Tag Archives: Review of Biblical Literature

RBL Review of Margaret Barker’s “The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of God”

By David Larsen | Published: August 23, 2009

I apologize for the dearth of good, solid posts recently. As we have been preparing for our move to Scotland, I haven’t had much time for blogging. I’ll be spending some time in Utah for the next few weeks and then we are off to the UK, so I probably won’t be very settled until [...]

Posted in Priesthood, Religious Scholars, Temple | Also tagged book review, Early Christianity, First Temple, Judsaism, Margaret Barker, Melchizedek, RBL, SBL, Temple, temple tradition | 9 Comments

Review of “Lesser Deities in the Ugaritic Texts and the Hebrew Bible”

By David Larsen | Published: June 10, 2009

For anyone interested, the Review of Biblical Literature has made available a review by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer of Sang Youl Cho’s great book, Lesser Deities in the Ugaritic Texts and the Hebrew Bible: A Comparative Study of their Nature and Roles (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2007). You can check it out here. While not altogether positive, Tiemeyer’s review summarizes [...]

Posted in Religious Scholars, Scripture | Also tagged Hebrew Bible, lesser deities, review, Sang Youl Cho, Ugaritic | Leave a comment