New Books and Media Received (April-May 2021)

The following Books (407 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgetary funds and expense accounts, and by donation in April and May 2021.

Seminary Library

Art
Figurines in Achaemenid period Yehud: Jerusalem’s history of religion and coroplastics in the monotheism debate, 2017.

History
Khalifa ibn Khayyat’s History on the Umayyad Dynasty (660-750), 2015.

Native: identity, belonging, and rediscovering God, 2020.

Theophilus of Edessa’s Chronicle and the circulation of historical knowledge in late antiquity and early Islam, 2011.

Three political voices from the age of Justinian: Agapetus, ‘Advice to the Emperor’:  Dialogue on political science:  Paul the Silentiary, ‘Description of Hagia Sophia’, 2009.

Torah, temple, and transaction: Jewish religious institutions and economic behavior in early Roman Galilee, 2020.

Language and Literature
A beginner’s guide to Dante’s Divine comedy, 2018.

On the nature of things and, On times by Bede, 2010. 

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787), 2020.

After Whiteness: an education in belonging, 2020.

Always on: practicing faith in a new media landscape, 2019.

Clement of Alexandria and the shaping of Christian literary practice: miscellany and the transformation of Greco-Roman writing, 2020.

The Council of Ephesus of 431: documents and proceedings, 2020.

Family systems and congregational life: a map for ministry, 2019.

The forgotten Desert Mothers: sayings, lives, and stories of early Christian women, 2001.

The funerary speech for John Chrysostom, 2013.

Imperial invectives against Constantius II: Athanasius of Alexandria, History of the Arians, Hilary of Poitiers, Against Constantius and Lucifer of Cagliari, The necessity of dying for the Son of God, 2016.

Interpreting scripture with the great tradition: recovering the genius of premodern exegesis, 2018.

Interpreting the Parables, 2012.

An introduction to Christian mysticism: recovering the wildness of spiritual life, 2021.

An introduction to the Old Testament: the Canon and Christian imagination, 2020.

The letter and spirit of biblical interpretation: from the early church to modern practice, 2018.

The making of biblical womanhood: how the subjugation of women became gospel truth, 2021.

Marriage, scripture, and the church: theological discernment on the question of same-sex union, 2021.

The mind of the spirit: Paul’s approach to transformed thinking, 2016.

Missional theology: an introduction, 2020.

Models of evangelism, 2020.

The mystic way of evangelism: a contemplative vision for Christian outreach, 2017.

The myth of the Stone-Campbell movement, 2019.

Neither complementarian nor egalitarian: a kingdom corrective to the evangelical gender debate, 2016.

On the nature of man by Nemesius, 2008.

Opening Israel’s scriptures, 2019.

Origen: an introduction to his life and thought, 2019.

Prey tell: why we silence women who tell the truth and how everyone can speak up, 2021.

Reading Revelation responsibly: uncivil worship and witness:  following the Lamb into the new creation, 2011.

Reading the New Testament as Christian scripture: a literary, canonical, and theological survey, 2020.

Religion in America by Lisa D. Pearce and Claire C. Gilliland, 2020.

Reparations: a Christian call for repentance and repair, 2021.

Rethinking Galatians: Paul’s vision of oneness in the living Christ, 2021.

The return of oral hermeneutics: as good today as it was for the Hebrew Bible and first-century Christianity, 2020.

Selfies: searching for the image of God in a digital age, 2018.

The spiritual child: the new science on parenting for health and lifelong thriving, 2016.

Spiritual disciplines for the Christian life, 2014.

Syriac Christian culture: beginnings to renaissance, 2020.

Theology as a way of life: on teaching and learning the Christian faith, 2019.

Two early lives of Severos, Patriarch of Antioch, 2013.

The Worship sourcebook, 2013.

Political Science
Augustine’s political thought, 2019. 

New Testament Seminar
Faith in formulae :a collection of early Christian creeds and creed-related texts [3 volumes], 2017.

Luke as narrative theologian: texts and topics, 2020.

Reference
The Oxford handbook of Jonathan Edwards, 2021.

The Oxford handbook of the Septuagint, 2021.

A scripture index to rabbinic literature by Caleb T. Friedeman, 2021.

Welshimer Library

Art
Art and music in Venice: from the Renaissance to the Baroque, 2013.

Bruegel: the complete graphic works, 2019.

Building Nazi Germany: place, space, architecture, and ideology, 2020.

Emil Nolde: the artist during the Third Reich, 2019.

Fra Angelico and the rise of the Florentine Renaissance, 2019.

Frida in America: the creative awakening of a great artist, 2020.

John Singer Sargent: the sensualist, 2000.

The poster: a visual history, 2020.

Sofonisba’s lesson: a Renaissance artist and her work, 2019.

Strandbeest: the dream machines of Theo Jansen, 2014.

Vida Americana: Mexican muralists remake American art, 1925-1945, 2020.

William Blake, 2019.

Winslow Homer: his art, his light, his landscapes, 1997.

Education
Educating media literacy: the need for critical media literacy in teacher education, 2020.

Educational psychology: history, practice, research, and the future, 2019.

Making up our mind: what school choice is really about, 2019.

Race dialogues: a facilitator’s guide to tackling the elephant in the classroom, 2019.

Reading for action: engaging youth in social justice through young adult literature, 2019.

Visual culture, 2019.

History
1774: the long year of Revolution, 2021.

Africa and the Indian Ocean world from early times to circa 1900, 2019.

Ain’t I a woman: Black women and feminism, 2015.

American while black: African Americans, immigration, and the limits of citizenship, 2019.

Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic intellectual history in cross-cultural perspective, 2019.

The Boston Massacre: a family history, 2020.

The Byzantine Hellene: the life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the thirteenth century, 2019.

The Cambridge history of the American Civil War, 2019.

Daily life in Nazi-occupied Europe, 2019.

El Norte: the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America, 2020.

The end of the myth: from the frontier to the border wall in the mind of America, 2019.

The firebird and the fox: Russian culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks, 2019.

Four hundred souls: a community history of African America, 1619-2019, 2021.

Freedom libraries: the untold story of libraries for African Americans in the South, 2019.

A history of Jordan, 2019.

Hitler: a biography, 2019.

Hitler: a global biography, 2019.

Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: a global and historical comparison, 2019.

The Kindertransport: contesting memory, 2019.

Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North, 2019.

The Middle Ages: facts and fictions, 2019.

The Middle East and the making of the modern world, 2017.

Not even past: the stories we keep telling about the Civil War, 2020.

Old Canaan in a new world: Native Americans and the lost tribes of Israel, 2020.

On the trail of Mary Queen of Scots, 1999.

Palestine: a four thousand year history, 2020.

The politics of the past in early China, 2020.

The rebel and the Imām in early Islam: explorations in Muslim historiography, 2020.

Reinterpreting Southern histories: essays in historiography, 2020.

Roots of the Black Chicago renaissance: new negro writers, artists, and intellectuals, 1893-1930, 2020.

Russia, the former Soviet republics, and Europe since 1989: transformation and tragedy, 2019.

South Africa, race and the making of international relations, 2020.

The South and the transformation of US politics, 2019.

Spying on the South: an odyssey across the American divide, 2020.

The successor: Tiberius and the triumph of the Roman Empire, 2019.

Under a darkening sky: the American experience in Nazi Europe: 1939-1941, 2018.

Unworthy republic: the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory, 2020.

Walter Ralegh: architect of empire, 2019.

Will of the people: the revolutionary birth of America, 2021.

Language and Literature
Achilles beside Gilgamesh: mortality and wisdom in early epic poetry, 2019.

Anthem by Ayn Rand, 1953.

An artist of the floating world, 1989.

Bilingual children: a guide for parents, 2019.

Black and more than black: African American fiction in the post era, 2019.

Black Broadway: African Americans on the great white way, 2015.

Blue iris: poems and essays, 2004.

The buried giant, 2015.

Comics and stuff, 2020.

The complete and original Norwegian folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe, 2019.

Dante’s Christian ethics: Purgatory and its moral contexts, 2020.

Fake news nation: the long history of lies and misinterpretations in America, 2019.

The Faust legend: from Marlowe and Goethe to contemporary drama and film, 2019.

Film as embodied art: bodily meaning in the cinema of Stanley Kubrick, 2019.

The five people you meet in heaven, 2003.

The five-minute linguist: bite-sized essays on language and languages, 2019.

Furious flower: seeding the future of African American poetry, 2020.

Geoffrey Chaucer in context, 2021.

Gulag literature and the literature of Nazi camps: an intercontexual reading, 2019.

Herodotus and the question why, 2021.

It’s always loud in the balcony: a life in black theater, from Harlem to Hollywood and back, 2019.

Journalism in the age of virtual reality: how experiential media are transforming news, 2019.

Klara and the sun, 2021.

Language endangerment, 2019.

Literature’s children: the critical child and the art of idealization, 2019.

The looking machine: essays on cinema, anthropology and documentary filmmaking, 2019.

Malory’s magic book: King Arthur and the child, 1862-1980, 2019.

Modernism, postcolonialism, and globalism: Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present, 2019.

The mousetrap, 2014.

The movie musical!, 2019.

The nickel boys: a novel, 2019.

Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall, 2009.

Nostalgia in print and performance, 1510-1613: merry worlds, 2019.

One man show: poetics and presence in the Iliad and Odyssey, 2020.

The overstory: a novel, 2019.

Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, 2011.

The poems of Louisa May Alcott, 2000.

Possessed by memory: the inward light of criticism, 2020.

The remains of the day, 1989.

Scale, space and canon in ancient literary culture, 2020.

Screening reality: how documentary filmmakers reimagined America, 2020.

Stephen King and American history, 2021.

Stephen King and American politics, 2021.

Stories and the brain: the neuroscience of narrative, 2020.

The struggle for understanding: Elie Wiesel’s literary works, 2019.

Swamp Souths: literary and cultural ecologies, 2020.

Tales of the South Pacific, 1947.

A theory of dramaturgy, 2019.

The unconsoled, 1995.

Unstable masks: whiteness and American superhero comics, 2020.

The view from somewhere: undoing the myth of journalistic objectivity, 2019.

The vintage Bradbury; Ray Bradbury’s own selection of his best stories, 1965.

Virginia Woolf: and the women who shaped her world, 2019.

When we were orphans, 2000.

The worlds of JRR Tolkien: the places that inspired Middle-Earth, 2020.

Law
Ancient legal thought: equity, justice, and humaneness from Hammurabi and the pharaohs to Justinian and the Talmud, 2019.

The Cambridge companion to comparative constitutional law, 2019.

The constitutional origins of the American civil war, 2019.

The disappearing First Amendment, 2019.

The Evening Star: the rise and fall of a great Washington newspaper, 2019.

Originalism’s promise: a natural law account of the American Constitution, 2019.

Religion, law, USA, 2019.

The second founding: how the Civil War and reconstruction remade the constitution, 2020.

Supreme inequality: the Supreme Court’s fifty-year battle for a more unjust America, 2021. 

Medicine
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5, 2013.

