Books I Plan to
Finish Someday...
"The best
laid plans of mice and men.........are about equal."
[These are now sorted into a list
of abbreviations
that I use in the CTT writings...hope it helps. I have
also begun filing previous years books in their own file--to shorten
file access times. I have all of 2002,
2001, 2000,
1999, 1998, 1997, 1996,
and most of 1995 books.]
New
acquisitions...(and old "I brought them in from the garage"
ones!)...
Recommended books
in BOLD RED
December 31/2003
- [HI:SECT] The
Spirit of Early Christian Thought. Robert Wilken. Yale:2003. [a
WishList
gift! Thanks, DL!]
- [NS:DAD]
Doubts about Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design.
Thomas Woodward. Baker:2003.[a WishList
gift! Thanks, DL!]
- [OT:SATS] Sumer
and the Sumerians. Harriet Crawford. Cambridge:1991. [a WishList
gift! Thanks, DL!]
- [TH:EP] Election
and Predestination: Keys to a Clearer Understanding. Samuel
Fisk. Wipf and Stock:1997. [a WishList
gift! Thanks, DL!]
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[WR:AJOJ3] Answering Jewish Objections
to Jesus: Messianic Prophecy Objections. Michael L
Brown. Baker:2003.
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[WR:MC] Messianic Christology. Arnold G Fruchtenbaum. Ariel
Ministries:1998.
- [WR:SOTP] Sword
of the Prophet: History, Theology, Impact on the World. Serge
Trifkovic. Regina Orthodox Press:2002. [a WishList
gift! Thanks, DL!]
December 23/2003
- [ZIBBC]
Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (4 vols).
Clinton Arnold (ed). Zondervan:2002.
-
[OT:ICWS] The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer.
Jean-Jaques Glassner. JohnsHopkins:2000/2003 (trans)
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[OT:INW] The Image of the Netherworld in the Sumerian Sources.
Dina Katz. CDL:2003.
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[HI:HANEL] A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (2 vols).
Raymond Westbrook (ed). Brill:2003.
- [OT:OROT]
On the Reliability of the Old Testament. K A Kitchen.
Eerdmans:2003. [awesome, awesome, awesome...]
December 22/2003
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[CS:PC4V] Psychology and Christianity: Four Views. Eric L
Johnson and Stanton L Jones (eds). IVP:2000.
-
[HI:2PIH] Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about
Christianity and Gnosticism. Alan Segal. Brill:2002.
-
[HI:AHI] Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions—Corpus and
Concordance. G I Davies. Cambridge:1991.
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[HI:AI] Ancient Iraq. George Roux. Penguin:1992 (3rd ed).
-
[HI:ANAB] The Ancient Novel and Beyond. Stelios Panayotakis,
Maaike Zimmerman, and Wyste Keulen (eds). Brill:2003.
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[HI:ARAB] Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, 2 vols.
Daniel Luckenbill. Histories and Mysteries of Man LTD:1989 (reprint
of 1926)
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[HI:ASM] Animal Symbolism in Mesopotamia—a Contextual
Approach. Chikako Watanabe. Institut fur Oreintalistik der
Universitat Wien:2002.
-
[HI:CFEC] Community Formation in the Early Church and in the
Church Today. Richard Longenecker (ed). Hendrickson:2002.
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[HI:CGEC] Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church. Ronald Kydd.
Hendrickson:1984.
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[HI:CNJS] The Children of Noah: Jewish Seafaring in Ancient
Times. Raphael Patai. Princeton:1998.
-
[HI:CTH] Companion to Historiography. Michael Bentley (ed).
Routledge:1997.
-
[HI:DFRC] Decline and Fall of the Roman City. JHWG
Liebeschuetz. Oxford:2001.
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[HI:ECOW] Early Civilizations of the Old World: The Formative
Histories of Egypt, The Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China.
Charles Keith Maisels. Routledge:1999.
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[HI:EJ] Early Judaism: The Exile to the Time of Jesus.
Frederick J. Murphy. Hendrickson:2002.
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[HI:HAW] The Horse in the Ancient World. Ann Hyland.
Sutton:2003.
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[HI:HBB] Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious
Canons in the Ancient World. Margalit Finkelberg and Guy
Stroumsa (eds). Brill:2003.
