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 2005, 2004, 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 BOLD RED (but just because it's 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)

Dec 17, 2006

• [TH:KHSOT] Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament. Christopher JH Wright. IVPacademic:2006.

• [NT:CBDSS] Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls. John J Collins and Craig Evans (eds). BakerAcademic:2006.

• [NS:DSB] Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design. Thomas Woodward. Baker:2006.

• [HI:CB] Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament. David L Dungan. Fortress:2007.

• [NT:PES] The Pre-existent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Simon Gathercole. Eerdmans:2006.

• [NT:JEW] Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Richard Bauckham. Eerdmans:2006.

• [TH:DARNB] Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible: The Social and Literary Context. David Instone-Brewer. Eerdmans:2002.

• [TH:DARNC] Divorce and Remarriage in the Church: Biblical Solutions for Pastoral Realities. David Instone-Brewer. IVP:2003.

• [TH:EJG] Evil and the Justice of God. NT Wright. IVP:2006.

• [HI:ECA] The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins. Larry W Hurtado. Eerdmans:2006.

• [WR:Q1] The Quran, A New Translation. M A S Abdel Haleen. OUP:2004.

• [WR:Q2] An Interpretation of the Quran: English Translation of the Meanings—A Bilingual Edition. Majid Fakhry. NYUP:2002.

• [WR:Q3] The Quran, with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation. Ali Quli Qarai. Khatoons:2006.

• [WR:Q4] Al-Quran: A Contemporary Translation. Ahmed Ali. PrincetonUP:1993.

• [WR:Q5] The Quran: Arabic Text with a new translation. Muhammad Zafrulla Khan. OliveBranchPress:1997.

• [WR:VRQ] Variant Readings of the Quran: A Critical Study of their Historical and Linguistic Origins. Ahmad Ali al Imam. International Institute of Islamic Thought:1998.

• [WR:DHQ] Dictionary of the Holy Quran (Arabic-English, 3rd Ed). Abdul Mannan Omar. NOOR:2005.

• [WR:QIE] The Quran and its Exegesis: Selected Texts with Classical and Modern Muslim Interpretations. Helmut Gatje. Oneworld:1996.

• [WR:IQS] Introduction to Quranic Script. Syed Baraket Ahmad. Curzon:1985.

• [WR:IKCA] An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic. W M Thackston. IBEX:2000.

• [WR:ATTQ] Arabic Through the Quran. Alan Jones. IslamicTextsSoc:2005.

• [WR:IKCAKE] An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic, Key to Exercises. W M Thackston. IBEX:1994.

• [WR:GC] God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam. Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds. CambridgeUP:1986.

• [WR:QS] Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation. John Wansbrough. Prometheus:2004.

•  [WR:FA] Fables of the Ancients? Folklore in the Quran. Alan Dundes. RowmanLittlefield:2003.

• [WR:Hadith] Al-Hadith: An English Translation and commentary of Mishkat-Ul-Masabih, with Arabic Text (4vols). Maulana Fazlul Karim. IslamicBookService:1991.

• [WR:QHI] Quran, Hadith, and Islam. Rashad Khalifa. UniversalUnity:2001.

• [WR:MTAP] More Than a Prophet. Emir Fethi Caner and Ergun Mehmet Caner. Kregel:2003.

• [WR:Q6] The Koran Interpreted: A Translation. A J Arberry. Touchstone:1996.

• [WR:CQ] A Concordance of the Quran. Hanna E Kassis. Ucpress:1983.

• [WR:BCTA] The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period. Sidney Harrison Griffith. Variorum:2003.

Sept 24, 2006

[HI:AFANT] The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament. Clayton Jefford. Hendrickson:2006.

• [WR:ABC] Africa Bible Commentary. Tokunboh Adeyemo (gen.ed). Zondervan:2006.

• [WR:QT] Qur'an Translation: Discourse, Texture, and Exegesis. Hussein Abdul-Raof. Curzon:2001.

• [WR:HILT] A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. Wael B Hallaq.  CambridgeUP:1997.

• [WR:OEIL] The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law. Wael B Hallaq. CambridgeUP:2005.

• [WR:EIL] Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools. Adapted by Laleh Bakhtiar, introduction by Kevin Reinhart. ABCInternational:1996.

