New Books and Media Received (November 2021)

The following Books (68 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgetary funds and expense accounts, and by donation in November 2021.

Seminary Library

History
Excavations in the City of David, Jerusalem (1995-2010): areas A, J, F, H, D and L:  final report, 2021.

Language and Literature
Reading German for theological studies: a grammar and reader, 2021.

Voice and mood: a linguistic approach, 2021.

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
1 & 2 Thessalonians by Nijay K. Gupta, 2019.

2 Corinthians by Judith A. Diehl, Tremper Longman, Scot McKnight, 2020.

The acts of the early church councils: production and character, 2021.

Adam and Eve story in Jewish, Christian and Islamic perspectives, 2017.

Adam and Eve story in the Hebrew Bible and in ancient Jewish writings including the New Testament, 2016.

Christology in Mark’s gospel: 4 views, 2021.

A church called Tov: forming a goodness culture that resists abuses of power and promotes healing, 2020.

Ephesians by Michael Allen, 2020.

Every leaf, line, and letter: evangelicals and the Bible from the 1730s to the present, 2021.

The first letter of Peter: a global commentary, 2020.

Four portraits, one Jesus: a survey of Jesus and the Gospels, 2020.

Genesis: history, fiction, or neither?:  three views on the Bible’s earliest chapters, 2015.

The hope of Israel: the resurrection of Christ in the Acts of the Apostles, 2020.

The image of God in the theology of Gregory of Nazianzus, 2019.

Jonah: God’s scandalous mercy, 2019.

Mark by Timothy G. Gombis, Tremper Longman, Scot McKnight, 2021.

Nemesius of Emesa on human nature: a cosmopolitan anthropology from Roman Syria, 2021.

Recapturing an enchanted world: ritual and sacrament in the Free Church tradition, 2020.

Rhetoric and religious identity in late antiquity, 2020.

The scandal of the gospel: preaching and the grotesque, 2021.

A theology of Paul and his letters: the gift of the new realm in Christ, 2021.

To think Christianly: a history of l’abri, Regent College, and the Christian study center movement., 2021.

Traumatized by religious abuse: Discover the cultures and systems of religious abuse and reclaim your personal power, 2019.

Why did Jesus live a perfect life?: the necessity of Christ’s obedience for our salvation, 2021.

Worship and the world to come: exploring Christian hope in contemporary worship, 2020.

Yahweh before Israel: glimpses of history in a divine name, 2021.

New Testament Seminar
Exegesis and history of reception: reading the New Testament today with the readers of the past, 2021.

The Gospel of Matthew in its historical and theological context: papers from the international conference in Moscow, September 24 to 28, 2018, 2021.

Haggadah in early Judaism and the New Testament, 2021.

Sexuality and gender: collected essays, 2021.

Signs and discourses in John 5 and 6: historical, literary, and theological readings from the Colloquium Ioanneum 2019 in Eisenach, 2021.

Reference
Gregorii Nysseni De oratione dominica, De Beatitudinibus, 1992. (BR65 .G73 v. 7 pt. 2)

Gregorii Nysseni opera dogmatica minora, 1958. (BR65 .G73 v. 3 pt. 1)

Gregorii Nysseni Sermones, 1990. (BR65 .G73 v.10 p.1)

Welshimer Library

Art
An atlas of anatomy for artists, 1957.

Ivan Lendl: Alfons Mucha: the Ivan Lendl Collection of Alfons Mucha, 2013.

Louise Fili: inspiration and process in design, 2021.

Titian’s touch: art, magic and philosophy, 2019.

Verrocchio, sculptor and painter of Renaissance Florence, 2021.

Education
Learning to teach in an era of privatization: global trends in teacher preparation, 2019.

Language and Literature
The bell jar, 1996.

Black metaphors: how modern racism emerged from medieval race-thinking, 2021.

Empire of letters: writing in Roman literature and thought from Lucretius to Ovid, 2019.

Foundation, 2004.

Foundation and empire, 2020.

Second foundation, 1953.

Medicine
A guide to transgender health: state-of-the-art information for gender-affirming people and their supporters, 2019.

Handbook of clinical skills, 2020.

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
Developmental cascades: building the infant mind, 2020.

How to read the Bible for all its worth, 2014.

Imagining Judeo-Christian America: religion, secularism, and the redefinition of democracy, 2019.

