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 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, and most of 1995 books. I have added a small Resources on Christian Truth Claims, as well.]

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

Recommended books in 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)

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.

Nov 12/2007

[OT:AIIS] Ancient Israel in Sinai: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Wilderness Tradition. James K Hoffmeier. OUP:2005.
[WR:UFI] The Unseen Face of Islam--Sharing the gospel with ordinary Muslims at street level. Bill Musk. MonarchBooks:2003 (rev.ed)
[TH:SAC] Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics. Jeannine K Brown. Baker:2007.
[WR:WPOI] Waging Peace on Islam. Christine A Malloughi. IVP:2000.
[WR:ECH] Encyclopedia of the Canonical Hadith. GHA Juynboll. Brill:2007.
[TH:LFCE] Light from the Christian East; An Introduction to the Orthodox Tradition. James R Payton. IVP:2007.
[OT:JUS] Joel's Use of Scripture and the Scripture's Use of Joel: Appropriation and Resignification in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. John Strazicich. Brill:2007.

Sep 13/2007

[HI:LON] The Libraries of the Neoplatonists. Cristina D'Anona (ed). Brill:2007.
[OT:CIC] Cuneiform in Canaan: Cuneiform Sources from the Land of Israel in Ancient Times. Wayne Horowitz and Takayoshi Oshima, with Seth Sanders. Israel Exploration Society:2006.
[HI:BIB] Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean Setting. M. Stol with F.A.M. Wiggermann. Styx:2000.
[HI:TALIISC] The Akkadian Language in its Semitic Context--Studies in the Akkadian of the Third and Second Millennium BC. G Deutscher and NJC Kouwenberg (eds). NederlandsInstituutVoorHetNabijeOosten:2006.
[HI:LAB] The Limits of Ancient Biography. Brian McGing and Judith Mossman (eds). ClassicalPressOfWales:2006.
[HI:LWMAI] Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present. Carol Poster and Linda C Mitchell (eds). USCarolina:2007.
[HI:NTECLGRC] The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E Aune. John Fotopoulos (ed). Brill:2006.
[NT:MT] Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus. Timothy Paul Jones. IVP:2007.
[NT:TJL] The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition. Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory A Boyd. Baker:2007.
[HI:TMEJC] The Messiah in Early Judaism and Christianity. Magnus Zetterholm (ed). Fortress:2007.
[TH:MGOI] Metaphysics and the God of Israel: Systematic Theology of the Old and New Testaments. Neil B MacDonald. Baker/Paternoster:2006.
[HI:DIERL] Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature: A Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays. Simcha Fishbane. Brill:2007.
[HI:WTNP] The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Adam H Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed (eds). Fortress:2007.
[OT:EANEL] Early Ancient Near Eastern Law: A History of Its Beginnings--The Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods (rev.ed). Claus Wilke. Eisenbrauns:2007.
[OT:WOG] The Writing of Gods: The Evolution of Divine Classifiers in the Old Kingdom. Racheli Shalomi-Hen. HarrassowitzVerlag:2006.
[HI:WOTTOH] Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature. David M Carr. OUP:2005.
[HI:JITT] Jesus in the Talmud. Peter Schafer. PrincetonUP:2007.
[NT:ENC] Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke. C Kavin Rowe. WalterDeGruyter:2006.
[OT:TLOAS] The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson and Gabor Zolyomi (trans/intro). OUP:2004.
[TH:HVS] A High View of Scripture? The Authority of the Bible and the Formation of the New Testament Canon. Craig D Allert. Baker:2007.
[TH:PAH] Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets. Christopher R Seitz. Baker:2007.
[WR:BAQQI] The Bible and the Quran: A Question of Integrity. Steven Masood. Authentic:2001.
[WR:MOTW] Masters of the Word: Traditional Jewish Bible Commentary from the First Through Tenth Centuries (vol 1). Yanatan Kolatch. KTAV:2006.
[WR:QAT] The Quran as Text. Stefan Wild (ed). Brill:1996.
[WR:DOI] A Dictionary of Islam. Thomas Patrick Hughes. AsianEducationalServices/LaurierPublications: 1996 (reprint of 1885).
[WR:CBM] The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon. Jonathan Brown. Brill:2007.
[WR:CAAAP] Christian Arabic Apologetics during the Abbasid Period (750-1258). Samir Khalil Samir and Jorgen S Nielsen (eds). Brill:1994.