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[HI:HBIAP] A History of Biblical Interpretation Volume 1: The
Ancient Period. Alan Hauser and Duane Watson (eds).
Eerdmans:2003.
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[HI:HGLF3] History of the Graeco-Latin Fable, volume 3: Inventory
and Documentation of the Graeco-Latin Fable. F R Adrados.
Brill:2003.
-
[OT:IIBP] Israel in the Biblical Period: Institutions, Festivals,
Ceremonies, Rituals. J Alberto Soggin. T&TClark: 2000.
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[HI:Jb4J] Judaism
before Jesus: The Events and Ideas that Shaped the New Testament
World. Anthony Tomasino. IVP:2003.
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[HI:Jeru] Jerusalem: Portrait of the City in the Second Temple
Period. Lee Levine. JPS:2002.
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[HI:JILA1] Judaism in Late Antiquity, Vol 1. Jacob Neusner
(ed). Brill:2001.
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[HI:JMA] Jewish Marriage in Antiquity. Michael L Satlow.
Princeton:2001.
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[HI:JNAW] The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World. Lawrence M
Wills. Cornell:1995.
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[HI:JURR] The Jews under Roman Rule, From Pompey to Diocletian: A
Study in Political Relations. E. Mary Smallwood. Brill:2001.
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[HI:MB4H] Mesopotamia Before History. Petr Charvat.
Routledge:2002.
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[HI:MFBW] Marriage and Family in the Biblical World. Ken
Campbell (ed). IVP:2003.
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[HI:MND] Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from
Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Jan Willem van
Henten and Friedrich Avemarie. Routledge:2002.
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[HI:PPS] The Past in Prehistoric Societies. Richard Bradley.
Routledge:2002.
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[HI:SBED] Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early
Christian Literature. Gay L Byron. Routledge:2002.
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[HI:SP2P] The Significance of Parallels between 2 Peter and other
Early Christian Literature. Michael J Gilmour. SBL:2002.
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[HI:TAE] The Ancient Economy. Walter Scheidel and Sitta von
Reden (eds). Routledge:2002.
-
[HIAUA] Aspects of Urbanism in Antiquity: From Mesopotamia to
Crete. Walter Aufrecht, Neil Mirau, and Steven Gauley (eds).
JSOTS/Sheffield:1997.
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[NDIEC9] New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, Volume 9:
A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri. S R Llewelyn
(ed). Eerdmans:2002.
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[NS:BX] Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural
Diversity. Bruce Bagemihl. St. Martins:1999.
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[NS:CAASO] A Case Against Accident and Self-Organization.
Dean L Overman. Rowman and Littlefield:1997.
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[NS:SI] Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design.
William Dembski and James Kushiner (eds). Baker/Brazos:2001.
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[NT:IDWAG] In Dialog with Another Gospel? The Influence of the
Fourth Gospel on the Passion Narrative of the Gospel of Luke.
Mark Matson. SBL:2001.
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[NT:JRS] Jesus Reads Scripture—The Function of Jesus' Use
of Scripture in the Synoptic Gospels. Emerson Powery.
Brill:2003.
- [NT:OMMCCD]
The Origins of Mark: The Markan
Community in Current Debate. Dwight Peterson. Brill:2000.
[a WishList
gift! Thanks, NR!]
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[NT:PAP] Power and Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of
Mark. Brenda Deen Schildgen. WayneState:1999.
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[NT:PIC] Paul's Idea of Community—The Early House Churches
in their Cultural Setting. Robert Banks. Hendrickson:1994
(rev.ed)
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[NT:PML] Paul and the Mosaic Law. James G. Dunn (ed).
Eerdmans:1994.
-
[NT:RNTTC] Rethinking New Testament Textual Criticism. David
Alan Black (ed). Baker:202.
-
[NT:RSP] Rethinking
the Synoptic Problem. David Alan Black and David R Beck (eds).
Baker:2001.
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[OT:ANCANE] Aspects of Nonverbal Communication in the Ancient
Near East. Biblical Institute Press:1980.
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[OT:BANER] The Bible and the Ancient Near East—Collected
Essays. J J M Roberts (ed). Eisenbrauns:2002.