Supremacy of love: an agape-centered vision of aristotelian virtue ethics, 2021.

Photography
Documentary photography reconsidered: history, theory and practice, 2019. 

Science
Collecting experiments: making Big Data biology, 2019.

Social Sciences
Alternative energy: political, economic, and social feasibility, 2020.

Melting pot, multiculturalism, and interculturalism: the making of majority… -minority relations in the United States, 2021.

Sports
Understanding esports: an introduction to the global phenomenon, 2021. 

Reference
Daniel (Revised Edition) by John Goldingay, 2019.

Mercer dictionary of the Bible, 1991.

Scores
The Singer’s musical theatre anthology: a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type, Tenor, Volume 2, 1993.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
Answers to unanswered questions of life and religion.

Caves of the North Cumberland Plateau.

Enacting theology, Americanism, and friendship : the 1837 debate on Roman Catholicism between Alexander Campbell and Bishop John Purcell.

Magnificent journey.

Tales from the crypt [DVD].

 

New Books and Media Received (October 2021)

The following Books (102 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgetary funds and expense accounts, and by donation in October 2021.

Seminary Library

Education
The common school awakening: religion and the transatlantic roots of American public education, 2020.

History
A short history of Christian Zionism: from the Reformation to the twenty-first century, 2021. 

Language and Literature
Basics of Arabic: a complete grammar, workbook, and lexicon, 2021.

Handbook of reading theological German, 2021. 

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
1 Peter: a commentary by Craig S. Keener, 2021.

100 great Bible mysteries: digging deep for revelation knowledge, 2003.

7 deadly sins of women in leadership: overcome self-defeating behavior in work and ministry, 2021.

Acts: an exegetical commentary by Craig S. Keener, 2012.

The Beatitudes through the ages, 2021.

Biblia Americana: America’s first Bible commentary:  a synoptic commentary on the Old and New Testaments, vol. 1, 2010.

Biblia Americana: America’s first Bible commentary:  a synoptic commentary on the Old and New Testaments, vol. 2, 2010.

Biblia Americana: America’s first Bible commentary:  a synoptic commentary on the Old and New Testaments, vol. 3, 2010.

Biblia Americana: America’s first Bible commentary:  a synoptic commentary on the Old and New Testaments, vol. 4, 2010.

Biblia Americana: America’s first Bible commentary:  a synoptic commentary on the Old and New Testaments, vol. 5, 2010.

Black, gay, British, Christian, queer: the church and the famine of grace, 2021.

The body in biblical, Christian and Jewish texts, 2015.

The book of Acts as story: a narrative-critical study, 2021.

Bringing the depths into focus: engaging difficulties in Biblical interpretation, 2021.

The charismatic city and the public resurgence of religion: a Pentecostal social ethics of cosmopolitan urban life, 2014.

Constructing Paul, 2020.

Cradling abundance: one African Christian’s story of empowering women and fighting systemic poverty, 2021.

Deconstructing evangelicalism: a letter to a friend and a professor’s guide to escaping fundamentalist Christianity, 2020.

The depth and destiny of work: an African theological interpretation, 2008.

The Deuteronomistic history and the name theology: lešakkēn šemô šām in the Bible., 2002.

Developing female leaders: navigate the minefields and release the potential of women in your church, 2019.

Doing theology in the new normal, 2021.

Early North African Christianity: turning points in the development of the church, 2021.

Economics in spirit and truth: a moral philosophy of finance., 2015.

Five things biblical scholars wish theologians knew, 2021.

Five things theologians wish biblical scholars knew, 2021.

Forming resilient children: the role of spiritual formation for healthy development, 2021.

Friendship and community: the monastic experience, 350-1250, 2010.

From Christ to Christianity: how the Jesus movement became the church in less than a century, 2021.

From Plato to Christ: how Platonic thought shaped the Christian faith, 2021.

God in the modern wing: viewing art with eyes of faith, 2021.

God will be all in all: theology through the lens of incarnation, 2021.

Handbook on the Gospels, 2021.

I am Yahweh, 2018.

Irrepressible light: the women of the New Testament, 2020.

Lessons from quarantine: biblical principles for living in tough times., 2021.

Liturgies from below: 462 acts of worship ; praying with people at the ends of the world, 2020.

Lord, teach us to pray, 2018.

Luke-Acts by James P. Grimshaw, et al., 2020.

Making a scene in the pulpit: vivid preaching for visual listeners, 2018.