• [WR:IAM] Islam and Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond. Cooper, Nettler, and Mahmoud (eds). I. B. Taurus:1998.

• [WR:MTHQ] The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an. Abdullan Yusuf Ali (11th ed). Amana:2006.

• [WR:ECMQ] An Exhaustive Concordance of the Meaning of the Qur'an. Cason (compiler), El-Fadl (tech help), Walker (ed). Amana:2000.

• Sep 2, 2006

• [WR:QC] Quranic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. CambridgeUP:1991.

• [HI:HPE] Handbook of Patristic Exegesis: The Bible in Ancient Christianity. Charles Kannengiesser. Brill:2006.

Aug 17, 2006

• [NS:LOG] The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. Francis Collins. FreePress:2006.

• [NS:DPE] Development Plasticity and Evolution. Mary Jane West-Eberhard. OxfordUP:2003.

• [NS:OOF] Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology. Gerd Muller and Stuart Newman (eds). BradfordMIT:2003.

• [NS:RELS] Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems. Andreas Wagner. PrincetonUP:2005.

• [WR:TCOS] The Challenge of the Scriptures: The Bible and the Qur'an. Muslim-Christian Research Group. Orbis:1989.

• [WR:IIH] Islamic Imperialism--A History. Efraim Karsh. Yale:2006.

• [WR:MMIQ] Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an. Suha Taji-Farouki (ed). OxfordUP:2004.

• [WR:WKRS] What the Koran Really Says. Ibn Warraq (ed/trans). Prometheus:2002.

• [WR:TGT] The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists. Khaled Abou El Fadl. Harper:2005.

• [WR:LIAS] Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook. Charles Kurzman (ed). OxfordUP:1998.

• [PH:EPHJ] Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment. Michal Bishop and JD Trout. OxfordUP:2005.

• [PH:BE] Bayesian Epistemology. Luc Bovens and Shephan Hartmann. OxfordUP:2003.

• [HI:BIAA] The Bible in Athanasius of Alexandria. James Ernest. Brill:2004.

• [PH:NLHU] The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding. Anthony Sanford (ed). T&TClark:2003.

• [WR:Charts] Charts of World Religions. H Wayne House. Zondervan:2006.

July 3, 2006

• [PH:HPSMF] How Postmodernism Serves My Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art. Crystal Downing. IVP:2006.

• [HI:AHEC] Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity. Martin Hengel. WipfandStock:1979.

• [NT:4G1G] The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Investigation of the Collection and Origin of the Canonical Gospels. Martin Hengel. Trinity:2000.

• [HI:BRD] The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science. Thomas Levy and Thomas Higham (eds). Equinox:2005.

• [NS:AT] Animal Traditions: Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution. Eytan Avital and Eva Jabloka. CambridgeUP:2000.

• [NS:EN4D] Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life. Eva Jabloka and Marion Lamb. BradfordMIT:2005.

• [CS:APFC] A Place for Consciousness: Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World. Gregg Rosenberg. OxfordUP:2004.

• [NS:THW] Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition. Kim Sterelny. Blackwell:2003.

• [CS:NBNG] Neither Brain nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory. W Teed Rockwell. BradfordMIT:2005.

• [CS:TVB] The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will. Benjamin Libet, Anthony Freeman and Keith Sutherland (eds). ImprintAcademic:1999.

• [CS:SCUR] Science, Consciousness, and Ultimate Reality. David Lorimer (ed). ImprintAcademic:2004.

• [CS:PMC] Physicalism and Mental Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action. Sven Walter and Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (eds). ImprintAcademic:2003.

• [CS:BO] Beyond Ourselves: Second-person issues in the study of consciousness. Evan Thompson (ed). ImprintAcademic:2001.

• [NS:AM] Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature. David Butler. BradfordMIT:2005.

• [NS:MAG] Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion. Todd Tremlin. OxfordUP:2006.

• [CS:TMTB] The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley. RegenBooks/HarperCollins:2002.

• [NS:ESC] Evolution of the Social Contract. Brian Skyrms. CambridgeUP:1996.

• [NS:TBM] The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography. Harvey Whitehouse (ed). Berg:2001.

