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 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 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)!

Dec 11/2020

[CST:YANYB] You are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution. Jeffrey Schwartz and Rebecca Gladding. PenguinAvery:2011.
[HI:CIMW] Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World, 2nd Ed. John Granger Cook. MohrSiebeck:2019.
[HI:CTI2CR] Christian Teachers in Second-Century Rome: Schools and Students in the Ancient City. H Gregory Snyder (ed). Brill:2020.
[HI:EOBABLR] Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion. I Tzvi Abush. Brill:2020.
[HI:JATCH] Jesus and the Constraints of History: Bampton Lectures 1980, A. E. Harvey, Duckworth:1982 .
[HI:MACIGRA] Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Matthew V Novenson (ed). Brill:2020.
[HI:TAIHJ] Theios Aner in Hellenistic Judaism: A Critique of the Use of This Category in New Testament Christology. Carl R Holladay. SBL:1977.
[HI:TIOT] The Interpretation of the Old Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism. John Granger Cook. MohrSiebeck:2004.
[NS:ICA2] Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective, 2nd ed. Brian M Howell and Jenell Williams Paris. BakerAcademic:2019.
[NT:JSOTGP6] Gospel Perspectives: The Miracles of Jesus, Vol 6. David Wenham and Craig Blomberg (eds.). JSOTpress:1986 (purchased copy of NT:JSOTGP6).
[NT:TGTBF] Too Good to Be False: How Jesus Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality. Tom Gilson. DeWard:2020.
[PH:PSDA] Philosophy, Science and Divine Action. F LeRon Shults, Nancey Murphy and Robert John Russell (eds). Brill:2009.
[TH:1BLOOD] One Blood--Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love. John Perkins with Karen Waddles. Moody:2018.
[TH:AG] Another Gospel? A lifelong Christian seeks truth in response to progressive Christianity. Alisa Childers. TyndaleMomentum:2020.
[TH:DF] Demonic Foes: My 25 years as a psychiatrist investigating possessions, diabolic attacks, and the paranormal. Richard Gallagher MD. HarperOne:2020.
[TH:JF] Just Faith--Reclaiming Progressive Christianity. Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons. Broadleaf:2020.
[TH:PROV] Providence: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Account. Mark W Elliott. BakerAcademic:2020.
[TH:TCB] The Cosmic Breath: Spirit and Nature in the Christianity-Buddhism-Science Trialogue. Amos Yong. Brill:2012.