Mark, women and empire: a Korean postcolonial perspective, 2010.

Matthew within sectarian Judaism, 2019.

Old Testament use of Old Testament: a book-by-book guide, 2021.

The Oxford handbook of mystical theology, 2020.

Paul and the economy of salvation: reading from the perspective of the last judgment, 2021.

Paul and the hope of glory: an exegetical and theological study, 2020.

The politics of race and ethnicity in Matthew’s passion narrative, 2019.

Power women: stories of motherhood, faith & the academy, 2021.

Prophecy, piety, and the problem of historicity: interpreting the Hebrew scriptures in Cotton Mather’s ‘Biblia Americana’, 2016.

Reading evangelicals: how Christian fiction shaped a culture and a faith, 2021.

Recovering from biblical manhood & womanhood: how the church needs to rediscover her purpose, 2020.

Redemptive kingdom diversity: a biblical theology of the people of God, 2021.

Rediscovering the Marys: Maria, Mariamne, Miriam, 2021.

Revelation by Amos Yong, 2021.

Ruth, Esther by Marion Ann Taylor, 2020.

Sermons that sing: music and the practice of preaching, 2021.

The sermons to the seven churches of Revelation: a commentary and guide, 2021.

Seven things I wish Christians knew about the Bible, 2021.

Spirit and trauma: a theology of remaining, 2010.

Spiritual formation for the global church: a multi-denominational, multi-ethnic approach, 2021.

Subversive witness: scripture’s call to leverage privilege, 2021.

Systematic theology by Gideon Andrew Thompson, 2018.

A theology of disagreement: New Testament ethics for ecclesial conflicts, 2021.

Together in ministry: women and men in flourishing partnerships, 2021.

Transforming worship: planning and leading Sunday services as if spiritual formation mattered, 2021.

Welcome, Holy Spirit: a theological and experiential introduction, 2021.

Women rising: learning to listen, reclaiming our voice, 2021.

Women serving God: my journey in understanding their story in the Bible, 2020.

The women’s lectionary: preaching the women of the Bible throughout the year, 2021.

A women’s lectionary for the whole church, 2021.

New Testament Seminar
Discovering Luke: content, interpretation, reception, 2021.

Gospel women and the long ending of Mark, 2021.

Greek for life: strategies for learning, retaining, and reviving New Testament Greek, 2017.

Historical and theological lexicon of the Septuagint, 2020.

Jesus and the manuscripts: what we can learn from the oldest texts, 2020.

Papyri and the social world of the New Testament, 2019.

Porphyry, On principles and matter: a Syriac version of a lost Greek text with an English translation, introduction, and glossaries, 2021.

Sharing in the son’s inheritance: Davidic messianism and Paul’s worldwide interpretation… of the Abrahamic land promise in Galatians, 2020.

Signs, wonders, and gifts: divination in the letters of Paul, 2019.

Welshimer Library

Education
Collaboration, coteaching, and coaching in gifted education: sharing strategies to support gifted learners, 2020. 

Graphic Design
Type speaks, 2021.

Typographic firsts: adventures in early printing, 2019.

Language and Literature
Chapterhouse: Dune, 2020.

Children of Dune, 2020.

Dune, 2005.

Dune messiah, 2020.

Fake love letters, forged telegrams, and prison escape maps: designing graphic props for filmmaking, 2020.

God emperor of Dune, 2020.

Heretics of Dune, 2020.

Medicine
Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) adapted for older children: a research development manual, 2021. 

Music
Wagnerism: art and politics in the shadow of music, 2021. 

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
Breaking the mould: learning to thrive as a ministry mum, 2020.

The defining decade: why your twenties matter and how to make the most of them now, 2021.

Political Science
Identity politics in the United States, 2019. 

Science
The art of statistics: how to learn from data, 2019.

Juvenile
Skunk and badger, 2020.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
2014 Middle East travel seminar: reflection papers.

The Quax: the junior annual of Drake University, 1914.

New Books and Media Received (September 2021)

The following Books (100 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgetary funds and expense accounts, and by donation in September 2021.

Seminary Library

History
A holy baptism of fire and blood: the Bible and the American Civil War, 2021. 

Music
Becoming what we sing: formation through contemporary worship music, 2021.

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
Accounting and money for ministerial leadership: key practical and theological insights, 2013.

