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 2009, 2008, 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.

Jul 26/2010

• [TGNTC] The Grace New Testament Commentary (2vols). Robert Wilkin (ed). GraceEvangSoc:2010.
• [TH:CSTH] Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. John Boswell. Uchicago:1980.
• [TH:TBT] The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Mathew Kuefler (ed). Uchicago:2006.
• [TH:FGT] Free Grace Soteriology. David R Anderson. Xulon:2010.
• [TH:HITC] Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate. Jeffrey Siker (ed). WJK:1994.
• [OT:EWTDMI] The Encounter with the Divine in Mesopotamia and Israel. HWF Saggs. UlondonAthlonePress:1978.
• [WR:QBS] The Quran and Its Biblical Subtext. Gabriel Said Reynolds. Routledge:2010.
• [WR:CCM] The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad. Jonathan E Brockopp (ed). CambridgeUP:2010.

Jul 19/2010

• [WR:ALAO] Arabic Literature—An Overview. Pierre Cachia. RoutledgeCurzon:2002.
• [WR:GAHIIT] God and Humans in Islamic Thought: Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina, and al-Ghazali. Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth. Routledge:2006.
• [WR:ICAS] Islamic Creeds: A Selection. W Montgomery Watt (trans). EdinburghUP:1994.
• [HI:JWANT] The Jewish World around the New Testament. BakerAcademic:2008.
• [HI:SM] Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium BC (Rev.ed). Samuel Noah Kramer. Upenn:1972.
• [WR:PITQ] Prophets in the Quran: An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis. Brannon M Wheeler. Continuum:2002.
• [WR:MITQIE] Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis. Brannon M Wheeler. RoutledgeCurzon:2002.
• [WR:TOTP] Tales of the Prophets—Qisas al-anbiya. Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Kisai and Wheeler M Thackston Jr (trans). GreatBooksOfTheIslamicWorld:1997.
• [WR:TAQ] Theodore Abu Qurrah. John C Lamoreaux (trans). BrighamYoungUP:2005.
• [TH:SAS] Science and the Soul: Christian Faith and Psychological Research. Scott W VanderStoep (ed). UnivPressOfAmerica:2003.

Jun 17/2010

• [WR:Q8] The Sublime Quran: English Translation. Laleh Bakhtiar. LibraryOfIslam:2009.
• [WR:AAJCOCO] Abd al-Jabbar: Critique of Christian Origins. Gabriel Said Reynolds and Samir Khalil Samir (trans, eds). BrighamUP:2010.
• [WR:AAA] Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the coming of Islam. Robert G Hoyland. Routledge:2001.
• [WR:GOLI] The Genesis of Literature in Islam: From the Aural to the Read. Gregor Schoeler and Shawkat Toorawa (trans). EdinburghUP:2002.
• [WR:COMM] The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis. Robert Reilly. ISIbooks:2010.
• [WR:SOQE] Schools of Quranic Exegesis: Genesis and Development. Hussein Abdul-Raof. Routledge:2010.
• [HI:WOL] The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres. William Hallo. Brill:2010.
• [HI:HAAP] Herod and Augustus: Papers Presented at the IJS Conference 2005. David Jacobson and Nikos Kokkinos (eds). Brill:2009.
• [HI:ECBIE] Early Christian Books in Egypt. Roger Bagnall. PrincetonUP:2009.
• [HI:IIROR] The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire. Lukas De Blois, Peter Fluke, and Johannes Hahn (eds). Brill:2006.
• [PH:RAA] Responsibility and Atonement. Richard Swinburne. OxfordUP:1989.
• [NT:LOOH] The Laying On of Hands in the New Testament: Its Significance, Techniques, and Effects. John Fleter Tipei. UniversityPressOfAmerica:2009.
• [TH:TGE] The Great Exchange: My Sin for His Righteousness. Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington. Crossway:2007.
• [TH:PFOT] Pierced For Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution. Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey and Andrew Sach. Crossway:2007.
• [TH:EIE] The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority. GK Beale. Crossway:2008.
• [PH:JRAW] Justice: Rights and Wrongs. Nicholas Wolterstorff. PrincetonUP:2008.
• [PH:TEG] The Elusive God: Reorienting Religious Epistemology. Paul K Moser. CambridgeUP:2008.
• [HI:NWF] Not Wholly Free: The Concept of Manumission and the Status of Manumitted Slaves in the Ancient Greek World. R Zelnick-Abramovitz. Brill:2005.
• [HI:IRA] The Impact of the Roman Army 200 BC – Ad 476: Economic, Social, Political, Religious and Cultural Aspects. Lukas de Blois and Elio Lo Cascio (eds) and Olivier Hekster and Gerda de Kleijn (helpers). Brill:2007.

