books

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 2018, 2016-2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004-2005, 2003, 2002 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, and most of 1995books.

New acquisitions...(and old "I brought them in from the garage" ones!)...

Also, note that these books are NOT uniformly cited in the technically-correct fashion, but only to the extent needed to identify/find them yourself.

Note: as of Oct 2015 I will no longer be putting entries into this log for books purchased from Logos software [list of my Oct 2015 holdings at logos6_2015OCT.pdf ,578 pages, 8600+ entries, 3.3M]. Since citations from those works will be in-full, there will be no need for abbreviations and name-anchors. I will periodically post the purchase history somewhere (Logos_Order_History_2020MAY29 for now), though, as i can--so readers can see electronic resources what I find worth investing in.

What is new with the May 18/2020 update, is that several of these books were purchased with funds from Tank support gifts, from treasures in His family (smile)!

Sept 09/2020

[HI:MAM] Marriage and Matrimonial Property in Ancient Egypt--A Contribution to Establishing the Legal Position of the Woman. P W Pestman. Brill:1961 (ebook).
[HI:NAE] The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereskigal. Simon Ponchia and Mikko Luukko. NeoAssyrianTextCorpusProject:2013.
[HI:POOR] The Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur. Baruch Ottervanger with Yigal Block. NeoAssyrianTextCorpusProject:2016.
[HI:SRIA] Selected Royal Inscriptions of Assurbanipal. Jamie Novotny. NeoAssyrianTextCorpusProject:2014.
[HI:TAMSW] The Ancient Mediterranean World--a Sourcebook. Zeba A Crook(ed). Eerdmans:2020.
[HI:TAWS] The Anti-Witchcraft Series MAQLU--A Student Edition and Selected Commentary. Tzvi Abusch. NeoAssyrianTextCorpusProject.2015.
[HI:TCFBA] The Case for Biblical Archeaology--Uncovering the Historical Record of God's Old Testament People. John Currid. R&Rpub:2020.
[HI:TVOR] The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. Rodney Stark. RandomHouse:2006 (Kindle).
[HI:UTB] Unearthing the Bible: 101 Archaeological Discoveries that Bring the Bible to Life. Titus Kennedy. HarvestHouse:2020.
[NT:NTIA] The New Testament in Antiquity: A Survey of the New Testament within its Cultural Contexts (2nd ed). Gary M Burge and Gene L Green. ZondervanAcademic:2020.
[NT:STNTI] Studying the New Testament through Inscriptions--An Introduction. D Clint Burnett. HendricksonAcademic:2020.
[OT:SOS] Shades of Sheol--Death and Afterlife in the Old Testament. Philip S Johnston. IVPacademic:2002.
[OT:TMVP] The Messianic Vision of the Pentateuch. Kevin S Chen. IVPacademic:2019.
[TH:MD] Mere Discipleship--Growing in Wisdom and Hope. Alister E McGrath. BakerBooks:2018.
[TH:MIRAC] Miraculous: A Fascinating History of Signs, Wonders, and Miracles. Kevin Belmonte. ThomasNelson:2012.
[TH:WVD] Word Versus Deed: Resetting the Scales to a Biblical Basis. Duane Litfin. Crossway:2012.
[WR:JATQ] Jesus and the Quran: Jesus Christ is Above All. Sekou Sowary. WestbowPress:2019.
[WR:SAFJ] Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus--A Devot Muslim Encounters Christianity (3rd ed.). Nabeel Qureshi. Zondervan:2018.
[WR:UV] Unveiled: The Bible, The Qur'an, and Women. Esther Ahmad with J Chester. HarvestHouse:2020.