African Pentecostalism and world Christianity: essays in honor of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, 2020.

The archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea scrolls, 2021.

Aristotle and early Christian thought, 2021.

Bad faith: race and the rise of the religious right, 2021.

Biblia Americana: America’s first Bible commentary:  a synoptic commentary on the Old and New Testaments, v. 9, 2010.

Black print unbound: the Christian recorder, African American literature, and periodical culture, 2015.

The books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, 2021.

Caring for joy: narrative, theology, and practice, 2016.

Chosen peoples: Christianity and political imagination in South Sudan, 2021.

Decolonizing Christianity: becoming badass believers, 2021.

Five models of Scripture, 2021.

Foundations of chaplaincy: a practical guide, 2021.

Genesis and Christian theology, 2012.

If God still breathes, why can’t I?: Black Lives Matter and biblical authority, 2021.

Interpreting Paul by Luke Timothy Johnson, 2021.

Interpreting the Old Testament theologically: essays in honor of Willem A. VanGemeren, 2018.

John Chrysostom and African charismatic theology in conversation: salvation, deliverance, and the prosperity gospel, 2021.

Jonah: introduction and commentary by Amy Erickson, 2021.

Migration and the making of global Christianity, 2021.

Money matters: faith, life, and wealth, 2021.

The new Adam: what the early church can teach evangelicals (and liberals) about the atonement, 2021.

No longer strangers: transforming evangelism with immigrant communities, 2021.

Nurturing faith: a practical theology for educating Christians, 2021.

On Genesis by Bede and Calvin B. Kendall, 2008.

The Pentecostal hypothesis: Christ talks, they decide, 2020.

The Pentecostal principle: ethical methodology in new spirit, 2012.

Political letters and speeches by Ambrose, J. H. W. Liebeschuetz, and Carole G. Hill, 2010.

Reclaiming rural: building thriving rural congregations, 2021.

The same God who works all things: inseparable operations in Trinitarian theology, 2021.

Scribes and scrolls at Qumran by Sidnie White Crawford, 2019.

The split economy: Saint Paul goes to Wall Street, 2021.

When the medium was the mission: the Atlantic telegraph and the religious origins of network culture, 2021.

A women’s lectionary for the whole church. Year W: multi-gospel single-year lectionary, 2021.

Political Science
Errand into the wilderness of mirrors: religion and the history of the CIA, 2021. 

Social Sciences
Belonging: remembering ourselves home, 2017.

New Testament Seminar
Challenging perspectives on the Gospel of John, 2006.

Cruciform scripture: cross, participation, and mission, 2021.

Discourse grammar of the Greek New Testament: a practical introduction for teaching and exegesis, 2010.

Discovering Revelation: content, interpretation, reception, 2021.

Galatians by N. T. Wright, 2021.

The Gospel according to Matthew: a commentary by Matthias Konradt and M. Eugene Boring, 2020.

The gospel of the son of God: an introduction to Matthew by David R. Bauer, 2019.

Jesus, the New Testament, and Christian origins: perspectives, methods, meanings, 2021.

Participating in Christ: explorations in Paul’s theology and spirituality, 2019.

Scribes and their remains, 2021.

Studies on the intersection of text, paratext, and reception: a festschrift in honor of Charles E. Hill, 2021.

Welshimer Library

History
Memory passages: Holocaust memorials in the United States and Germany, 2020.

The Oxford history of historical writing, 2011.

Medicine
Information technology and data in healthcare: using and understanding data, 2021.

Music
Teaching music through performance in contemporary a cappella, 2020.

DVDs
Life, support, music, 2008. 

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
36 devotionals for women’s group.

5-minute Bible study for women: mornings in God’s word.

Abortion and the sanctity of human life.

Animals in the Bible.

Baptism and the New Testament. Lectures.

Barack Obama: son of promise, child of hope.

Beautiful songs of Zion, a collection of new and old songs suited to all kinds of religious work and worship ….

Best-loved Bible stories.

A Bible history: for schools, confirmation classes and homes.

The bible story in easy words for children.

…but I love you: the musings of an 86-year-old retired minister who spends his time reflecting on his 60 years of ministry.

Carl Sandburg.

Catalog: Puget Sound College of the Bible, 1958-1959.

Christian hymns: for every purpose in worship.

Christmas programs for the church, number 16: includes material for Thanksgiving.

A componential approach to Hebrew semantics.

