Book Reviews

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Hector Avalos, Health Care and the Rise of Christianity, reviewed by Zeba Antonin Crook Adeline Fehribach, The Women in the Life of the Bridegroom: A Feminist HistoricalLiterary Analysis of the Female Characters in the Fourth Gospel, reviewed by Joan Campbell Albrecht Garsky, Christoph Heil, Thomas Hieke, and Josef E. Amon, Q 12:49-59: Children against Parents, Judging the TIme, Settling Out of Court, reviewed by Daniel A. Smith Lydia Neufeld Harder, Obedience, Suspicion and the Gospel of Mark: A MennoniteFeminist Exploration of Biblical Authority., reviewed by James W. Knight Paul Hoffmann, S. H. Brandenburger, U. Brauner, and T. Heike, Q 22:28, 30: You Will Judge the Twelve Tribes of Israel, reviewed by Zeba Antonin Crook Jose E. Ramirez Kidd, Alterity and Identity in Israel: The GER in the Old Testament, reviewed by John L. McLaughlin Alan Kirk, The Composition of the Sayings Source: Genre, Synchrony, & Wisdom Redaction in Q, reviewed by William Amal Herbert Niehr, Religionen in lsraels Umwelt: Einfiihrung in die nordwestsemitischen Religionen Syrien-Paliistinas, reviewed by John L. McLaughlin Walter E. Pilgrim, Uneasy Neighbors: Church and State in the New Testament, reviewed by Zeba Antonin Crook John L. White, The Apostle of God: Paul and the Promise of Abraham, reviewed by Terence L. Donaldson Günter Gassmann and Scott Hendrix, Fortress Introduction to the Lutheran Confessions, reviewed by Tim Dutcher-Walls Edward J. Kilmartin, The Eucharist in the West: History and Theology, reviewed by Daniel Donovan Bard Thompson, Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation, reviewed by Alan L. Hayes Brenda Margaret Appleby, Responsible Parenthood, reviewed by Grace Ji-Sun Kim Teresa Berger, Women's Ways of Worship: Gender Analysis and Liturgical History, reviewed by Grace Ji-Sun Kim Leona M. English, Mentoring in Religious Education, reviewed by Lorna M.A. Bowman Maxwell E. 10hnson, The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation, reviewed by Steven Hawkes-Teeples Garth Hallett, Priorities and Christian Ethics, reviewed by Ronald A. Mercier Lynne Faber Lorenzen, The College Student's Introduction to the Trinity, reviewed by Gordon Rixon Declan Marmion, A Spirituality for Everyday Faith: A Theological Investigation of the Notion of Spirituality in Karl Rahner, reviewed by Eilish Ryan Lewis S. Mudge, The Church as Moral Community: Ecciesiology and Ethics in Ecumenical Debate, reviewed by Gail Allan James F. Puglisi, ed., Petrine Ministry and the Unity of the Church: "Toward a Patient and Fraternal Dialogue.", reviewed by Daniel Donovan Roy A. Rappaport, Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity, reviewed by Donald Wiebe Stanley Rudman, Concepts of Person and Christian Ethics, reviewed by Ronald A. Mercier Lee E. Snook, What in the World is God Doing? Re-imagining Spirit and Power, reviewed by Michael T. Dempsey Dorothee Soelle, Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian, reviewed by Pam McCarroll-Butler Jeffrey Vanderwilt, A Church without Borders: The Eucharist and the Church in Ecumenical Perspective, reviewed by Margaret Lavin