July 27/2020

[HI:AEF] "An Excellent Fortress for His Armies, a Refuge for the People"--Egyptological, Archaeological, and Biblical Studies in Honor of James K Hoffmeier. Richard Averbeck and K Lawson Younger Jr (eds). Eisenbrauns:2020.
[HI:FICAHG] Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece--Representations and Realities. Sarah B Pomeroy. OUP:1997.
[HI:LCMAM2] Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, 2nd Ed. Martha T Roth. Scholars Press:1997.
[HI:NENAHL5] The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land Volume 5. Ephraim Stern (ed). IsraelExplorationSociety:2008.
[HI:NHIS] New Horizons in the Study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV of the Levant.Suzanne Richard (ed). Eisenbrauns:2020.
[HI:U3T] UR III Texts in the Schoyen Collection. Jacob Dahl. Eisenbrauns:2020.
[NS:SAR] Some Assembly Required--Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA. Neil Shubin. PantheonBooks:2020.
[NS:TEOP] The Edge of Physics--A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe. Anil Ananthaswamy. MarinerBooks:2011.
[NS:WHNI] We Have No Idea--A Guide to the Unknown Universe. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson. RiverheadBooks:2017.
[OT:DIVDOP] Divine Doppelgangers--YHWHs Ancient Look-Alikes. Collin Cornell (ed). Eisenbrauns:2020.
[WR:RDIA] Religious Diversity in Asia. Jorn Borup, MQ Fibiger, and L. Kuhle (eds). Brill:2020.

May 18/2020

[Many of these are in prep-research for an question of spousal abuse in OT/ANE times. Also, there are quite a number of Open Access books that I will be using and citing (in full, where used), but which are not listed in my BOOKS since I do not owne them.]

[HI:AITAL] An Introduction to Akkadian Literature: Contexts and Content. Alan Lenzi. Eisenbrauns:2019.
[HI:CICH] Christians in Caesar's Household: The Emperor's Slaves in the Makings of Christianity. Michael Flexsenhar III. PennStateUP:2019 (Kindle).
[NS:TGAE] The Genealogical Adam and Eve--The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry. S Joshua Swamidass. IVP:2019.
[WS:DVAWR] Domestic Violence an Women's Rights in Roman Egypt: The case of P. Oxy. VI.903. Katherine G Evans. TerraExpressions:2018. (kindle)
[WS:HM] Hebrew Marriage. David R Mace. WipfStock:1953.
[WS:JLA09MF] Physical and Sexual Violence by Husbands as a Reason for Imposing a Divorce in Jewish Law, in Jewish Law Annual Vol 9, pp145ff. Mordechai Frishtik. HarwoodAcademic:1991.
[WS:LAGINANE] Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. Ilan Peled. Routledge:2019. (kndle)
[WS:MAAC] Marriage as a Covenant--Biblical Law and Ethics as Developed from Malachi. Gordon P Hugenberger. WipfStock:1994.
[WS:MWFF] Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature. Judith R Baskin. BrandeisUP:2015. (kindle)
[WS:ROWIWAS] The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records, Brigitte Lion and Cecile Michel (eds). DeGruyter:2016. (kindle)
[WS:SID] Silence is Deadly--Judaism Confronts Wifebeating. Naomi Graetz. JasonAronson:1998.
[WS:UTG] Unlocking the Garden: A Feminist Jewish Look at the Bible, Midrash and God. Naomi Graetz. Gorgias:2005.

