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Books reviewed:Alice Laffey, The Pentateuch: A Liberation‐Critical ReadingO. Keel and C. Uehlinger, Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient IsraelJ. J. McDermott, What are They Saying About the Formation of Israel?M. E. Mills, Historical Israel: Biblical Israel – Studying Joshua to 2 KingsN. P. Lemche, The Israelites in Israel and TraditionGerbern S. Oegema, The Anointed and His People: Messianic Expectations from the Maccabees to Bar KochbaM. Forward, Jesus: A Short BiographyJeffrey T. Tucker, Example Stories: Perspectives on Four Parables in the Gospel of LukeJ. A. Darr, Herod the Fox: Audience Criticism and Lukan CharacterizationAlison Jasper, The Shining Garment of the Text: Gendered Readings of John's PrologueHelen C. Orchard,Courting Betrayal: Jesus as Victim in the Gospel of JohnElisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in ContextT. M. Shaw, The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early ChristianityBernard McGinn, The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism. Vol. 3, The Flowering of Mysticism: Men and Women in the New Mysticism 1200–1350Kathleen Powers Erickson, At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van GoghCharles E. Curran and Richard A. McCormick SJ (eds), John Paul II and Moral TheologyE. J. Harris, What Buddhists BelieveG. Studdert‐Kennedy, Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary ImperialismLeon Roth, Is There a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking FundamentalsFrank E. Eakin Jr., What Price Prejudice? Christian Antisemitism in AmericaR. K. Wüstenberg, A Theology of Life: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless ChristianityDouglas John Hall,Remembered Voices: Reclaiming the Legacy of ‘Neo‐Orthodoxy’T. Parfitt and E. Trevisan Semi (eds), The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on Ethiopian JewsC. Smith and J. Prokopy (eds), Latin American Religion in MotionK. B. Lyon & A. Smith, Jr. (eds), Tending the Flock: Congregations and Family MinistryNantawan Boonprasat Lewis (ed.), Revolution of Spirit: Ecumenical Theology in Global ContextJohn Macquarrie (ed. J. H. Morgan), On Being a Theologian: Reflections at Eighty