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strong, competent, no glitter: Bulletin for Biblical Research

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When an emerging generation of biblical scholars found themselves increasingly squeezed by what they perceived as the theological claustrophobia of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), the Institute for Biblical Research (IBR) was born to offer an alternative. While many of the IBR’s members continue to hold membership in the ETS, it is also true that many members opt instead to throw in their lot with the much broader Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). (more…)

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passionate about Hebrew language and literature: Hebrew Studies

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The University of Wisconsin at Madison has one of America’s most active Hebrew studies departments. One fruit of the scholarly activity that goes on there is Hebrew Studies with its telling subtitle: A Journal Devoted to Hebrew Language and Literature (more…)

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You’re really gonna’ like this: Grove Biblical Series

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Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

Ridley College is an evangelically-inclined Anglican college that operates under the umbrella of the UK’s University of Cambridge. The College is also the sponsor of a vigorous menu of thoughtful booklets on ethics, worship, biblical studies and the like. (more…)

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the Asian Paradise Flycatcher of bird books: Craig Robson, Birds of Thailand

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Birds of Thailand is the reason the prestige university press and its zero-tolerance approach to schlock products exists. Princeton University Press has done itself proud with this condensed and focused version of author Robson’s Birds of Southeast Asia. (more…)

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an avenger’s tears: Eric Bana, Munich (DVD)

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It is poignantly fitting that the man who directed Schindler’s List should book-end that tale of Jewish pain with Munich, a film that tells another side of this people’s struggle to survive in a period when the Jews have a state and the ability to answer with something more than simple suffering. (more…)

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the long view: Stewart Wilson, Airliners of the World

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Books like Airliners of the World tend to take two forms. First, there is the coffee table book that’s heavy on the visuals but best eyeballed in your living room. Then there is the ‘field guide’ motif. This version is meant to leave home with you and to frequent air shows, airports, and the spectator area alongside some runways. (more…)

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Good enough to morph into a Princeton Field Guide: Ken Simpson, The Birds of Australia. A Book of Identification

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Do you want the good news first, or the bad news?

Le’ts start with the bad: The Birds of Australia. A book of identification is no longer available in its original hardcover format with its beautifully illustrated birds and its handy bird-by-bird location map. (more…)

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It’ll do: Yisrael Lazar, The New Dictionary English-Hebrew Hebrew-English

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Sometimes you just need a down-and-dirty dictionary that plops a word in English down beside a word in modern Hebrew—or vice versa—and says, ‘There, that’s it. You gotta’ problem with that?’ (more…)

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The ugly beast behind well-spoken pragmatism

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After sixteen great years as a missionary in Latin America, I find myself thriving back in my native land. ‘I bet the readjustment has been hard’, caring friends say. ‘No, not really’, I answer to myself and sometimes to the inquirer. The change has been remarkably smooth. (more…)

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Look it up!: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 Vol. Set; Thumb Indexed Edition)

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While finishing up a PhD at Cambridge and preparing to move back to my country of origin, one of the small but solid griefs of that process was saying goodbye to the familiar Oxford English Dictionary, whose massive volumes lay 13 steps to the right of my desk in Cambridge’s Tyndale House Library. In the three and a half years before that parting, I must have worn a rut in the carpeting during my frequent and satisfying sallies to the OED for help, rescue, and—occasionally—delightful surprise. (more…)

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