Jan 29/2020

[HI:ATNT] After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity 100-300 CE 2nd ED. Bart Ehrman. OxfordUP:2015.
[HI:FAHR] Family and Household Religion: Toward a Synthesis of Old Testament Studies, Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Cultural Studies. R Albertz, B A Nakhai, S M Olyan and Rudiger Schmitt (eds). Eisenbrauns:2014.
[HI:FCCJI] Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam: Coericon and Faith in Premodern Iberia and Beyond. Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan (eds). Brill:2020.
[HI:FJ2C] From Jesus to Christianity. L Michael White. HarperOne:2004.
[HI:IPDA] Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antquity: Politico-Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Forms of Critical Conversation. George van Kooten and Jacques van Ruiten (eds). Brill:2019.
[HI:PHOEN] Phoenicia: Episodes and Anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean. J Brian Peckham. Eisenbrauns:2014.
[HI:RALHAM] Religion and Literature: History and Method. Eric Ziolkowski. Brill:2019.
[HI:WCWJ] When Christians were Jews: The First Generation. Paula Fredriksen. YaleUP:2018.
[NS:CAK] Centromeres and Kinetochores: Discovering the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Chromosome Inheritance. Ben E Black (ed). Springer:2017.
[NS:FAH] The Fool and the Heretic: How Two Scientists moved beyond Labels to a Christian Dialogue about Creation and Evolution. Todd Charles Wood and Darrel R Falk. Zondervan:2019.
[NS:ILS] Information and Living Systems: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives. George Terzis and Robert Arp (eds). MITpress:2011.
[NS:PSPDC] Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation. Michele Paolini Paoletti and Francesco Orilia (eds). Routledge:2017.
[NS:WBP] A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life. Stuart Kauffman.OxfordUP:2019.
[NT:CMHRG] Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels. Craig Keener. Eerdmans:2019.
[NT:GBTB] Gospels Before The Book. Matthew D C Larsen. OxfordUP:2018.
[NT:GL] God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts. Brent Nongbri. YaleUP:2018.
[NT:MAM] Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Texual Criticism. Elijah Hixson and Peter Gurry (eds). IVPacademic:2019.
[NT:PLPE] Pauline Language and the Pastoral Epistles: A Study of Linguistic Variation in the Corpus Paulinum. Jermo van Nes. Brill:2018.
[NT:TMOM] The Mirror or the Mask: Liberating the Gospels from Literary Devices. Lydia McGrew. DeWard:2019.
[OT:AKAF] A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire. Virginia Miller. Brill:2019.
[PH:MTB] More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion. Manuel A Vasquez. OxfordUP:2011.
[TH:C] Creation: Biblical Theologies in the Context of the Ancient Near East. Othmar Keel and Silvia Schroer, Peter Daniels (trans). Eisenbrauns:2015.
[TH:CCAB] Climate Change and the Bible. D W Holdridge. ChristianFaithPublishing:2019.
[TH:HOLR] The Handbook of Leaving Religion. Daniel Enstedt, Goran Larsson and Teemu Mantsinen (eds). Brill:2020.
[WR:CEQM] Corrections in Early Quran Manuscripts: Twenty Examples. Daniel Alan Brubaker. ThinkAndTellPress:2019.
[WR:TAS2N3V3] Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hija--Volume 3. Josef van Ess and Gwendolin Goldblum (trans). Brill:2018.
[WR:TAS2N3V4] Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hija--Volume 4. Josef van Ess and Gwendolin Goldblum (trans). Brill:2019.
[WR:WIR] Women in Religion. Mary Pat Fisher.PearsonLongman:2007.

Oct 6/2019

[HI:FOTB] Fighting Over the Bible--Jewish Interpretation, Sectarianism and Polemic from Temple to Talmud and Beyond. Isaac Kalimi. Brill:2017.
[HI:VAP] Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts. TM Lemos. OxfordUP:2017.
[NS:TCAR] The Case Against Reality -- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. Donald Hoffman. WWNorton:2019.
[NS:TE2] Transgenerational Epigenetics 2nd Ed. Trygve O Tollefsbol. Elsevier:2019.
[TH:TASBS] That All Shall Be Saved--Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation. David Bentley Hart. YaleUP:2019.
[WR:BAIEA] Buddhist Apologetics in East Asia--Countering the Neo-Confucian Critiques in the Hufa lun and the Yusok chirui non. Uri Kaplan. Brill:2019.
[WS:RTWOB] Reading the Women of the Bible--A New Interpretation of Their Stories. Tikva Frymer-Kensky. Schocken:2002 (Kindle).

