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What Books I Read this Summer . . .

With the semester at Augie about to start up again this Wednesday, I’ve found myself taking stock of the books I have read this summer. Here I share that list with you . . . have you read any, and if so, what did you think? (N.B. – I am only here including books I read cover to cover).

Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?

David Lamb, God Behaving Badly

Thom Stark, The Human Faces of God

Eryl Davies, The Immoral Bible

Carolyn Sharp, Wrestling the Word

Ron Hendel (ed.), Reading Genesis: Ten Methods

Joseph Blenkinsopp, Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation

John W. Rogerson, A Theology of the Old Testament: Cultural Memory, Communication, and Being Human

Terence Fretheim, About the Bible: Short Answers to Big Questions (2d edition)

Arthur Hertzberg, Jews: The Essence and Character of a People

Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After

Deborah Lipstadt The Eichmann Trial

Edward Feld, The Spirit of Renewal

Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower

That’s what I can recall . . . so what did you read this summer?

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3 Responses

  1. That’s a good list. More than what I read. I was reading a lot of articles though. Not as many books as I should have. Or the books were fiction.

    September 20, 2011 at 8:07 pm

  2. Russ

    Walton’s The Lost World of Genesis One and Freitheim’s Creation Untamed were both excellent.

    September 30, 2011 at 11:10 pm

  3. I didn’t read that much. Wow!

    October 2, 2011 at 6:59 pm

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