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

I've been wanting to buy this book for a long time. I just couldn't justify the price:
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:
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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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.
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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!
Gold package, and original language material and ancient text material, SIL and UBS books, discourse Hebrew OT and Greek NT. PC with Windows 11
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There's something wrong with the labeling of the discount though.
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I feel a hint of uneasiness but I look forward to your reviews.
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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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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.
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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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