MU Libraries New Books: The Bible

About the new book list

10/28/2009

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

Nahum : a new translation with introduction and commentary / Duane L. Christensen. (10/21/2009)

10/21/2009

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This volume represents a significant breakthrough in the study of Hebrew prosody with important implications for understanding the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Duane Christensen, a renowned biblical scholar, offers a detailed analysis of the Hebrew text of Nahum and demonstrates the intricate literary structure and high poetic quality of the work.

Nahum is a book about God’s justice and portrays God as strong, unyielding, and capable of great anger. This view of God’s nature stands in contrast to that found in Jonah, another book in the section of the Hebrew Bible known as the Book of the Twelve Prophets, which presents God as “compassionate, gracious . . . [and] abounding in steadfast love.” Christensen shows how Nahum and Jonah present complementary aspects of God’s nature, each essential for an understanding of the divine being. The commentary includes the most extensive bibliography published to date of works cited.

Call #: BS1623 .C47 2009

Receptions and transformations of the Bible / edited by Kirsten Nielsen. (9/23/2009)

9/23/2009

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These volumes of Religion and Normativity present the latest research in three central fields. Volume II deals with "Reception and Transformation of the Bible" as it occurs in modern literature (in both Danish and English), philosophy (including Kierkegaard), and Jewish and Christian religious practice. The researchers base their work on the theories and methods of the study of religion, philosophy, theology and literature.

Call #: BS535 .R38 2009

Die Apostelgeschichte im Kontext antiker und frühchristlicher Historiographie / herausgegeben von Jörg Frey, Clare K. Rothschild, und Jens Schröter unter Mitarbeit von Bettina Rost. (9/16/2009)

9/16/2009

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This collection offers an extensive framework of comparative and individual studies assessing the place of Luke-Acts in the historiography of ancient Judaism and the Greco-Roman world, whilst also examining further developments in early Christian historiography up to Eusebius and Theodoret. Additional contributions concentrate on systematic questions concerning the literary genre and conception of Luke-Acts.

Call #: BS410 .Z7 Bd.162

The origin of the Samaritans / by Magnar Kartveit. (9/16/2009)

9/16/2009

Call #: BS410 .V452 v. 128

The imagery of love in the Gospel of John / Johns Varghese. (9/2/2009)

9/2/2009

Call #: BS413 .A5 177