta produktion 2011, 191 s. Aisthesis. Scènes du régime esthétique de l’art Paris: Editions Galilée 2011, 328 s.

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