What's in your library?

by the_classicist 31 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • the_classicist
    the_classicist

    Whats in your personal bible or religious library? Let's see what I have... Cambridge KJV (really nice, calfskin leather), Cambridge REB (really nice, not as good as KJV though), 50 year old Douay Rheims (with annoying JW notes and written-in textual changes inside, courtesy JW great-grandmother), RSV-CE (imitation leather, looks extremely cheap), NAB (imitation leather, looks better but sucky confraternity notes in it). That's my bible collection (I got rid of the NWT).

    Prayer books, most I don't use, but they're cool to have: Anglican Breviary, Liturgy of the Hours, Christian Prayer, and a few others.

    Doctrine: Catechism of the Catholic Church, Catechism of the Council of Trent, the Apostolic Fathers.

    So, what's in your library? (a pun on that ING Direct commercial, where the Swedish guy goes "What's in your wallet?", get it?)

    The Classicist of the 300th post class

  • fairchild
    fairchild

    Hmm, 4 bibles, different sizes and different languages, but all NWT.

    Insight in the scriptures, 2 volumes

    Crisis Of Conscience, Raymond Franz

    History Of Christianity, by John Abbott (printed in 1893)

    A whole big bunch of WBTS publications

  • Heatmiser
    Heatmiser

    COC

    1 KJV (gathering a decade of dust)

  • talesin
    talesin

    Hmm ,,, I have an old NWT, about 100 of the old pre-war WT tracts, and CofC.

  • Robert K Stock
    Robert K Stock

    Josephus, Philo, Writings of the Church Fathers of the 1st through 3rd Century, Gnostic Gospels, Nag Hammadi Library, all 7 Volumes of Studies in the Scriptures, Zions Watchtower 1879-1919, most WBTS books from the late 20's to the present, books from the Assembly of Yahweh, Church of God Seventh Day, Herbert Armstrong, New World Translation, Jerusaelm, American Standard, Revised Standard, Stephen Byington's transalation, various Jewish translations, Guide for the Perplexed, several volumes of the Talmud, Book of Mormon, Hindu Vedas, Koran. Commentaries up the wazoo.

  • the_classicist
    the_classicist
    several volumes of the Talmud

    I was thinking about adding these too. I thought they came mult-volumed, which books would you recommend?

  • Kenneson
    Kenneson

    3 Catholic translations; the NWT; COC, a recent acquisition, Pilgrimage through the Watch Tower by Kevin R. Quick; The Catholic Answer to the Jehovah's Witnesses: A Challenge Accepted by Louise D'Angelo; The King's Highway by Kenneth R. Guindon, a fallen-away Catholic to Jehovah's Witnesses and his return to the Church; Cathechism of the Catholic Church, Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encyclopedia; Troy Debates Rutherford by William Cetnar; The Early Christians: A Sourcebook on the Witness of the Early Church by Eberhard Arnold; and very few JWs publications. I gave everything else that I had on Jws (for and against them) to a university library in Louisiana when I came to Florida in 1988. I don't know if they catalogued it or not. I haven't returned to find out.

  • Robert K Stock
    Robert K Stock

    The ones that I have are the Aiden Steinsaltz translations I got them and most of my books on Judaism from the Jewish Book Club.

    The Talmud is a work like no other. It is like you just walked into the middle of a discussion. At first glance it looks as if there is no rhyme or reason. A central text is surrounded by a commentary, that commentary has a commentary and that commentary has a commentary. You can read just the central text or pick one of the commentaries to follow.

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    Well, I have quite a list...and if you bear with me, here are the 50 most useful books in my collection thus far:

    Principal Texts:

    1. The Jerusalem Bible w/ Apocrypha and full references
    2. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vol. (Charlesworth)
    3. The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation (Wise/Abegg/Cook)
    4. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Abegg/Flint/Ulrich)
    5. The Apostolic Fathers (Holmes)
    6. The Gnostic Scriptures (Layton)
    7. Critical Edition of Q (Robinson/Hoffman/Kloppenborg)
    8. The Complete Gospels (Miller/Funk)
    9. New Gospel Parallels, 2 vol. (Funk)
    10. Gospel of Thomas (Meyer)
    11. 1 Enoch (Nickelsburg/Vanderkam)
    12. Religious Texts from Ugarit (Wyatt)
    13. Context of Scripture, 2 vol.

    Commentaries:

    14. Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament (Driver)
    15. Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament (Moffatt)
    16. Introduction to the New Testament (McNeile)
    17. Genesis - International Critical Commentary (Skinner)
    + other ICC volumes for other books of the Bible
    18. Genesis, 2 vol. (Westermann)
    19. 1 Enoch - Hermeneia (Nickelsburg)
    20. 4 Ezra - Hermeneia (Stone)
    21. Ignatius of Antioch - Hermeneia (Schoedel)
    22. Shepherd of Hermas - Hermeneia (Osiek)
    23. Jude, 2 Peter - Word Biblical Commentary (Bauckham)
    24. The Apostolic Fathers, 5 vol. (Grant/Graham)

    Individual Studies and Surveys:

    25. Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan (Day)
    26. Early History of God (Smith)
    27. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cross)
    28. Asherah: Extrabiblical Evidence (Maier)
    29. Assembly of the Gods (Mullen)
    30. The Baal Epic, vol. 1 (Smith)
    31. Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in Ancient Israel (Day)
    32. God's Conflict With the Dragon and the Sea (Day)
    33. The God Dagan in Bronze-Age Syria (Feliu)
    34. Ras Shamra Parallels, 2 vol. (multiple authors)
    35. Israel and Egypt (Hoffmeier)
    36. Shades of Sheol: Death and the Afterlife in the Old Testament (Johnston)
    37. Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins (Nickelsburg)
    38. The Jesus Myth (Wells)
    39. Ancient Christian Gospels (Koester)
    40. The Cross Gospel (Crossan)
    41. The Use of the Old Testament in Matthew (Gundry)
    42. The Intertextual Jesus (Alison)
    43. The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus (Patterson)
    44. Peter: The Man, the Myth, and the Writings (Lapham)
    45. Keep Yourself From Idols - 1 John (Griffith)
    46. The Ascents of James (Van Voorst)
    47. Has God Not Chosen the Poor - James (Edgar)
    48. The Didache (Van de Sandt/Flusser)
    49. The Didache in Context (Jefford)
    50. Polycarp and the New Testament (Hartog)

    That felt like posting a Winamp playlist. These are some of my favorite books; many others omitted. I also have a pretty big wishlist of books I would love to include if I had them, such as the TDNT or the Dictionary of Deities and Demons.

  • Buster
    Buster

    About 300 WT publications - going back to the 1900's Studies series, Rutherford's rainbow, to the modern stuff

    About 25 non-WT history and "aren't they loony" books

    A couple shelves of South African History

    Most all of Stephen King's stuff

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