Reading for Lent

The good people at Logos Bible Software are offering big sales on some great books for Lent. The two best offers are:

N. T. Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God is only $17.49

Raymond Brown's classic two volume on the passion narratives, The Death of the Messiah for $24.97

Find the link here.

SBL Book Purchases: Overview

I have recently become increasingly judicious in my book buying for two reasons. First, books cost money and I don’t have very much. Second, these days I spend quite a bit of time reading monographs and primary sources which are unconscionably expensive. However, I went to SBL looking for a couple of books that I either did not find or could not afford and somehow still came home with a load of books. 

Here’s what I walked away with:

• Nestle-AlandNovum Testamentum Graece 28^thEdition - $34.00

• R.Dean Anderson, Ancient Rhetorical Theoryand Paul (rev. edt.; Leuven: Peeters, 1998). $28.00

• HindyNajman, Seconding Sinai: The Development ofMosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism (SJSJ 77; Atlanta: SBL, 2003). - $19.00

• EmanuelTov, Scribal Practices and ApproachesReflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Desert (STDJ 54; Atlanta: SBL,2004). - $38.00

• MatthewW. Bates, The Hermeneutics of the ApostolicProclamation: The Center of Paul’s Method of Scriptural Interpretation (Waco:Baylor University Press, 2012). $48.00

I also picked up these gems at Powell's:

• Lucian, Selected Dialogues (trans. C. D. N. Costa)
• Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century: Pivotal Essays by E. A. Judge
• Werner Kelber's The Oral and the Written Gospel 
• John D. Harvey's Listening to the Text: Oral Patterning in Paul's Letters

I will post reviews of some of my SBL purchases as time permits. Did you buy anything at SBL? Anything particularly exciting?