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[OT:DESB] Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia. R Campbell
Thompson. Kessinger: 1903 (reprnt)
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[OT:ETHB] The Earliest Text of the Hebrew Bible: The Relationship
between the Masoretic Text and the Hebrew Base of the Septuagint
Reconsidered. Adrian Schenker (ed). SBL:2003.
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[OT:FAA] Fictional Akkadian Autobiography: A Generic and
Comparative Study. Tremper Longman III. Eisenbrauns:1991.
- [OT:GA] Gilgamesh
and Akka. Dina Katz. Styz:1993. [a WishList
gift! Thanks, NR!]
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[OT:HP] Hittite Prayers. Itamar Singer. SBL:2002.
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[OT:LPKEA] Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and
Assurbanipal. Steven Cole and Peter Machinist (eds).
HelsinkiUP:1998.
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[OT:RBE] A Reassessment of Biblical Elohim. Joel S Burnett.
SBL:2001.
-
[OT:RTL] Reading the Lines: A Fresh Look at the Hebrew Bible.
Pamela Tamarkin Reis. Hendrickson:2002.
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[OT:SEML] Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature.
Gwendolyn Leick. Routledge:1994.
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[REF:BB] Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related
Languages. John Kaltner and Steven L McKenzie (eds). SBL:2002.
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[REF:DSSC1] The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance, Volume One,
Non-Biblical Texts from Qumran (Parts 1 and 2). Martin Abegg et.
al. Brill:2003.
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[TH:EB] The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the
Graeco-Roman World. Robert Garland. Cornell:1995.
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[TH:EC] The Elders of the City: A Study of the Elders-Laws in
Deuteronomy. Timothy Willis. SBL:2001.
-
[TH:IMBDSS] Israel's
Messiah in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Richard Hess and
M Daniel Carroll R (eds). Baker:2003.
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[TH:IML] Injustice Made Legal: Deuteronomic Law and the Plight of
Widows, Strangers, and Orphans in Ancient Israel. Harold
Bennett. Eerdmans:2002.
-
[TH:JSB] The Jewish Study Bible. Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi
Brettler (eds). JPS/Oxford:2004.
-
[TH:TKTP] To Kill and Take Possession: Law, Morality, and Society
in Biblical Stories. Daniel Friedman. Eerdmans:2002.
-
[TH:TMC] The Torah—A Modern Commentary. W. Gunther
Plaut (ed). Union of Hebrew Congregations:1981.
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[WR:3GS] Three Faiths, One God: The Formative Faith and Practice
of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Neusner, Chilton, William
Graham. Brill:2002.
-
[WR:BAQ] The
Bible and the Quran. Jacques Jomier. Ignatius:1959 (trans. 1964)
- [WR:DCM] A
Dictionary of Creation Myths. David Adams Leeming and Margaret
Adams Leeming. OxfordUP:1994. [a WishList
gift! Thanks, NR!]
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[WR:IBS] Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora.
Ronald Segal. Farrar, Stratus and Girox:2001.
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[WR:STM] Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence. Bruce
Lawrence. Princeton:1998.
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[WR:UI] Unveiling Islam. Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi
Caner. Kregel:2002.
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[WS:GW] Gospel Women: Studies in the Named Women in the
Gospels. Richard Bauckham. Eerdmans:2002.
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[WS:WCSEC] Women, Class, and Society in Early Christianity:
Models from Luke-Acts. James Malcolm Arlandson.
Hendrickson:1997.
October 13,2003
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[HI:RTFU] Religious Texts from Ugarit. N. Wyatt.
Sheffield:2002(2nd Ed).
-
[HI:CAT2] The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn
Hani and Other Places. Dietrich, Loretz, Sanmartin.
Ugarit-Verlag:1995 (2nd ed).
-
[HI:RACU] Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. Dennis Pardee. SBL:2002.
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[HI:UNP] Ugaritic Narrative Poetry. Simon Parker (ed).
SBL:1997.
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[HI:WLCAT2] Word -List of the Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from
Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani, and Other Places. Dietrich and Loretz
(eds). Ugarit-Verlag:1996 (2nd ed).
-
[JPStorah] The JPS Torah Commentary (5vols). Nahum Sarna (gen
ed). JPS:1989.
