Following in the steps of Nick Norelli, here is a list of books I’ve started and intend to finish - and no, I’m not limiting it to ten (but neither am I listing everything!). So these are the top twenty books I want to finish this year! In no particular order…
- How Biblical Languages Work: A Student’s Guide to Learning Hebrew and Greek Silzer, Peter James
- Early Christian Mission Paul And The Early Church Schnabel, Eckhard J
- Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure (Language Typology & Syntactic Description) Shopen, Timothy
- Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period Longenecker, Richard N.
- Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study Fee, Gordon D.
- Idioms of the Greek New Testament (Biblical Languages: Greek) Porter, Stanley E.
- Is There a Meaning in This Text? Vanhoozer, Kevin J.
- Discourse Features of New Testament Greek: A coursebook on the information structure of New Testament Greek Levinsohn, Stephen H
- Apostolic Fathers, The,: Greek Texts and English Translations Holmes, Michael W.
- Linguistics and New Testament Interpretation: Essays on Discourse Analysis Black, David Alan
- Bible Studies: Contributions Chiefly from Papyri & Inscriptions to the History of Language Deissmann, G. Adolf
- Light From the Ancient East or The New Testament Illustrated by Recently Discovered Texts of the Graeco-Roman World Deissmann, Adolph
- Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert) Luebben, Craig
- Polish Joke and Other Plays: Including Don Juan in Chicago, Ancient History, The Red Address Ives, David
- The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians: A Socio-rhetorical Commentary on the Captivity Epistles Witherington, Ben
- The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Murray, J. O. F.
- A Discourse Analysis of Philippians: Method And Rhetoric in the Debate over Literary Integrity (The Library of New Testament Studies) Reed, Jeffrey T.
- The Gospel of Matthew (New International Commentary on the New Testament) France, R. T.
- The Book of Proverbs: Chapters 15-31 (New International Commentary on the Old Testament) Waltke, Bruce K.
- Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony Bauckham, Richard
5 April, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I could add quite a few more to my list as well, but then it wouldn’t be a “top 10 list” — and also, I’m currently reading through some that I haven’t yet finished, and there are some that I don’t ever mean to finish.
5 April, 2008 at 1:01 pm
there are some that I don’t ever mean to finish
so true…so true…
5 April, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Mike, nice list. I’ve got several of them. Where did you get this one:
How Biblical Languages Work: A Student’s Guide to Learning Hebrew and Greek
I can’t find it on amazon.com
5 April, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Well, when I googled for that book, it did show up with one of the links to amazon.com.
5 April, 2008 at 2:39 pm
So you found it then? Its published by Kregel. The ISBN is 0825426448.
Its good. I’m half way through it. Its a basic survey of Greek and Hebrew. They give beginning students basic surveys of Greek & Hebrew phonology, morphology, syntax, and even a bit of discourse and semantics. It focuses on how Greek & Hebrew are different or similar to English.
The book is also very basic - I’ve found myself skimming it through parts just because I think to myself, “Okay, I know that…I know that…” Its intended for the person who has had no training in phonetics or topics above. So in a sense, there’s nothing else like it in print.
7 April, 2008 at 1:00 pm
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