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: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]
[OT:COU] The City of
Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra. Marguerite Yon. Eisenbrauns:2006.
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.