Rob:Might as well add Gary Rendsburg‘s recent book to the list, How the Bible is Written
Yes, I looked at this on Amazon and immediately purchased it. While doing so, it occurred to me that most of the suggested books are ones people are willing to wait for. Wouldn't it be nice it FL could supply what we aren't willing to wait for in a timely manner? To do so, they'd need to know what we've purchased "recently" - new, used, or on other platforms.
Are you game to list your last 5 purchases you'd have liked in Logos/Verbum?
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Some of the ones I've purchased from Amazon recently are available in Logos but just not in Canada:
But others are not available in Logos at all. These are all Kindle purchases from the past month. I was impulsive and not willing to wait.
And these are recent print purchases in about the same time period:
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The last batch that came in was:
Shades of Sheol, Philip S. Johnston101 Myths of the Bible, Gary GreenbergThe Dimensions of Job, Nahum GlatzerInterpreting Prophetic Literature, James D. NogalskiThe Justification of the Gentiles, Hendrikus Boers
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Five related to Christianity, theology and background:
F.F.Bruce: The Acts of the Apostles (Greek Text with Introduction and Commentary) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0851117643/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00
Kyriacos C. Markides: The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RH0E6Q/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o00
Israel Finkelstein: The Forgotten Kingdom: The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1589839102/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00
Michael Grant: The Routledge Atlas of Classical History: From 1700 BC to AD 565 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EYWOED8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o00
Arie S. Issar: Strike the Rock and There Shall Come Water: Climate Changes, Water Resources and History of the Lands of the Bible https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FTV4GDC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o05
And perhaps a bit off topic:
Muhammad al-Bukhari: The Hadith https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016VEYTL4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o04
Asad Tarsin: Being Muslim: A Practical Guide https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01833W1KM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o02
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Limited to purchased, and recommend in Logos:
Charles Kruger; Early Text of the New Testament (re-reading)
John Collins; Invention of Judaism - Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul
Judith Lieu; Marcion and the Making of a Heretic
Robert C. Fuller; The Body of Faith - A Biological History of Religion in America
Wayne Rollins, Andrew Kille; Psychological Insight into the Bible
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Some of these are off my PhD exam reading lists, and are obscure enough I wouldn't expect to see Logos editions. But others... we're not keeping up with Peter Enns, we have NO James Kugel, NO Robert Alter. If there's a reason other companies are *perceived* as being more for academics, and Logos as being devotional and for Protestants, book selection might be a significant part of it.
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The Triumph of Grace: Literary and Theological Studies in Deuteronomy and Deuteronomic Themes by Daniel I. Block
The Epistle to the Romans by Karl BarthThanks again to Everett, Ben and the Faithlife team for the ongoing efforts to get this in Logos format. (See this thread and this one.)
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
The Top 100 Questions: Biblical Answers to Popular Questions by Richard Bewes
Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity by Richard Bauckham
This may not necessarily be the 5 most recent, but it's a reasonable sample. I have to confess though, that fairly frequently I pick up Kindle versions of resources that are already in the Logos format, when a sale makes the price delta too vast to ignore. I always prefer the Logos format, of course.
Block's Triumph of Grace, listed above, is available for Logos pre-order and is "gathering interest."
Just two...
Hidden but now Revealed, Beale
The Lost World of the Torah, Walton
...quite a few that Faithlife should have/may offer in the future that I couldn’t wait for.
How the Bible Actually Works, Enns
The Hebrew Bible, Alter
The Art of Bible Translation, Alter
How the Bible is Writen, Rendsburg
I've bought five Christian books from Amazon this year. The were:
The Billy Graham book was on sale. The others I needed right away and couldn't wait for.
Mark Barnes:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Lloyd-Jones)
If only you'd waited a few months. They just announced it in pre-pub today.
https://www.logos.com/product/186456/studies-in-the-sermon-on-the-mount
Rosie Perera: Mark Barnes:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Lloyd-Jones) If only you'd waited a few months. They just announced it in pre-pub today. https://www.logos.com/product/186456/studies-in-the-sermon-on-the-mount
But who knows how long it will take to get from pre-pub into our libraries so maybe still a necessary purchase depending upon Mark's needs.
