Books I Plan to Finish Someday...

"The best laid plans of mice and men.........are about equal."

[These are now sorted into a list of abbreviations that I use in the CTT writings...hope it helps. I have also begun filing previous years books in their own file--to shorten file access times. I have all of 2007 2006, 2004-2005, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, and most of 1995 books. I have added a small Resources on Christian Truth Claims, as well.]

New acquisitions...(and old "I brought them in from the garage" ones!)...

Recommended books in RED (but just because its not red, doesn't mean I don/t like it--I might not have read enough of it to know, when I posted it below)

Also, note that these books are NOT uniformly cited in the technically-correct fashion, but only to the extent needed to identify/find them yourself.

June 20/2009

• [HI:7REFS] Those 7 References: A Study of 7 References to Homosexuality in the Bible. John F Dwyer. SelfPublished:2007.
• [HI:2NDGOD] The Great Angel: A Study of Israel's Second God. Margaret Barker. WJKP:1992.
• [WR:CAQ] The Crucifixion and the Quran: A Study in the History of Muslim Thought. Todd Lawson. OneWorld:2009.
• [WR:GIL] A Guide to Islamic Literature. M Manazir Ahsan (intro). The Islamic Foundation:1998.
• [WR:SYFWM] Sharing Your Faith with a Muslim. Abdiyah Akbar Abdul-Haqq. Bethany:1980.
• [WR:NID] The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual. Clifford Edmund Bosworth. EdinburghUP:1996.
• [WR:TEQ] The Enlightenment Quran: The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam. Ziad Elmarsafy. OneWorld:2009.
• [WR:ISOK] In Search of the Original Koran: The True History of the Revealed Text. Mondher Sfar, Emilia Lanier (trans). PrometheusBooks:2008.
• [NT:CHIC] The Colossian Hymn in Context. Matthew Gordley. MohrSiebeck:2007.
• [TH:OSC] The Other Side of Calvinism (revised). Laurence M Vance. VancePubs:1999.

May 7/2009

• [WR:RAF] Revelation and Falsification: The Kitab al-qiraat of Ahmad Muhammad al-Sayyari. Etan Kohlberg and Mohammed Ali Amir-Moezzi (trans/eds). Brill:2009.
• [HI:LHOC] The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How it Died. Philip Jenkins. Lion:2008.
• [WR:I2SI] An Introduction to Shii Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shiism. Moojan Momen. YaleUP:1985.
• [WR:IL] Islamic Literature: An Introductory History with Selections. Najib Ullah. WashingtonSquare:1963.
• [WR:TIJ] The Islamic Jesus: Portrait of Jesus in Islamic Literature and Tradition. Daniel Deleanu (ed) and J Robson/D Delanu (trans from Arabic and Latin). WritersClubPress:2002.
• [NT:FSS] Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and John's Gospel. A Kostenberger and SR Swain. IVP:2008.
• [WR:IPTCT] Islamic Literature and the Classical Tradition. SM Stern, A Hourani and Vivian Brown (eds). Cassirer:1972.

