Posted by: Nick Norelli | May 2, 2008

Sales at Eisenbrauns

James Spinti has announced the monthy Eisenbrauns sale, along with a clearence sale on limited items.  Chek it out.  Some items of interest for me are:

Studies in Early Christianity

Studies in Early Christianity

by Francois Bovon
Baker Academic, 2005
viii + 336 pages, English
Paper, 6 x 9
ISBN: 080102935X
List Price: $34.99
Your Price: $16.71
www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~BOVEARLYC

The Gospel Hoax

The Gospel Hoax
Morton Smith’s Invention of Secret Mark

by Stephen C. Carlson
Baylor University, 2005
xix + 151 pages, English
Paper
ISBN: 1932792481
List Price: $24.95
Your Price: $13.69
www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~CARGOSPEL

Cruciformity

Cruciformity
Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross

by Michael J. Gorman
Eerdmans, 2001
440 pages, English
Paper
ISBN: 0802847951
List Price: $36.00
Your Price: $18.00
www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~GORCRUCIF

The Gospel of Mark

The Gospel of Mark
A Commentary

by Francis J. Moloney
Hendrickson Publishers, 2002
xviii + 398 pages, English
Cloth
ISBN: 1565636821
List Price: $29.95
Your Price: $14.98
www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~MOLMARK

Questioning Q

Questioning Q
A Multidimensional Critique

by Nicholas Perrin and Mark S. Goodacre
InterVarsity Press - IVP, 2005
xiv + 201 pages, English
Paper
ISBN: 0830827692
List Price: $19.00
Your Price: $9.65
www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~PERQUESTI

Who knows, maybe when I get this government check I’ll be able to pick a few titles up.

B”H

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Responses

Hmm. Katrina ate my _Questioning Q_. Maybe this is an opportune time for a replacement.

Yeah, like Mr. No Really and I don’t have enough to read already.

By: Chuck Grantham on May 2, 2008
at 2:35 pm

Chuck: I love reading, really, I do… almost as much as I love collecting. I own books that I might never read, but it sure was fun to buy them. ;)

By: Nick Norelli on May 2, 2008
at 2:37 pm

You BUY books?!

Do the publishers know? Aren’t you afraid of killing the golden goose admitting it to the world like this?

Oh, well. Worse comes to worst, you’ll always have Internet Archive and Google books. You can steal–ahem–LEARN a lot from old books. Just look at the major biblical commentaries.

By: Chuck Grantham on May 2, 2008
at 2:55 pm

does Eisenbrauns send people stuff or are they pretty particular.

By: brianfulthorp on May 2, 2008
at 3:00 pm

Chuck: My library is about 40-some-odd books larger because of the generosity of publishers, but before that I bought a couple hundred books on my own. And then of course, there’s the publishers who won’t send me review copies, I have to buy books from them. :( And last of all, some books I just want to read and learn from without reviewing them. Those I buy.

Brian: As long as you pay for it, they’ll send you anything you want. ;) I think they do desk copies for professors, but I’m not sure if they do review copies for other folks. James Spinti could answer that question for you better than I can.

By: Nick Norelli on May 2, 2008
at 3:02 pm

HAH!

That Questioning Q book looked interesting. Unfortunately I am about $200 over my book allotment for the year, heh. Thanks for the heads up Nick.

By: Nathan Stitt on May 2, 2008
at 6:07 pm

Nathan: Last year I spent almost $1400 on books. So far this year, I’ve only spent about $185. If I can maintain this pace then I’ll come in at about 60% lower than last year. That’s pretty good. I might just celebrate that achievement with a book! ;)

By: Nick Norelli on May 2, 2008
at 7:21 pm

Reviewing books is hard. Very hard.

Send me the $1400; I’ll make sure you can’t be tempted to spend it. ;-)

By: Chuck Grantham on May 3, 2008
at 1:23 am

I hate trying to review books. I’m too wordy and analytical. It drives me nuts.

The Bovon book looks interesting as does the Gorman book.

I don’t really know how much I spend on books a year. I’d spent a lot less since I have so many books on my to read list that I want to make a big dent in.

Bryan

By: Bryan L on May 3, 2008
at 1:44 pm

The Gorman book is good - I’ve used a couple of his books, and I think his ideas are a good way forward in terms of understanding Paul: He argues that Paul draws on certain Old Testament themes (humiliation to exaltation; death to resurrection; etc) to shape and express his central theme of Christ’s cruciformity. I think this represents the direction that NT scholarship will take more and more: Moving from a focus on Greco-Roman rhetorical backgrounds to a renewed appreciation of OT/Jewish backgrounds to Paul’s own rhetoric.

By: Matthew on May 3, 2008
at 3:23 pm

Chuck: You’re right, reviewing books is hard, especially when the books are dull as all get-out. I find that the more enjoyable a book is to read, the more enjoyable it is to review. When I really don’t care for a book, then it’s a chore to review it.

Bryan: Those aren’t necessarily bad things in book reviews. If you can work on keeping the wordiness in check, then it’s all good. I’d suggest just writing really long reviews if that’s what you have to do, then trying to edit them down later.

Matthew: I read Gorman’s Reading Paul and loved it. It’s one of the few I gave a 5 star rating. I loaned it to a friend who liked it so much that he went out and bought Cruciformity. And I hope you’re correct in your assessment of the trajectory for Pauline scholarship.

By: Nick Norelli on May 3, 2008
at 3:53 pm

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