DSM-5 handbook of differential diagnosis, 2014.

Elderhood: redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life, 2021.

Gentling: a practical guide to treating PTSD in abused children, 2011.

Mind fixers: psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness, 2020.

Racism: science & tools for the public health professional, 2019.

The undying: pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care, 2020.

Treating addiction: a guide for professionals, 2019.

Military Science
Militarization: a reader, 2019. 

Music
The 100 most important people in musical theatre, 2019.

Angel song: medieval English music in history, 2019.

Bach and Mozart: essays on the enigma of genius, 2019.

The band’s visit, 2018.

Both from the ears & mind: thinking about music in early modern England, 2020.

Caroline, or Change: a musical, 2004.

Down a path of wonder, 2006.

For the love of music: a conductor’s guide to the art of listening, 2020.

Fun home, 2015.

Into the woods, 1989.

The light in the piazza, 2007.

Man of La Mancha; a musical play, 1966.

Music, myth and story in medieval and early modern culture, 2019.

The Spitfire Grill: a musical, 2002.

Summertime: George Gershwin’s life in music, 2020.

Philosophy and Religion
1 and 2 Timothy and Titus by Robert W. Wall and Richard B. Steele, 2012.

1 Peter by Joel B. Green, 2007.

1-3 John by Thomas Andrew Bennett, 2021.

2 Peter and Jude by Ruth Anne Reese, 2007.

Acts by Craig S. Keener, 2020.

Against: what does the white evangelical want?, 2019.

Anatomy of the soul: surprising connections between neuroscience and spiritual practices that can transform your life and relationships, 2010.

Becoming Beauvoir: a life, 2020.

Black: the history of a color, 2009.

Blue: the history of a color, 2001.

The Cambridge companion to natural law ethics, 2019.

The Cambridge handbook of wisdom, 2019.

Ecopiety: green media and the dilemma of environmental virtue, 2019.

Exemplars of truth, 2019.

Ezumezu: a system of logic for African philosophy and studies, 2019.

Faith in American public life, 2019.

The feeling of life itself: why consciousness is widespread but can’t be computed, 2019.

Galatians by Craig S. Keener, 2018.

Green: the history of a color, 2014.

Heart to heart: how your emotions affect other people, 2019.

Intentional churches: how implementing an operating system clarifies vision, improves decision-making, and stimulates growth, 2020.

Introduction to existentialism: from Kierkegaard to The Seventh Seal, 2020.

Judges by David J. H. Beldman, 2020.

The lost art of Scripture: rescuing the sacred texts, 2019.

Luke by F. Scott Spenser, 2019.

Mark by Darrell L. Bock, 2015.

Never doubt Thomas: the Catholic Aquinas as evangelical and Protestant, 2019.

Nietzsche and other Buddhas: philosophy after comparative philosophy, 2019.

Nihilism, 2019.

Power and technology: a philosophical and ethical analysis, 2019.

Red: the history of a color, 2017.

The supporting cast of the Bible: reading on behalf of the multitude, 2020.

Teaching Islamic studies in the age of ISIS, Islamophobia and the Internet, 2019.

The trellis and the vine: the ministry mind-shift that changes everything, 2009.

Understanding religious experience: from conviction to life’s meaning, 2020.

The varieties of nonreligious experience: atheism in American culture, 2019.

Ways of heaven: an introduction to Chinese thought, 2019.

Yellow: the history of a color, 2019.

Political Science
Against borders: why the world needs free movement of people, 2020.

Against free speech, 2020.

The age of migration: international population movements in the modern world, 2020.

And yet they persisted: how American women won the right to vote, 2020.

Breaking the two-party doom loop: the case for multiparty democracy in America, 2020.

Culture and order in world politic, 2020.

Democracy and dictatorship in Europe: from the Ancien régime to the present day, 2021.

Empire of democracy: the remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017, 2019.

Enchanted America: how intuition and reason divide our politics, 2018.

Globalization matters: engaging the global in unsettled time, 2019.

The long southern strategy: how chasing white voters in the South changed American politics, 2021.

Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and journeys in between, 2019.

No vote for women: the denial of suffrage in reconstruction America, 2019.

Overcoming intractable conflicts: new approaches to constructive transformations, 2019.

This land is our land: an immigrant’s manifesto, 2019.

Turkey between democracy and authoritarianism, 2019.

Science
Analytical mechanics, 2018.

Artificial intelligence: a guide for thinking humans, 2019.

The biology of reproduction, 2019.

The book of why: the new science of cause and effect, 2020.

Foundations of data science, 2020.

The last lecture, 2008.

The logic in philosophy of science, 2019.

Losing Earth: a recent history, 2020.

The scientific attitude: defending science from denial, fraud, and pseudoscience, 2019.

The story of more: how we got to climate change and where to go from here, 2020.

Until the end of time: mind, matter, and our search for meaning in an evolving universe, 2021.

Social Sciences
The abortionist: a woman against the law, 2019.

Affectionate communication in close relationships, 2019.

Alcohol and humans: a long and social affair, 2020.

Bathroom battlegrounds: how public restrooms shape the gender order, 2020.

Caste: the origins of our discontents, 2020.

Caught in the path of Katrina: a survey of the hurricane’s human effects, 2019.

Children in changing worlds: sociocultural and temporal perspectives, 2019.

City on a hill: urban idealism in America from the Puritans to the present, 2019.

Deported to death: how drug violence is changing migration on the US-Mexico border, 2019.

Dress in the age of Jane Austen: Regency fashion, 2019.

Empire of guns: the violent making of the Industrial Revolution, 2018.