Aug 19/2007

[WR:JOI] The Jews of Islam. Bernard Lewis. Princeton:1984.
[WR:HOCMR] A History of Christian-Muslim Relations. Hugh Goddard. NewAmsterdamBooks:2000.
[WR:IAOF] Islam and Other Faiths. Ismail Raji al-Faruqi, Ataullah Siddiqui (ed). IslamicFoundation:1998.
[WR:QABLHS] The Quran and the Bible in the Light of History and Science. William F Campbell. MiddleEastResources:n.d.
[WR:GOB] The Gospel of Barnabas. David Sox. GeorgeAllenUnwin:1984.
[WR:TOI] The Traditions of Islam. Alfred Guillaume. AyerCoPublishers:1987 (reprint of 1966 copy of 1924 OUP work).
[WR:AMIHM] And Muhammed is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety. Annemarie Schimmel. UnorthCarolina:1985.
[WR:IIOC] Islamic Interpretations of Christianity. Lloyd Ridgeon (ed). StMartinsPress:2001.
[TH:JOBW] The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes. James Alison. HerderHerderCrossroad:1998.
[PH:TDD] The Dawkins Delusion: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. Alister and Joanna Collicutt McGrath. IVP:2007.
[HI:JBIJ] Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries. Oskar Sharsaune and Reidar Hvalvik (eds). Hendrickson:2007.

Jul 22nd/2007

[WR:SM] Sahih Muslim (4 vols). Imam Muslim , Abdul Hamid Siddiqi (trans). Kitab Bhavan:2000.
[WR:SB] The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Al-Bukhari: Arabic-English 9 Vol Set. Muhammed Muhsin Khan (trans). Darussalam:1997.
[WR:SOOUIH] Studies on the Origins and Uses of Islamic Hadith. G H A Juynboll. Variorum:1996.
[WR:SIEHL] Studies in Early Hadith Literature, with a Critical Edition of Some Early Texts. Muhammad Mustafa al-A'zami. AmericanTrustPubs/IslamicBookTrust:1978/2000.
[WR:COQ] The Collection of the Quran. John Burton. CambridgeUP:1977.
[WR:MAFDI] Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam--a Reader. Mansoor Moaddel and Kamran Talattof (eds). Palgrave/MacMillan:2000.
[WR:ICACIMW2] Islam--Continuity and Change in the Modern World (2nd ed). John Obert Voll. SyracuseUP:1994.
[WR:MOCI] Makers of Contemporary Islam. John Esposito and John Voll. OxfordUP:2001.
[NT:AIALC] Acts in Its Ancient Literary Context: A Classicist Looks at the Acts of the Apostles. Loveday C A Alexander. TTClark:2005.

Jul 3rd/2007

[WR:HAI] Historical Atlas of Islam. Malise Ruthven with Azim Nanji. Harvard:2004.
[WR:HAIW] Historical Atlas of Islamic World. David Nicolle. MercuryBooks:2004.
[WR:RLSAP] The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Religion, learning and science in the Abbasid period. MJL Young, JD Latham and RB Serjeant (eds). CambridgeUP:1990.
[HI:HOJA] A History of the Jews of Arabia--From Ancient Times to Their Eclipse Under Islam. Gordon Darnell Newby. UnivSCarolinaPress:1988.
[HI:CAAPIT] Christianity Among the Arabs in Pre-Islamic Times. J Spencer Trimingham. LibrairieDuLiban:1990.
[WR:SILN] Spirituality in the Land of the Noble: How Iran Shaped the World's Religions. Richard Foltz. OxfordOneWorld:2004.
[WR:SIAOSI] Seeing Islam as Others Saw It--A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam. Robert Hoyland. Darwin:1997.
[WR:IW] Intertwined Worlds: Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism. Hava Lazarus-Yafeh. PrincetonUP:1992.
[HI:COTS] The Commerce of the Sacred: Mediation of the Divine among Jews of the Graeco-Roman Diaspora. Jack N Lightstone. ScholarsPress:1984.
[HI:DIA] Diasporas in Antiquity. Shaye Cohen and Ernest Frerichs (eds). ScholarsPress:1993
[HI:SSAERB] Sages, Stories, Authors, and Editors in Rabbinic Babylonia. Richard Kalmin. ScholarsPress:1994.
[CS:CHC] The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, and Evan Thompson (eds). CambridgeUP:2007.
[NT:PMG] The Problem of Markan Genre: The Gospel of Mark and the Jewish Novel. Michael E Vines. SBL:2002.
[HI:SALW] Studies in Ancient Letter Writing. John L White (ed). SBL:1982.
[PH:NIML] A New Introduction to Modal Logic. GE Hughes and MJ Cresswell. Routledge:1996.
[WR:GR] God's Rivals--Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Gerald R McDermott. IVP:2007.
[HI:JCR] Jewish Christianities Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts. Matt Jackson-McCabe. Fortress:2007.
[NT:TPG] Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels. Morton Smith. SBL:1951.
[HI:RTCI] Revelation, Truth, Canon and Interpretation: Studies in Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho. Craig D Allert. Brill:2002.
[HI:RIEL] Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism and Early Christianity (Expanded Edition). George Nickelsburg. Harvard:2006.
[TH:TGWR2] The God Who Risks--A Theology of Divine Providence (revised edition). John Sanders. IVP:2007 (2nd ed).
[WR:FMT] The Flowering of Muslim Theology. Josef van Ess. HarvardUP:2006.
[WR:JIHL] Journeys in Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegesis. Reuven Firestone. SUNY:1990.
[WR:EOB] The Eye of the Beholder: The Life of Muhammad as viewed by the early Muslims--a Textual Analysis. Uri Rubin. Darwin/Princeton:1995.
[WR:SBI] The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books. Khaled Abou El Fadl. RowmanLittlefield:2006.

