Books I Plan to
Finish Someday...Books from 2001
"The best laid plans of mice and men.........are
about equal."
[These are now sorted into a list of abbreviations that I use in the CTT writings...hope
it helps. I have also begun filing previous years books in their own file--to
shorten file access times. I have all of 2000,
1999, 1998, 1997, 1996,
and most of 1995 books. I have added
a small Recommended Books table, as well.]
New acquisitions...
(and old "I brought them in from the garage" ones!)...
Oct 21, 2001
- [HI:CLC] Classical
Literary Criticism, D.A. Russell and Michael Winterbottom (eds).
Oxford:1989.
- [HI:LGRW] Literature
in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A New Perspective. Oliver Taplin (ed).
Oxford:2000.
- [HI:MPEC] Magic and
Paganism in Early Christianity. Hans-Josef Klauck. T&T Clark:2000.
- [OT:GOE] The
Gods of Egypt. Claude Traunecker. Cornell:2001.
- [HI:ATG] Alexander
the Great. Robin Lane Fox. Penguin:1973.
Sept 25, 2001
- [NT:PJJAD] Paul, Judaism, and
Judgment According to Deeds. Kent Yinger. Cambridge:1999.
- [CS:PBP] Pseudoscience
in Biological Psychiatry: Blaming the Body. Colin Ross and Alvin Pam.
WileyInterscience:1995. [awesome book--a very serious refutation of
biological reductionism in psychiatry, by leaders in the field]
- [CS:CMSM] Cognitive Models and Spiritual
Maps. Jensine Andresen and Robert Forman (eds). ImprintAcademic:2000
Sept 10, 2001
- [HI:RTA] Romanization
in the Time of Augustus. Ramsay Macmullen. Yale:2000.
- [HI:FDM] The
Forgotten Desert Mothers. Laura Swan. Paulist:2001.
- [WR:CSWR] A Comparative Sociology of
World Religions: Virtuosos, Priests, and Popular Religion. Stephen Sharot.
NYU:2001.
- [NS:SAT] Starlight
and Time: Solving the Puzzle of Distant Starlight in a Young Universe. D.
Russell Humphreys. Master Books:1994.
- [HI:CMTCOB] Classic
Midrash: Tannaitic Commentaries on the Bible. Reuven Hammer (trans/ed).
Paulist:1995.
- [HI:Phlegon] Phlegon of
Tralles' Book of Marvels. William Hansen. Exeter:1996.
- [HI:LRR] Literature
and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs. Denis Feeney. Cambridge:1988.
- [NT:JFHD] Jesus and
the Fundamentalism of His Day. William Loader. Eerdmans:2001.
- [CS:WGWGA] Why
God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief. Andrew
Newburg, E. D'Aguili, and V. Rause. Ballantine:2001.
- [NS:REEORT] Religion Explained: The Evolutionary
Origins of Religious Thought. Pascal Boyer. Basic Books:2001.
- [HI:FFHPGR] The First Fossil Hunters:
Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. Adrienne Mayor. Princeton:2000.
- [HI:ORT354] On Roman Time: The
Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity.
Michelle Renee Salzman. Ucalifornia:1990.
- [HI:HTNNAR] Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist
Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition. Robert
Lamberton. Ucalifornia:1986.
- [HI:GLGSLA] Guardians of Language: The
Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity. Robert Kaster. Ucalifornia:1988.
- [HI:RIA2] Representations
in Archaeology. Jean-Claude Gardin and C.S. Peebles (eds). IndianaUP:1992.
- [TH:SWH] Slaves,
Women, and Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis.
William Webb. IVP:2001.
August 13, 2001
- [TH:ALPD] Angels of Light, Powers of
Darkness. Stephen Noll. IVP:1998.
- [TH:PDPP] Powers of Darkness: Principalities
& Powers in Paul's Letters. Clinton Arnold. IVP:1992.