Apr 4/2009

• [PH:CGBT2] Can God be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evil (2nd Ed). John Stackhouse. IVP:2009.
• [HI:EGALT] Editing Greek and Latin Texts. John Grant (ed). AMSpress:1989.
• [NT:INTMTT] An Introduction to The New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts. DC Parker. CambridgeUP:2008.
• [HI:NTDSS] Noah Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Conversations and Controversies of Antiquity. Dorothy Peters. SBL:2008.
• [HI:TOGCA] The Text of the Gospels in Clement of Alexandria. Carl Cosaert. SBL:2008.
• [HI:4BAR] 4 Baruch (Paraleipomena Jeremiou). Jens Herzer (Trans. And Commentary). SBL:2005.
• [HI:MJD] Matthew, James, and Didache: Three Related Documents in Their Jewish and Christian Settings. Huub van de Sandt and Jurgen Zangenberg (eds). SBL:2008.
• [TH:MIT] Method in Theology. Bernard Lonergan. UnivToronto:1971.
• [HI:SR] Septuagint Research: Issues and Challenges in the Study of the Greek Jewish Scriptures. Wolfgang Kraus and R Glenn Wooden (eds). SBL:2006.
• [OT:TCG] The Chronicler's Genealogies: Towards an Understanding of 1 Chronicles 1-9. James Sparks. SBL:2008.
• [HI:TAGL2] Time in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, vol 2. Irene JF de Jong and Rene Nunlist (eds). Brill:2007.
• [HI:EOB] Exploring the Origins of the Bible: Canon Formation in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspectives. Craig Evans and Emanuel Tov (eds). Baker:2008.
• [NT:SHEGNTP] Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri. James Royse. Brill:2008.
• [NT:JTFD] Jesus, The Final Days: What Really Happened. Craig Evans and NT Wright (Troy Miller, ed). WJK:2009.
• [NT:JAGI] Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity. Richard Bauckham. Eerdmans:2008.
• [NT:FVW] From a Virgin Womb: The Apocalypse of Adam and the Virgin Birth. Andrew Welburn. Brill:2008.
• [WR:DSI] Doctrines of Shii Islam: A Compendium of Imani Beliefs and Practices. Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani (Reza Shah-Kazemi, trans). ImamSadiqInstitute:2003
• [WR:HIT] History of Islamic Theology: From Muhammad to the Present. Tilman Nagel (Thomas Thornton, trans). Princeton:2000.
• [WR:CCAP] The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy. Peter Adamson and Richard Taylor (eds). CambridgeUP:2005.
• [WR:CCCIT] The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology. Tim Winter (ed). CambridgeUP:2008.
• [WR:HIP3] A History of Islamic Philosophy (3rd ed). Majid Fakhry. ColumbiaUP:2004.
• [WR:QMCR] The Quran, Morality, and Critical Reason: The Essential Muhammad Shahur (Andreas Christmann, trans/ed/intro). Brill:2009.
• [WR:MACF2F] Muslims and Christians—Face to Face. Kate Zebiri. Oneworld:1997.
• [WR:SBEI] The Spiritual Background of Early Islam: Studies in Ancient Arab Concepts. MM Bravman (Andrew Rippin, intro). Brill:1972/2009.
• [WR:LSB] The Legend of Sergius Bahira: Easter Christian Apologetics and Apocalyptic in Response to Islam. Barbara Roggema. Brill:2009.
• [WR:PGMSS] The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign. S La Porta and D Shulman (eds). Brill:2008.
• [WR:NEI] The New Encyclopedia of Islam (3rd ed). Cyril Glasse. RowmanLittlefield:2008.
• [HI:KAMSOG] King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human, and Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature. Adela Yarbro Collins and John J Collins. Eerdmans:2008.
• [WR:RRTI] The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Sir Mohammad Iqbal. KitabBhavan:1974.
• [WR:PFI] Poems from Iqbal: Renderings in English Verse with Comparative Urdu Text. VG Kiernan (trans). OxfordUP:2004.
• [WR:EPE] The Expansion of Prophetic Experience: Essays on Historicity, Contingency, and Plurality in Religion. Abdulkarim Soroush (Nilou Mobasser/trans and Forough Jahanbakhsh/ed). Brill:2009.
• [WR:GOF] Guardians of the Faith in Modern Times: Ulama in the Middle East. Meir Hatina (ed). Brill:2009.
• [WR:ITFJGM] Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad? Understanding the Differences between Christianity and Islam. Timothy George. Zondervan:2002.
• [WR:FARIS] The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State. Noah Feldman. PrincetonUP:2008.
• [WR:JOE] Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of His Day. Bas ter Haar Romeny (ed). Brill:2008.
• [WR:ACI] American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism. Thomas Kidd. PrincetonUP:2009.

Oct 25/2008

• [WR:CDIIT] Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology. David Thomas. Brill:2008.
• [PS:BAB] Boundaries and Barriers: On the Limits to Scientific Knowledge. JL Casti and Anders Karlqvist (eds). PerseusBooks:1996.
• [TH:ITBI] Is the Bible Intolerant? Amy Orr-Ewing. IVP:2005.
• [TH:IBIGI] Is Believing in God Irrational? Amy Orr-Ewing. IVP:2008.
• [HI:PES1] The Panarion of Epihanius of Salamis: Book I (Sect 1-46). Frank Williams (trans). Brill:1997.
• [HI:PATLOS] Paul and the Language of Scripture: Citation Technique in the Pauline Epistles and contemporary literature. Christopher D Stanley. CambridgeUP:1992.
• [HI:G2C] The Gospels in the Second Century—An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion'. William Sanday. HardPressReprint:1875.

Aug 30/2008

• [WR:BBAQ] Between the Bible and the Quran: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image. Uri Rubin. Darwin:1999.
• [WR:AAI] Adaptations and Innovations: Studies on the Interaction between Jewish and Islamic Thought from the Early Middle Ages to the Late Twentieth Century, Dedicated to Professor Joel L Kraemer. Langermann and Stern (eds). Peeters/Paris-Louvain:2007.
• [WR:IDB] In Defense of the Bible: A Critical Edition and an Introduction to al-Biqai's Bible Treatise. Walid Saleh. Brill:2008.
• [WR:ASI] Arabs in the Shadow of Israel: The Unfolding of God's Prophetic Plan for Ishmael's Line. Tony Maalouf. Kregel:2003.
• [WR:BB] Building Bridges: Christianity and Islam. Fouad Elias Accad. Navpress:1997.
• [NT:LW] Living Words: The Words of Christ in Aramaic-English Interlinear Edition. Joseph Elias (ed). Elias/uPublish:2002.
• [NT:AGATT] The Aramaic Gospels and Acts: Text and Translation. Joseph Pashka (trans). Xulon:2003.
• [NT:AGAC] The Aramaic Gospels and Acts Companion: A Text Transliteration. Joseph Pashka. Xulon:2003.

Aug 7/2008

• [NS:DAFSK] Divine Action in the Framework of Scientific Knowledge: From Quantum Theory to Divine Action. Christoph Lameter. ChristianityInThe21stCentury(NewarkCA):2006.
• [CS:EPC] The Emerging Physics of Consciousness. Jack Tuszynski (ed). Springer:2006.
• [CS:IM] Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century. Kelly, Kelly, Crabtree, Gauld, Grosso and Greyson. RowmanLittlefield:2007.
• [HI:JGGE] The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: Heracleon's Commentary on John. Elaine Pagels. SBL:1989.
• [WR:VLRLNE] The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Ted Kaizer (ed). Brill:2008.
• [NT:NDIP] Narrative Dynamics in Paul: A Critical Assessment. Bruce Longenecker (ed). WJK:2002.
• [HI:C2CCH] A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics'. Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen (eds). Brill:2005.
• [HI:Stars] The Stars Will Fall from Heaven: Cosmic Catastrophe in the New Testament and its World. Edward Adams. TNTClark:2007.
• [WR:SI] Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrinces of the Akhbari Shii School. Robert Gleave. Brill:2007.
• [WR:UCI] The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change. Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Princeton:2002.
• [WR:SI2] Schooling Islam: The Cultures and Politics of Modern Muslim Education. Robert Hefner and Muhammed Qasim Zaman. Princeton:2007.
• [WR:CTAE] The Crusades through Arab Eyes. Amin Maalouf. Schocken:1984.