Cook book issued by the Ladies Aid Society of the First Christian Church, Union City, Tenn., 1916.

A description of the apostolic church and the position of the pastor: considered in the light of the primitive organization of the church of Christ.

Funeral messages.

Gethsemane Church of Christ: Mechanicsville, Hanover County, Virginia, 1867-1967.

God’s book for me.

Homemaking programs: talks and activities.

Leading the first-century church in the space age.

Les Grands recits de la Bible.

The man in the crowd.

Minute stories from the Bible.

My name is Georgia: a portrait.

Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not.

Ounces of wisdom.

Our Prayers and Praise: the order for daily morning prayer and the order for the administration of the Lord’s Supper.

The Phillipian, 1919.

The Phillipian, 1920.

Reminiscences of Linda Richards, America’s first trained nurse.

Restoring New Testament Christianity: featuring Alexander Campbell, Thomas Campbell, Barton W. Stone and Hall L. Calhoun.

Revealing word: a collection of poems and hymn texts.

Revisioning Christian unity: journeying with Jesus Christ, the reconciler at the global Christian forum, Limuru, November 2007.

Sermons: from “the truth defender”.

Songs for soul-winning.

Special days in the church.

Spiritual songs: a collection of songs and hymns, new and old, suited to all purposes of Christian work and worship.

Standing for their faith: a history of churches of Christ in Tennessee, 1900-1950.

Stories and miracles: including Walking on water & other stories.

The trail blazers: heroes of faith.

Training men to preach and serve: an orientation study in the ministry and service of Jesus Christ.

A Study of contemporary model preachers of the Christian Church (Church of Christ).

Unity of Christians: the advocate of true progression in church and state, recognizing the Bible alone as the true basis of Christian union.

New Books and Media Received (June-August 2021)

The following Books (140 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgetary funds and expense accounts, and by donation in June, July, and August 2021.

Seminary Library

Education
Teaching and learning across cultures: a guide to theory and practice, 2021.

Language and Literature
Aramaic: a history of the first world language, 2021. 

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
Abuelita faith: what women on the margins teach us about wisdom, persistence, and strength, 2021.

Beads and strands: reflections of an African woman on Christianity in Africa, 2004.

Church administration: creating efficiency for effective ministry, 2011.

Church conflicts: the cross, apocalyptic, and political resistance, 2021.

Constructing exile: the emergence of a biblical paradigm, 2020.

Ethical prophets along the way: those hall of famers, 2020.

The first biography of Jesus: genre and meaning in Mark’s gospel, 2020.

Holy living: the Christian tradition for today, 2017.

John interpreted by early Christian and medieval commentators, 2018.

Liberty for all: defending everyone’s religious freedom in a pluralistic age, 2021.

The ministry of women in the New Testament: reclaiming the biblical vision for church leadership, 2021.

Scripture as communication: introducing biblical hermeneutics, 2021.

Theological foundations of worship: biblical, systematic, and practical perspectives, 2021.

Thriving in the second chair: ten practices for robust ministry (when you’re not in charge), 2016.

The unbearable wholeness of being: God, evolution and the power of love, 2013.

Unfettered: imagining a childlike faith beyond the baggage of Western culture, 2021.

The universal Christ: how a forgotten reality can change everything we see, hope for, and believe, 2021.

An unsettling God: the heart of the Hebrew Bible, 2009.

Voices from the ruins: theodicy and the fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible, 2021.

Women in the mission of the church: their opportunities and obstacles throughout Christian history, 2021.

Social Sciences
Aged by culture, 2004.

New Testament Seminar
African American readings of Paul: reception, resistance, and transformation, 2020.

The Jewish annotated Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version Bible translation, 2020.

Matthew by Jeannine K. Brown and Kyle A. Roberts, 2018.

Reading Acts in the discourses of masculinity and politics, 2017.

A Roman commentary on St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, 2020.

The second sophistic, 2005.

Women and society in the Roman world: a sourcebook of inscriptions from the Roman West, 2021.

Welshimer Library

Art
From Eastern Europe: graphic design from Eastern Europe, 2018.

From Japan: graphic design from Japan, 2015.

From Latin America: graphic design from Latin America, 2019.

From Scandinavia: graphic design from Scandinavia, 2017.

From South Korea, 2021.

From Switzerland: graphic design from Switzerland, 2020.

Graphic Artists Guild handbook: pricing & ethical guidelines., 2021.