May 29/2010

• [WR:CATHOIR] Christians at the Heart of Islamic Rule: Church Life and Scholarship in Abbasid Iraq. David Thomas (ed). Brill:2003.
• [WR:AIQ] Anthropomorphism and Interpretation of the Quran in the Theology of al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim Kitab al-Mustarshid. Binyamin Abrahamov (ed, trans, intro). Brill:1996.
• [WR:CARBQ] Claiming Abraham: Reading the Bible and the Quran Side by Side. Michael Lodahl. BakerBrazos:2010.
• [OT:WOT] A Whirlpool of Torment: Israelite Traditions of God as an Oppressive Presence. James Crenshaw. SBL:2008.
• [WR:KAB] King Asoka and Buddhism: Historical and Literary Studies. Anuradha Seneviratna (ed). BuddhistPubSoc:1994.
• [NT:MJPP] The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul: Tensions in Early Christianity. Bruce Chilton and Craig Evans (eds). Brill:2005.
• [WR:FAFMB] Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India: More Collected Papers. Gregory Schopen. Uhawaii:2005.
• [WR:GIN1] God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World—and Why Their Differences Matter. Stephen Prothero. HarperOne:2010.
• [TH:IMPCHS] In My Place Condemned He Stood: Celebrating the Glory of the Atonement. JI Packer and Mark Dever. Crossway:2007.
• [OT:RDAIJ] Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah. Francesca Stavrakopoulou and John Barton (eds). TTClark:2010.
• [HI:MCAW] Mystery Cults of the Ancient World. Hugh Bowden. PrincetonUP:2010.
• [WR:MATB] Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam. Fred Donner. HarvardUP:2010.
• [WR:MINF] Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet. David Powers. Upenn:2009.
• [WR:THOI] The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research into Its Early History. Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-R Puin (eds). Prometheus:2010.
• [WR:QHC] The Quran in its Historical Context. Gabriel Said Reynolds (ed). Routledge:2008.
• [WR:MTSM] A Muslim Theologian in the Sectarian Milieu: Abd al-Jabbar and the Critique of Christian Origins. Gabriel Said Reynolds. Brill:2004.

Mar 14/2010

• [WR:THB] The Historical Buddha: The Times, Life and Teachings of the Founder of Buddhism. HW Schumann, MOC Walshe (trans). Arkana/Penguin:1982/1989.
• [HI:BFOGE] The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic: The Akkadian Huwawa Narrative. Daniel E Fleming and Sara J Milstein. Brill:2010.
• [WR:GBBIO2] Gotama Buddha: A Biography Based on the Most Reliable Texts (vol 2). Hajime Nakamura and Gaynor Sekimori (trans). Kosei:2005.
• [WR:HOIB] History of Indian Buddhism—From the Origins to the Saka Era. Etienne Lamotte and Sara Webb-Boin (trans). PeetersPress:1988.
• [HI:TSOAT] The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies. Thomas McEvilley. AllworthPress:2002.
• [WR:HOIBHA] A History of Indian Buddhism—From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana. Hirakawa Akira and Paul Groner (trans). MotilalBanarsidass:1990.