Jul 20/2008

• [NT:PAPP] Paul and the Popular Philosophers. Abraham Malherbe. Fortress:1989.
• [PH:CWT2] Christianity and Western Thought—A History of Philosophers, Ideas & Movements (vol2), Faith and Reason in the 19th Century. Steve Wilkens and Alan Padgett. IVP:2000.
• [NT:PATS] Paul and the Stoics. Troels Engberg-Pedersen. WJK:2000.
• [HI:SDCFC] Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century: Pivotal Essays by EA Judge. Daveid Scholer (ed). Hendrickson:2008.
• [OT:WLMI] Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Richard Clifford (ed). SBL:2007.
• [HI:RSSTT] Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times. Sidnie White Crawford. Eerdmans:2008.
• [HI:BTIT] Biblical Traditions in Transmission: Essays in Honour of Michael A Knibb. Charlotte Hempel and Judith Lieu (eds). Brill:2006.
• [NT:PW] Paul's World. Stanley Porter (ed). Brill:2008.
• [NT:PEP] Paul's Early Period: Chronology, Mission Strategy, Theology. Rainer Riesner. Eerdmans:1998.
• [HI:YAPF] You Are a Priest Forever—Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle of the Hebrews. Eric Mason. Brill:2008.
• [HI:APMEC] Apocalypticism, Prophecy, and Magic in Early Christianity—Collected Essays. Dave E Aune. Baker:2006.
• [NT:AITSV] And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament. Edith Humphrey. Baker:2007.
• [NT:PC] Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study. Gordon Fee. Hendrickson:2007.

Jul 6/2008

• [PH:CWT1] Christianity and Western Thought: Volume 1, From the Ancient World to the Age of Enlightenment. Colin Brown. IVP:1990.
• [PH:FP2O] From Philo to Origen: Middle Platonism in Transition. Robert Berchman. SBL:1984.
• [PH:GPV] The Greek Philosophical Vocabulary. JO Urmson. Duckworth:1990.
• [PH:GPT] Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon. FE Peters. NYUpress:1967.
• [PH:PANTW] Philodemus and the New Testament World. John Fitzgerald, Dirk Obbink, and Glenn Holland (eds). Brill:2004.
• [HI:TUS] The Unknown Socrates. William Calder III, Bernard Huss, Marc Mastrangelo, Scott Smith, and Stephen Trzaskoma. BolchazyCarducci:2002.
• [HI:TSL] The Semitic Languages. Robert Hetzron (ed). Routledge:1997.
• [PH:THP1] The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1: Translations of the Principal Sources, with Philosophical Commentary. AA Long and DN Sedley. CambridgeUP:1987.
• [PH:THP2] The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 2: Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and Bibliography. AA Long and DN Sedley. CambridgeUP:1987.

Jun 11/2008

• [PH:NewEncyPH] Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2nd Ed, 10vols). Donald Borchert (ed). Macmillian:2006.
• [PH:TMP] The Middle Platonists: 80 BC to AD 220. John Dillon. Duckword:1996(RevEd).
• [BLOM2] The Historical Reliability of the Gospels (2nd Ed). Craig Blomberg. IVP:2007.
• [NT:TG2N] The Gospel to the Nations: Perspectives on Paul's Mission. Peter Bolt and Mark Thompson (eds). IVP/Apollos:2000.
• [HI:BG2P] A Brief Guide to Philo. Kenneth Schenck. WJK:2005.
• [NT:TCC] The Colossian Controversy: Wisdom in Dispute at Colossae. Richard DeMaris. SBL:1994.
• [NT:SITI] Sharing in the Inheritance: Identity and the Moral Life in Colossians. Allan Bevere. SBL:2003.
• [NT:TCS] The Colossian Syncretism: The Interface between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae. Clinton Arnold. Baker:1996.
• [OT:POU] A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature. William Schniedewind and Joel Hunt. CambridgeUP:2007.
• [HI:BOEC] Backgrounds of Early Christianity (3rd Ed). Everett Ferguson. Eerdmans:2003.
• [WR:IIDA] Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and CyberIslamic Environments. Gary Bunt. Pluto:2003.
• [NT:JTMEE] Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels. Kenneth Bailey. IVP:2008.