- [TH:PDREPG]
The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in
History, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Cornell:1988.
- [NT:JTHPUP] Jesus the Healer: Paradigm or Unique Phenomenon, Keith
Warrington, Paternoster:2000.
- [OT:RIAM] Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia,
Jean Bottero, Uchicago:2001.
- [OT:WDBWK] What did the Biblical Writers Know
& When did they Know it?, William G. Dever, Eerdmans:2001.
July 27, 20001
- [HI:SPRL] The
Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature, Shaye Cohen (ed), Brown Judaic
Studies:2000.
- [WR:ZIH] Zoroaster
in History, Gherardo Gnoli, Bibliotheca Persica:2000.
- [OT:HLBT] Hebrew Law
in Biblical Times, Ze'ev Falk, Eisenbrauns:2001(2nd ed).
- [OT:ALB2] Archaeology
of the Land of the Bible Volume II: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian
Periods (732-332 BCE), Ephraim Stern, AnchorBible/Doubleday:2001.
- [OT:DAAE] Death and the
Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, John H. Taylor, UChicago:2001.
- [OT:WSIANEP]
Writings and Speech in Israelite and Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy, Ehud
Ben Zvi and Michael Floyd (eds), SBL:2000.
- [NT:HWSPP] Hearing the Story: the Politics of
Plot in Mark's Gospel, Richard Horsley, WJK:2001.
- [PH:Audi2] Epistemology:
A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, Routledge:1998.
- [PH:FAR] Faith
and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas
Wolterstorff (eds), NotreDame:1983.
- [PH:DDW] Divine
Discourse: Philosophical Reflection on the Claim that God Speaks, Nicholas
Wolterstorff, Cambridge:1995.
- [OT:ITUVD] Influences and
Traditions Underlying the Vision of Daniel 7:2-14--the Research History
from the End of the 19th Century to the Present, Jurg Eggler,
UFribourg:2000.
- [NS:GGG] Genes,
Genesis, and God: Values and their Origins in Natural and Human History,
Holmes Rolston III, Cambridge:1999.
- [HI:TOBX] Traditions of
the Bible: A Guide to the Bible as it was at the start of the Common Era,
James L. Kugel, Harvard:1998.
- [HI:LXXC] The
Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Versions of the Bible,
Natalio Fernandez Marcos, Brill:2000.
- [HI:FJTC9]
Flavius
Josephus: Translation and Commentary (vol 9), Louis Feldman (trans and
comm.) and Steve Mason (ed). Brill:2001.
- [NS:ECA] Encyclopedia
of Cultural Anthropology (4 vols), David Levinson and Melvin Ember (eds),
HenryHolt:1996.
- [HI:CGLCE] The Coptic Gnostic
Library: A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices (5 vols), James
Robinson (gen.ed), Brill:2000.
June 22, 2001
- [HI:MAIAC] Mimesis and
Intertextuality in Antiquity and Christianity. Dennis MacDonald (ed).
TrinityPress:2001.
- [HI:TGAR] The
Gods of Ancient Rome. Robert Turcan. Routledge:2001.
- [WR:AJOJ2] Answering Jewish
Objections to Jesus: Theological Objections. Michael L. Brown. Baker:2000.
- [HI:HIHL] Hellenism
in the Holy Land. John Collins and Gregory Sterling (eds). NotreDame:2001.
- [TH:TCS] The
Clarity of Scripture. James Callahan. IVP:2001.
- [NS:TBH] The
Book of Nothing--Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins
of the Universe. John D. Barrow. Pantheon:2000.
May 27, 2001
- [NS:QE] Quantum
Evolution: The New Science of Life, Johnjoe McFadden, Norton:2000.
- [HI:CAJI] Conceptions
of Afterlife in Jewish Inscriptions. Joseph Park. MohrSiebeck:2000.
- [HI:CP48C] Christianity and
Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Ramsay MacMullen. Yale:1997.