I had to go look at my Amazon page, so there's this-
1. Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism by Hixson, Elijah
2. Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Studies in Tools, Methods, and Practice by Porter, Stanley E.
3. The Early Text of the New Testament by Charles E. Hill, Michael J. Kruger (Paperback)
4. God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel: How Truth Overwhelms a Life Built on Lies by Costi W. Hinn
The rest of my book purchases were history or other non-fiction.
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My last five were:
1. The Soul of Wine: Savoring the Goodness of God (Gisela H. Kreglinger)
2. The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence (Matthew Curtis Fleischer)
3. The Priestly Kingdom: Social Ethics as Gospel (John Howard Yoder)
4. Out of the Ordinary: Prayers, Poems, and Reflections for Every Season (Joyce Rupp)
5. Letters from Father Christmas (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Unfortunately, I finished preaching on the Sermon on the Mount six weeks ago! I've still placed a pre-pub order though. It's probably MLJ's best work.
1. Phillip Silvia, The Destruction of Sodom
2. Eta Linnemann, Biblical Criticism on Trial
3. Joseph Holden, The Harvest Handbook of Apologetics
4. Norman Geisler, The Big Book of Chritian Apologetics
5. Lindsay Brown, Shining like Stars
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DIsciple II: Rosie Perera: Mark Barnes:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Lloyd-Jones) If only you'd waited a few months. They just announced it in pre-pub today. https://www.logos.com/product/186456/studies-in-the-sermon-on-the-mount But who knows how long it will take to get from pre-pub into our libraries so maybe still a necessary purchase depending upon Mark's needs.
Anything that is posted as a pre-order to begin with is prioritized and will have a quicker turnaround time than titles that start out as pre-pubs.
Will share mine here as it might shed light on another issue:
1. Cases and Maps by Mark Coppenger
2. Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals by Gavin Ortlund
3. America's Religious History by Thomas S. Kidd
4. The Genealogical Adam & Eve by S. Joshua Swamidass
5. The Mirror and the Mask by Lydia McGrew
Books 2-4 are actually all available in Logos - but in every case except for The Genealogical Adam & Eve, the Faithlife release date was after the hard copy release date.
For The Genealogical Adam & Eve, I bought both the hard copy and the Logos edition since they were the same day. The problem with 2 and 3 is that when I first heard about the books as forthcoming, I searched Logos's website and there was (as I recall) no release date for these books, so I just ordered the hard copy thinking it may be several weeks if not months until the Logos edition came out. (Theological Retrieval may not have even been listed on Logos when I was first aware of it and looking.) When I did the same with The Genealogical Adam & Eve, I saw that they had the same publish date and so I ordered the Logos edition (rather, both).
Now I see that Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals and America's Religious History released soon after the hard copies, but by then I'd still already read the books and so no point buying a Logos version unless I wanted to do some more focused study or writing that utilized content in these books.
Hence, it's not just having the resource or letting the customer know that the resource will be coming eventually. Faithlife has a reputation for long wait times on resource production. From my experience, they've been doing great speeding up production for the last year, but I think Faithlife would also see more profit if they could get ETAs out quicker.
(If it's a resource I'm likely to make use of or refer to after reading, I'd still buy a Logos edition even if it came out weeks or months or, in some cases, years after the hard copy. I would still buy a Logos edition of McGrew's The Mirror and the Mask!)
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“The Day is Far Spent” by Cardinal Robert Sarah
”Western Culture” by Benedict XVI
of course I plan to get them if they do show up on FL
I got the app version of Catholic Encyclopedia until the FL version gets off of bidding.
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David Wanat:“The Day is [Now] Far Spent” by Cardinal Robert Sarah
David Wanat:”Western Culture” by Benedict XVI
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