-
[HI:IF] Interpretations of the Flood. Martinez and
Luttikhuizen (eds). Brill:1999.
-
[HI:CMW] The Creation of Man and Women: Interpretations of the
Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions. Gerard
Luttikhuizen (ed). Brill:2000.
- [NT:CITM1]
Christianity in the Making, Volume 1: Jesus Remembered. James
Dunn. Eerdmans:2003. [a WishList
gift! Thanks, SV!]
- [ZIBBC] Zondervan
Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (4 vols). Clinton Arnold
(ed). Zondervan:2002.
Sept 8, 2003
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[NT:JBJ] James, Brother of Jesus. Pierre-Antoine
Bernheim. SCM:1996/7.
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[HI:WAYSL] Why are You Silent, Lord? Roman
Garrison. Sheffield:2000.
-
[HI:PAEJ] Portraits of Adam in Early Judaism.
John R. Levison. Sheffield:1988.
-
[OT:SBL] Studies in Biblical Law: From the Hebrew
Bible to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Gershon Brin (Jonathan Chipman,
trans). Sheffield:1994.
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[WR:SAI] Shamanism: An Introduction. Margaret
Stutley. Routledge:2003.
-
[NT:AGJ] Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus: A
Re-examination of the Evidence. Johnathan Reed. Trinity:2000.
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[HI:BFOB] Biblical Figures Outside the Bible.
Michael Stone and Theodore Bergen (eds). Trinity:1998.
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[NT:PLW] Paul the Letter Writer. M Luther
Stirewalt, Jr. Eerdmans:2003.
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[HI:AACD] Ancient Astronomy and Celestial
Divination. N.M. Swerdlow (ed). MIT:1999.
-
[OT:IVI] Intertextuality in Ugarit and Israel.
Johannes de Moor (ed). Brill:1998.
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[NT:JCJM] The Jewish Context of Jesus' Miracles.
Eric Eve. Sheffield/JSOT:2002.
-
[NT:DYNR] Do You Not Remember? Scripture, Story and
Exegesis in the Rewritten Bible of Pseudo-Philo. Bruce Norman
Fisk. Sheffield:2001.
- [OT:KP]
Kingdom of Priests: A History of Old Testament Israel. Eugene
Merrill. Baker:1987/96.
-
[HI:PAG] Peoples of an Almighty God: Competing
Religions in the Ancient World. Jonathan Goldstein.
Anchor/Doubleday:2002.
- [WS:IWBC]
The IVP Women's Bible Commentary. C.C. Kroeger and Mary J.
Evans. IVP:2002.
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[HI:CEC] Children in the Early Church: Children in
the Ancient World, the New Testament and the Early Church. W. A.
Strange. Paternoster:1996.
- [HI:LJC]
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity.
Larry Hurtado. Eerdmans:2003.
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[HI:TISAR] Transformation of the Inner Self in
Ancient Religions. Jan Assmann and Guy Stroumsa (eds).
Brill:1999.
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[OT:LAL] Leviticus as Literature. Mary Douglas.
Oxford:1999.
-
[HI:LM] The Lost Messiah: In Search of the Mystical
Rabbi Sabbatai Sevi. John Freely. Overlook:2001.
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[EBLA4] Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and
Eblaite Language (Vol 4), Gordon/Rendsburg (eds.), Eisenbrauns:
2002.
- [NT:CAQ]
The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic
Problem. Mark Goodacre. Trinity:2002. [the one to 'beat' by
Kloppenberg...smile]
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[OT:PAI] Priesthood in Ancient Israel. William
Millar. Chalice:2001.
-
[NT:PBJHD] Paul Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Divide.
Troels Engberg-Pedersen (ed). WJK:2001.
-
[HI:LXXACS] The Septuagint as Christian Scripture:
Its Prehistory and the Problem of its Canon. Martin Hengel (Mark
Biddle, trans). T&TClark:2002.
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[NT:1GF2] One Gospel from Two: Mark's Use of Matthew
and Luke. Peabody/Cope/McNicol (eds). Trinity:2002.
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[HI:IGRTR] Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual
Relations. Alison Sharrock and Helen Morales (eds). OUP:2000.
-
[OT:ILAN] Implied Law in the Abraham Narrative.