April 18/2007

[WR:MAGB] Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Reconstructing Arabian Myth. Jaroslav Stetkevych. IndianaUP:1996.
[WR:HAL] A History of Arabic Literature. Clement Huart. GoodwordBooks:2001(1903).
[WR:ALEUP] The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Arabic Literature to the End of Umayyad Period. Beeston, Johnstone, Sejeant, and GR Smith (eds). CambridgeUP:193.
[WR:BPQML] Biblical Prophets in the Quran and Muslim Literature. Roberto Tottoli. Curzon:2002.
[WR:SCUI] Syrian Christians Under Islam--The First Thousand Years. David Thomas (ed). Brill:2001.
[WR:IVJ] The Islamic View of Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him). Ibn Kathir. IslamicBookService:2003(ed).
[WR:MTRI] Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Patricia Crone. Gorgias:2004.
[WR:NGBG] No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Reza Aslan. RandomHouse:2005/2006.
[WR:RVIL] Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law. Khaled Abou El Fadl. CambridgeUP:2001.
[WR:NIO] Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing. Fred M Donner. DarwinPress:1998.
[WR:MTOTQ] Major Themes of the Quran (2nd ed). Fazlur Rahman. BibliothecaIslamica:1992.
[WR:HOTP] Heirs of the Prophet: Charisma and Religious Authority in Shiite Islam. Liyakat N Takim. SUNY:2006.
[TH:IWG] It was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God (rev/expanded). Ned Bustard (ed). SquareHaloBooks:2006.
[HI:50JM] 50 Jewish Messiahs. Jerry Rainbow. Gefen:2002.
[NT:EE1C] The Educated Elite in 1 Corinthians--Education and Community Conflict in Graeco-Roman Context. Robert S Dutch. TTClark:2005.
[NS:CREET] The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo. Ron Amundson. CambridgeUP:2005.
[NS:HEP] Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. David M Buss (ed). JohnWiley:2005.
[PH:ML] Modal Logic. Patrick Blackburn, Maarten de Rijke, and Yde Venema. CambridgeUP:2001.
[PH:CDE] Contemporary Debates in Epistemology. Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa (eds). Blackwell:2005.
[TH:ATMAR] Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities. Roger E Olson. IVPacademic:2006.
[PH:PMF] Philosophical Myths of the Fall. Stephen Mulhall. PrincetonUP:2005.
[TH:TMWC] The Meanings We Choose: Hermeneutical Ethics, Indeterminacy, and The Conflict of Interpretations. Charles Cosgrove (ed). TTClark:2004.
[NT:SLJAP] Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul. Chalice:2005.
[HI:SCS4MACC] Septuagint Commentary Series: 4 Maccabees. David A deSilva. Brill:2006.
[HI:SCSGEN] Septuagint Commentary Series: Genesis. Susan Brayford. Brill:2007.
[WS:WIDD] Women in the Damascus Document. Cecilia Wassen. SBL:2005.
[HI:FJTC5] Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary (vol 5). Christopher Begg and Paul Spilsbury, Steve Mason (ed). Brill:2005.
[WR:DEEI] The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the Formative Period. Herbert Berg. RoutledgeCruzon:2000.
[WR:MTSIO] Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins. Herbert Berg (ed). Brill:2003.
[TH:TSST] Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology. Paul Louis Metzger (ed). TTClark:2005.
[HI:F4QMMT] From 4QMMT to Resurrection. FG Martinez, A Steudel, and E Tigchelaar (eds). Brill:2006.
[HI:BDSS1] The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls (vol 1): Scripture and Scrolls. James Charlesworth (ed). BaylorUP:2006.
[HI:BDSS2] The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls (vol 2): The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran Community. James Charlesworth (ed). BaylorUP:2006.
[HI:BDSS3] The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls (vol 3): The Scrolls and Christian Origins. James Charlesworth (ed). BaylorUP:2006.