July 28/2019

[HI:AES] Adam and Eve Story in the Hebrew Bible and in Ancient Jewish Writings Including the New Testament. Anti Laato and Lotta Valve (eds). Eisenbrauns:2016.
[HI:AESW] An Experienced Scribe Who Neglects Nothing: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Jacob Klein. Sefati, Artzi, Cohen, Eichler and Hurowitz (eds). CDLpress:2005.
[HI:BGR] Babylonia, The Gulf Region, and the Indus: Archaeological and Textual Evidence for Contact in the Third and Early Second Millennia BC. Steffen Laursen and Piotr Steinkeller. Eisenbrauns:2017.
[HI:DJE] Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer. Laurie Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch. CDLpress:2014.
[HI:EAFOS] Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context. Christopher Rollston (ed). Eisenbrauns:2018.
[HI:ENG2AKK] An English to Akkadian Companion to the Assyrian Dictionaries. Mark Cohen. CDLpress:2011.
[HI:EOAJ] The Economy of Ancient Judah in its Historical Context. Marvin Miller, Ehud Ben Zvi and Gary Knoppers (eds). Eisenbrauns:2015.
[HI:LOAAE] Life of Adam and Eve using Jewish Traditions and Confronting Gnostic Reversed Exegesis. Antti Laato and Lotta Valve (eds). PennStateUP:2019.
[HI:MIRT] Mesopotamian Incantations and Related Texts in the Schoyen Collection. AR George. CDLpress:2016.
[HI:NAS] Neo-Assyrian Specialists: Crafts, Offices, and other Professional Designations. Heather Baker. NeoAssyrianTextCorpusProject:2017.
[HI:NTOSL] New Treasures of Sumerian Literature: When the Moon Fell From the Sky and Other Works. Mark E Cohen. CDLpress:2017.
[HI:OBT] Old Babylonian Texts in the Schoyen Collecton: Part 2 - School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts. AR George and Gabriella Spada. Eisenbrauns:2019.
[HI:SALD] Sumerian Administrative and Legal Documents ca 2900-2200 BC in the Schoyen Collection. Vitali Bartash. CDLpress:2017.
[HI:SK] Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East. Anne Porter and Glenn Schwartz (eds). Eisenbrauns:2012.
[HI:SLT] Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schoyen Collection, Vol 1 - Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion. Christopher Metcalf. Eisenbrauns:2019.
[NS:EG] Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts, Analysis, and Practice. Glenn-Peter Sætre and Mark Ravient. OxfordUP:2019.
[NT:SOC] Signs of Continuity: The Function of Miracles in Jesus and Paul. Greg Rhodea. Eisenbrauns:2019.
[OT:CIC2] Cuneiform in Canaan: The Next Generation, 2nd Ed. Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima, and Seth Sanders (eds). Eisenbrauns:2018.
[OT:DADBOG] Doubling and Duplicating in the Book of Genesis: Literary and Stylistic Approaches to the Text. Elizabeth Hayes and Karolien Vermeulen (eds). Eisenbrauns:2016.
[OT:FA2C] From Author to Copyist: Essays on the Composition, Redaction, and Transmission of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Zipi Talshir. Cana Werman (ed). Eisenbrauns:2015.
[OT:IOO] Images of Others: Iconic Politics in Ancient Israel. Nathaniel Levtow. Eisenbrauns:2008.
[OT:NSL] Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact. Bejamin Noonan. Eisenbrauns:2019.
[OT:WWVG] Wrestling with the Violence of God: Soundings in the Old Testament. M Daniel Carroll R and J Blair Wilgus (eds). Eisenbrauns:2015.
[TH:JBT] Jewish Bible Theology: Perspectives and Case Studies. Isaac Kalimi (ed). Eisenbrauns:2012.
[TH:PTS] Piercing the Shroud: Destabilizations of Evil. Rallie Murray and Stefanie Schnitzer Mills (eds). Brill:2019.
[TH:TLUC] The Law's Universal Condemning and Enslaving Power: Reading Paul, the Old Testament, and Second Temple Jewish Literature. Bryan Blazosky. Eisenbrauns:2019.
[TH:WITBAT] War in the Bible and Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. Richard Hesse and Elmer Martens (eds). Eisenbrauns:2008.
[WR:SMRACMD] Sacred Misinterpretation: Reaching Across the Christian-Muslim Divide. Martin Accad. Eerdmans:2019.
[WS:PLWPE] The Private Lives of Women in Persian Egypt. Annalisa Azzoni. Eisenbrauns:2013.

May 7/2019

[HI:DOTG] Destroyer of the Gods -- Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World. Larry Hurtado. BaylorUP:2016.
[HI:ELIEC] Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity. Katherine Shaner. OxfordUP:2018.
[HI:TPFEC] The Patient Ferment of the Early Church--The Improbable Rise of Christainity in the Roman Empire. Alan Kreider. BakerAcademic:2016.
[NS:LG12] Lewins Genes XII. Jocelyn Krebs, Elliott Goldstein, and Stephen Kilpatrick. JonesAndBartlettLearning:2018.
[NT:CSINT] Class Struggle in the New Testament. Robert Miles (ed). Fortress:2019.
[OT:TLWT] The Lost World of the Torah--Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context. Walton and Walton. IVPacademic:2019.
[PH:POPQT] Philosophy of Physics--Quantum Theory. Tim Maudlin. PrincetonUP:2019.
[PH:POPSAT] Philosophy of Physics--Space and Time. Tim Maudlin. PrincetonUP:2012.
[TH:RITU] Religion in the University. Nicholas Wolterstorff. YaleUP:2019.
[TH:SOG] Son of God--Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Garrick Allen, Kai Akagi, Paul Sloan, and Madhavi Nevader (eds). Eisenbrauns:2019.
[TH:TGOGAE] The Genesis of Good and Evil--The Fall(out) and Original Sin in the Bible. Mark Smith. WJK:2019.