The graphic design reader, 2019.

In progress: see inside a lettering artist’s sketchbook and process, from pencil to vector, 2015.

On the shoulders of giants, 2019.

Paula Scher: twenty-five years at the Public, a love story, 2020.

The power of color: five centuries of European painting, 2019.

Education
The holistic curriculum, 2019.

History
America for Americans: a history of xenophobia in the United States, 2021.

Authoritarian apprehensions: ideology, judgment, and mourning in Syria, 2019.

Diaries, 1898-1902 [of Alma Mahler], 2000.

Malevolent muse: the life of Alma Mahler, 2015.

Passionate spirit: the life of Alma Mahler, 2019.

The three lives of James Madison: genius, partisan, president, 2020.

Medicine
Social scaffolding: applying the lessons of contemporary social science to health and healthcare, 2019.

Music
Acting the song: performance skills for the musical theatre, 2016.

Jerome Robbins, by himself: selections from his letters, journals, drawings, photographs, and an unfinished memoir, 2019.

Philosophy and Religion
The big idea companion for preaching and teaching: a guide from Genesis to Revelation, 2021.

The great sex rescue: the lies you’ve been taught and how to recover what God intended, 2021.

The meaning of life and death: ten classic thinkers on the ultimate question, 2020.

Mission drift: the unspoken crisis facing leaders, charities, and churches, 2015.

Political Science
The psychology of politics, 2019.

Science
Aesthetic science: representing nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720, 2020.

Find your path: unconventional lessons from 36 leading scientists and engineers, 2019.

Testosterone: an unauthorized biography, 2019.

Social Sciences
Capital in the nineteenth century, 2019.

Globalisms: facing the populist challenge, 2020.

Juvenile
The party and other stories, 2020.

Where’s baby?, 2020.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
Art, craft, and theology in fourth-century christian authors.

The body broken: embracing the peace of Christ in a fragmented church.

Books of Meqabyan 1-3.

Casino royale [DVD].

Christian character: New Testament passages.

Christian egalitarian leadership: empowering the whole church according to the scriptures.

Christian extremism.

Christian philosophy.

Christology after Chalcedon: Severus of Antioch and Sergius the Monophysite.

The courtier and the heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the fate of God in the modern world.

The cultural church.

Descartes: the project of pure enquiry.

Diamonds are forever [DVD].

Die another day [DVD].

Dynamic women of the Bible: what we can learn from their surprising stories.

Emboldened: a vision for empowering women in ministry.

The enigma of anger: essays on a sometimes deadly sin.

The experience of God [2 volumes].

FIRST BOOK OF ETHIOPIAN MACCABEES.

Font of life: Ambrose, Augustine and the mystery of baptism.

For your eyes only [DVD].

Four views on the Apostle Paul.

The global Church: the first eight centuries: from Pentecost through the rise of Islam.

The God of Jesus Christ.

God’s glory alone: the majestic heart of Christian faith and life: what the reformers taught … and why it still matters.

Goldeneye [DVD].

Help: the original human dilemma.

In the time of the butterflies.

Inner river: a pilgrimage to the heart of Christian spirituality.

Inventing the individual: the origins of Western liberalism.

Israel’s apostasy and restoration: essays in honor of Roland K. Harrison.

Jesus and the remains of his day: studies in Jesus and the evidence of material culture.

The Jewish teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: what earliest Christianity learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.

Let her be: right relationships and the Southern Baptist conundrum over woman’s role.

Licence to kill [DVD].

Lime green: reshaping our view of women in the church.

The living daylights [DVD].

Living icons: persons of faith in the Eastern church.

Love does: discover a secretly incredible life in an ordinary world.

The man with the golden gun [DVD].

Meaning and the moral sciences.

Metropolis: a history of the city, humankind’s greatest invention.

Midsommar [DVD].

Mind and language.

Moonraker [DVD].

The moral gap: Kantian ethics, human limits, and God’s assistance.

The mysterious flame: conscious minds in a material world.

The mystery of the Trinity.

Octopussy [DVD].

Philosophy of logics.

The philosophy of mind: an introduction.

The philosophy of St. Bonaventure.

Quantum of solace [DVD].

Sacred places, pilgrim paths: an anthology of pilgrimage.

Saint Augustine’s memory.

Salvation through temptation: Maximus the Confessor and Thomas Aquinas on Christ’s victory over the devil.