Free Cyntoia: my search for redemption in the American prison system, 2020.

The global economy: a concise history, 2020.

The goodness paradox: the strange relationship between virtue and violence in human evolution, 2019.

How to divide when there isn’t enough: from Aristotle, the Talmud, and Maimonides to the axiomatics of resource allocation, 2019.

Intersectionality as critical social theory, 2019.

Invisible women: data bias in a world designed for men, 2021.

The last empires: governing ourselves, our nations, and our world, 2019.

Management studies in crisis: fraud, deception and meaningless research, 2019.

Maoism: a global history, 2020.

Neighborhood defenders: participatory politics and America’s housing crisis, 2020.

No visible bruises: what we don’t know about domestic violence can kill us, 2020.

Organizations for people: caring cultures, basic needs, and better lives, 2020.

Possessed: why we want more than we need, 2019.

The power of strategic listening, 2020.

The practice of folklore: essays toward a theory of tradition, 2019.

Queer faith: reading promiscuity and race in the secular love tradition, 2019.

Reading minds: how childhood teaches us to understand people, 2020.

Searching for the anthropocene: a journey into the environmental humanities, 2020.

A sense of inequality, 2020.

Sign language phonology, 2019.

Skin deep: dispelling the science of race, 2020.

Taxation, 2020.

Technology in the Industrial Revolution, 2020.

Thanks for watching: an anthropological study of video sharing on YouTube, 2019.

Understanding the experience of disability: perspectives from social and rehabilitation psychology, 2019.

We should all be feminists, 2015.

Whisper tapes: Kate Millett in Iran, 2019.

Women and the land 1500-1900, 2019.

Technology
The decisive network: Magnum Photos and the postwar image market, 2020.

Edison, 2020.

Lewis Carroll’s photography and modern childhood, 2020.

Make, think, imagine: engineering the future of civilization, 2021.

Physics of semiconductor devices, 2021.

Archives
Stephen King and American history, 2021.

Stephen King and American politics, 2021.

Juvenile
All thirteen: the incredible cave rescue of the Thai boys’ soccer team, 2020.

The bear in my family, 2020.

Box: Henry Brown mails himself to freedom, 2020.

The cat man of Aleppo, 2020.

Double bass blues, 2019.

Fighting words, 2020.

Genesis begins again, 2019.

Going down home with Daddy, 2019.

The graveyard book, 2008.

Me & Mama, 2020.

Outside in, 2020.

A place inside of me: a poem to heal the heart, 2020.

See the cat: three stories about a dog, 2020.

We are water protectors, 2020.

We dream of space, 2020.

What about worms!?, 2020.

When you trap a tiger, 2020.

A wish in the dark, 2020.

Zip, zoom!, 2020.

Reference
The book of Amos by R. Carroll and M. Daniel, 2020.

The Book of Judges by Barry G. Webb, 2012.

The Book of Zechariah by Mark J. Boda, 2016.

The books of Haggai and Malachi by Mignon R. Jacobs, 2017.

The books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah by Thomas Renz, 2021.

The Epistle to the Hebrews by Gareth Lee Cockerill, 2012.

The First Epistle to the Corinthians by Gordon D. Fee, 2014.

The letter of James by Scot McKnight, 2011.

The letter to the Colossians by Scot McKnight, 2018.

The letter to the Ephesians by Lynn H. Cohick, 2020.

The letter to the Galatians by David Arthur DeSilva, 2018.

The letter to the Romans by Douglas J. Moo, 2018.

The Letter to Philemon by Scot McKnight, 2017.

The Second Book of Samuel by David Toshio Tsumura, 2019.

DVDs
1917.

100 years of Olympic films: 1912-2012.

12 Years a Slave.

American graffiti: drive-in double feature.

American history X.

Breaker Morant.

Coraline.

Dot and the kangaroo.

Flushed away ; Chicken run ; Wallace & Gromit, curse of the were-rabbit.

The ghost and Mr. Chicken.

The good place: the final season.

Hail Satan?.

Harriet.

Khumba.

Little women.

Looney tunes golden collection.

The omen.

Parenthood: Season 1.

Parenthood: Season 2.

Parenthood: Season 3.

Parenthood: Season 4.

Parenthood: Season 5.

Parenthood: Season 6.

Popeye, the sailor, the 1940s, Volume 1.

Popeye, the sailor, the 1940s, Volume 2.

The Professor: tai chi’s journey west.

Road to Avonlea Season 1.

Road to Avonlea Season 2.

Road to Avonlea Season 3.

Road to Avonlea Season 4.

Road to Avonlea Season 5.

Road to Avonlea Season 6.

Road to Avonlea Season 7.

Saving Private Ryan.

Say anything.

Simpsons: Season 11.

Stand by me.

This is us: Season 1.

This is us: Season 2.

This is us: Season 3.

Three fantastic journeys by Karel Zeman.

Touki bouki.

A trip to the moon.

La vie en rose.

Watership down.

What’s eating Gilbert Grape?.

Zarafa.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
Altared: the true story of a she, a he, and how they both got too worked up about we.

Ape and essence.

A field guide to eastern trees: eastern United States and Canada, including the Midwest.

Gay marriage: why it is good for gays, good for straights, and good for America.

The globalization of nothing 2.

Lived religion: faith and practice in everyday life.

McDonaldization: the reader.

The McDonaldization of society 5.

The sacred canopy: elements of a sociological theory of religion.

Selected writings of Jonathan Edwards.

The social construction of reality: a treatise in the sociology of knowledge.

The victory of reason: how Christianity led to freedom, capitalism, and Western success.

