Posted by: Nick Norelli | April 25, 2008

Wow!!!

I was walking my daughter out to the bus when the UPS man pulled up to my house. He said: “I got a package for you.” I asked him if it was anything good, and of course he said he didn’t know. Well, I walked in the house, opened the box and found:

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A. Phillip Brown, II and Bryan W. Smith, eds. A Reader’s Hebrew Bible, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008.) [Italian Duo-tone leather, 1652 pages]

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Kevin Giles. Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006.) [Paperback, 320 pages]
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Mark L. Strauss. Four Portraits, One Jesus: An Introduction to Jesus and the Gospels, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007.) [Hardcover, 560 pages]

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Dennis F. Kinlaw. Let’s Start with Jesus: A New Way of Doing Theology, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.) [Hardcover, 165 pages]

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Michael J. Wilkins and J.P. Moreland, eds. Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995.) [Paperback, 243 pages]
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Lee Strobel. The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007.) [Hardcover, 311 pages]
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J.P. Moreland. Kingdom Triangle: Recover the Christian Mind, Renovate the Soul, Restore the Spirit’s Power, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007.) [Hardcover, 237 pages]

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Now that’s a good package!!! All of these books came courtesy of Chris Fann at Zondervan, so a very special thank you belongs to him. I am overwhelmed by all of this. And to make my day even better, the mail man left a package on the porch from B&H Academic:

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Fred Sanders and Klaus Issler, eds. Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective, (Nashville: B&H, 2007). [Paperback, 244 pages]
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This came courtesy of Jim Baird, so a word of thanks is due to him as well. It looks like I will be very, very busy for the rest of this year. I look forward t reviewing the vast majority of these titles (a couple don’t interest me at the moment, but we’ll see what they bring).

B”H

Posted in Apologetics, Book Reviews, Christology, Historical Jesus, New Testament, Old Testament, Theology, Trinity

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_Jesus Under Fire_ was one of my go-to books in Historical Jesus discussions on compuserve ten years ago.

The Moreland book is probably quite good. I very much like his _Love God with All Your Mind_.

As for _A Reader’s Hebrew Bible_, you’ll be lucky if Jim West isn’t pop quizzing you to see if you’re really studying it. No excuses now.

By: Chuck Grantham on April 25, 2008
at 3:13 pm

Chuck: A Reader’s Hebrew Bible is going to be my first review. The Moreland book is probably going to be the last thing that I get to. I like the way he writes, but my heart is with books on the Trinity, Christology, and Historical Jesus.

By: Nick Norelli on April 25, 2008
at 3:16 pm

Can I have the couple of books that don’t interest you? ;-)

By: Robert on April 25, 2008
at 5:20 pm

Out of interest, Nick, what would your reaction have been if instead of Brown, Smith, Giles, Strauss, Kinlaw, Wilkins, Moreland, Strobel, Sanders and Issler , the books had been by Žižek, Piper, Hauerwas, Bell, Boyd, Grudem, Warren, Meyer, Yoder and Tenney? Would you have looked the UPS gift horse in the mouth, or would you have suddenly waxed enthusiastic about your least favoured authors?

By: Peter Kirk on April 25, 2008
at 5:24 pm

This reminds me, the UPS guy dropped off another package today which I haven’t opened yet.

By: Nathan Stitt on April 25, 2008
at 5:36 pm

Robert: With God, all things are possible. ;)

Peter: Ooh, tough one. I probably would have vomited in the box and shipped it back to whoever sent it. :-P

Nathan: I hope it’s something good!

By: Nick Norelli on April 25, 2008
at 6:40 pm

nick… how on earth do you keep up? what do you do for a living? I’d think you’d need to make a living from this book-review-blogging lifestyle to keep up.

By: Roger Mugs on April 25, 2008
at 11:23 pm

Roger: This explains it all. And the free books are payment enough. Now, if by chance some publishers offered me money to review their books, I’d take it, but I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon.

By: Nick Norelli on April 25, 2008
at 11:26 pm

after reading that i DO understand.

also… on your road to fame I HIGHLY suggest your own url… getting one myself was dirt cheap (10$/year for URL and hosting through blogger), and i cannot believe the amount of traffic i get just for it being its own url.

also you can get a cool name. like

nicknorellilearnstoread.com
or
nickisintobookssoyoushoulddonatetheminmassive
amountssohecankeephisrediculoushabitgoing.com

or just

rightlydividingnick.com/inhalfwithalargesurgicalknfe.html

By: Roger Mugs on April 25, 2008
at 11:44 pm

Roger: One of these days we’re going to get you to spell rIdiculous right. ;)

Oh, and why pay for something you can do for free?

By: Nick Norelli on April 25, 2008
at 11:46 pm

i threw that in there for your enjoyment and actually meant to comment on how you would like that link in particular for its rEdiculous spelling.
but you beat me to the punch..

the reason you pay is because its cheaper than a nice notebook. (thats how i justified it)

and it looks cool. dude. 10$/year is not money. and i’m a poor man.

By: Roger Mugs on April 25, 2008
at 11:58 pm

Roger: $10 is money, in fact, I can buy like almost half a gallon of gas with that. ;)

By: Nick Norelli on April 26, 2008
at 12:16 am

I’m too cheap to spend $10/yr for my own URL

By: Nathan Stitt on April 26, 2008
at 1:43 am

@nathan and nick - rEdiculous! thats less than a 12 pack of beer. and if you look at the inherent increase in traffic you’ll get… think of how many more free books you’ll get… then more people… then maybe money enuf to buy a 12 pack of beer.

crazies.

By: Roger Mugs on April 26, 2008
at 10:39 am

Just a random thought: Did you know that there is a way to read books without having to review them or shell out money for them? Yeah it’s this really neat institution called the library. Admitedly the public libraries are probably not going to have most of the books you care about, but if you’re anywhere near a theological library you can get them all for free. I know it’s not quite the same as being able to write your name in them and mark the up and all, so it probably won’t really satisfy your addiction, but it might help. It’s kind of like the patch. :)

By the way, I have been using my Reader’s Hebrew Bible for the past few weeks and loving it. I think you’ll dig it.

By: Ryan Jones on April 26, 2008
at 11:51 am

Nathan: I like to think of myself as ‘frugal’ instead of ‘cheap’. ;)

Roger: I’m not really hurting for free books though. Apparently, they base their book giving on awesomeness, of which I have much, and not traffic, of which I have some, but not nearly as much as I do awesomeness. ;)

Ryan: Yeah, people keep telling me about this library business. My problem is that I have to give the books back to them. How many crack addicts have you ever seen return crack to their dealers? :-P And I spent most of yesterday in the RHB; so far I do dig it.

By: Nick Norelli on April 26, 2008
at 12:38 pm

Awesomeness: see Ego, size of, Nick Norelli

Nu, you conceited slut!

Love the crack line line, BTW.

By: Chuck Grantham on April 26, 2008
at 12:51 pm

Chuck: We can’t all be so clever as to win caption contests. Some of us have to get free books the old fashioned way, by being awesome. ;)

By: Nick Norelli on April 26, 2008
at 12:58 pm

Then why am I not receiving any free books?

(thaat was rhetorical)

By: Roger Mugs on April 26, 2008
at 1:01 pm

Nick: ‘Fess up. You voted for me all five times, didn’t you? Just so you could say this.

The fact that the reverse interlinear caption almost won shows just what a bunch of geeks we are over at ricoblog.

By: Chuck Grantham on April 26, 2008
at 3:23 pm

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