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Challenge: 50 Books discussion
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Jonathan Brown's 80-Book Challenge for 2024
3) The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story by Dimitra Papagianni and Michael A. Morse
4) Summa Theologiae, vol. 26: Original Sin (1a2ae.81-85) by St. Thomas Aquinas and translated by T. C. O'Brien
5) Summa Theologiae, vol. 27: Effects of Sin, Stain and Guilt (1a2ae.86-89) by St. Thomas Aquinas and translated by T. C. O'Brien
6) The Origin of Humanity and Evolution: Science and Scripture in Conversation by Andrew Ter Ern Loke
7) It Is Right and Just: Why the Future of Civilization Depends on True Religion by Scott Hahn and Brandon McGinley
10) The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 by Christopher A. Graham
13) Summa Theologiae, vol. 28: Law and Political Theory (1a2ae.90-97) by St. Thomas Aquinas and translated by Thomas Gilby
16) The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia: Early Periods, vol. 1: Presargonic Period (2700-2350 BC), edited by Douglas R. Frayne
18) That I May Dwell among Them: Incarnation and Atonement in the Tabernacle Narrative by Gary A. Anderson
20) Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition: Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the First Sibling Rivalry (Themes in Biblical Narrative 14) by John Byron
21) The Literature of Ancient Sumer, edited by Jeremy A. Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor Zólyomi
23) New Treasures of Sumerian Literature: 'When the Moon Fell from the Sky,' and Other Works by Mark E. Cohen
24) Luther's Works, vol. 1: Lectures on Genesis 1-5 by Martin Luther and translated by George V. Schick
25) Looking for Information: Examining Research on How People Engage with Information by Lisa M. Given, Donald O. Case, and Rebekah Willson
26) Toward a Poetics of Genesis 1-11: Reading Genesis 4:17-22 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context by Daniel DeWitt Lowery
27) Philo of Alexandria, vol. 2: On the Cherubim; The Sacrifices of Abel and Cain; The Worse Attacks the Better; The Posterity and Exile of Cain; On the Giants (Loeb Classical Library 227) by Philo of Alexandria
30) Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, vol. 1: Sources From Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by John C. Reeves and Annette Yoshiko Reed
34) The Gift of Infallibility by Vincent Ferrer Gasser and translated with commentary by James T. O'Connor
38) Primeval History: Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic: An Intertextual Reading by Helge S. Kvanvig
43) Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality, edited by Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Gabriele Boccaccini
44) The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions, edited by Angela Kim Harkins, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, and John C. Endres
45) Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ by Michael S. Heiser
46) 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation, translated by George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam
47) Ancient Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Contexts, Traditions, and Influences, edited by Matthew Goff, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, and Enrico Morano
48) The Last of the Rephaim: Conquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient Israel by Brian R. Doak
49) The Myth of Rebellious Angels: Studies in Second Temple Judaism and New Testament Texts by Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Challenge: 50 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
The Amorites: A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE (other topics)The Significance of Linguistic Diversity in the Hebrew Bible: Language and Boundaries of Self and Other (other topics)
From Noah to Israel: Realization of the Primaeval Blessing After the Flood (other topics)
Ur: The City of the Moon God (other topics)
The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Yigal Bloch (other topics)Nathan Wasserman (other topics)
Cian J. Power (other topics)
Carol M. Kaminski (other topics)
Harriet Crawford (other topics)
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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.
Last year I managed to exceed my stated goal pretty nicely, despite a number of personal challenges - several minor surgeries, starting to pursue a new degree (MLIS), the usual demands of the pastorate, more Covid, and so forth.
In light of that, I'm reasonably confident that 80 is a realistic goal for this year, provided coursework doesn't kill me.
I begin with the following:
1) Eve's Children: The Biblical Stories Retold and Interpreted in Jewish and Christian Traditions (Themes in Biblical Narrative 5), edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen