"The best laid plans of mice and men.........are about equal."
New acquisitions...(and old "I brought them in from the garage" ones!)...
Recommended books in BOLD RED (but just because it's not red, doesn't mean I don/t like it--I might not have read enough of it to know, when I posted it below)
Dec 17, 2006
[TH:KHSOT] Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament. Christopher JH Wright. IVPacademic:2006.
[NT:CBDSS] Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls. John J Collins and Craig Evans (eds). BakerAcademic:2006.
[NS:DSB] Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design. Thomas Woodward. Baker:2006.
[HI:CB] Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament. David L Dungan. Fortress:2007.
[NT:PES] The Pre-existent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Simon Gathercole. Eerdmans:2006.
[NT:JEW] Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Richard Bauckham. Eerdmans:2006.
[TH:DARNB] Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible: The Social and Literary Context. David Instone-Brewer. Eerdmans:2002.
[TH:DARNC] Divorce and Remarriage in the Church: Biblical Solutions for Pastoral Realities. David Instone-Brewer. IVP:2003.
[TH:EJG] Evil and the Justice of God. NT Wright. IVP:2006.
[HI:ECA] The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins. Larry W Hurtado. Eerdmans:2006.
[WR:Q1] The Quran, A New Translation. M A S Abdel Haleen. OUP:2004.
[WR:Q2] An Interpretation of the Quran: English Translation of the Meanings—A Bilingual Edition. Majid Fakhry. NYUP:2002.
[WR:Q3] The Quran, with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation. Ali Quli Qarai. Khatoons:2006.
[WR:Q4] Al-Quran: A Contemporary Translation. Ahmed Ali. PrincetonUP:1993.
[WR:Q5] The Quran: Arabic Text with a new translation. Muhammad Zafrulla Khan. OliveBranchPress:1997.
[WR:VRQ] Variant Readings of the Quran: A Critical Study of their Historical and Linguistic Origins. Ahmad Ali al Imam. International Institute of Islamic Thought:1998.
[WR:DHQ] Dictionary of the Holy Quran (Arabic-English, 3rd Ed). Abdul Mannan Omar. NOOR:2005.
[WR:QIE] The Quran and its Exegesis: Selected Texts with Classical and Modern Muslim Interpretations. Helmut Gatje. Oneworld:1996.
[WR:IQS] Introduction to Quranic Script. Syed Baraket Ahmad. Curzon:1985.
[WR:IKCA] An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic. W M Thackston. IBEX:2000.
[WR:ATTQ] Arabic Through the Quran. Alan Jones. IslamicTextsSoc:2005.
[WR:IKCAKE] An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic, Key to Exercises. W M Thackston. IBEX:1994.
[WR:GC] God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam. Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds. CambridgeUP:1986.
[WR:QS] Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation. John Wansbrough. Prometheus:2004.
[WR:FA] Fables of the Ancients? Folklore in the Quran. Alan Dundes. RowmanLittlefield:2003.
[WR:Hadith] Al-Hadith: An English Translation and commentary of Mishkat-Ul-Masabih, with Arabic Text (4vols). Maulana Fazlul Karim. IslamicBookService:1991.
[WR:QHI] Quran, Hadith, and Islam. Rashad Khalifa. UniversalUnity:2001.
[WR:MTAP] More Than a Prophet. Emir Fethi Caner and Ergun Mehmet Caner. Kregel:2003.
[WR:Q6] The Koran Interpreted: A Translation. A J Arberry. Touchstone:1996.
[WR:CQ] A Concordance of the Quran. Hanna E Kassis. Ucpress:1983.
[WR:BCTA] The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period. Sidney Harrison Griffith. Variorum:2003.
Sept 24, 2006
[HI:AFANT] The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament. Clayton Jefford. Hendrickson:2006.
[WR:ABC] Africa Bible Commentary. Tokunboh Adeyemo (gen.ed). Zondervan:2006.
[WR:QT] Qur'an Translation: Discourse, Texture, and Exegesis. Hussein Abdul-Raof. Curzon:2001.
[WR:HILT] A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. Wael B Hallaq. CambridgeUP:1997.
[WR:OEIL] The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law. Wael B Hallaq. CambridgeUP:2005.
[WR:EIL] Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools. Adapted by Laleh Bakhtiar, introduction by Kevin Reinhart. ABCInternational:1996.
[WR:IAM] Islam and Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond. Cooper, Nettler, and Mahmoud (eds). I. B. Taurus:1998.
[WR:MTHQ] The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an. Abdullan Yusuf Ali (11th ed). Amana:2006.
[WR:ECMQ] An Exhaustive Concordance of the Meaning of the Qur'an. Cason (compiler), El-Fadl (tech help), Walker (ed). Amana:2000.
Sep 2, 2006
[WR:QC] Quranic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. CambridgeUP:1991.
[HI:HPE] Handbook of Patristic Exegesis: The Bible in Ancient Christianity. Charles Kannengiesser. Brill:2006.
Aug 17, 2006
[NS:LOG] The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. Francis Collins. FreePress:2006.
[NS:DPE] Development Plasticity and Evolution. Mary Jane West-Eberhard. OxfordUP:2003.
[NS:OOF] Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology. Gerd Muller and Stuart Newman (eds). BradfordMIT:2003.
[NS:RELS] Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems. Andreas Wagner. PrincetonUP:2005.
[WR:TCOS] The Challenge of the Scriptures: The Bible and the Qur'an. Muslim-Christian Research Group. Orbis:1989.
[WR:IIH] Islamic Imperialism--A History. Efraim Karsh. Yale:2006.
[WR:MMIQ] Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an. Suha Taji-Farouki (ed). OxfordUP:2004.
[WR:WKRS] What the Koran Really Says. Ibn Warraq (ed/trans). Prometheus:2002.
[WR:TGT] The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists. Khaled Abou El Fadl. Harper:2005.
[WR:LIAS] Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook. Charles Kurzman (ed). OxfordUP:1998.
[PH:EPHJ] Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment. Michal Bishop and JD Trout. OxfordUP:2005.
[PH:BE] Bayesian Epistemology. Luc Bovens and Shephan Hartmann. OxfordUP:2003.
[HI:BIAA] The Bible in Athanasius of Alexandria. James Ernest. Brill:2004.
[PH:NLHU] The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding. Anthony Sanford (ed). T&TClark:2003.
[WR:Charts] Charts of World Religions. H Wayne House. Zondervan:2006.
July 3, 2006
[PH:HPSMF] How Postmodernism Serves My Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art. Crystal Downing. IVP:2006.
[HI:AHEC] Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity. Martin Hengel. WipfandStock:1979.
[NT:4G1G] The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Investigation of the Collection and Origin of the Canonical Gospels. Martin Hengel. Trinity:2000.
[HI:BRD] The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science. Thomas Levy and Thomas Higham (eds). Equinox:2005.
[NS:AT] Animal Traditions: Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution. Eytan Avital and Eva Jabloka. CambridgeUP:2000.
[NS:EN4D] Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life. Eva Jabloka and Marion Lamb. BradfordMIT:2005.
[CS:APFC] A Place for Consciousness: Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World. Gregg Rosenberg. OxfordUP:2004.
[NS:THW] Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition. Kim Sterelny. Blackwell:2003.
[CS:NBNG] Neither Brain nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory. W Teed Rockwell. BradfordMIT:2005.
[CS:TVB] The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will. Benjamin Libet, Anthony Freeman and Keith Sutherland (eds). ImprintAcademic:1999.
[CS:SCUR] Science, Consciousness, and Ultimate Reality. David Lorimer (ed). ImprintAcademic:2004.
[CS:PMC] Physicalism and Mental Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action. Sven Walter and Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (eds). ImprintAcademic:2003.
[CS:BO] Beyond Ourselves: Second-person issues in the study of consciousness. Evan Thompson (ed). ImprintAcademic:2001.
[NS:AM] Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature. David Butler. BradfordMIT:2005.
[NS:MAG] Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion. Todd Tremlin. OxfordUP:2006.
[CS:TMTB] The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley. RegenBooks/HarperCollins:2002.
[NS:ESC] Evolution of the Social Contract. Brian Skyrms. CambridgeUP:1996.
[NS:TBM] The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography. Harvey Whitehouse (ed). Berg:2001.
