While it is still 2007 I want to mention two new collections of essays on canon (“kanon” in German). I’ve had the chance to work through them both now, and have just submitted a review of the larger collection to RBL. It should go up there sometime early next year.

The first to appear, in September, was Bernd Janowski, ed., Kanonhermeneutik: Vom Lesen und Verstehen der christlichen Bibel (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2007). It contains essays from six contributors.

The second, in November, was Egbert Ballhorn and Georg Steins, eds., Der Bibelkanon in der Bibelauslegung: Beispielexegesen und Methodenreflexionen (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2007). It contains 21 essays by 17 scholars. (Update: for more see my review, which is now available on RBL.)