Mar 7, 2007

[HI:FAHJC] Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity. Annette Yoshiko Reed. CambridgeUP:2005.
[NT:OTRELA] On the Road Encounters in Luke-Acts: Hellenistic Mimesis and Luke's Theology of the Way. Octavian D. Baban. Paternoster:2006.
[HI:TAFE] The Apostolic Fathers in English (3rd ed). Michael Holmes. Baker:2006.
[HI:IASS] Ignatius of Antioch and the Second Sophistic. Allen Brent. MohrSiebeck:2006.
[WR:AJOJ4] Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, vol 4: New Testament Objections. Michael Brown. Baker:2007.
[NT:JLW1] Jesus' Last Week: Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels - Volume One. Steven Notley, Marc Turnage, and Brian Becker (eds). Brill:2006.
[HI:HEBL] Harper's Encyclopedia of Bible Life. Madeline and J Lane Miller. Castle:1996.
[HI:RPRLDSS] Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Steven Fraade, Aharon Shemesh, and Ruth Clements (eds). Brill:2006.
[OT:GBH] A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. Paul Jouon and T Muraoka. EditricePontificioIstitutoBiblico(Roma):2006.
[WR:TSTM] The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate. Wilferd Madelung. CambridgeUP:1997.
[WR:BIAC] The Bible in Arabic Christianity. David Thomas (ed). Brill:2007.
[WR:FVQ] The Foreign Vocabulary of the Quran. Arthur Jeffery with preface by Bowering and McAuliffe. Brill:2007.
[WR:IOTB] Ishmael on the Border: Rabbinic Portrayals of the First Arab. Carol Bakhos. SUNY:2006.

Jan 15, 2007

[NT:FJ] Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels. Craig Evans. IVP:2006.
[HI:LADIEJ] Life after Death in Early Judaism: The Evidence of Josephus. CD Elledge. MohrSiebeck:2006.
[HI:BGME] Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch. Russell E Gmirkin. TnTClark:2006.
[HI:VAG] Voting About God in Early Church Councils. Ramsay MacMullen. Yale:2006.
[HI:FAMRE] Fairs and Markets in the Roman Empire: Economic and Social Aspects of Periodic Trade in a Pre-Industrial Society. L de Ligt. Gieben(Amsterdam):1993.
[HI:SANIN] A Synopsis of the Apocryphal Nativity and Infancy Narratives. JK Elliot. Brill:2006.
[HI:BNPCAW] Brills New Pauly, Supplements I, Chronologies of the Ancient World. Walter Eder and Johannes Renger (eds). Brill:2007.
[WR:MWJHB] Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm. Camilla Adang. Brill:1997.
[WR:QII2] The Quran and Its Interpreters, vol II, The House of Imran. Mahmoud Ayoub. SUNY:1992.
[WR:UTQTAS] Understanding the Quran: Themes and Style. Muhammed Adbel Haleem. IBTaurus:1999.
[WR:DTQ] Discovering the Quran: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text, 2nd edition. Neal Robertson. GeorgetownUP:2003.
[WR:QUG] The Quran: A Users Guide. Farid Esack. Oneworld:2005.
[WR:VI] The Vision of Islam. Sachiko Murata and William Chittick. ParagonHouse:1994.
[WR:RTIMIT] Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought. Daniel Brown. CambridgeUP:1996.
[WR:KC] Kissing Cousins? Christians and Muslims Face to Face. Bill Musk. Monarch:2005.
[WR:OW] Oil and Water: Two Faiths--One God. Amir Hussain. Copperhouse:2006.
[WR:AGQE] Arabic Grammar and Quranic Exegesis in Early Islam. CHM Versteegh. Brill:1993.
[WR:EECEI] The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam. Grypeou, Swanson, and Thomas (eds). Brill:2006.
[WR:Abe] The Making of a Forefather: Abraham in Islamic and Jewish Exegetical Narratives. Shari Lowin. Brill:2006.
[WR:DTPT] Defending the People of the Truth in the Early Islamic Period: The Christian Apologies of Abu Raitah. Sandra Toenies Keating. Brill:2006.
[WR:CIC] Christ in Islam and Christianity. Neal Robinson. SUNY:1991.

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