- [HI:CMY6] Classical
Mythology (6th ed), Mark Morford and Robert Lenardon. Longman:1999.
- [PH:ONN] Objectivity
is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History. Thomas Haskell.
JohnsHopkins:1998.
- [HI:ISGM] In
Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele. Lynn Roller.
Ucalifornia:1999.
- [HI:CM3] Classical
Myth (3rd ed). Barry Powell. PrenticeHall:2001.
- [HI:IAW] Isis
in the Ancient World, R. E. Witt, JohnsHopkins:1971.
- [HI:OMMU] The Origins of the
Mithraic Mysteries. David Ulansey. Oxford:1989.
- [WR:GAITM] The Gods of Asia: Image, Text, and
Meaning. T.S. Maxwell. Oxford:1997.
- [WR:DAMY] A Dictionary of Asian
Mythology. David Leeming. 2001.
- [WR:DWM] A Dictionary of
World Myth. Peter Bently (ed). FactsonFile:1995.
- [NT:MEC] Modelling
Early Christianity: Social-Scientific studies of the New Testament in its
Context. Philip Esler (ed). Routledge:1995.
- [HI:FRSHM] From Reliable Sources:
An Introduction to Historical Methods. Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier.
Cornell:2001.
May 9, 2001
- [NBD3] New
Bible Dictionary, Third Edition. I Howard Marshall, A.R. Millard, J.I.
Packer, D.J. Wiseman. IVP:1996.
- [NT:ASMG] Aramaic Sources of
Mark's Gospel. Maurice Casey. Cambridge:1998.
- [HI:TBOC] The
Breakout--The Origins of Civilization. Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky (ed).
Harvard/Peabody:2000.
- [OT:AEBA] The Ancient
Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. Erik Hornung. Cornell:1999.
- [HI:WAA] The
World Atlas of Archeology. Nick Constable. LyonsPress:2000.
- [NS:VD] Vital
Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative, Christian de Duve. BasicBooks:1995.
- [NS:SLCPB] Signs of Life: How
Complexity Pervades Biology. Ricard Sole and Brian Goodwin.
BasicBooks:2000.
- [NS:CERCN] Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of
Complexity in Nature. Eric Chaisson. Harvard:2001.
- [NS:FC] Fractals
and Chaos: Simplified for the Life Sciences. Larry Liebovitch.
Oxford:1998.
Apr 26, 2001
- [HI:EGM1]
Early Greek Mythography Volume 1: Text and Introduction. Robert L. Fowler.
Oxford:2000.
- [HI:JJX]
Just James: The Brother of Jesus in History and Tradition. John Painter.
Fortress:1997.
April 5, 2001
- [CS:PTEF]
Psychology through the Eyes of Faith. David Myers & Malcolm Jeeves.
Harper/Collins:1987.
- [TH:NCP]
The New Chosen People: A Corporate View of Election. William W. Klein.
Academie/Zondervan:1990.
- [HI:OAGHL]
Oxford Archaeological Guides: The Holy Land. Jerome Murphy-O'Connor.
Oxford:1998 (4th ed)
- [NT:HPKP]
Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture.
David A. deSilva. IVP:2000.
- [TH:HX]
Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral
Debate. Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse. IVP:2000.
- [HI:RWITJ]
Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus. Alan Millard. NYU:2000.
- [HI:MJCA]
Miracles in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. John Cavadini (ed).
NotreDame:1999.
- [WR:YIA]
Yahweh in Africa: Essays on Africa and the Old Testament. Knut Holter. PeterLang:2000.
- [HI:AMCPLS]
Art as a Means of Communication in Pre-Literate Societies. Dan Eban (ed.).
IsraelMuseum:1990.
- [HI:Test]
Testimoney. Yaakov Meshorer. IsraelMuseum:2000.
- [HI:IPAJ]
Interpreting the Past: Ancient Jewelry. Jack Ogden. BritishMuseum:1992.