James Bruckner. Sheffield/JSOT:2001
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[HI:MKN] The Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar: The
Ancient Near Eastern Origins & Early History of Interpretation
of Daniel 4. Matthais Herze. Brill:1999.
-
[HI:MWG] Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek
and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook. Daniel Ogden. OUP:2002.
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[OT:ASM] Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia. Hermann
Hunger and David Pingree. Brill:1999.
July 18/2003
- [PH:PVI] Political
Visions and Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of
Contemporary Ideologies. David T. Koyzis. IVP:2003.
- [PH:GTE] God
the Evidence: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a
Postsecular World. Patrick Glynn. Forum/Prima:1997/99. [Another
journalist-turned-atheist-turned-Christian story].
- [WR:LI]
Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out. Ibn Warraq (ed).
Prometheus:2003.
- [WR:MJ] The
Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature. Tarif
Khalidi (trans/ed). Harvard/Cambridge:2001.
- [HI:PE] Passover
and Easter: Origin and History to the Modern Times. Paul
Bradshaw and Lawrence Hoffman (eds). NotreDame:1999.
June 1/2003
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[NT:PITJ] Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and
Social Conflicts. KC Hanson and Douglas Oakman. Fortress:1998.
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[HI:BOJ] The Brother of Jesus: James the Just and His Mission.
Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner (eds). WJK:2001.
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[HI:JSZ] John, the Son of Zebedee: The Life of a Legend. R.
Alan Culpepper. Fortress:1994/2000,
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[HI:JRJ] Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church.
Richard Bauckham. T&TClark:1990.
-
[OT:IA] Introduction to the Apocrypha:
Message, Context, and Significance. David deSilva.
Baker:2002. [This looks outstanding.]
-
[HI:TK] The Keepers: An Introduction to the History and Culture
of the Samaritans. Robert Anderson and Terry Giles.
Hendrickson:2002.
-
[HI:2000] Two Thousand Years Ago: The World at the Time of Jesus.
Charles Frazee. Eerdmans:2002.
-
[HI:Tosef] The Tosefta: Translated from the Hebrew with a New
Introduction. Jacob Neusner. Hendrickson:2002 (2 vols)
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[TH:BHP] The Bible and Homosexual
Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics. Robert Gagnon.
Abingdon:2001. [The kudos from scholars on the back cover of this
are impressive--this will likely be an important contribution to the
discussion.]
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[TH:QFT] The Quest for Truth: Answering Life's Inescapable
Questions. F. Leroy Forlines. RandallHouse:2001. [According to an
ETS review, this is the best presentation of non-Wesleyan
Arminianism available today.]
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[TCS3] The Context of Scripture, vol 3: Archival Documents from
the Biblical World. Hallo and Younger (eds.). Brill:2002.
-
[WR:EQ] Encyclopedia of the Qur'an. Jame Dammen McAuliffe
(ed). Brill:2001 and on-going.
-
[Pauly] Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World.
Cancik/Scheider (ed. German) and Christine Salazar/David Orton (ed.
English). Brill:2002 and on-going.
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[HI:CCFJ] The Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus: Study
Edition (2 vols). Karl Heinrich Rengstorf (ed). Brill:2002.
May 10, 2003
- [WR:PM] The
Prophet and the Messiah: An Arab Christian's Perspective on Islam
and Christianity. Chawkat Moucarry. IVP:2001
- [WS:MWC] Men
and Women in the Church. Sarah Sumner. IVP:2003.
- [WR:TF] A
Tapestry of Faith: The Common Threads between Christianity and World
Religions. Winfried Coruan. IVP:2002. [I try to read everything
this man writes…always good, always careful, always gracious]
- [HI:NAW] The
Novel in the Ancient World. Gareth Schmeling (ed). Brill:2003
(Rev.ed).
- [HI:CD] The
Canon Debate. Lee Martin McDonald and James A. Sanders(eds).
Hendrickson:2002. . [a WishList
gift! Thanks!]
Feb 17, 2003
Both of these are
excellent works--I put them in my Recommended
books list.
- [OT:DictOT5]
Dictionary of the Old Testament Pentateuch, T. Desmond
Alexander and David W. Baker (eds). IVP:2003.
- [HI:EJL2TP]
Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period,
Larry R. Helyer, IVP:2002.
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