Reading List: May 2009

I feel a little bad that my posting has dried up. Maybe I can rectify that in the near future, but most of my writing juices these days are sapped with the preparation of the two books to be released later this year. Anyway, here's what I read in May:

1. James L. Crenshaw, Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction
2. James L. Kugel, The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion with New Translations
3. Thomas W. Overholt, Channels of Prophecy: The Social Dynamics of Prophetic Activity
4. Brett W. Hawkins, Nashville Metro: The Politics of City-County Consolidation
5. A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

6. Harvey H. Guthrie, Israel’s Sacred Songs: A Study of Dominant Themes

7. George Steiner, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

8. Harald Lindström, Wesley and Sanctification (54 of 218 pages)

Reading List--April 2009

Most likely because the semester is over, I read a lot in April. Even with preparing for a summer class and editing two different book projects I still read the highest number of pages this year.

1. George Buttrick, So We Believe, So We Pray (145 of 226 pages)
2. Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur (trans. Keith Baines)
3. Isaac Asimov, A Choice of Catastrophes: The Disasters That Threaten Our World
4. Sally Pont, Fields of Honor: The Golden Age of College Football and the Men Who Created It
5. Carol Meyers, Households and Holiness: The Religious Culture of Israelite Women
6. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
7. James Carroll, Toward a New Catholic Church: The Promise of Reform
8. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
   

Reading List--March 2009

1. Philip R. Davies and John Rogerson, The Old Testament World (2nd. ed.; 116 of 245 pages)
2. Nancy Eiesland, The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability
3. Samuel Noah Kramer, History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
   
4. George Buttrick, So We Believe, So We Pray (81 of 226 pages)
   

Reading List--February 2009

1. Alexander Heidel, The Babylonian Genesis (42 of 153 pages)
2. William H. Willimon, Word, Water, Wine and Bread: How Worship Has Changed over the Years
3. H. Grady Davis, Design for Preaching
4. Ernst Troeltsch, Protestantism and Progress: The Significance of Protestantism for the Rise of the Modern World
5. Philip R. Davies and John Rogerson, The Old Testament World (2nd ed.; 129 of 245 pages)

Maybe someday I'll add comments about these books, but I doubt it.

Reading list--January 2009

I'm starting something else new with this entry. I may not continue it, because I may not (probably will not) continue the frenetic pace of reading I've established in January. I always start a year with grand intentions, only to fall off by the middle of February, or at least the beginning of March, but here goes anyway:

1. Hans Küng, On Being a Christian (started in 2008)
2. C. H. Dodd, The Parables of the Kingdom
3. Joachim Jeremias, The Parables of Jesus
4. William Barclay, The Apostle's Creed for Everyman
5. Jill Middlemas, The Templeless Age: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the "Exile"
6. Susan Niditch, Folklore and the Hebrew Bible
7. Alexander Heidel, The Babylonian Genesis (111 of 153 pages)