The sign of Jonah reconsidered: a study of its meaning in the gospel traditions.

Skyfall [DVD].

Spectre [DVD].

The Synoptic vision: essays on the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars.

Tales of the Dairy Godmother: Chuck’s ice cream wish.

Testimony: a philosophical study.

A theologian in search of a philosophy.

A theology of love.

Tomorrow never dies [DVD].

Tongue of the prophets: the life story of Eliezer Ben Yehuda.

The Trinity: an interdisciplinary symposium on the Trinity.

The twilight zone: the complete series [DVD].

Two worlds: an Edinburgh Jewish childhood.

Undergoing God: dispatches from the scene of a break-in.

A view to a kill [DVD].

Was Jesus married?: the distortion of sexuality in the Christian tradition.

What’s with Paul and women?: unlocking the cultural background to 1 Timothy 2.

Women in the life of Jesus.

The Word leaps the gap: essays on Scripture and theology in honor of Richard B. Hays.

The world is not enough [DVD].

Introducing Internet Archive’s Open Library


As part of our mission to enhance discovery of and access to useful and relevant information resources for students and faculty, Milligan Libraries is pleased to now offer an embedded search interface on our website to Internet Archive’s Open Library project.

Started in 1996 with the mission to “provide Universal Access to All Knowledge,” Internet Archive is a non-profit digital repository of internet sites and other cultural artifacts, including books and texts, video, audio, software, and images. The Open Library project focuses on books and includes two primary components: an ambitious goal to build a universal online catalog of every book ever published, and providing a platform for searching and accessing millions of book holdings within Internet Archive. By linking to Open Library, Milligan Libraries instantly expands access to a vast array of book resources for our users.

Book holdings are added to Internet Archive through the digitization of print originals from library partner collections and donations. Book holdings include popular and academic titles on numerous subjects. Of particular interest, in addition to titles in the public domain (books whose copyright has expired and are freely available to the public), Internet Archive also digitizes and provides access to more recent titles that are still under copyright. (Internet Archive currently holds well over two million digitized books. Over one million of these have been published since 2000.) This access is made possible using a framework known as controlled digital lending (CDL).

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We have added an Open Library tab to the search box widget on the Milligan Libraries website homepage. (You can also select the “Internet Archive’s Open Library” link from the Resources > Specialized Resources A-L dropdown menu to go directly to Open Library.)

Before walking through a search session on Open Library there are a few setup steps to get out of the way first.

Step 1. Create a User Account. You can search the Open Library universal catalog and read public domain books using the online web browser viewer without creating a user account. However, a user account is required if you want to borrow CDL books through the online viewer, or download books to your computer or mobile device. Think of the user account as your Open Library library card. To create a user account, click on the “Sign Up” button at the top right of any Open Library page and fill out the form (click on screenshot to enlarge):

Step 2. Create an Adobe ID. As mentioned above, CDL book files (typically formatted as PDF or EPUB) on Open Library are copy protected to prevent duplication and control lending of copyrighted content. Internet Archive authenticates DRM-ed content using Adobe ID. Create an Adobe ID by signing-in here.

Step 3. Download Adobe Digital Editions and/or Bluefire Reader book reading software. You can bypass Step 2 and this step if you simply want to read books online using Internet Archive’s own web browser reader. However, dedicated software is required if you want to be able to download and read books offline. Books borrowed from Open Library are only readable on a computer or mobile device that supports Adobe ID authentication. Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) for Windows, Mac, Android, or iOS can be freely downloaded from here. An excellent alternative, Bluefire Reader for Android or iOS, can be freely downloaded from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. ADE and Bluefire Reader are configurable to pre-authenticate with your Adobe ID.

Searching for Books on Open Library

I have been doing some research on the sixth century Roman statesman and scholar Cassiodorus. I wonder what books by or about Cassiodorus might be available on Open Library. I type “Cassiodorus” in the Open Library search box on the Milligan Libraries website homepage.

My search resolves to this results page (click on screenshot to enlarge):

At the top I see my search resulted in 183 hits. I also notice a list of facets in the far right column for ways to limit my search results in various ways (Author, Subjects, People, Times, etc.). To the right of each short result record I see large buttons variously labeled “Not in Library,” “Read,” and “Borrow.” The “Read” and “Borrow” buttons also have a headphone icon that slides over to enable a “Listen” (text to speech) option for print disabled users.

