RBL Highlights: 9/5/07

A few highlights from this week's Review of Biblical Literature:

Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore
Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800
Reviewed by Carolyn Osiek

Mark J. Boda and Gordon T. Smith, eds.
Repentance in Christian Theology
Reviewed by David H. Wenkel

M. Eugene Boring
Mark: A Commentary
Reviewed by Darrell L. Bock

David B. Gowler
What Are They Saying about the Historical Jesus
Reviewed by Mary J. Marshall

Larry W. Hurtado
The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins
Reviewed by James F. McGrath
Reviewed by Joseph Verheyden

Hillel Newman, edited by Ruth Ludlam
Proximity to Power and Jewish Sectarian Groups of the Ancient Period: A Review of Lifestyle, Values, and Halakhah in the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran
Reviewed by Gerbern Oegema

Jerome H. Neyrey
The Gospel of John
Reviewed by Mary L. Coloe