SBL regularly updates its collection of book reviews. Members receive emails (Review of Biblical Literature) providing links to these specific reviews. Typically each e-mail has a list of approximately ten books. Of these an average of one or two are by women. Below is a sampling from RBL reviews between approximately 2013-2015. Old Testament/Hebrew Scriptures scholarship is the most represented. It’s not clear if that is a coincidence or indicative of trends in research by women. Book reviews are submitted based on the interests of the scholars who write them and are not necessarily new releases.
Please note that providing the reviews here does not constitute agreement or disagreement with them. All reviews are subjective. If you are interested in a book, consider checking it out further. If you want to highlight a past SBL book review that is not cited here, please leave the information in the comment section.
The latest SBL reviews of women’s scholarship will be highlighted here in the Web Round Ups. Also, you can find all SBL book reviews at Review of Biblical Literature Blog.
Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
Stéphanie Anthonioz
Le Prophétisme biblique: De l’idéal à la réalité
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9375
Rachel M. Billings
“Israel Served the Lord”: The Book of Joshua as Paradoxical Portrait of Faithful Israel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9335
Athalya Brenner and Gale A. Yee, eds.
Exodus and Deuteronomy
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8530
Corrine L. Carvalho and Jonathan Stökl, eds.
Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9244
Joan E. Cook
Genesis
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8934
Reviewed by Jonathan L. Huddleston
Katharine J. Dell
Job: Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9330
Carol J. Dempsey
Amos, Hosea, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Habakkuk
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9408
Mercedes L. García Bachmann
Women at Work in the Deuteronomistic History
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9191
Judith Gärtner
Die Geschichtspsalmen: Eine Studie zu den Psalmen 78, 105, 106, 135 und 136 als hermeneutische
Schlüsseltexte im Psalter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8851
Judy Fentress-Williams
Ruth
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8831
Carol Meyers
Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context
1. http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9354
2. http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8796
Irene Nowell
Numbers
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8935
Caryn A. Reeder
The Enemy in the Household: Family Violence in Deuteronomy and Beyond
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8456
Ellen A. Robbins
The Storyteller and the Garden of Eden
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8660
Angela R. Roskop
The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8283
Annette Schellenberg
Der Mensch, das Bild Gottes? Zum Gedanken einer Sonderstellung des Menschen im Alten Testament und in weiteren altorientalischen Quellen
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9008
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
Food in Ancient Judah: Domestic Cooking in the Time of the Hebrew Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9023
Johanna Stiebert
Fathers and Daughters in the Hebrew Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9247
Naomi Steinberg
The World of the Child in the Hebrew Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9068
Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos
Reading Samuel: A Literary and Theological Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8674
Lisa M. Wolfe
Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs, and Judith
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8438
Dead Sea Scrolls
Esther G. Chazon and Betsy Halpern-Amaru, eds.
New Perspectives on Old Texts: Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9–11 January, 2005
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8034
Eileen M. Schuller and Carol A. Newsom
The Hodayot (Thanksgiving Psalms): A Study Edition of 1QHa
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8850
New Testament
Jody A. Barnard
The Mysticism of Hebrews: Exploring the Role of Jewish Apocalyptic Mysticism in the Epistle to the Hebrews
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8680
Jo-Ann A. Brant
John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8340
Constantine R. Campbell
Paul and Union with Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8689
L. Juliana M. Claassens
Mourner, Mother, Midwife: Reimagining God’s Delivering Presence in the Old Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8699
Claire Clivaz, ed.
Infancy Gospels: Stories and Identities
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8991
Wendy J. Cotter
The Christ of the Miracle Stories: Portrait through Encounter
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7857
Camille Focant
The Gospel according to Mark: A Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8867
Susan Mathew
Women in the Greetings of Romans 16.1–16: A Study of Mutuality and Women’s Ministry in the Letter to the Romans
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9339
Susan E. Myers, ed.
Portraits of Jesus: Studies in Christology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9012
Adele Reinhartz
Caiaphas the High Priest
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8952
Amy E. Richter
Enoch and the Gospel of Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8608
Claire S. Smith
Pauline Communities as ‘Scholastic Communities’: A Study of the Vocabulary of ‘Teaching’ in 1 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9098
Text and Interpretation
Emily Arndt
Demanding Our Attention: The Hebrew Bible as a Source for Christian Ethics
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7969
Ruth A. Clements, Gary A. Anderson, and David Satran, eds.
New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9136
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Transforming Vision: Explorations in Feminist The*logy
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8348
Edith M. Humphrey
Scripture and Tradition: What the Bible Really Says
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9185
Alison M. Jack
The Bible and Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8702
Hindy Najman, Florentino García Martínez, and Eibert Tigchelaar, eds.
Between Philology and Theology: Contributions to the Study of Ancient Jewish Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9045
Yvonne Sherwood and Stephen D. Moore
The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9274
Beth M. Stovell and Stanley E. Potter, eds.
Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8579
Language
Rahel Halabé
Hinneh: Biblical Hebrew the Practical Way
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8491
Cynthia Miller-Naudé and Ziony Zevit, eds.
Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8820
Reception History
Mary Ann Beavis and Michael J. Gilmour, eds.
Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9072
J. Cheryl Exum
Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9080
Camilla Hélena von Heijne
The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8211
Reviewed by Koog P. Hong
Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper, eds.
Text, Image, and Otherness in Children’s Bibles: What Is in the Picture?
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8847
Teaching, Writing, Textbooks
Marielle Frigge
Beginning Biblical Studies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9377
Mari Rapela Heidt
A Guide for Writing about Theology and Religion
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8655
Jane S. Webster and Glenn S. Holland, eds.
Teaching the Bible in the Liberal Arts Classroom
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9081