“Not in Library” indicates that a record has been created for this book as part of the universal online catalog, but a copy (or copies) of this book is not currently available on Open Library to be read or borrowed. Of interest, if I open this record, it includes a link to preview the contents of the book, and a link that pushes to the book record in Milligan Libraries’ WorldCat Discovery platform. These are very useful features. The book preview enables me to get a sense of the value of this title for my research, and pushing me into WorldCat sets up an option for me to initiate an interlibrary loan request.

“Read” indicates that the book is available on Open Library as a public domain title. Since copyright has expired on this title, absolutely no restrictions on access are imposed. The book can be freely read or downloaded without a user account.

“Borrow” indicates that at least one digital copy of the book is available on Open Library. But since this title is still under copyright, access is controlled under the controlled digital lending (CDL) framework described above. A user account is required to read or download the book. Incidentally, if all available copies of a book are currently borrowed the button changes to “Checked Out” or “Join Waitlist,” which gives me the opportunity to borrow the book once a copy is returned and made available again.

The default view shows “Everything” that resulted from my search (in this case 183 hits). However, if I click the “Ebooks” radio button at the right of the search box, Open Library only shows me a list of books that are actually available on the platform to be read or borrowed, as in this screenshot — 22 hits (click to enlarge):

Reading an Open Library Book Using the Online Web Browser Viewer

As I scroll down the list of books available to read or borrow on Open Library I see the title of a book written by Cassiodorus that I would like to read, Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning.

I click on the “Borrow” button. Since I am not currently signed-in with my Open Library user account I am prompted to enter my credentials:

Once I click the “Log In” button, the book is launched in Internet Archive’s online web browser viewer (click on screenshot to enlarge). An active internet connection is required in order to use the browser viewer for online reading:

I use the navigation slider or page turning arrows at the bottom of the screen to work my way through the book. Alternatively, I can choose a single page vertical scroll reading option. There is also a grid view for page picking, zoom in or out, full screen toggle, and text to speech audio reader.

The magnifying glass icon at the top left is for searching within the text of the book, and the ellipses icon (…) slides out to offer bookmarking, visual adjustments, sharing, and file download options (more on this in a moment).

The banner at the top of the viewer window indicates book borrowing options, and current borrowing status:

Borrowing options depend on the number of digital copies available for lending on Open Library. If there is just one copy available the book can be borrowed for only one hour at a time. (Note: As long as I continue reading, by page turns or scrolling, I do not have to return the book within the one-hour timeframe.) If Open Library has more than one available copy of a book I can borrow it for either one hour or for 14 days. Up to 10 books can be borrowed at a time. I can keep track of my book loans from my user account page. When I am done reading a borrowed book I can click the “Return now” button, which immediately frees my copy up for someone else to borrow, or I can simply let the loan period timeout on its own.

Download an Open Library Book for Offline Reading

Open Library allows downloading of public domain (“Read”) and available CDL (“Borrow”) digital books to my computer or mobile device (phone or tablet) for offline reading. As indicated in Getting Ready to Use Open Library, Steps 2 and 3 above, this capability requires the creation of an Adobe ID and the downloading and configuration of the appropriate reader software. These steps should be completed before attempting to download book files from Open Library.

I will demonstrate downloading and offline reading using the book I already have open in the online viewer above. I will be reading the book using Adobe Digital Editions. From the ellipses icon (…) I click on the “Downloadable files” option and select between an encrypted PDF or EPUB file. (PDF files retain original book pagination, while text in an EPUB file reflows depending on font size.)

I choose the PDF option, which downloads to my computer as a file labeled URLLink.acsm. You may need to browse or search on your computer or device to locate where downloaded files typically land. Look for a file with a .acsm extension. The advantage of pre-authorizing the reader software with an Adobe ID is readily apparent because launching the .acsm file will immediately launch the book in the reader:

I navigate through the book with single page vertical scrolling. I can adjust the text width or zoom for viewing comfort, and drop bookmarks. When I click on the “Library” button at the top left, Adobe Digital Editions opens a “bookshelf” view where I can see a list of my downloaded books, and time left on my loan. By right-clicking on any title in the “bookshelf” I can return the book or remove it from my library.

This tutorial is intended to help our users get started with Open Library as a remarkable resource for digital books. If we can provide you with specific assistance please do not hesitate to reach out.