• [NS:IGWT] In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. Scott Atran. OxfordUP:2002.

• [NS:WWABG] Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Justin Barrett. Altamira:2004.

• [NS:MOR] Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Harvey Whitehouse:Altamira:2004.

• [NS:EOM] Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Leonard Katz (ed). ImprintAcademic:2000.

• [TH:POEC] Perspectives on an Evolving Creation: Keith Miller (ed). Eerdmans:2003. [A book by Christian (mostly evangelical) evolutionists--in different fields of science]

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• [NS:IOE] Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Jonathan Wells. Regnery:2000.

• [NS:BEE] Biased Embryos and Evolution. Wallace Arthur. CambridgeUP:2004.

• [NS:NBGA] Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. Peter Richardson and Robert Byrd. UChicago:2004.

• Jun 11, 2006

• [NS:TGB] The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes, and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything. Paul Halpern. Wiley:2004.

• [NS:TWA] Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman (eds). ColumbiaUP:2005.

• [NS:TCA] The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition. Bekoff, Allen, and Burghardt (eds). MIT:2002.

• [NS:CC] Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence. E Wasserman and T Zentall (eds). OxfordUP:2006.

• [CS:SAPgold] Sensation and Perception, 6thEd. E Bruce Goldstein. Wadsworth:2002.

• [CS:SAPwolfe] Sensation & Perception. Wolfe, Kluender, Levi, Bartoshuk, Herz, Klatzky, and Lederman. Sinauer:2006.

• [CS:P] Perception, 5thEd. Randolph Blake and Robert Sekuler. McGrawHill:2005.

• [CS:CT] Children's Thinking, 4thEd. Robert Siegler and Martha Alibali. PrenticeHall:2004.

• [CS:CPL] Cognition, Perception, and Language, Volume 2, Handbook of Child Psychology, 5thEd. Damon, Kuhn, Siegler (eds). Wiley:2000.

• [CS:CRM] Children's Reasoning and the Mind. Peter Mitchell. PsychologyPress:2001.

• [NS:FITC] Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion. Stewart Guthrie. OxfordUP:1993.

• [PH:BTS] Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. Daniel Dennett. Viking:2006.

• [NS:COS] Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions. Walter Burkert. Harvard:1996.

• [HI:NTM] New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their World. Thomas Klaus and Tobia Nicklas (eds). Brill:2006.

• [HI:SAEH] Scriptural Allusions and Exegesis in the Hodayot. Julie Hughes. Brill:2006.

• [NS:AJG] A Jealous God: Science's Crusade Against Religion. Pamela Winnick. NelsonCurrent:2005. [Amazing book, chronicling the fight against introducing ID into schools]

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• [OT:COU] The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra. Marguerite Yon. Eisenbrauns:2006.

May 12, 2006

• [NS:SD] Science Declares Our Universe is Intelligently Designed. Robert Herrman. XulonPress:2002.

• [NS:GEMG] Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome. JC Sanford. IvanPress:2005.

• [NS:DDT] Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics. Bruce Schumm. JohnsHopkins:2004.

• [NS:R2R] The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. Roger Penrose. Knopf:2004.

• [NS:WP] Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. Lisa Randall. HarperCollins:2005.

• [TH:HOFC] Historicism: The Once and Future Challenge for Theology. Sheila Greeve Davaney. Fortress:2006.

• [PH:TOA] The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World. Alister McGrath. Doubleday-Galilee:2004/2006.

• [HI:LTCT] Libraries, Translations, and 'Canonic' Texts: The Septuagint, Aquila and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian Traditions. Giuseppe Veltri. Brill:2006.

• [HI:BODADL] The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature. Lorenzo DiTommaso. Brill:2005.

Apr 5, 2006

• [HI:2Strange] Two Strange Beasts: Leviathan and Behemoth in Second Temple and Early Rabbinic Judaism. K Willaim Whitney. Eisenbrauns:2006.

• [HI:PSYCH] Psychanodia I: A Survey of the Evidence Concerning the Ascension of the Soul and its Relevance. Ioan Petru Culianu. Brill:1983.

• [HI:LAD] Life after Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion. Alan Segal. Doubleday:2004.

• [NT:GRCGJ] Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus. Mark Chancey. CambridgeUP:2005.

