New Books and Media Received (December 2023 & January 2024)

The following books (103 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in December 2023 and January 2024.

Seminary Library

Lending
1 & 2 Thessalonians by Seyoon Kim and F. F. Bruce

Aramaic Ezra and Daniel: a handbook on the Aramaic text

Becoming human: the Holy Spirit and the rhetoric of race

Beyond the individual: Stoic philosophy on community and connection

The Bible among ruins: time, material remains, and the world of the biblical writers

The Cambridge companion to Plato

Canaanite in the Amarna tablets: a linguistic analysis of the mixed dialect used by scribes from Canaan

Concise lexicon of the Greek New Testament

The experience of God: icons of the mystery

Homilies on the Psalms: Codex Monacensis Graecus 314

Hope is here!: spiritual practices for pursuing justice and beloved community

The kingdom of Kush: the Napatan and Meroitic empires

The kingdom, the power, and the glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism

Moralia et ascetica armeniaca =The oft-repeated discourses = Yačaxapatum čaṙkʻ

Performing early Christian literature: audience experience and interpretation of the Gospels

Practicing Christians, practical atheists: how cultural liturgies and everyday social practices shape the Christian life

Reviving the ancient faith: the story of Churches of Christ in America

Songs for the fast and Pascha 

A spirituality of fundraising

Text history of the Greek Ecclesiastes: introduction to the Göttingen Septuagint edition of Ecclesiastes

Wisdom in Christian tradition: the patristic roots of modern Russian sophiology

Women who do: female disciples in the Gospels

Women-church: theology and practice of feminist liturgical communities

New Testament Seminar
1-2 Peter and Jude by Pheme Perkins, Eloise M. Rosenblatt, Patricia M. McDonald, Linda M. Maloney, Barbara E. Reid

Acts of the Apostles by Linda M. Maloney, Ivoni Richter Reimer, Mary Ann Beavis, Barbara E. Reid

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung by Hildegard Temporini, Wolfgang Haase, Joseph Vogt

John by Mary L. Coloe, Mary Ann Beavis, Barbara E. Reid

Luke by Barbara E. Reid, Shelly Matthews, Amy-Jill Levine

Mark by Warren Carter, Sarah Tanzer, Barbara E. Reid

Matthew: an interpretation Bible commentary by Mark Allan Powell

Phenomenal phenomena: biblical and multicultural accounts of spirits and exorcism

Psalms: books 2-3 by Denise Dombkowski Hopkins

The Routledge handbook of early Christian philosophy

Archives
Creative followership: in the shadow of greatness: my journey to President of Chick-fil-a

Jimmy’s stories: preaching what I practiced at Chick-fil-A

Welshimer Library

Lending
And there was light: Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle

The Cambridge companion to Amy Beach

Christianity and science by Herman Bavinck, Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, James Perman Eglinton, Cory C. Brock

Coal, cages, crisis: the rise of the prison economy in Central Appalachia

Counterpoetics of modernity: on Irish poetry and modernism

Culture and language at crossed purposes: the unsettled records of American settlement

Documenting the documentary: close readings of documentary film and video

Dvořák’s prophecy: and the vexed fate of Black classical music

Ethel Rosenberg: an American tragedy

The everyday crusade: Christian nationalism in American politics

Florence Price: American composer

From spirituals to symphonies: African-American women composers and their music

Future morality

Gin, Jesus, & Jim Crow: Prohibition and the transformation of racial and religious politics in the South

Hallelujah junction: composing an American life

Israel’s moment: international support for and opposition to establishing the jewish state, 1945-1949

John Adams: a research and information guide

John Adams’s Nixon in China: musical analysis historical and political perspectives

Music & monarchy

Musical landscapes in color: conversations with Black American composers

The new Cambridge companion to Samuel Johnson

A new history of documentary film

Nineteenth century art: a critical history

Our data, ourselves: a personal guide to digital privacy

The Pope at war: the secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

Raising Lazarus: hope, justice, and the future of America’s overdose crisis

Reading Confederate monuments

Rough draft of history: a century of US social movements in the news

Slenderman: online obsession, mental illness, and the violent crime of two Midwestern girls

Social media and crisis communication

Vaccines in the global era: how to deal safely and effectively with the pandemics of our time

What’s prison for?: punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration

Woman: the American history of an idea

“You are not expected to understand this”: how 26 lines of code changed the world

Juvenile
Abraham, God’s friend

Children’s Bible

The Church begins

David and his son

God gives his son

God gives the law

God makes the world

God speaks through prophets

The good news

The highest tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s life, leadership, and legacy

Ish by Peter H. Reynolds

Jesus’ death for us

Jesus works miracles

Jesus, son of Mary

The little boat that almost sank: Matthew 14:22-33 ; Mark 6:45-51 for children

Little boy

My book of Bible stories: a Frances Hook picture book:  with stories

Night golf

Peach Boy and other Japanese children’s favorite stories

Thirty-three multicultural tales to tell

Three men who walked in fire: Daniel 3 for children

The weaving of a dream: a Chinese folktale

Which way to Nineveh?

Reference
1 & 2 Thessalonians by Seyoon Kim and F. F. Bruce

Jonah: a new translation with introduction and commentary by Rhiannon Graybill, John Kaltner, Steven L. McKenzie

Joshua 13-24: a new translation with introductions and commentary by Thomas B. Dozeman

Leviticus: a commentary by Erhard S. Gerstenberger

DVDs
Barbie (2023)

Oppenheimer (2023)

Archives
Advances in plasma processes for polymers II

Church camp chaos

Daily wisdom for women 2022 devotional collection

God bless us every one! devotional inspiration from A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens

Oh baby!