- [HI:PCAW]
Perfumes and Cosmetics in the Ancient World. Michal Dayagi-Mendels. IsraelMuseum:1993.
- [HI:ABJ]
The Atlas of Biblical Jerusalem. Dan Bahat. CartaIsrael:1994.
- [NT:LTJN]
Living in the Time of Jesus of Nazareth. Peter Connolly. Steimatzky:1983.
- [HI:APGTET]
The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations. Michael W.
Holmes (ed). Baker:1992. [a gift from my Amazon.com wish list! Thanks SV!]
Feb 10/2001
- [HI:AGLS] Ancient
Greek Literature and Society. Charles Rowan Beye. Cornell:1987 (2nd
rev).
- [HI:AMC]
Ancient Mystery Cults. Walter Burkert. Harvard:1987.
- [HI:AMH] Adam
in Myth and History: Ancient Israelite Perspectives on the Primal Human.
Dexter E. Callender, Jr. Eisenbrauns:2000.
- [HI:AWH] Arguing
with Historians: Essays on the Historical and the Unhistorical.
Richard Nelson Current. Wesleyan UP:1987.
- [HI:DictJBP] Dictionary
of Judaism in the Biblical Period. Jacob Neusner and William Scott
Green (eds.). Hendrickson:1996.
- [HI:DRE] The
Divinity of the Roman Emperor. Lily Ross Taylor. Scholars:1931.
- [HI:DSFC] Diodorus
Siculus and the First Century. Kenneth S. Sacks. Princeton:1990.
- [HI:EFHWAE] The
East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth.
M. L. West. Clarendon/Oxford:10997.
- [HI:FAASHI] From
Arrian to Alexander: Studies in Historical Interpretation. A. B.
Bosworth. Oxford:1988.
- [HI:FAHNJ] Fiction
as History: Nero to Julian. G. W. Bowersock. Ucal:1994.
- [HI:FARNP] The
Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives. Beryl Rawson (ed).
Cornell:1986.
- [HI:FG] The
Faces of the Goddess. Lotte Motz. Oxford:1997.
- [HI:GGOE] The
Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images. Marija
Gimbutas. Ucal:1982 (rev.ed).
- [HI:GLLPT] Guardian
of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature.
Kim Haines-Eitzen. Oxford:2000.
- [HI:HIMink] Historical
Understanding. Louis O.
Mink. Cornell:1987.
- [HI:HTG] Honor
Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy. Jon D. Mikalson.
UNC/Chapel Hill:1991.
- [HI:JSGRP12]
Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period: Summary and Conclusions, volume
12. Erwin R. Goodenough. Pantheon:1965.
- [HI:LAE] Light
from the Ancient East. Adolf Deissman. Hendrickson:1927. (old work,
still constantly cited).
- [HI:LG] The
Living Goddesses. Marija Gimbutas, with Miriam Robbins Dexter.
Ucal:1999.
- [HI:LLR] Law
and Life of Rome, 90 BC-AD 212. J. A. Crook. Cornell:1967.
- [HI:MB4J] The
Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Israel Knohl. Ucal:2000.
- [HI:MOT] Memory
in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and
Counting-out Rhymes. David C. Rubin. Oxford:1995.
- [HI:Nomad] Nomad:
A Year in the Life of a Qashqa'i Tribesman in Iran. Lois Beck.
Ucal:1991.
- [HI:OEANE] The
Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Eric M. Meyers
(ed). Oxford:1007 (5 vols).
- [HI:OOHBANE] Out
of Order: Homosexuality in the Bible and the Ancient Near East. Donald
J. Wood. Baker:1998.
- [HI:PMLA]
Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity. Polymnia Athanassiadi and Michael
Frede (eds.). Oxford:1999.
- [HI:RAG] Religions
of the Ancient Greeks. Simon Price. Cambridge:1999.