Feb 18/2008

• [WR:CISM] The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam. Sidney Griffith. PrincetonUP:2008.
• [WR:PTQ] The Prolegomena to the Quran. Al-Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khui. Abdulaziz Aachedina (trans and intro). OxfordUP:1998.
• [HI:RNTAF] The Reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers. Andrew Gregory and Christopher Tuckett (eds). 2005.
• [HI:TTNT] Trajectories Through the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers. Andrew Gregory and Christopher Tuckett (eds). OxfordUP:2005.
• [WR:AQUS] Abu Ubaid al-Qasim b Sallam's K al-nasikh wa-l-mansukh. John Burton (ed. And commentator). EJWGibbMemorialTrust:1987.
• [WR:IRDP] The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism. Abdulaziz Sachedina. OxfordUP:2001.
• [WR:AEDQU] Arabic-English Dictionary of Quranic Usage. Elsaid Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haleem. Brill:2008.
• [CS:TSB] The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul. Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary. Harper:2007.
• [PH:PLIP] Putting Logic in its Place: Formal Constraints on Rational Belief. David Christensen. OxfordUP:2004.
• [PH:EOT] The Epistemology of Testimony. Jennifer Lackey and Ernest Soa (eds). OxfordUP:2006.
• [WR:FCTT] The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition: The Quran Commentary of al-Thalabi. Walid Saleh. Brill:2004.
• [HI:HTRB] How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now. James Kugel. FreePress:2007.
• [HI:IGSM1] The Influence of the Gospel of Saint Matthew on Christian Literature before Saint Irenaeus: Book 1 - The First Ecclesiastical Writers. Edouard Massaux with Norman Belval and Suzanne Hecht (trans). MercerUP:1990.
• [HI:IGSM2] The Influence of the Gospel of Saint Matthew on Christian Literature before Saint Irenaeus: Book 2 - The Later Christian Writings. Edouard Massaux with Norman Belval and Suzanne Hecht (trans). MercerUP:1990.
• [HI:IGSM3] The Influence of the Gospel of Saint Matthew on Christian Literature before Saint Irenaeus: Book 3 - The Apologists and the Didache. Edouard Massaux with Norman Belval and Suzanne Hecht (trans). MercerUP:1993.
• [HI:FJAA] Flavius Josephus, Translation and Commentary, Volume 10--Against Apion. Steve Mason (ed) and John MG Barclay (trans/comm). Brill:2007.

Jan 6/2008

• [WR:CCQ] The Cambridge Companion to the Quran. Jane Dammen McAuliffe (ed). CambridgeUP:2006.
• [WR:EncycRPWLA] Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity: Pagan, Judaic, Christian. Jacob Neusner and Alan Avery-Peck (chief eds). Brill:2007.
• [NT:CNTUOT] Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. GK Beale and DA Carson (eds). Baker:2007.
• [HI:PolyPaul] Polycarp and Paul: An Analysis of their Literary and Theological Relationship in Light of Polycarp's Use of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Literature. Kenneth Berding. Brill:2002.
• [WR:DESHC] The Development of Early Sunnite Hadith Criticism: The Taqdima of Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi. Eerik Dickinson. Brill:2001.
• [WR:COTP] The Companions of the Prophet: A Study of Geographical Distribution and Political Alignments. Fuad Jabali. Brill:2003.
• [WR:HOZ3] A History of Zoroastrianism, volume Three: Zoroastrianism under Macedonian and Roman Rule. Mary Boyce and Frantz Grenet. Brill:1991.
• [WR:OIJ] The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools. Harald Motzki. Brill:2002.
• [HI:KTABT] The Karaite Tradition of Arabic Bible Translation. Meira Polliack. Brill:1997.
• [WR:TAL] The Arabic Language. Kees Versteegh. EdinburghUP:2001.
• [WR:SAEEIS] Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism. Meir M. Bar-Asher. Brill:1999.
• [HI:REAII] Roman Epic: An Interpretive Introduction. Michael Von Albrecht. Brill:1999.
• [WR:ALHA] A Linguistic History of Arabic. Jonathon Owens. OxfordUP:2006.
• [WR:QLP] Quran, Liberalism, and Pluralism. Farid Esack.OneWorld:1997.
• [WR:CAR] The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises. Ronald F Hock and Edward N O'Neill (trans/eds). Brill:2002.
• [HI:LEMT] Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium and Beyond. Catherine Holmes and Judith Waring (eds). Brill:2002.