Latest News TWENTY NEW ADDITIONS TO OUR PROGRAMME FOR 2008 This week, we have added these titles to the website: Decolonizing God: The Bible in the Tides of Empire. Mark G. Brett Hosea (reprint edition). Francis Landy Jonathan Loved David: Manly Love in the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Sex. Anthony Heacock Mark. Edwin K. Broadhead Marxist Feminist Criticism of the Bible. Edited by Jorunn Økland and Roland Boer Paradoxes of Paradise: Identity and Difference in the Song of Songs, Second Edition. Francis Landy Philemon. Larry J. Kreitzer Recent Releases: The Bible in Contemporary Cinema. Edited by Geert Hallbäck and Annika Hvithamar Recent Research on Paul and Slavery. John Byron Scribes and Schools in Monarchic Judah: A Socio-Archaeological Approach (reprint edition). David Jamieson-Drake The Changing Shape of Form Criticism: A Relational Approach. Martin J. Buss The Concept of Form in the Twentieth Century. Martin J. Buss The Dan Debate: The Tel Dan Inscription in Recent Research. Hallvard Hagelia The Emergence of Early Israel in Historical Perspective, Second Edition. Robert B. Coote and Keith W. Whitelam The Gate of Heaven: The History and Symbolism of the Temple in Jerusalem. Margaret Barker The Highlands of Canaan: Agricultural Life in the Early Iron Age, Second Edition. David C. Hopkins The Way The World Ends? The Apocalypse of John in Culture and Ideology. Edited by William John Lyons and Jorunn Økland Troublesome Texts: The Bible in Colonial and Contemporary Culture. R.S. Sugirtharajah? Unity and Disunity in Ezra–Nehemiah: Redaction, Rhetoric, and Reader. Edited by Mark J. Boda and Paul L. Redditt Women on the Margin: Lesser-Known Characters from the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg [Posted 31 October, 2007] NEW TITLES PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 2007 Out this month: New Seals and Inscriptions, Hebrew, Idumean and Cuneiform. Edited by Meir Lubetski The Birth of Moses and the Buddha: A Paradigm for the Comparative Study of Religions. Vanessa Rebecca Sasson Jesus and the People of God: Reconfiguring Ethnic Identity. Joseph H. Hellerman A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond. Edited by Deborah W. Rooke AND TWO NEW PAPERBACKS Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible. Steven W, Holloway Protest against God: The Eclipse of a Biblical Tradition. William S. Morrow [Posted 31 October, 2007] NEW TITLES PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 2007 Out this month: Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue. Edited by J. Cheryl Exum and Ela Nutu [Posted 31 October, 2007] FIRST VOLUME IN NEW SWBA SERIES PUBLISHED On 13 August, we published the first title in our new series, Social World of Biblical Antiquity: In Other Words: Essays on Social Science Methods and the New Testament in Honor of Jerome H. Neyrey. Edited by Anselm C. Hagedorn, Zeba A. Crook and Eric Stewart. [Posted 17 August, 2007] CANADIAN AWARD FOR PHOENIX AUTHOR William Morrow’s Protest against God: The Eclipse of a Biblical Tradition has been awarded the R.B.Y. Scott Award for an outstanding book by a Canadian author in Hebrew Bible or Ancient Near East in 2005-2006. [Posted 26 June, 2007] SHEFFIELD PHOENIX PRESS AT CONFERENCES IN 2007 In the coming year, SPP will be attending these conferences and displaying and selling its books: 9-12 July, Society for Old Testament Study, University of Sheffield [also displaying new SBL titles] 15-20 July, International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Ljubljana, Slovenia 22-26 July, Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Vienna 6-8 September, British New Testament Conference, University of Exeter [also displaying new SBL titles] 17-20 November, Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, California 2-4 January 2008, Society for Old Testament Study, University of Chester [also displaying new SBL titles] [Posted 15 January, 2007]