The following books (40 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in March 2024.
Seminary Library
Lending
1 Samuel by Ralph W. Kleim and Bruce Manning Metzger
Biblical anthropology: a philosophical, medical, and sociological sourcebook
Ezra: a new translation with introduction and commentary by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Feminist theory and Christian theology: cartographies of grace
Humilitas: a lost key to life, love, and leadership
Isaiah 34-66 by John D. W. Watts
Jonah: a new translation with introduction and commentary by Rhiannon Graybill, John Kaltner, and Steven L. McKenzie
Joshua 13-24: a new translation with introduction and commentary by Thomas B. Dozeman
Micah: a new translation with introduction and commentary by Bob Becking
On the human image of God by Gregory and John Behr
New Testament Seminar
Greek grammar beyond the basics: an exegetical syntax of the New Testament: with scripture, subject, and Greek word indexes
Welshimer Library
Lending
Accessible elections: how the states can help Americans vote
The all-consuming nation: chasing the American dream since World War II
Beethoven: a political artist in revolutionary times
Belief and cult: rethinking Roman religion
Black Shakespeare: reading and misreading race
The Bloomsbury introduction to postmodern realist fiction: resisting master narratives
Byzantine and Renaissance philosophy
The caregiving ambition: what it is and why it matters at home and work
The classical and Christian origins of American politics: political theology, natural law, and the American founding
Convoys: the British struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America
From big bang to big data: a history of the media
Gems of exquisite beauty: how hymnody carried classical music to America
The index of prohibited books: four centuries of struggle over word and image for the greater glory of God
The John Adams reader: essential writings on an American composer
Just war and ordered liberty
Literacy in a long blues note: Black women’s literature and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Oxford handbook of Virginia Woolf
Reclaiming John Steinbeck: writing for the future of humanity
The religious journey of Dwight D. Eisenhower: duty, God, and country
Sacred foundations: the religious and medieval roots of the European state
Sister novelists: the trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontës
Van Dyck and the making of English portraiture
Watermarks: Leonardo da Vinci and the mastery of nature
Wearing God: clothing, laughter, fire, and other overlooked ways of meeting God
“Whatever it is, I’m against it”: resistance to change in higher education
White: the history of a color
Juvenile
Big by Vashti Harrison
The eyes and the impossible
The many assassinations of Samir, the seller of dreams