• [HI:MGRP] Moses in Greco-Roman Paganism. John G Gager. SBL/Abingdon:1972/1989.

• [HI:EQO] Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection. Gabriele Boccaccini (ed). Eerdmans:2005.

• [HI:RTB] Reworking the Bible: Apocryphal and Related Texts at Qumran. Chazon, Dimant and Clements (eds). Brill:2005.

• [HI:POP] The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, or other? James Davila. Brill:2005.

• [HI:MMRP] Markets and Marketing in Roman Palestine. Ben-Zion Rosenfeld and Joseph Menirav (Chava Cassel, trans.). Brill:2005.

• [WR:ICIP] An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy. Oliver Leaman. CambridgeUP:2002.

• [HI:SOC] The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation. W V Harris (ed). Brill:2005.

• [HI:TEB] The Edited Bible: The Curious History of the 'Editor' in Biblical Criticism. John Van Seters. Eisenbrauns:2006.

• [OT:BPE] Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel. Ann Killebrew. Brill/SBL:2005.

• [NT:TCIJ] This Christ is Jesus: Metamorphosis, Possession, and Johannine Christology. Pamela Kinlaw. Brill/SBL:2005.

• [OT:JIBA] Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period. Andrew Vaughn and Ann Killebrew (eds). SBL:2003.

Feb 25, 2006

• [PH:TKCCR] The Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings (2nd ed). Louis Pojman (ed). Wadsworth:1999.

• [HI:BAX] Bible Archaeology: An Exploration of the History and Culture of Early Civilizations. Alfred Hoerth and John McRay. Baker:2005.

• [OT:SIH2] A Survey of Israel's History (Revised Ed). Leon Wood and David O'Brien. Zondervan:1986.

• [TH:WHG] The Wounded Heart of God: The Asian Concept of Han and the Christian Doctrine of Sin. Andrew Sung Park. Abingdon:1993.

• [PH:TSB] The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously. Jacques Berlinerblau. Cambridge:2005.

• [HI:JMPCW] Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds. Shmuel Shepkaru. Cambridge:2006.

• [TH:STC] Staying the Course: Supporting the Church's Position on Homosexuality. Dunnam and Malony (eds). Abingdon:2003.

• [HI:CSCCH] A Companion to Second-Century Christian Heretics. Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen (eds). Brill:2005.

• [HI:ACC] The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon. Richard Price and Michael Gaddis. LiverpoolPress:2005 (3 vols).

• [WR:MOG] Mother of the Gods: From Cybele to the Virgin Mary. Philippe Borgeaud, Lysa Hochroth (trans). Johns Hopkins:2004.

• [TH:DHS] Discovering the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. Keith Warrington. Hendrickson:2005.

• [HI:LMBUT] Layout Markers in Biblical and Ugaritic Tablets. Korpel and Oesch (eds). VanGorum:2005.

• [HI:GRHLA] Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity: Fourth to Sixth Century AD. Gabriele Marasco (ed). Brill:2003.

• [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:2005.

• [PH:VAV] Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe. Erik Wielenberg. Cambridge:2005.

• [HI:RASIA] Religion and the Self in Antiquity. Brakke, Satlow, and Weitzman (eds). IndianaUP:2005.

• [NT:CPR] The Child-Parent Relationship in the New Testament and its Environment. Peter Balla. Hendrickson:2003.

• [TH:PET] The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism, and Wesleyanism. Ben Witherington III. Baylor:2005.

• [TH:WGK] What God Knows: Time and the Question of Divine Knowledge. Harry Lee Poe and J Stanley Mattson (eds). Baylor:2005.

• [HI:GRGS] Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories and Early Jesus Traditions. Gerard Luttikhuizen. Brill:2006.

• [NT:TET] The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave. Robert Price and Jeff Lowder (eds). Prometheus:2005.

• [HI:HSORJ] Households, Sects, and the Origins of Rabbinic Judaism. Alexei Sivertsev. Brill:2005.

• [HI:PATC] Porphyry Against the Christians. Robert Berchman. Brill:2005.

• [NS:RAA] Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction. Brian Morris. Cambridge:2006.

• [NT:RSOG] The Resurrection of the Son of God. NT Wright. Fortress:2003.

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