Jonathan’s Comments (group member since Aug 27, 2011)

Jonathan’s comments from the Challenge: 50 Books group.

9) Separating Abram and Lot: The Narrative Role and Early Reception of Genesis 13 (Themes in Biblical Narrative 26) by Dan Rickett

8) Luther's Works, vol. 2: Lectures on Genesis 6-14 by Martin Luther and translated by George V. Schick

7) Revelation, History, and Truth: A Hermeneutics of Dogma by Eduardo Echeverria

6) Obsequium in the Church: Sacred Tradition, Second Vatican Council, 1983 Code, and Sacred Liturgy by Justin M. Wachs

5) Asiatics in Middle Kingdom Egypt: Perceptions and Reality by Phyllis Saretta

4) An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (Millennium Edition) by St. John Henry Newman and edited by James Tolhurst

3) On the Ordinary and Extraordinary Magisterium from Joseph Kleutgen to the Second Vatican Council by John Joy

2) God's Future for Animals: From Creation to New Creation by Raymond R. Hausoul

In the year 2007, I read 79 books.
In the year 2008, I read 100 books.
In the year 2009, I read 165 books.
In the year 2010, I read 145 books.
In the year 2011, I read 82 books.
In the year 2012, I read 62 books.
In the year 2013, I read 90 books.
In the year 2014, I read 87 books.
In the year 2015, I read 126 books.
In the year 2016, I read 113 books.
In the year 2017, I read 153 books.
In the year 2018, I read 100 books.
In the year 2019, I read 102 books.
In the year 2020, I read 64 books.
In the year 2021, I read 117 books.
In the year 2022, I read 65 books.
In the year 2023, I read 116 books.
In the year 2024, I read 87 books.

Last year, I managed to achieve my goal (80) despite some challenges (MLIS coursework definitely among them), but largely because, as I've been preaching my way through the Book of Genesis and rounded the end of chapter 11 late last year, I naturally finished many commentaries devoted specifically to the Primeval History section. I won't have that advantage this year.

Actually, if my progress to date is any indication, I likely should have lowered my expectations somewhat! Nevertheless, I'm going to hope I can hit 80 this year anyway, even though I'm no longer confident it's realistic. (My saving grace may be a sabbatical I'm desperately hoping for later in the year... but we'll see.)

I begin, then, with the following:

1) The Papacy: Revisiting the Debate Between Catholics and Orthodox by Erick Ybarra

87) The Amorites: A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE by Nathan Wasserman and Yigal Bloch

86) The Significance of Linguistic Diversity in the Hebrew Bible: Language and Boundaries of Self and Other by Cian J. Power

85) From Noah to Israel: Realization of the Primaeval Blessing After the Flood by Carol M. Kaminski

84) Ur: The City of the Moon God by Harriet Crawford

83) The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity by Aaron A. Burke

82) Genesis 1-11: Bud of Theology, Grandmother of the Sciences, Seedbed of the Holy Books by Anwarul Azad and Ida Glaser

81) Jacob of Sarug's Homily on the Holy Sunday of the Pentecost by Jacob of Serugh and translated by Thomas Kollamparampil

80) Jacob of Sarug's Homily on the Tower of Babel by Jacob of Serugh and translated by Aaron Michael Butts

79) From Creation to Abraham: Further Studies in Genesis 1-11 by John Day

78) Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy by Samuel L. Boyd

77) Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts by Dennis Meissner