1 Samuel, by Ralph W. Klein, 2nd edition, Word Biblical Commentary (Thomas Nelson, 2008).
This is hardly changed from the 1983 edition, but Dr. Klein made minor revisions and updated the references and bibliographies.
Architecture and Utopia in the Temple Era, by Michael Chyutin, translated from the Hebrew by Richard Flantz, Library of Second Temple Studies, no. 58 (T & T Clark, 2006).
Chyutin has published four other books, two in English and two in Hebrew. This book is a remarkable treatment of the Tabernacle and Temples, including Ezekiel’s. The penultimate chapter is titled “Jewish Design Thinking in the First and Second Temple Periods” and the eighth and last chapter is a conclusion related to the book’s title. Appendix A is “Number Mysticism in the Ancient World and in the Scriptures”; Appendix B is “A Modular and Arithmetological Analysis of the Temples.”
The series was formerly the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series. The series editor is Lester L. Grabbe and the founding editor was James H. Charlesworth.
Calvinist Humor in American Literature, by Michael Dunne (Louisiana State University Press, 2007).
The first chapter is titled simply “Calvinist Humor” and the author says he has been interested in it for “many years” and despite “most people who hear the term for the first time” wanting to point out that it’s “an oxymoron, right?” Chapters two through nine then deal with, respectively: American Puritans, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, Hemingway, Nathanael West, and Flannery O’Connor. The tenth and last chapter is titled “Calvinist Humor Revisited.”
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