Firstly, I have earlier noted some of the books I wanted to obtain within the new future. Sadly, the first two aren't stocked by Koorong! (On a related note, James McGrath just announced that a chapter 5 'Monotheism and Worship in the Book of Revelation' from his recent book The Only True God is now available online at the Butler University Digital Commons.)
So, my preference for this weeks book shopping:
- Messiah: Jesus - The Evidence Of History - Paul Barnett ($19.95 less 20%!)
Jesus and The Rise Of Early Christianity - Barnett ($39.95)Scrap that, it's cheaper at fishpond!
- Paul And First-Century Letter Writing Richards E Randolph.($7.95). I borrowed this book recently, got flooded by other work and never got past a few pages. Now I can hold onto it forever *evil laughs*
- He Came Down from Heaven - Douglas McCready ($9.95). Christology is always fun!
- Jesus, Man or Myth? - Peter Carsten Thiede is only $2.95! It costs $2.95. Not much else needs to be said.
Oh look, I accidentally posted my Wishlist here.
I've got "Paul and First Century Letter Writing" and its a very interesting, useful book. Good for completely changing people's notion of how Paul wrote all those letters.
ReplyDeleteNo more sitting in a corner at a desk pondering ponderous thoughts. Richards describes Paul and his fellows sitting with a scribe in a crowded hallway with children running around and people cooking and the Christians referring to notes as they try to dictate to the scribe over all the noise.
That's a very different, very human picture of the creation of inspired scripture.
And all the info on the methods and cost of creating the letters is intensely interesting as well.
Great book, in short.
Chuck Grantham
Thanks for that, Chuck. It sounds good. I just finished a pretty big project on early Christian personal letters, but I haven't really thought about the issues in Paul's context.
ReplyDeleteI'll be getting the book tomorrow if all goes to plan.