[NS:IGWT] In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. Scott Atran. OxfordUP:2002.
[NS:WWABG] Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Justin Barrett. Altamira:2004.
[NS:MOR] Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Harvey Whitehouse:Altamira:2004.
[NS:EOM] Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Leonard Katz (ed). ImprintAcademic:2000.
[TH:POEC] Perspectives on an Evolving Creation: Keith Miller (ed). Eerdmans:2003. [A book by Christian (mostly evangelical) evolutionists--in different fields of science]
[NS:IOE] Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Jonathan Wells. Regnery:2000.
[NS:BEE] Biased Embryos and Evolution. Wallace Arthur. CambridgeUP:2004.
[NS:NBGA] Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. Peter Richardson and Robert Byrd. UChicago:2004.
Jun 11, 2006
[NS:TGB] The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes, and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything. Paul Halpern. Wiley:2004.
[NS:TWA] Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman (eds). ColumbiaUP:2005.
[NS:TCA] The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition. Bekoff, Allen, and Burghardt (eds). MIT:2002.
[NS:CC] Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence. E Wasserman and T Zentall (eds). OxfordUP:2006.
[CS:SAPgold] Sensation and Perception, 6thEd. E Bruce Goldstein. Wadsworth:2002.
[CS:SAPwolfe] Sensation & Perception. Wolfe, Kluender, Levi, Bartoshuk, Herz, Klatzky, and Lederman. Sinauer:2006.
[CS:P] Perception, 5thEd. Randolph Blake and Robert Sekuler. McGrawHill:2005.
[CS:CT] Children's Thinking, 4thEd. Robert Siegler and Martha Alibali. PrenticeHall:2004.
[CS:CPL] Cognition, Perception, and Language, Volume 2, Handbook of Child Psychology, 5thEd. Damon, Kuhn, Siegler (eds). Wiley:2000.
[CS:CRM] Children's Reasoning and the Mind. Peter Mitchell. PsychologyPress:2001.
[NS:FITC] Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion. Stewart Guthrie. OxfordUP:1993.
[PH:BTS] Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. Daniel Dennett. Viking:2006.
[NS:COS] Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions. Walter Burkert. Harvard:1996.
[HI:NTM] New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their World. Thomas Klaus and Tobia Nicklas (eds). Brill:2006.
[HI:SAEH] Scriptural Allusions and Exegesis in the Hodayot. Julie Hughes. Brill:2006.
[NS:AJG] A Jealous God: Science's Crusade Against Religion. Pamela Winnick. NelsonCurrent:2005. [Amazing book, chronicling the fight against introducing ID into schools]
May 12, 2006
[NS:SD] Science Declares Our Universe is Intelligently Designed. Robert Herrman. XulonPress:2002.
[NS:GEMG] Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome. JC Sanford. IvanPress:2005.
[NS:DDT] Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics. Bruce Schumm. JohnsHopkins:2004.
[NS:R2R] The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. Roger Penrose. Knopf:2004.
[NS:WP] Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. Lisa Randall. HarperCollins:2005.
[TH:HOFC] Historicism: The Once and Future Challenge for Theology. Sheila Greeve Davaney. Fortress:2006.
[PH:TOA] The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World. Alister McGrath. Doubleday-Galilee:2004/2006.
[HI:LTCT] Libraries, Translations, and 'Canonic' Texts: The Septuagint, Aquila and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian Traditions. Giuseppe Veltri. Brill:2006.
[HI:BODADL] The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature. Lorenzo DiTommaso. Brill:2005.
Apr 5, 2006
[HI:2Strange] Two Strange Beasts: Leviathan and Behemoth in Second Temple and Early Rabbinic Judaism. K Willaim Whitney. Eisenbrauns:2006.
[HI:PSYCH] Psychanodia I: A Survey of the Evidence Concerning the Ascension of the Soul and its Relevance. Ioan Petru Culianu. Brill:1983.
[HI:LAD] Life after Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion. Alan Segal. Doubleday:2004.
[NT:GRCGJ] Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus. Mark Chancey. CambridgeUP:2005.
[HI:MGRP] Moses in Greco-Roman Paganism. John G Gager. SBL/Abingdon:1972/1989.
