At last ... at last! Ahab and His House of Horrors is on Sale!

DMB
DMB Member Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 4 in Books and Courses Forum

I've been wanting to buy this book for a long time. I just couldn't justify the price: https://www.logos.com/product/224280/ahabs-house-of-horrors-a-historiographic-study-of-the-military-campaigns-of-the-house-of-omri?queryId=b2359b82acd71f613cf5551460d5fcfc

Just the title seems somewhere between Halloween, and Assyria … who could resist?! Where could Ahab have possibly gotten so many horses? And who was feeding them? But more seriously, it's a discussion of how one deals with canon vs non-canon history. And on sale this month. At last.

And closely related: https://www.logos.com/product/9565/qohelet-and-his-contradictions?queryId=82fdbe06625f89edfdf925670b78af6f Again, who can resist THAT title? I count 21 commentaries in my library on Qohelet, but 22 promises the magic number. Again more seriously, a critical (analytical) perspective on a writing that just doesn't seem to fit the canon-collectors. And ignore the publisher blurb … look at the TOC!

And so … March's deals deliver a little spice (since the Matchups are a bit under-whelming!).

"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

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  • Sean
    Sean Member Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭

    These are outside my areas of interest so I'm not going to bite, but that first title is brilliant. The title alone is going to sell them a bunch of copies apart from the merits of the text.

  • Veli Voipio
    Veli Voipio MVP Posts: 2,069

    Thanks a lot for this advice! I bought it and will go through it. I have my own speculations for that time period, let's see whether this book will support or refute mine!

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  • Jan Krohn
    Jan Krohn Member Posts: 3,868 ✭✭✭

    There's something wrong with the labeling of the discount though.

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  • GaoLu
    GaoLu Member Posts: 3,517 ✭✭✭

    I feel a hint of uneasiness but I look forward to your reviews.

  • Jason Stone (Logos)
    Jason Stone (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 1,038

    This topic is about a resource, not the Logos or Verbum product, so I’ve moved it to the books and courses forum.

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭

    Well, that'll be the end of that, Jason. You'll need to advertise your own books. And I'll read mine. Smiling.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Morgan
    Morgan Member Posts: 506 ✭✭✭

    Qohelet and His Contradictions by Fox is a great read. Takes the text seriously - meaning he let's Qohelet's pessimism come through instead of trying to harmonize it all into a message of hope. Makes a good case for defining 'vanity' as 'absurdity' and if the world is truly as absurd as Qohelt believes it to be, then we shouldn't be surprised to find contradictions.

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