When two become one: enhancing sexual intimacy in marriage.

White privilege: essential readings on the other side of racism.

Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.

The wings of the dove.

Women and religion.

 

New Books and Media Received (March 2021)

The following Books (37 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through expense accounts and by donation in March 2021.

Seminary Library

History
The ancient near east: a very short introduction, 2014.

Dream with me: race, love, and the struggle we must win, 2017.

One blood by John M. Perkins, 2020.

The Syro-Anatolian city-states: an Iron Age culture, 2021.

Philosophy,  Psychology,  and Religion
All but invisible: exploring identity questions at the intersection of faith, gender & sexuality, 2017.

Desmond Tutu: a spiritual biography of South Africa’s confessor, 2021.

Embodied: transgender identities, the church & what the Bible has to say, 2021.

The essential writings of Christian mysticism by Bernard McGinn, 2006.

The innovative church: how leaders and their congregations can adapt in an ever-changing world, 2020.

Jesus for revolutionaries: an introduction to race, social justice, and Christianity, 2013.

Melania the Younger: from Rome to Jerusalem, 2021.

A multitude of all peoples: engaging ancient Christianity’s global identity, 2020.

Reading the Bible missionally, 2016.

With justice for all: a strategy for community development, 2014.

Social Sciences
The purpose gap: empowering communities of color to find meaning and thrive, 2021.

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

Apostle of persuasion: theology and rhetoric in the Pauline letters, 2020.

Ethnic negotiations: the function of race and ethnicity in Acts 16, 2010.

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 by Tim Whitmarsh, 2005.

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

 

Welshimer Library

Archives
The motivated worker: a manager’s guide to improving job satisfaction by Brad Ward, 2020. 

 

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
The American tradition in literature [2 volumes].

Fading memories of my first 84 years by Duard Walker.

Give & take: the complete guide to negotiating strategies and tactics.

A global fellowship: a concise history of the world convention of Churches of Christ.

The hands that shaped Milligan humanities.

Harry Potter and the cursed child. Parts one and two.

A history of prayer: the first to the fifteenth century.

If God is good–: faith in the midst of suffering and evil.

The illustrated Faerie queene.

The lion and the honeycomb: essays in solicitude and critique.

A month with Jesus: 31 days with a surprising Savior.

Preaching in the Patristic Era: sermons, preachers, and audiences in the Latin West.

New Books and Media Received (February 2021)

The following Books (76 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through expense accounts and by donation in February 2021.

Seminary Library

Anthropology
The house of the father as fact and symbol: patrimonialism in Ugarit and the ancient Near East, 2001.

Language and Literature
The variae: the complete translation by M. Shane Bjornlie, 2019.

Medicine
Our malady: lessons in liberty from a hospital diary, 2020.

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
The book of Amos by M. Daniel Carroll, 2020.

The breadth of salvation: rediscovering the fullness of God’s saving work, 2020.

The Codex Amiatinus and its “sister” Bibles: Scripture, liturgy, and art in the milieu of the Venerable Bede, 2019.

Creation and ecology: the political economy of ancient Israel and the environmental crisis, 2020.

Dogmatic ecclesiology by Tom Greggs, 2019.

The first letter of Peter: a global commentary by Lambeth Conference, Jennifer R. Strawbridge, Robert Stewart Heaney, Emma Ineson, and Justin Welby, 2020.

Genesis by Abraham Tal, 2015.

Gospel haymanot: a constructive theology and critical reflection on African and diasporic Christianity, 2020.

How (not) to read the Bible: making sense of the anti-women, anti-science, pro-violence, pro-slavery, and other crazy-sounding parts of scripture, 2020.

Howard Thurman and the disinherited: a religious biography, 2020.

Interfaith leadership: a primer by Eboo Patel, 2016.

Proverbs by Jan de Waard, 2008.

Retrieving Augustine’s doctrine of creation: ancient wisdom for current controversy, 2020.

The saints’ guide to happiness by Robert Ellsberg, 2003.

The spiritual way: classic traditions and contemporary practice, 2019.

Veritas: a Harvard professor, a con man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, 2020.

White too long: the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity, 2020.

Social Sciences
How to fight racism: courageous Christianity and the journey toward racial justice, 2021.

The rise and triumph of the modern self: cultural amnesia, expressive individualism, and the road to sexual revolution, 2020.

New Testament Seminar
The apocalypse of John: a commentary by Francis J. Moloney, 2020.

The early textual transmission of John: stability and fluidity in its second and third century Greek manuscripts, 2018.

The gospels as stories: a narrative approach to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 2020.

Introducing the Pseudepigrapha of Second Temple Judaism: message, context, and significance, 2020.

Jesus and the forces of death: the Gospels’ portrayal of ritual impurity within first-century Judaism, 2021.

Jewish roots of Eastern Christian mysticism: studies in honor of Alexander Golitzin, 2020.

Khirbet Qumrân and Aïn Feshkha, 2019.

Lift up your heads: nonverbal communication and related body imagery in the Bible, 2018.

Linguistics and New Testament Greek: key issues in the current debate, 2020.

The new day of atonement: a Matthean typology, 2020.

Perspectives on Paul: five views, 2020.

Reading Revelation in context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism, 2019.

A socio-rhetorical interpretation of the letter to Philemon in light of the new institutional economics: an exhortation to transform a master-slave economic relationship into a brotherly loving relationship, 2017.

To live in the Spirit: Paul and the spirit of God, 2019.

New Testament Seminar Reference
The New Testament Gospels in Manichaean tradition: the sources in Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Bactrian, New Persian, and Arabic:  with appendices on the “Gospel of Thomas” and Diatessaron, 2020.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
After The passion is gone: American religious consequences.