Feb 28/2010

• [NT:JTJLT] The Jewish Targums and John's Logos Theology. John Ronning. Hendrickson:2010.
• [HI:PLALG] Pali Literature and Language. Wilhelm Geiger, Batakrishna Ghosh (trans). MunshiramManoharlal:2004/1943.
• [HI:EOTSR] Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Christofer Beckwith. PrincetonUP:2009.
• [HI:IAC] India and Christendom: The Historical Connection Between Their Religions. Richard Garbe, Lydia Robinson (trans). OpenCourtPublishing:1959.
• [WR:LOTBPC] The Life of the Buddha According to the Pali Cannon. Bhikkhu Nanamoli (trans, selections). Pariyatti:1972/1992.
• [WR:HOILPL] A History of Indian Literature: Pali Literature. KR Norman. Harrassowitz:1983.
• [WR:BLB] Buddhist Legends, 3 vols. Eugene Watson Burlingame. MotilalBanarsidass:2004/OUP1921.
• [WR:ABSG] Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandara: The British Library Kharoshi Fragments. Richard Salomon. UwashingtonPress:1999.
• [HI:BTE] Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE. Patrick Olivelle (ed). OxfordUP:2006.
• [WR:BSBM] Bones, Stones and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India. Gregory Schopen (ed). UhawaiiPress:1997.
• [HI:IE] Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages. Richard Salomon. OxfordUP:1998.
• [WR:TGOC] The Genius of Christ. Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad, F Peter Ford (trans/ed). GlobalPubs:2001.
• [X:BATB] The Bible and the Buddhists. JDM Derrett. CasaEditriceSardini:2000 [Interlibrary loan]

Feb 12/2010

• [WR:HOIL1] A History of Indian Literature, Vol 1. Maurice Winternitz (S Ketkar, trans). Oriental Books Reprint Corp/UnivCalcutta: 1927/1972.
• [WR:HOIL2] A History of Indian Literature, Vol 2. Maurice Winternitz (V Srinivasa Sarma, trans.). MotilalBanarsidass:1983.
• [WR:HOIL3] A History of Indian Literature, Vol 3. Maurice Winternitz (Subhadra Jha, trans.). MotilalBanarsidass:1963-1967.
• [WR:URWH] Universal Religions in World History: The Spread of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam to 1500. Donald Johnson and Jean Elliott Johnson. McGrawHill:2007.
• [WR:HSL] A History of Sanskrit Literature. Arthur Macdonnell. Cosimo:2005 (1900).
• [WR:AAT] A Critical Study of the Jaina and the Buddhist Canonical Literature. Muni Shri Nagarajaji (Muni Shri Mahendra Kumarji and KC Lalvani, trans.). TodayTomorrowPrintersPublishers:1986.
• [WR:BBLEIE] Buddhism and Buddhist Literature in Early Indian Epigraphy. Kanai Lal Hazra. MunshiramManoharlalPublishers:2002.
• [WR:WS] World Scriptures: An Introduction to Comparative Religions. Kenneth Kramer. Paulist:1986.
• [WR:TSOB] The Spread of Buddhism. Ann Heirman and Stephan Peter Bumbacher (eds). Brill:2007.
• [WR:BSOB] Buddha and the Spread of Buddhism in India and Abroad—Collection of Articles from the Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol 2. Mahendra Mittal (compiler). OriginalsDelhi:2002.
