Tag: Book Notices
Select Kindle History and Biography Texts for $1
Through the end of the day tomorrow, Kindle with Special Offers users or Kindle users who have turned on the Special Offers feature are able to take advantage of a promotion that Amazon is running to “Buy one of 50 biography and history titles for $1.” A list of eligible titles is available here. Among…
Sample Keener’s Miracles
Ever helpful, the folks at the Westminster Bookstore have made available a PDF sample from Craig Keener’s Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (2 vols.; Baker, 2011) on the book’s product page. The sample contains the work’s table of contents, introduction, and first chapter. For Keener’s recent interview about the work with Christian…
Hahn, Bibliothek der Symbole und Glaubensregeln der Apostolisch-katholischen Kirche
Google Books has available a full-text PDF of August Hahn’s Bibliothek der Symbole und Glaubensregeln der Apostolisch-katholischen Kirche (Breslau: Grass und Barth, 1842).
A Free Book Each Month in 2012
The folks at Logos Bible Software have started a monthly free book giveaway for 2012. This month’s title is volume 6 from their collection of the Works of John Owen.
Flint, Duhaime, and Baek, eds., Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls
Newly available from the Society of Biblical Literature is Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Canadian Collection, edited by Peter Flint, John Duhaime, and Kyung Baek: This volume celebrates the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, their contents, the community that wrote and preserved them, and new scientific issues that arise from Scrolls studies. The…
Smith, The Bible Made Impossible
Via the Brazos website, the introduction and first chapter of Christian Smith’s recent Bible Made Impossible (2011) are available, as is the below interview with Smith about the book. Although Smith’s argument seems, to me at least, to have difficulties in some different places, other parts do offer some helpful thoughts. Among these salutary points are Smith’s…