New Books and Media Received (April – August 2024)

The following books (136 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation from April to August 2024.

Seminary Library

Lending
All my knotted-up life: a memoir

A biblical theology of exile

Blessed are the peacemakers: a biblical theology of human violence

The book of Numbers by Timothy R. Ashley

The Book of Ruth by Peter H. W. Lau

The books of Ezra and Nehemiah by Hannah K. Harrington

The books of Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah by James D. Nogalski

Edessa, ‘the blessed city’

The Hebrew Bible and environmental ethics: humans, nonhumans, and the living landscape

Marakwet: an ethnographic study of religious and cultural identity in Africa

The New Cambridge companion to Christian doctrine

The Orthodox Church: an introduction to Eastern Christianity

Parochial and plain sermons

Shadow Sophia

Was blind, but now I see: discipleship in Mark’s gospel

Where the light fell: a memoir

New Testament Seminar
1 Corinthians by Luise Schottroff, Claudia Janssen, and Everett R. Kalin

1-2 Timothy, Titus by Annette Bourland Huizenga

1985 seminar papers: one hundred twenty-first annual meeting, November 23-26, 1985, Anaheim Hilton and Towers, Anaheim, California by the Society of Biblical Literature

2 Corinthians by Antoinette Clark Wire, Mary Ann Beavis, and Barbara E. Reid

2 Kings by Song-Mi Suzie Park, Ahida Calderón Pilarski, and Barbara E. Reid

Basic questions in theology;collected essays.

Biblical critical theory: how the Bible’s unfolding story makes sense of modern life and culture

Embedded genres in the New Testament: understanding their impact for interpretation

Ephesians by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Hebrews by Mary Ann Beavis, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Linda M. Maloney, and Barbara E. Reid

Into the heart of Romans: a deep dive into Paul’s greatest letter

John, Jesus, and the renewal of Israel

Judges by Mercedes L. Garcia Bachmann, Ahida Calderón Pilarski, and Barbara E. Reid

Judith by Jennifer L. Koosed, Robert Paul  Seesengood, Amy-Jill Levine, and Barbara E. Reid

Lamentations by Gina Hens-Piazza, Carol J. Dempsey, and Barbara E. Reid

Leviticus by S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Lauress Wilkins Lawrence, and Barbara E. Reid

Luke was not a Christian: reading the Third Gospel and Acts within Judaism

Micah by Julia M. O’Brien

Mortal goods: reimagining Christian political duty

Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah by Wilda Gafney, Carol J. Dempsey, and Barbara E. Reid

Paul and time: life in the temporality of Christ

Paul, politics, and new creation: reconsidering Paul and empire

Philippians by Elsa Tamez, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, and Alicia J. Batten

Proverbs by Alice Ogden Bellis, Sarah Tanzer, and Barbara E. Reid

Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) by Lisa M. Wolfe, Athalya Brenner-Idan, and Barbara E. Reid

Romans: a handbook on the Greek text by Stanley E. Porter and David I. Yoon

Ruth by Alice L. Laffey, Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Amy-Jill Levine, and Barbara E. Reid

Sarcasm in Paul’s letters

Song of Songs by F. Scott Spencer

T&T Clark handbook to the historical Paul

The people of the parables: Galilee in the time of Jesus

Tobit by Michele Murray, Amy-Jill Levine, and Barbara E. Reid

Archives
Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, embracing a view of the origin, progress and principles of the religious reformation which he advocated

Program of the International Convention of Disciples of Christ, 1926

Welshimer Library

Lending
24/7 politics: cable television and the fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News

Africa: an introduction by Eustace Palmer

The age of interconnection: a global history of the second half of the twentieth century

America before 1787: the unraveling of a colonial regime

American inheritance: liberty and slavery in the birth of a nation, 1765-1795

America’s book: the rise and decline of a Bible civilization, 1794-1911

Andreoli and Carpenter’s Cecil essentials of medicine

Angela’s ashes: a memoir

Appalachia on the table: representing mountain food and people

Atlas of pelvic anatomy and gynecologic surgery

Benjamin Britten in context

Better living through TV: contemporary TV and moral identity formation

The British home front and the First World War

The Cambridge companion to the literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction

The Chicago guide to fact-checking

Christianity and constitutionalism by Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh

Color atlas and text of obstetric and gynecologic dermatology

The coming of the railway: a new global history, 1750-1850

Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2018

The delight makers: Anglo-American metaphysical religion and the pursuit of happiness

Elie Wiesel: confronting the silence

Empire building: the construction of British India, 1690-1860

The false promise of superiority: the United States and nuclear deterrence after the Cold War

Feminist judgments: rewritten criminal law opinions

Genital dermatology atlas

A genius for confusion: Joseph R. McCarthy and the politics of deceit

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century

The goddess myth in contemporary literature and popular culture: a feminist critique

Haunted laughter: representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in comedic film and television

How documentaries work by Jacob Bricca

Indefinite: doing time in jail

Indigenous memory, urban reality: stories of American Indian relocation and reclamation

The industrial Brontës: advocates for women’s equality in a turbulent age

Leadership: theory and practice by Peter G. Northouse

The Lion House: the coming of a king

Managed dissent: the law of public protest

Michael Chekhov technique in the twenty-first century: new pathways

Mosby’s manual of diagnostic and laboratory tests

A movement in every direction: legacies of the Great Migration

On music theory and making music more welcoming for everyone

Opium’s orphans: the 200-year history of the war on drugs

Orange-collar labor: work and inequality in prison

Origin Africa: a natural history

The Oxford handbook of the Cold War

The Oxford history of the Reformation

Performing racial uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American activism in the postbellum to pre-Harlem era

Perplexing plots: popular storytelling and the poetics of murder

Philosophies of religion: a global and critical introduction

Practical colposcopy

Prisons and health in the age of mass incarceration

Rain of ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

Red hot city: housing, race, and exclusion in twenty-first century Atlanta

Religion’s power: what makes it work

Remembering John Adams: the second president in history, memory and popular culture

The Routledge handbook of the Cold War

The Routledge social science handbook of AI

Scotland: the global history 1603 to the present

The shadow of childhood harm behind prison walls: theory, evidence, and treatment

Strong female protagonist by Heather Hoover

The struggle for the people’s King: how politics transforms the memory of the civil rights movement

Television in the streaming era: the global shift

The unfinished business of unsettled things: art from an African American South

Vaughan Williams by Eric Saylor

Waging a good war: a military history of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

The water recycling revolution: tapping into the future

Why dance matters

Wilkinson & Stone atlas of vulvar disease

Women and the crusades

The women’s mosque of America: authority and community in US Islam

Worship for the whole people of God

Worship in the early Church by Justo L. González and Catherine Gunsalus González

The writer’s brush: paintings, drawings, and sculpture by writers

Writing the history of the humanities: questions, themes, and approaches

Juvenile
Eagle drums

Jovita wore pants: the story of a Mexican freedom fighter

More stories from the Old Testament: [from Joseph to the Prophets]

Simon sort of says

Stories from the Old Testament [from Adam to Joseph]

The truth about dragons

Archives
Allowing God to cultivate our character: reflections on the fruit of the spirit by Kristen Mudrack

The hall of mustard-seed faith by Kristen Mudrack

Real joy: exercising joy in all circumstances by Kristen Mudrack

Strong female protagonist by Heather Hoover

Office
Teaching primary source research skills to 21st-century learners

Teaching with primary sources

Reference
Tennessee blue book, 2023-2024