We acquired a lot of books for our collection in April! Below is a list of some titles we added to our shelves.  Some may be linked to reviews. Books linked to Review of Biblical Literature require a Society of Biblical Literature membership to see the full review, but you can read a brief description with the link provided.

• After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith without Losing It by A. J. Swoboda (2021)
• Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament: The Influence of Elementary Greek Composition by Mikeal C. Parsons and Michael Wade Martin (2018)
• Atonement and the Death of Christ: An Exegetical, Historical, and Philosophical Exploration by William Lane Craig (2020)
• Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology, and Community by Grant Macaskill (2019)
• Beyond Mary or Martha: Reclaiming Ancient Models of Discipleship by Jennifer S. Wyant (2019)
• The Bible: A Story That Makes Sense of Life by Andrew Ollerton (2020)
• The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler (2020)
• Biblical Theology: The Convergence of the Canon by Ben Witherington III (2019)
• Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words by Richard Hughes Gibson and James Edward Beitler III (2020)
• Commentaries on Job, Hosea, Joel, and Amos (Ancient Christian Texts) by Julian of Eclanum (2021)
• Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity by Candida R. Moss (2019)
• Ethiopian Christianity: History, Theology, Practice by Philip F. Esler (2019)
• Faith That Lasts: A Father and Son on Cultivating Lifelong Belief by Cameron and Stuart McAllister (2021)
• Family Systems and Congregational Life by R. Robert Creech (2019)
• From Orality to Orality: A New Paradigm for Contextual Translation of the Bible by James A. Maxey (2009)
• From Text to Performance: Narrative and Performance Criticisms in Dialogue and Debate edited by Kelly R. Iverson (2014)
• A Glad Obedience: Why and What We Sing by Walter Brueggemann (2019)
• And God Spoke to Abraham: Preaching from the Old Testament by Fleming Rutledge (2011)
• God’s Body: Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God by Christoph Markschies (2019)
• Heaven, So Near – So Far: The Story of Judas Iscariot by Colin S. Smith (2017)
• Help My Unbelief, 20^th Anniversary Edition by Fleming Rutledge (2000)
• A History of Early Christian Literature by Justo L. González (2019)
• The Holy Spirit Before Christianity by John R. Levison (2019)
• How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How an Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers – and Why That’s Great News by Peter Enns (2019)
• Hurting Yet Whole: Reconciling Body and Spirit in Chronic Pain and Illness by Liuan Huska (2020)
• Isaiah: A Mentor Commentary, Volume 1: Chapters 1-27 by Paul R. House (2019)
• Jewish Theology Unbound by James A. Diamond (2018)
• John the Baptist in History and Theology by Joes Marcus (2018)
• Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration edited y Efraín Agosto and Jacqueline M. Hidalgo (2018)
• Memory in a Time of Prose: Studies in Epistemology, Hebrew Scribalism, and the Biblical Past by Daniel D. Pioske (2018)
• Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers: The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionists by Marcel Jousse (2018)
• Mixed Blessing: Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity by Chandra Crane (2020)
• Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction edited by Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon (2019)
• Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant by Francis J. Beckwith (2019)
• Opening Israel’s Scriptures by Ellen F. Davis (2019)
• Oral and Manuscript Culture in the Bible: Studies on the Media Texture of the New Testament – Explorative Hermeneutics by J. A. (Bobby) Loubser (2013)
• The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual edited by Risto Uro, Juliette J. Day, Richard E. DeMaris, and Rikard Roitto (2019)
• Pauline Dogmatics: The Triumph of God’s Love by Douglas A. Campbell (2020)
• Performance Criticism of the Pauline Letters by Bernhard Oestreich (2016)
• Planting a Church without Losing Your Soul: Nine Questions for the Spiritually Formed Pastor by Tim Morey (2020)
• Prayer in the Night: for Those Who Work or Watch or Weep by Tish Harrison Warren (2021)
• The Problem of the Old Testament: Hermeneutical, Schematic & Theological Approaches by Duane A. Garrett (2020)
• Providence by John Piper (2021)
• Psalms as a Grammar for Faith: Prayer and Praise by W. H. Bellinger Jr. (2019)
• Public Intellectuals and the Common Good: Christian Thinking for Human Flourishing edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher J. Devers (2021)
• Puzzling Passages in Paul: Forty Conundrums Calmly Considered by Anthony Thiselton (2018)
• Religion without Violence: The Practice and Philosophy of Scriptural Reasoning by Peter Ochs (2019)
• Restless Faith: Holding Evangelical Beliefs in a World of Contested Labels by Richard J. Mouw (2019)
• Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer (2021)
• The Servant of the Lord and His Servant People: Tracing a Biblical Theme Through the Canon by Matthew S. Harmon (2020)
• Sound Matters: New Testament Studies in Sound Mapping edited by Margaret E. Lee (2018)
• Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible (Biblical Refigurations) by Nyasha Junior (2019)
• Rhetoric and Scripture: Collected Essays of Thomas H. Olbricht edited by Lauri Thurén (2021)
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (2013)
• Romans Disarmed: Resisting Empire/Demanding Justice by Sylvia C. Keesmaat and Brian J. Walsh (2019)
• The Singer of Tales in Performance by John Miles Foley (1995)
• Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing by Richard A. Horsley (2013)
• The Theology of Jeremiah: The Book, the Man, the Message by John Goldingay (2021)
• Three Hours: Sermons for Good Friday by Fleming Rutledge (2019)
• Translating Scripture for Sound and Performance: New Directions in Biblical Studies edited by James A. Maxey and Ernst R. Wendland (2012)
• Truth Over Fear: Combating the Lies About Islam by Charles Kimball (2019)
• Winsome Conviction: Disagreeing without Dividing the Church by Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer (2020)
• The Word Made Flesh: A Theology of the Incarnation by Ian A. McFarland (2019)
• Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity by Karen B. Stern (2018)