New Books and Media Received (February 2024)

The following books (68 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in February 2024.

Seminary Library

Lending
2 Maccabees 1-7: a handbook on the Greek text by Seth Ehorn

2 Maccabees 8-15: a handbook on the Greek text by Seth Ehorn

Advanced strategic planning: a 21st-century model for church and ministry leaders

Black theology and Black faith by Noel Leo Erskine

Blood theology: seeing red in body- and God-talk

The canons of the Quinisext Council (6912)

Chalcedon in context: church councils 400-700

Christianity as a way of life: a systematic theology

The death and life of speculative theology: a Lonergan idea

The five dysfunctions of a team: a leadership fable

Flesh made word: the Protestant interpretation problem and an embodied hermeneutic

The New Cambridge companion to biblical interpretation

Scripture, the genesis of doctrine

Uncharted leadership: 20 case studies to help ministry leaders adapt to uncertainty

Reference
The SBL handbook of style

The SBL study Bible: New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books

Welshimer Library

Lending
Arthur Miller: American witness

Bad Mexicans: race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands

Banking on slavery: financing Southern expansion in the antebellum United States

Before the Holocaust: antisemitic violence and the reaction of German elites and institutions during the Nazi takeover

The Cambridge companion to women in music since 1900

The cathedrals of Pisa, Siena and Florence: a thorough inspection of the medieval construction techniques

Child psychology in twelve questions

Do everything: the biography of Frances Willard

Dr. nurse: science, politics, and the transformation of American nursing

Egyptian art by J. R. Harris

Female genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the dawn of the Constitution

Frederick Douglass: prophet of freedom by David W. Blight

Half American: the heroic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad

Jim Crow’s pink slip: the untold story of Black principal and teacher leadership

Misfire: the Sarajevo assassination and the winding road to World War I

The Mormon experience: a history of the Latter-day Saints

Moving INTO the Classroom: a handbook for movement integration in the elementary classroom

Mozart in motion: his work and his world in pieces

The perversion of Holocaust memory: writing and rewriting the past after 1989

Poor naked wretches: Shakespeare’s working people

Power and prediction: the disruptive economics of artificial intelligence

The problem of democracy: America, the Middle East, and the rise and fall of an idea

Pursuing a career in mental health: a comprehensive guide for aspiring professionals

Reforming criminal justice: a Christian proposal

Reweaving the world: the emergence of ecofeminism

SceneWriting: the missing manual for screenwriters

The seven deadly sins of White Christian nationalism: a call to action

Standby: an approach to theatrical design

States of incarceration: rebellion, reform, and America’s punishment system

The stolen year: how COVID changed children’s lives, and where we go now

Story machines: how computers have become creative writers

To make Negro literature: writing, literary practice & African American authorship

We are not one people: secession and separatism in American politics since 1776

Women in jazz: musicality, femininity, marginalization

Juvenile
The collectors: stories

Elf dog & owl head

Fire from the sky

Fox has a problem

Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow

The girl I am, was and never will be: a speculative memoir of transracial adoption

I did it! By Michael Emberley

In every life by Marla Frazee

Mexikid: a graphic memoir

Salt the water

There was a party for Langston

Worm and Caterpillar are friends

Reference
The book of Numbers by Timothy R. Ashley

The book of Ruth by Peter H. W. Lau

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

Zechariah 9-14 and Malachi: a commentary by David L. Petersen

DVDs
Straw dogs (1971)

The dirty dozen (1967)