[HI:EQO] Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection. Gabriele Boccaccini (ed). Eerdmans:2005.
[HI:RTB] Reworking the Bible: Apocryphal and Related Texts at Qumran. Chazon, Dimant and Clements (eds). Brill:2005.
[HI:POP] The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, or other? James Davila. Brill:2005.
[HI:MMRP] Markets and Marketing in Roman Palestine. Ben-Zion Rosenfeld and Joseph Menirav (Chava Cassel, trans.). Brill:2005.
[WR:ICIP] An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy. Oliver Leaman. CambridgeUP:2002.
[HI:SOC] The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation. W V Harris (ed). Brill:2005.
[HI:TEB] The Edited Bible: The Curious History of the 'Editor' in Biblical Criticism. John Van Seters. Eisenbrauns:2006.
[OT:BPE] Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel. Ann Killebrew. Brill/SBL:2005.
[NT:TCIJ] This Christ is Jesus: Metamorphosis, Possession, and Johannine Christology. Pamela Kinlaw. Brill/SBL:2005.
[OT:JIBA] Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period. Andrew Vaughn and Ann Killebrew (eds). SBL:2003.
Feb 25, 2006
[PH:TKCCR] The Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings (2nd ed). Louis Pojman (ed). Wadsworth:1999.
[HI:BAX] Bible Archaeology: An Exploration of the History and Culture of Early Civilizations. Alfred Hoerth and John McRay. Baker:2005.
[OT:SIH2] A Survey of Israel's History (Revised Ed). Leon Wood and David O'Brien. Zondervan:1986.
[TH:WHG] The Wounded Heart of God: The Asian Concept of Han and the Christian Doctrine of Sin. Andrew Sung Park. Abingdon:1993.
[PH:TSB] The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously. Jacques Berlinerblau. Cambridge:2005.
[HI:JMPCW] Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds. Shmuel Shepkaru. Cambridge:2006.
[TH:STC] Staying the Course: Supporting the Church's Position on Homosexuality. Dunnam and Malony (eds). Abingdon:2003.
[HI:CSCCH] A Companion to Second-Century Christian Heretics. Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen (eds). Brill:2005.
[HI:ACC] The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon. Richard Price and Michael Gaddis. LiverpoolPress:2005 (3 vols).
[WR:MOG] Mother of the Gods: From Cybele to the Virgin Mary. Philippe Borgeaud, Lysa Hochroth (trans). Johns Hopkins:2004.
[TH:DHS] Discovering the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. Keith Warrington. Hendrickson:2005.
[HI:LMBUT] Layout Markers in Biblical and Ugaritic Tablets. Korpel and Oesch (eds). VanGorum:2005.
[HI:GRHLA] Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity: Fourth to Sixth Century AD. Gabriele Marasco (ed). Brill:2003.
[HI:PolyPaul] Polycarp and Paul: An Analysis of their Literary and Theological Relationship in Light of Polycarp's Use of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Literature. Kenneth Berding. Brill:2005.
[PH:VAV] Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe. Erik Wielenberg. Cambridge:2005.
[HI:RASIA] Religion and the Self in Antiquity. Brakke, Satlow, and Weitzman (eds). IndianaUP:2005.
[NT:CPR] The Child-Parent Relationship in the New Testament and its Environment. Peter Balla. Hendrickson:2003.
[TH:PET] The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism, and Wesleyanism. Ben Witherington III. Baylor:2005.
[TH:WGK] What God Knows: Time and the Question of Divine Knowledge. Harry Lee Poe and J Stanley Mattson (eds). Baylor:2005.
[HI:GRGS] Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories and Early Jesus Traditions. Gerard Luttikhuizen. Brill:2006.
[NT:TET] The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave. Robert Price and Jeff Lowder (eds). Prometheus:2005.
[HI:HSORJ] Households, Sects, and the Origins of Rabbinic Judaism. Alexei Sivertsev. Brill:2005.
[HI:PATC] Porphyry Against the Christians. Robert Berchman. Brill:2005.
[NS:RAA] Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction. Brian Morris. Cambridge:2006.
[NT:RSOG] The Resurrection of the Son of God. NT Wright. Fortress:2003.
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