Blue Cord

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday on a train, a bus, an airplane, a tram, two more airplanes, a taxi, another bus, and a second taxi. After 29 hours, I am finally back in Lithuania. Fortunately, the morning started with a two hour committee meeting, so I got a chance to catch up on my sleep.

Fellow biblioblogger and now personal acquaintance Chris Brady decided to list the books he picked up at the SBL, so I thought I would do the same. The links below will take you to the book’s page in my blog’s library (powered by the Now Reading plug-in). From there you can find the book at Amazon.com if you wish.

The first category of books is connected with my research on the Pentateuch. Because I don’t have access to a research library, I have to buy these books if I am going to get any research done while I am here.

• Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos, Making Wise the Simple: The Torah in Christian Faith and Practice.
• Thomas B. Dozeman and Konrad Schmid, eds., A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation.
• Jean-Louis Ska, Introduction to Reading the Pentateuch.
• John van Seters, The Edited Bible: The Curious History of the “Editor” in Biblical Criticism.
• Martin Noth, Numbers. This is obviously an older book, but one I needed. Fortunately, it is now in paperback.
• All seven Pentateuch commentaries in the Word Biblical Commentary series. This was possible because they finally got around to making smaller collections available in electronic format using Libronix, the same platform that powers the Logos Bible Software.

A second category is books I needed for classes I am teaching next semester. I am doing two upper level classes, one on the historical books of the Old Testament (DtrH and the Chroniclers history) and the other on the latter prophets. Some of the books listed here will be used by the students, while others are for me.

• Richard D. Nelson, The Historical Books (Interpreting Biblical Texts series).
• Anthony F. Campbell, SJ, Joshua to Chronicles: An Introduction.
• David L. Petersen, The Prophetic Literature: An Introduction.
• Sara Japhet, From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah: Collected Studies on the Restoration Period.
• Isaac Kalimi, The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles.

I also picked up two historical studies.

• Alice Hunt, Missing Priests: The Zadokites in Tradition and History.
• Paolo Sacchi, The History of the Second Temple Period.

Finally, I got one book on hermeneutics.

• A.K.M. Adam, Stephen E. Fowl, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, and Francis Watson, Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation.

These should keep me busy for a while.