• [NT:WOTW] Walking on the Water: Reading Mt 14:22-33 in the Light of its Wirkungsgeschichte. Rachel Nicholls. Brill:2008.
• [WR:EHSOB] Early History of the Spread of Buddhism and the Buddhist Schools. Nalinaksha Dutt. RajeshPubs:1930.
• [WR:EBM] Earliest Buddhism and Madhyamaka. David Seyfort Ruegg and Lambert Schmithausen (eds). Brill:1990.
• [WR:GBBIO] Gotama Buddha: A Biography Based on the Most Reliable Texts. Hajime Nakamura and Gaynor Sekimori (trans). Kosei:2000.
• [WR:FOB] The Foundations of Buddhism. Rupert Gethin. OxfordUP:1998.
• [WR:CBC] Confucius, The Buddha, and Christ: A History of the Gospel in Chinese. Ralph Covell. WipfStock:1986.
• [WR:HSGLT1] A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet, vol 1: Transmission of the Canonical Literature. Pieter Verhagen. Brill:1994.
• [WR:HSIP] History Simplified, An International Primer: Buddhist and Christian Gospels, Now First Compared from the Originals (old reprint). Albert Joseph Edmunds and M Anesake. InnesSons:1914.
• [WR:RASOB] The Rise and Spread of Buddhism (old reprint). Henry Olcott. Kessinger: Extracted from his book Buddhist Catechism.
• [HI:EAI] Education in Ancient India. Hartmut Scharfe. Brill:2002.
• [NT:CHGM] A Comparative Handbook to the Gospel of Mark: Comparisons with Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran Scrolls, and Rabbinic Literature. Brill:2010.
• [HI:IJGLHP] The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period. Bezalel Bar-Kochva. UcalPress:2010.
• [HI:JAG] Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism to 135 CE. Terence L Donaldson. Baylor:2007.
• [WR:EIINL] Understanding Islam in a New Light: An Understanding from the Quranic Perspective. Abdur Rab. Iuniverse:2008.
• [WR:CTFIR] Critical Thinkers for Islamic Reform: A Collection of Articles from Contemporary Thinkers on Islam. Edip Yuksel, Arnold Mol, and Farouk Peru (eds). BrainbrowPress:2009.
• [WR:HAS] Hadith As Scripture: Discussions on the Authority of Prophetic Traditions in Islam. Aisha Y Musa. PalgraveMacmillan:2008.
• [WR:Q7] Quran: A Reformist Translation. Translated and annotated by Edip Yuksel, Layth Saleh al-Shaiban, and Martha Schulte-Nafeh. BrainbowPress:2007.
• [NT:JAHD] Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory. Scot McKnight. BaylorUP:2005.
• [HI:HEAI] The History of Education in Ancient India: C 3000 BC to AD 1192. Suresh Ghosh. MunshirmManoharlal:2001.
• [HI:OOCEAI] Origin of Civilisation: Education in Ancient India. CP Khanna. DoabaHouse:1993.
• [HI:IAGW] India and the Greek World: A Study in the Transmission of Culture. Jean W. Sellar. RowanLittlefield:1980.
• [HI:HOPL] A Handbook of Pali Literature. Von Oskar Hinuber. VerlagWalterDeGruyter:2000.
• [HI:PLAL] Pali Language and Literature: A Systematic Survey and Historical Study. Kanai Lai Hazra. DKPrintWorld:1998.
• [HI:AHOPL] A History of Pali Literature. Bimala Charan Law. IndicaBooks:2002.

