Sunday, December 6, 2015

Books for Christmas

With Christmas coming soon, just thought I would post a list of (1) recently released books I have treated myself to for Xmas and (2) a list of excellent LDS-related texts that have just come out in case one is wishing to impress the bibliophile in their life:


Books on biblical/theological issues:



Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ

A. Chadwick Thornhill, The Chosen People: Election, Paul and Second Temple Judaism

James D. G. Dunn, Christianity in the Making, vol.3: Neither Jew Nor Greek A Contested Identity

Craig A. Evans, Jesus and the Remains of His Day

Thomas Jay Oord, The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence

Ingolf U. Dalferth, Crucified and Resurrected: Restructuring the Grammar of Christology

Joel B. Green, Body, Soul and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible

Catherine McDowell, The "Image of God" in the Garden of Eden: The Creation of Humankind in Genesis 2:5-3:24 in Light of the mis pi pit pi and wpt-r Rituals of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt

Christopher B. Hidden Riches: A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East

N.T. Wright, Paul and His Recent Interpreters


Recent LDS/Mormon-related texts


The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals Volume 3: May 1843 - June 1844

Craig Foster and Newell Bringhurst, eds. The Persistence of Polygamy, vol. 3: Fundamentalist Mormon Polygamy from 1890 to the present

Brant Gardner, Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History

Michael Hubbard MacKay and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, From Darkness Unto Light: Joseph Smith's Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon

Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges, eds. Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World

Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton, and Kerry Hull, eds. The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder

Warren P. Aston et al. Lehi in Arabia: The Search for Nephi's Bountiful (DVD)