Beyond borders: thinking critically about global issues.

Black like me.

The burden of the flesh: fasting and sexuality in early Christianity.

The Cambridge companion to Orthodox Christian theology.

China from the inside [DVD].

The Christian sacraments: or, A scriptural exhibition of the nature, design, mode and subjects of Christian baptism: in which every important question, touching the subject, is fairly stated, and fully and scripturally answered. Also, a History of immersion, as a religious rite, from its rise among the Jews to the present time. Together with the nature, design, proper use, perpetuity, and proper subjects of the sacrament of the Lord’s supper: designed as a halp [sic] to a correct understanding and proper use of the Christian sacraments.

The Church of Christ – essential, all-sufficient, indestructable, perpetually relevant: being the Freed-Hardeman College Lectures of 1971.

Encyclopedia of religion and film.

The fire this time: a new generation speaks about race.

Gender diversity: crosscultural variations.

Gendered lives: communication, gender, and culture.

The Gospel according to Hollywood.

Holy cow [DVD].

Holy superheroes!: exploring the sacred in comics, graphic novels, and film.

Home by Marilynne Robinson.

How to be an antiracist.

In good faith: questioning religion and atheism.

Inquiry about the monks in Egypt.

My life [DVD].

A new practical primer of literary Chinese.

No one can stem the tide: selected poems, 1931-1991.

The other side of the river: a story of two towns, a death, and America’s dilemma.

Pondering the Passion: what’s at stake for Christians and Jews?

Privilege: a reader.

Race, class, and gender in the United States: an integrated study.

Racism without racists: color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America.

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.

Saint Anselm: a portrait in a landscape.

Salvage the bones: a novel.

Screen christologies: redemption and the medium of film.

The word in this world: two sermons by Karl Barth, Christopher Asprey, and Kurt I. Johanson.

There are no children here: the story of two boys growing up in the other America.

Toward the endless day: the life of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel.

Treatises on Noah and David Ambrose and Brian Dunkle.

Tuesdays with Morrie [DVD].

Understanding race and ethnic relations.

White privilege: essential readings on the other side of racism.

Working toward whiteness: how America’s immigrants became white: the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs.

New Books and Media Received (November 2020-January 2021)

New Books and Media Received (November 2020 – January 2021)

The following Books (150 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through expense accounts and by donation from November 2020 to January 2021.

Seminary Library

Art
The Rublev Trinity: the icon of the Trinity by the monk-painter Andrei Rublev, 2007.

History
The Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture, 2020.

Information Resources and Library Science
Latin palaeography : antiquity and the Middle Ages, 1990.

Language and Literature
Translating empire: Tell Fekheriyeh, deuteronomy, and the Akkadian treaty tradition, 2019. 

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
Athanasiana Syriaca.De incarnatione contra Arianos;  contra Apollinarium I;  De cruce et passione;  quod unus sit Christus;  De incarnatione dei verbi;  Ad Jovianum, 1972.

Balaam in Text and Tradition, 2019.

Beguiled by beauty: cultivating a life of contemplation and compassion, 2020.

Commentaire sur l’Épître aux Romains [3 volumes, vols. 2-4], 2009.

A concise guide to the Quran: answering thirty critical questions, 2020.

The Congregation in a secular age: keeping sacred time against the speed of modern life, 2021.

A critical and exegetical commentary on the Epistle of James by Dale C. Allison, 2013.

Deuteronomy (Biblia Hebraica) by Carmel McCarthy, 2007.

Dogmatics in outline, 1970.

Ezra and Nehemiah (Biblia Herbraica) by David Marcus, 2006.

Genesis by John Goldingay, 2020.

God’s messiah in the Old Testament: expectations of a coming king, 2020.

Hosea-Micah by John Goldingay, 2021.

How to preach a dangerous sermon, 2018.

Institutions of divine and secular learning; and, On the soul by Cassiodorus, James Halporn, and James W. Vessey, 2004.

Jesus and John Wayne: how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation, 2020.

Judges (Biblia Hebraica) by Natalio Fernández Marcos and David Marcus, 2011.

Majority world theology, 2020.

The practice of pastoral care: a postmodern approach, 2015.

Rhetoric and hermeneutics: approaches to text, tradition and social construction in Biblical and Second Temple literature, 2019.

Surviving a dangerous sermon, 2020.

Theology as freedom: on Martin Luther’s “De servo arbitrio”, 2019.

Third culture faithful: empowered ministry for multi-ethnic believers and congregations, 2020.

Twelve Minor Prophets by Anthony Gelston and Adrian Schenker, 2010.

Warriors between worlds: moral injury and identities in crisis, 2019.

Women in the Bible by Jaime Clark-Soles, 2020.

Work and worship: reconnecting our labor and liturgy, 2020.

New Testament Seminar
The Eucharist, its origins and contexts: sacred meal, communal meal, table fellowship in late antiquity, early Judaism, and early Christianity, 2018.

The Eusebian canon tables: ordering textual knowledge in late antiquity, 2019.

Faith as participation: an exegetical study of some key Pauline texts, 2019.

The first Christians in the Roman world: Augustan and New Testament essays, 2008.

John the theologian and his Paschal Gospel: a prologue to theology, 2019.

The media matrix of early Jewish and Christian narrative, 2019.

Numerals in early Greek New Testament manuscripts: text-critical, scribal, and theological studies, 2017.

Paul and the ancient celebrity circuit: the cross and moral transformation, 2019.

Scribal harmonization in the Synoptic Gospels, 2019.

