Thursday, December 10, 2009

Newest Acquisitions

Since returning from the SBL meeting in New Orleans I have been busy with grading papers etc for the two classes I am teaching at Baylor, so I have not had much time to post anything.

While at SBL I made two new acquisitions:

Cynthia Long Westfall, A Discourse Analysis of the Letter to the Hebrews: The Relationship between Form and Meaning.
-At $50 it was the cheapest I had ever seen it, new or used, so I bit the bullet and bought it.

Jason A. Whitlark, Enabling Fidelity to God: Perseverance in Hebrews in Light of the Reciprocity Systems of the Ancient Mediterranean World.

Today, when I arrived home after getting some needed shopping done, I found a nice parcel from Germany with these two volumes:

Wendelini Steinbach, Opera Exegetica Quae Supersunt Omnia: Volumen II: Commentarii in Epistolam ad Hebraeos Pars Prima.

----------, Opera Exegetica Quae Supersunt Omnia: Volumen III: Commentarii in Epistolam ad Hebraeos Pars Altera.
-These two books contain Steinbach's lectures on Hebrews in 1516-1517. The volumes are edited by Helmut Feld. Even though I purchased them "used" the books look to be new; they are in beautiful condition.

4 comments:

  1. Getting Westfall for $50 is a steal! At SBL 2007 I got if $70, and I thought that was a steal. I did get her to autograph it for me though.

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  2. Relatively speaking, it was. The representatives from T & T Clark said that some of these monographs eventually go into paperback form, but there was no guarantee that this book would be one of them, so I was of two minds about purchasing the book or waiting. I still think the prices of some of these books are ridiculously exorbitant. I saw Cynthia at the conference but only got to greet her briefly this year.

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  3. her title is funny, do you mean "Form and Meaning"" why Form and Meeting? Sounds like it would quite enlightening to read.

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