New Books and Media Received (March 2025)

The following books (62 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 2025.

E-books

The Principles of Judaism

Seminary Library

Lending
Anti-semitism before the Holocaust

The art of being a creature:  meditations on humus and humility

Ecclesiastes 1-5:  a critical and exegetical commentary by Stuart Weeks

Ecclesiastes 5-12:  a critical and exegetical commentary by Stuart Weeks

Ephesians by Mark D. Roberts, Tremper Longman, and Scot McKnight

Fifty-One Armenian Antiphons Attributed to Ephraem the Syrian: The First Complete English Translation of the Armenian Text with Comments on the Syriac … (Eastern Mediterranean Texts and Contexts).

Lunchroom theology: pushing tables together in a fractured world

Preaching hope in darkness: help for pastors in addressing suicide from the pulpit

Preaching points: 55 tips for improving your pulpit ministry

Preaching to a divided nation: a seven-step model for promoting reconciliation and unity

Protestant bodies:  gesture in the English reformation

Sex, tech, and faith: ethics for a digital age

Shbītho: monastic prayers from the Syriac tradition

Unfamiliar selves in the Hebrew bible: possession and other spirit phenomena 

You’re not listening: what you’re missing and why it matters

New Testament Seminar
1 Thessalonians by Florence Morgan Gillman and Mary Ann Beavis

Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah by Marie-Theres. Wacker

Christmaker: a life of John the Baptist

Currents in the interpretation of Paul: collected essays

John of history, Baptist of faith: the quest for the historical baptizer

Paul and Asklepios: the Greco-Roman quest for healing and the apostolic mission

Pneumaformity: transformation by the spirit in Paul

The state of Pauline studies: a survey of recent research

Reference
The New Testament in color: a multiethnic Bible commentary

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

Sarudzai saves the village

 

Welshimer Library

Lending
AI snake oil: what artificial intelligence can do, what it can’t, and how to tell the difference

Collaboration: a potential history of photography

Demanding witness: women and the trauma of homecoming in Greek tragedy

Gospel thrillers: conspiracy, fiction, and the vulnerable Bible

The purposeful graduate: why colleges must talk to students about vocation

Race, politics, and Irish America: a gothic history

Route 66 and the formation of a national cultural icon: mother road to mythic American byway

Vergil: the poet’s life by Sarah Ruden

Juvenile
Across so many seas

The action Bible: God’s redemptive story

The action storybook bible: an interactive adventure through God’s redemptive story

Un año de historias bíblicas: un tesoro de 48 historias entrañables de la Palabra de Dios

La Biblia en acción: la historia redentora de Dios

Birth of the Chosen One: a First Nations retelling of the Christmas story

The book of belonging: Bible stories for kind & contemplative kids

Bright red fruit

Brownstone

Children of God storybook Bible

Compound fracture

The deep dark

The first state of being

Fox versus fox

Henry, Like Always: Book 1

Home in a lunchbox

Jesus: a gospel

Magnolia Wu unfolds it all

One big open sky

Road home

The things God made: explore God’s creation through the Bible, science, and art

Reference
The New Testament in color: a multiethnic Bible commentary

Office
A librarian’s toolbox: what you need to know

Archives
Carolina basketball school

Democracy and the American Gothic

Shape of Our Lives: A Field Guide for Congregational Formation: A Field Guide for Congregational Formation

Theorizing Stephen King