March 17/2019

[CS:ARCS] Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy. Helen De Cruz and Ryan Nichols (eds). BloomsburyAcademic:2016.
[CS:BBSCRB] Born Believers: The Science of Children's Religious Belief. Justin Barrett. AtriaBooks:2012.
[CS:TBI] The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life. Jesse Bering. WWNorton:2012.
[CS:TROR] The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion. Justin Barrett and Roger Trigg. Routledge:2016.
[HI:TGOT] The Gospel of Thomas: Introduction and Commentary. Simon Gathercole. Brill:2014.
[NS:BH] Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture. Colin Renfrew and Iain Morley (eds). CambridgeUP:2009.
[NS:CG] Crumbling Genome: The Impact of Deleterious Mutations on Humans. Alexey Kondrashov. WileyBlackwell:2017.
[NS:CIE] Chance in Evolution. Grant Ramsey. UChicagoP:2016.
[NS:DD] Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA that Challenges Evolution. Michael Behe. HarperOne:2019.
[NS:DTE] Designed to Evolve: Discovering God through Modern Science. Christopher Davis. MotifPress:2015.
[NS:EAH] Evolution's Achilles' Heels. Robert Carter. CreationBooks:2014.
[NS:EASOQT] Evolution and Selection of Quantitative Traits. Bruce Walsh and Michael Lynch. OxfordUP:2018.
[NS:EHNU] Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution. Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day. PrincetonUP:2018.
[NS:ENO] Epigenetics, Nuclear Organization and Gene Function--with implications of epigenetic regulation and genetic architecture for human development and health. John Lucchesi. OxfordUP:2019.
[NS:EPOE] Epigenetic Principles of Evolution (2nd ed). Nelson Cabej. AcademicPress:2018.
[NS:GE] Genetic Entropy (4th ed). John Sanford. FMSpubs:2015.
[NS:MPG] Molecular Population Genetics. Matthew Hahn. OxfordUP:2019.
[NS:SITC] Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design. Stephen Meyer. HarperOne:2009.
[NS:TLOC] The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution. Eugene Koonin. FTpress:2012.
[NS:TOOGA] The Origins of Genome Architecture. Michael Lynch. OxfordUP:2018.
[NS:WRINASIN] Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not. Robert McCauley. OxfordUP:2011.
[NS:WWA] Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past. David Reich.PantheonBooks:2018.
[NT:SHSG] Scribal Harmonizations in the Synoptic Gospels. Cambry Pardee. Brill:2019.
[OT:THBTC3] The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary 3 vols. Robert Alter. WWNorton:2018.
[PS:AMAP] A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Modern Age. Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman. SimonSchuster:2017.
[PS:CAGT] Complexity: A Guided Tour. Melanie Mitchell.OxfordUP:2009.
[PS:DMP2G] Does Mathematics Point to God? Vignettes from an ex-Atheist Scientist. John Kinson. CreateSpace:2016.
[PS:EIO] Entropy and Information Optics: Connecting Information and Time (2nd ed). Francis T S Yu. CRC Press:2017.
[PS:ITTI] Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction. James Stone. SebtelPress:2018.
[PS:Sync] Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life. Steven Strogatz. Hachette:2012.
[TH:PUSM] Physicians Untold Stories: Miraculous experiences etc. Scott Kolbaba. CreateSpace:2016.
[TH:TPG] Trauma Plus Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World (2nd ed). Serene Jones. WJK:2019.
[WR:HOTA] Heirs of the Apostles: Studies on Arabic Christianity in Honor of Sidney H Griffith. Bertaina, Keating, Swanson and Treiger (eds). Brill:2019.
[WR:PDEAG] Probing the Depths of Evil and Good: Multireligious Views and Case Studies. Jerald Gort, Henry Jansen and Hendrik Vroom (eds). Rodopi:2007.
[WR:TQTB] The Quran and The Bible: Text and Commentary. Gabriel Said Reynolds. YaleUP:2018.
[WR:WRAF] World Religions at Your Fingertips. Michael McDowell and Nathan Robert Brown. AlphaBooks:2009.

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