Nov 28/2020

[HI:HOHW] Harlot or Holy Woman? A Study of Hebrew Qedesah. Phyllis Bird. Eisenbrauns:2019.
[HI:RATC] Roman Attitudes Towards the Christians--From Claudius to Hadrian. John Granger Cook. MohrSiebeck:2010. (Only PDF available)
[NS:B1STL] Biology's First Law--The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems. Daniel McShea and Robert Brandon. 2010.
[NS:CE_ISXES] Cambridge Elements--Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb. CambridgeUP:2020.
[NS:CE_M23RDS] Cambridge Elements--The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory. Robert Brandon and Daniel McShea. CambridgeUP:2020.
[NS:CE_MIMB] Cambridge Elements--Mechanisms in Molecular Biology. Tudor M Baetu. CambridgeUP:2019.
[NS:CE_POI] Cambridge Elements--Philosophy of Immunology. Thomas Pradeu. CambridgeUP:2019.
[NS:CE_RAM] Cambridge Elements--Reduction and Mechanism. Alex Rosenber. CambridgeUP:2020.
[NS:CE_TDA] Cambridge Elements--The Design Argument. Elliott Sober. CambridgeUP:2019.
[NS:CE_TROM] Cambridge Elements--The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory. Jun Otsuka. CambridgeUP:2019.
[NS:FM2L] From Matter to Life--Information and Causality. Sara Walker, Paul Davies and George Ellis (eds). CambridgeUP:2017.
[NS:GAAQT] Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits. Michael Lynch and Bruce Walsh. SinauerAsso:1998. [I already had the follow-on 2nd in the trilogy.]
[NS:RWII] Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters. Christian Smith. PrincetonUP:2017 (kindle).
[NS:SBAS] Science, Belief and Society: International Perspectives on Religion, Non-Religion and the Public Understanding of Science. Rebatta Catto, Stephen Jones and Tom Kaden (eds). BristolUP:2019. (kindle).
[NS:TDITM] The Demon in the Machine --How hidden webs of information are solving the mystery of life. Paul Davies. Penguin:2019.
[NS:TMOC] The Miracle of the Cell. Michael Denton. DiscoveryInstitute:2020.
[OT:JTJ] Judging the Judges--A Narrative Appraisal Analysis. Mary L Conway. Eisenbrauns:2020.
[OT:TOJX] A Theology of Justice in Exodus. Nathan Bills. Eisenbrauns:2020.
[PH:CE_AAA] Cambridge Elements--Atheism and Agnosticism. Graham Oppy. CambridgeUP:2018.
[PH:CE_COE2R] Cambridge Elements--The Challenge of Evolution to Religion. Johan De Smedt and Helen De Cruz. CambridgeUP:2020.
[PH:CE_GSML] Cambridge Elements--God, Soul and the Meaning of Life. Thaddeus Metz. CambridgeUP:2019.
[PH:CE_MACA] Cambridge Elements--Monotheism and Contemporary Atheism. Michael Ruse. CambridgeUP:2019.
[PS:ITOCS] Introduction to The Theory of Complex Systems. Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel and Peter Klimek. OxfordUP:2018.
[WR:2NDCAN] The Second Canonization of the Quran (324/936)--Ibn Mujahid and the Founding of the Seven Readings. Shady Nasser. Brill:2021.
[WR:CE_BAM] Cambridge Elements--Buddhism and Monotheism. Peter Harvey. CambridgeUP:2020.
[WR:CE_HM] Cambridge Elements--Hindu Monotheism. Gavin Flood. CambridgeUP:2020.
[WR:CE_MARD] Cambridge Elements--Monotheism and Religious Diversity. Roger Trigg. CambridgeUP:2020.
[WR:CE_MHIG] Cambridge Elements--Monotheism and Hope in God. William Wainwright. CambridgeUP:2020.
[WR:EIHT] Essays in Hindu Theology. Anantanand Rambachan. Fortress:2019, also in Kindle,

Oct 28/2020

[CS:AOTS] Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections between neuroscience and spiritual practices. Curt Thompson. Tyndale:2010.
[HI:JATM] Jesus and the Manuscripts: What we can learn from the Oldest Texts. Craig Evans. HendricksonAcademic:2020.
[HI:MBTICC] Middle Babylonian Texts in the Cornell Collection, Part 2 The Earlier Kings. Elena Devecchi. Eisenbrauns:2020.
[NS:HORAH] Handbook of Religion and Health, 2nd Ed. Harold Koenig, Dana King, and Verna Benner Carson. OxfordUP:2012.
[NS:RAMH] Religion and Mental Health: Research and Clinical Applications. Harold G Koenig. ElsevierAcademic:2018.
[NS:SAHR] Spirituality and Health Research: Methods, Measurement, Statistics and Resources. Harold G Koenig. Templeton:2011.
[OT:RCX] Reconsidering Creation Ex Nihilo in Genesis I. Nathan J Chambers. Eisenbrauns:2020.
[PS:AL] Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange World of Particle Physics. Jon Butterworth. TheExperiment:2018.
[TH:GM] George MacDonald. C S Lewis. HarperOne:1946/1973.
[TH:TF] Toxic Faith: Experiencing Healing from Painful Spiritual Abuse. Stephen Arterburn and Jack Felton. WaterbrookPress:2001.
[TH:WGWAY] When God Winks At You: How God Speaks Directly to You Through the Power of Coincidence. Squire Rushnell. ThomasNelson:2006.
[WR:HTDE] The Hindu Temple--Deification of Eroticism. Alain Danielou. InnerTraditions:2001.
[WR:MAGI] The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic work on Hindu Polytheism. Alain Danielou. BolligenFoundation-InnerTraditions: 1964,1991.
[WR:RIHH] Religion in Hip Hop: Mapping the New Terrain in the US. MONICA MILLER, ANTHONY PINN AND BERNARD "BUN B" FREEMAN, eds. BloomsburyPublishing(Kindle): 2015.
[WR:SS] Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions: Guy L Beck ed. WilfridLaurierUP:2006.
[WR:TVRQ] The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Quran: The Problem of Tawatur and the Emergence of Shawadhdh. Shady Hekmat Nasser. Brill:2013.

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 Archaeology--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 a 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 own 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 and 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. (kindle)
[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: Coericion 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 Antiquity: 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 Textual 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.

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