- [HI:RR2] The
Religions of Rome: Volume 2, A Sourcebook. Mary Beard, John North,
Simon Price. Cambridge:1998.
- [HI:RSR] Religions
of the Silk Road. Richard Foltz. St. Martin's Griffin:1999.
- [HI:SWFC] The
Social World of the First Christians: Essays in honor of Wayne A. Meeks.
L. Michael White and O. Larry Yarbrough (eds). Fortress:1995.
- [HI:TCRE] The
Cults of the Roman Empire. Robert Turcan. Blackwell:1996.
- [HI:TTAW] Teachers
and Texts in the Ancient World: Philosophers, Jews, and Christians. H.
Gregory Snyder. Routledge:2000.
- [NS:TME] The
Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological
Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory. Robert J. Richards. UChicago:1992.
- [NT:7CAGAC] The
Seven Cities of the Apocalypse & Greco-Asian Culture. Roland H.
Worth, Jr. Paulist:1999.
- [NT:7CARC] The
Seven Cities of the Apocalypse & Roman Culture. Roland H. Worth,
Jr. Paulist:1999.
- [NT:HEGM] The
Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark. Dennis R. MacDonald. Yale:2000.
- [NT:HRI] Hellenistic
Religions--An Introduction. Luther H. Martin. Oxford:1987.
- [NT:JMOJPG]
The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?
Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy. Harmony:1999.
- [NT:JRFF]
Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment: A Debate between William Lane Craig
and Gerd Ludemann. Paul Copan and Ronald K. Tacelli (eds). IVP:2000.
- [OT:9C] The
Nine Commandments: Uncovering the Hidden Pattern of Crime and Punishment
in the Hebrew Bible. David Noel Freedman. Doubleday:2000.
- [OT:ABC] Assyrian
and Babylonian Chronicles. A. K. Grayson. Eisenbrauns:1975/2000.
- [OT:BDCR1] The
Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception (Vol One). John J. Collins
and Peter W. Flint (eds.). Brill:2001.
- [OT:EML] Early
Mesopotamian Law. Russ VerSteeg. Carolina Academic:2000.
- [OT:IPIWR] Interested
Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible.
David J.A. Clines. JSOT/Sheffield:1995.
- [OT:KH] The
Kingdom of the Hittites. Trevor Bryce. Clarndon/Oxford:1998.
- [OT:ORNEI] The
Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the
Early Archaic Age. Walter Burkert. Harvard:1992.
- [OT:WBCMPS]
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage. Lawrence H.
Keeley. Oxford:1996.
- [PS:PB] Paradigms
and Barriers: How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs. Howard
Margolis. UChicago:1993.
- [TH:HHLHQ] Hell:
A Hard Look at a Hard Question. David Powys. Paternoster:1997.
- [TH:TNH] The
Nature of Hell. The Evangelical Alliance. ACUTE:2000.
- [WR:AJOJ] Answering
Jewish Objections to Jesus: General and Historical Objections. Michael
L. Brown. Baker:2000. (first in a trilogy, good detail and depth).
- [WR:CELWR] Can
Evangelicals Learn from World Religions? Jesus, Revelation & Religious
Traditions. Gerald R. McDermott. IVP:2000.
- [WR:CM] Comparative
Mythology. Jaan Puhvel. Johns Hopkins:1987.
- [WR:HM] Hero
Myths. Robert A. Segal (ed). Blackwell:2000.
- [WR:LBLH] The
Life of Buddha as Legend and History. Edward J. Thomas. Dover:1949.
- [WR:MYB] Mythologies. Yves
Bonnefoy (ed) and Wendy Boniger (trans). UChicago:1991 (2 vols).
- [WR:TEH] The
Epic Hero. Dean A. Miller. Johns Hopkins:2000.
- [WS:AHW] A
History of Women: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints. Pauline
Schmitt Pantel (ed). Belknap/Harvard:1992.
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