Jan 24/2010

• [OT:SPN] Studies in the Personal Names of Genesis 1-11. Richard Hess. Eisenbrauns:2009.
• [OT:LFHK] Letters from the Hittite Kingdom. Harry Hoffner Jr. SBL:2009.
• [HI:SGSHP] Synopsis of the Greek Sources for the Hasmonean Period: 1-2 Maccabees and Josephus War 1 and Antiquities 12-14. Joseph Sievers. EPIB:2001.
• [HI:SCS3MACC] Septuagint Commentary Series: 3 Maccabees. N Clayton Croy. Brill:2006.
• [HI:TBOJ] The Book of Jubilees—Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology. Michael Segal. Brill:2007.
• [HI:CLUC] A Comparative Lexicon of Ugaritic and Canaanite. Issam KH Halayqa. Ugarit-Verlag:2008.
• [OT:FETS] From Ebla to Stellenbosch: Syro-Palestinian Religions and the Hebrew Bible. Izak Cornelius and Louis Jonker (eds). Harrassowitz-Verlag:2008.
• [HI:HHHALH] LCL496--Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer. Martin West (trans/ed). HarvardUP:2003.
• [HI:Sages2] The Literature of the Sages: Second Part. Shmuel Safrai, Zeev Safrai, Joshua Schwartz and Peter Tomson (eds). Fortress:2006.
• [HI:FOTF] Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age. Grammatiki Karla (ed). Brill:2009.
• [OT:SAS] The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age. Yoram Cohen. Eisenbrauns:2009.
• [OT:LC10] Literate Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan: The Tel Zayit Abecedary in Context. Ron Tappy and P Kyle McCarter Jr (eds). Eisenbrauns:2008.
• [HI:HKBA] Historical Knowledge in Biblical Antiquity. Jacob Neusner, Bruce Chilton, and William Scott Green (eds). Deo:2007.
• [OT:CANELC] A Comparison of Ancient Near Eastern Law Collections Prior to the First Millennium BC. Samual Jackson. Gorgias:2008.
• [HI:SSAS] Scribes, Sages, and Seers: The Sage in the Eastern Mediterranean World. Leo Perdue (ed). VandenhoeckRuprecht:2008.
• [OT:SCMHB] Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible. Karel van der Toorn. HarvardUP:2007.
• [TH:PB] Precious Blood: The Atoning Work of Christ. Richard Phillips (ed). Crossway:2009.
• [TH:GTP] God the Peacemaker: How Atonement Brings Shalom. Graham Cole. IVP:2009.
• [TH:CAJG] Christ and the Judgement of God: The Limits of Divine Retribution in New Testament Thought. Stephen Travis. HendricksonPaternoster:2008.
• [HI:AJCPC] Ancient Jewish and Christian Perceptions of Crucifixion. David Chapman. MohrSiebeck:2008.
• [TH:IRBE] The Idea of Retribution in the Book of Ezekiel. Ka Leung Wong. Brill:2001.
• [WR:QII1] The Quran and Its Interpreters, vol I. Mahmoud Ayoub. SUNY:1984.
• [WR:QIC] The Quran in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations into the Quranic Milieu. Angelika Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai, and Michael Marx (eds). Brill:2010.
• [WR:BCQ] The Blackwell Companion to the Quran. Andrew Rippin (ed). WileyBlackwell:2009.
• [WR:TFM] The First Muslims: History and Memory. Asma Afsaruddin. OneWorld:2008.
• [WR:HLODSF] Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development, and Special Features. Muhammed Zubayr Siddiqi. IslamicTextsSociety:1993.
• [WR:THS] A Textbook of Hadith Studies: Authenticity, Compilation, Classification, and Criticism of Hadith. Mohammad Hashim Kamali. IslamicFoundation:2005.
• [WR:EMD] Early Muslim Dogma: A source-critical study. Michael Cook. CambridgeUP:1981.
• [WR:SFI] Speaking for Islam: Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies. Gudrun Kramer and Sabine Schmidtke (eds). Brill:2006.
• [TH:WBWWW] We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry. GK Beale. IVP:2008.
• [WR:BACEA] Buddhism: A Christian Exploration and Appraisal. Keith Yandell and Harold Netland. IVP:2009.
• [NT:AJIG] Anti-Judaism in Galatians? Exegetical Studies on a Polemical Letter and on Paul's Theology. Michael Bachmann, Robert Brawley (trans).Eerdmans:2008.
• [TH:ITMITT] Is There a Meaning in This Text? The Bible, The Reader, and the Moralityof Literary Knowledge. Kevin Vanhoozer. Zondervan:1998.
• [WS:OWEC] Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History. Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek (eds, trans). JohnsHopkinsUP:2005.
• [WS:WIWEC] Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life. Lynn Cohick. Baker:2009.
• [HI:AYOWITC] Are You the One Who is To Come? The Historical Jesus and the Messianic Question. Michael Bird. Baker:2009.
• [OT:SAR] Septuagint and Reception. Johann Cook (ed). Brill:2009.
• [OT:LXXI] LXX-Isaiah as Translation and Interpretation: The Strategies of the Translator of the Septuagint of Isaiah. Ronald Troxel. Brill:2008.
• [HI:APS] The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul: Reflections of Platonic Psychology in the Monotheistic Religions. Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth and John Dillon (eds). Brill:2009.
• [HI:RGCA] Roman Gods: A Conceptual Approach. Michael Lipka. Brill:2009.
• [HI:JBPRP] Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine. Richard Kalmin. OxfordUP:2006.
• [HI:HJ] Herod's Judea: A Mediterranean State in the Classical World. Samuel Rocca. MohrSiebeck:2008.
• [HI:SSGR] Sources for the Study of Greek Religion, Corrected Edition. David Rice and John Stambaugh. SBL:2009.
• [HI:HIBW] Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective. Martti Nissinen, Kirsi Stjerna (trans). Fortress:1998.
• [HI:TSC] The Second Church: Popular Christianity a.d. 200-400. Ramsay MacMullen. SBL:2009.
• [NT:PPCG] Pauline Parallels: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter Wilson. WJK:2009.
• [HI:EJPG] Early Jewish Prayers in Greek. Pieter van der Horst and Judith Newman. Wgruyter:2008.
• [HI:GRCBANE] Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East. Jan Bremmer. Brill:2008.
• [HI:XV1] Experientia Volume 1: Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity. Frances Flannery, Colleen Shantz and Rodney Werline (eds). SBL:2008.
• [HI:CHC2] The Cambridge History of Christianity, volume 2: Constantine to c. 600. Augustine Casiday and Frederick Norris (eds). CambridgeUP:2007.