Simply come copying: direct copies as test cases in the quest for scribal habits, 2019.

Reference
Encyclopedia of Christianity in the global south [2 volumes], 2018.

The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000-332 BCE, 2014. 

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
1984 revisited: totalitarianism in our century.

African American poetry: 250 years of struggle & song.

After the fact: the art of historical detection.

All the daring of the soldier: women of the Civil War armies.

American beauty by Lois W. Banner.

And sadly teach: teacher education and professionalization in American culture.

Animal land: the creatures of children’s fiction.

Basic Christianity by John R. W. Stott.

The beautiful soul of John Woolman, apostle of abolition.

Becoming visible: women in European history.

The Beechers: an American family in the nineteenth century.

Beyond freedom and dignity.

A brief history of the book: from tablet to tablet.

Bring out your dead: the past as revelation.

Chaos: making a new science.

A chorus of stones: the private life of war.

Clash of extremes: the economic origins of the Civil War.

Clio’s consciousness raised: new perspectives on the history of women.

Complicity: how the North promoted, prolonged, and profited from slavery.

Conflict and consensus in modern American history.

Connecting spheres: women in the Western world, 1500 to the present.

The Constitution in conflict.

Dearly: new poems by Margaret Atwood.

Disappearing through the skylight: culture and technology in the twentieth century.

Early biblical interpretation by James L. Kugel and Rowan A. Greer.

Elidor and the golden ball.

An encyclopedia of fairies: hobgoblins, brownies, bogies, and other supernatural creatures.

The Experts speak: the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation.

Felon: poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts.

The forms of autobiography: episodes in the history of a literary genre.

Free but not equal: the Midwest and the Negro during the Civil War.

Freedom in America by Kenneth Bridges.

From confederation to nation: the American Constitution, 1835-1877.

From rationality to liberation: the evolution of feminist ideology.

The gift of Acabar.

A guide for the writing of local history by John Cumming.

A guide to writing history by Doris Ricker Marston.

Having our say: the Delany sisters’ first 100 years.

Healing the hurt that won’t heal: freedom for the abortion-wounded and help for the church they fear.

Heavy metal [DVD].

Heritage of music [4 volumes] by Michael Raeburn and Alan Kendall.

Heroines of Dixie: Confederate women tell their story of the War.

History and American society: essays of David M Potter.

History as an art of memory.

History making history: the new historicism in American religious thought.

A history of American political thought by Alfons J. Beitzinger.

A history of food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat.

A history of medicine by Lois N. Magner.

A history of private life [2 volumes] by Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby.

J.R.R. Tolkien by Robley Evans.

Joyous greetings: the first international women’s movement, 1830-1860.

Legends, lies, and cherished myths of American history.

Love and limerence: the experience of being in love.

Making history matter by Robert Dawidoff.

Manifest destiny: a study of nationalist expansionism in American history.

Many thousands gone: the first two centuries of slavery in North America.

Material culture: a research guide.

Mechanical man: John Broadus Watson and the beginnings of behaviorism.

Medieval bodies: life, death and art in the Middle Ages.

Memoirs of a medieval woman: the life and times of Margery Kempe.

Modern and modernism: the sovereignty of the artist, 1885-1925.

Mongrel firebugs and men of property: capitalism and class conflict in American history.

Monument: poems: new and selected.

The motivated worker: a manager’s guide to improving job satisfaction.

Mythology by Edith Hamilton and Steele Savage.

A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman.

The nature of historical knowledge by Michael Stanford.

The Negro in the making of America.

Not in God’s image; [women in history from the Greeks to the Victorians].

On the laps of gods: the Red Summer of 1919 and the struggle for justice that remade a nation.

Paradigms lost: images of man in the mirror of science.

Patriotic treason: John Brown and the soul of America.

The philosophy of history: with reflections and aphorisms by John William Miller.

Portraits of American women: from settlement to the present.

The problem of slavery in Western culture.

The Random House library of painting and sculpture.

Remembering and forgetting: an inquiry into the nature of memory.

Researching and writing in history; a practical handbook for students.

Rethinking masculinity: philosophical explorations in light of feminism.

Rising from the rubble: the restoration of Boldt Castle 1977-2002.

The sable arm: Negro troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865.

The sisterhood: the true story of the women who changed the world.

The slave catchers: enforcement of the Fugitive slave law, 1850-1860.

The southern hill and the land beyond.

A student’s guide to history Jules R. Benjamin.

A student’s guide to the study of history by John Lukacs.

Teacher in America by Jacques Barzun.

Teaching history with community resources.

The theologian and his universe: theology and cosmology from the Middle Ages to the present.

They also ran: the story of the men who were defeated for the presidency.

They marched into sunlight: war and peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967.

Timeless problems in history.

To serve them all my days [DVD Miniseries].

Understanding history through the American experience.

Velcro families: they stick!

A visual history of the English Bible: the tumultuous tale of the world’s bestselling book.

The voice of Black America: major speeches by Negroes in the United States, 1797-1971.

Wade in the water: poems by Tracy K. Smith.

Walden Two by B. F. Skinner.

The war against women Marilyn French.

Warrior dreams: violence and manhood in post-Vietnam America.

The way of St Francis: the challenge of Franciscan spirituality for everyone.

A woman of valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War.

Women and the American experience by Nancy Woloch.

Women’s America: refocusing the past.

You shall be as gods: a radical interpretation of the Old Testament and its tradition.

 

New Books and Media Received (October 2020)

The following Books (79 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through expense accounts and by donation during October 2020.

Seminary Library

Geography
Christian maps of the holy land: images and meanings, 2020.

