New Books and Media Received (September 2024)

The following books (95 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in September 2024.

Seminary Library

Lending
Agur’s wisdom and the coherence of Proverbs 30

Balai of Qenneshrin: hymns

Basics of verbal aspect in biblical Greek

A chorus of prophetic voices: introducing the prophetic literature of ancient Israel

Cities of the biblical world

The city of Babylon: a history, c. 2000 BC – AD 116

A critical and exegetical commentary on 1 Peter in 2 volumes

Depicting deity: a metatheological approach

Emotional intelligence for religious leaders

Exegetical journeys in biblical Greek: 90 days of guided reading

The expectation gap: the tiny, vast space between our beliefs and experience of God

From idols to icons: the rise of the devotional image in early Christianity

Gender and Christian ethics by Adrian Thatcher

The genius of the gospels: the fifth annual mid-year lectures delivered at Western Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary

Gregory Palamas: the Hesychast controversy and the debate with Islam:  documents relating to Gregory Palamas

The guide to the perplexed: a new translation

The hermeneutics of sacred architecture: experience, interpretation, comparison

The history of Galilee, 1538-1949: mysticism, modernization, and war

Human anguish and God’s power

The idea of semitic monotheism: the rise and fall of a scholarly myth

In the beginning was the image: art and the Reformation Bible

Innocence of Pontius Pilate: how the roman trial of Jesus shaped history

Jesus and his parables by Craig B. Manning

Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Shephelah: papers presented at a colloquium of the Swiss Society for Ancient Near Eastern Studies held at the University of Bern, September 6, 2014

Kierkegaard and the new nationalism: a contemporary reinterpretation of the attack upon Christendom

Leadership or servanthood?: walking in the steps of Jesus

Leading at a higher level: Blanchard on leadership and creating high performing organizations

The library of paradise: a history of contemplative reading in the monasteries of the Church of the East

Macrina the Younger, philosopher of God

The medieval clergy, 800-1250: a sourcebook

The message of Judges: grace abounding

The Mishnah: an introduction by Jacob Neusner

The mysteries of Christianity

The NIV: the making of a contemporary translation

The Oxford annotated Mishnah: a new translation of the Mishnah with introductions and notes

The power of transformation: re-imagining the parables of Jesus

Proclaiming the parables: preaching and teaching the kingdom of God

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs by David C. Fink and Timothy George

Reforming the household of God: Paul’s models of belonging

Rise and fall of Christian Ireland

Romans: a structural, thematic, and exegetical commentary by Aaron Sherwood

Romans: text, readers, and the history of interpretation by Stephen Westerholm

The saved and the damned: a history of the Reformation

Saying no to say yes: everyday boundaries and pastoral excellence

Seeing and understanding Jesus: a literary and theological commentary on Mark 8:22-9:13

Spirituality and mental health across cultures

Teilhard de Chardin: an analysis and assessment

The Americanization of the apocalypse: creating America’s own Bible

Two views on homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church

Wesley-Langshaw correspondence: Charles Wesley, his sons, and the Lancaster organists

When in Romans: an invitation to linger with the gospel according to Paul

Wisdom of Ben Sira

Women and religion: global lives in focus

Women and the church: from devil’s gateway to discipleship

Worship in an age of anxiety: how Churches can create space for healing

Yahweh and the origins of ancient Israel: insights from the archaeological record

Yes She Can: biblical and practical reflections on women in leadership in the church

New Testament Seminar
The new perspective on grace: Paul and the gospel after Paul and the gift

Romans: a commentary by Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Archives
Campbellism examined

Core 52: a fifteen-minute daily guide to build your Bible IQ in a year

On target: creating a faith development plan for your church

Preaching James: preaching classic texts

Quest 52: a fifteen-minute-a-day yearlong pursuit of Jesus

Teach with success

Welshimer Library

Lending
2001, a space odyssey

Bach in the world: music, society, and representation in Bach’s cantatas

Beethoven in the bunker: musicians under the Nazi regime

The Cambridge companion to Latin American independence

Caves of the South Cumberland Plateau by Justin Whitmel Earley

Christian nationalism and the birth of the war on drugs

Cry, the beloved country

Decolonizing journalism: a guide to reporting in Indigenous communities

Don’t forget to live: Goethe and the tradition of spiritual exercises

English begins at Jamestown: narrating the history of a language

Fantasy: how it works by Larry E. Matthews and Bob Biddix

A fever in the heartland: the Ku Klux Klan’s plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them

Habits of the household: practicing the story of God in everyday family rhythms

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the rise of right-wing extremism

In the shadow of invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the promise of American democracy

Keeping your children’s ministry on mission: practical strategies for discipling the next generation

The little book of exoplanets by Fred Brouwers and Eileen J. Stevens

A little history of music by Joshua Winn

On Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Charles Darwin and Jan A. Pechenik

One lost soul: Richard Nixon’s search for salvation by Daniel Silliman

The opt-out family: how to give your kids what technology can’t

The Oxford handbook of religion and Europe

Patriots to pioneers: the first Tennessee volunteers

The readable Darwin: The origin of species edited for modern readers

Selected short stories of William Faulkner.

Show them Jesus: teaching the gospel to kids

What sorrows labour in my parent’s breast?: a history of the enslaved Black family

When you see fireflies: equipping leaders and parents to minister effectively to generation alpha

Reference
Romans: a commentary by Beverly Roberts Gaventa

DVDs
Wit, 2001