Information Resources and Library Science
The Oxford illustrated history of the book, 2020.

Language and Literature
An anthology of Syriac writers from Qatar in the seventh century, 2015.

A corpus of Ammonite inscriptions, 2019.

Hebrew for life: strategies for learning, retaining, and reviving biblical Hebrew, 2020.

An introduction to biblical Greek: a grammar with exercises, 2020.

Lord, we need thee: a tribute to Nina Simone, James Weldon, Howard Thurman, Song of Solomon, 2015.

Law
Jewish law and early Christian identity: betrothal, marriage, and infidelity in the writings of Ephrem the Syrian, 2020. 

Medicine
The cry of the poor: liberation ethics and justice in health care, 2020.

Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
Always a guest: speaking of faith far from home, 2020.

Anchored in the current: discovering Howard Thurman as educator, activist, guide, and prophet, 2020.

Ancient Jewish and Christian scriptures: new developments in canon controversy, 2020.

Apologiae pro Christianis ; Dialogus cum Tryphone, 2005.

Barth in conversation, 3 volumes, 2017.

Bavinck: a critical biography, 2020.

Beautiful and terrible things: a Christian struggle with suffering, grief, and hope, 2020.

Becoming brave: finding the courage to pursue racial justice now, 2020.

Born from lament: the theology and politics of hope in Africa, 2017.

The centering moment, 1984.

A critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Job 22-42, 2020.

Disciplines of the spirit, 1977.

The end of the Christian life: how embracing our mortality frees us to truly live, 2020.

The end of youth ministry?: why parents don’t really care about youth groups and what youth workers should do about it, 2020.

The enneagram for spiritual formation: how knowing ourselves can make us more like Jesus, 2020.

The essential Karl Barth: a reader and commentary, 2019.

The Exodus, by Richard Elliott Friedman, 2017.

Faith formation in a secular age: responding to the church’s obsession with youthfulness, 2017.

The Father of lights: a theology of beauty, 2020.

The first one hundred years of Christianity: an introduction to its history, literature, and development, 2020.

Footprints of a dream: the story of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, 2009.

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, 2014.

A Greek Thomist: providence in Gennadios Scholarios, 2020.

The harp of glory: Enzira Sebhat: an alphabetical hymn of praise for the ever-blessed Virgin Mary from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, 2010.

Howard Thurman: essential writings, 2006.

Howard Thurman: philosophy, civil rights, and the search for common ground, 2019.

Judges, by Klaas Spronk, 2019.

Justice and charity: an introduction to Aquinas’s moral, economic, and political thought, 2020.

Leading not normal volunteers: a not normal guide for leading your incredible, quirky team, 2016.

Love alone is credible, 2004.

Metrical discourses on faith by the blessed Mar Ephrem, 2020.

The mood of Christmas, 1985.

On Christian leadership: the letters of Alexander Schmemann and Georges Florovsky (1947-1955), 2020.

On Satan, demons, and psychiatry: exploring mental illness in the Bible, 2020.

On the mystical life: the ethical discourses, 3 volumes, 1997.

On the sacraments: a selection of works of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor, and of Peter of Poitiers, 2020.

The origin and character of God: ancient Israelite religion through the lens of divinity, 2020.

The papers of Howard Washington Thurman, five volumes, 2009.

The pastor in a secular age: ministry to people who no longer need a God, 2019.

Reading while Black: African American biblical interpretation as an exercise in hope, 2020.

Redeeming power: understanding authority and abuse in the church, 2020.

The search for common ground: an inquiry into the basis of man’s experience of community, 1986.

The spirit of hope: theology for a world in peril, 2019.

The stories we live by: personal myths and the making of the self, 1993.

Teachers in late antique Christianity, 2018.

Temptations of Jesus: five sermons, by Howard Thurman, 1978.

Traités contre les ariens, 2 volumes, 2019.

Trauma + grace: theology in a ruptured world, 2019.

An unconventional God: the spirit according to Jesus, 2020.

Vicarious kingship: a theme in Syriac political theology in late antiquity, 2017.

Whence and whither: on lives and living, 2019.

Who is God?: key moments of biblical revelation, 2020.

‘The wings of the Spirit’: exploring feminine symbolism in early pneumatology: a reassessment of a key metaphor in the spiritual teachings of the Macarian homilies in the light of early Syriac Christian tradition, 2020.

Archives
A life of Alexander Campbell, 2020.

Visions and faces of the tragic: the mimesis of tragedy and the folly of salvation in early Christian literature, 2020.

Reference Oversize
Greek and Roman mosaics, by Umberto Pappalardo, Rosaria Ciardiello, Luciano Pedicini, and Ceil Friedman, 2019.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
Bearing God’s name: why Sinai still matters.

Bringing Jesus to the desert: uncover the ancient culture, discover hidden meanings.

Casablanca (DVD).

A concise guide to reading the New Testament: a canonical introduction, by David R. Nienhuis.

Discerning ethics: diverse Christian responses to divisive moral issues.

The Holy Land satellite atlas, 2 volumes.

Jewish law and decision-making: a study through time.

Judaism, the first phase: the place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the origins of Judaism.

Killing a Messiah: a novel.

Paul among the people: the Apostle reinterpreted and reimagined in his own time.

Paul before the Areopagus, and other New Testament studies.

Pee-Wee’s big adventure (DVD).

The significance of singleness: a theological vision for the future of the church.

Transpacific evangelicalism in the twentieth century: revival and evangelism in America and Korea.

The world is waiting for you: celebrating the 50th ordination anniversary of Addie Davis.