Jonathan Brown's 80-Book Challenge for 2024

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51) Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists by Anthony Cocciolo

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52) The Primeval Flood Catastrophe: Origins and Early Development in Mesopotamian Traditions by Yi Samuel Chen

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53) Was Noah Good? Finding Favour in the Flood Narrative by Carol M. Kaminski

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54) The Flood: The Akkadian Sources: A New Edition, Commentary, and a Literary Discussion by Nathan Wasserman

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55) Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story by Martin Worthington

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56) The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel

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57) Medieval Pets by Kathleen Walker-Meikle

[librarian4Him02]

Jonathan wrote: "57) Medieval Pets by Kathleen Walker-Meikle"

This sounds like a fascinating book. How was it?

Juli

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librarian4Him02 wrote: "This sounds like a fascinating book. How was it?"

Rather good! It tended to focus a lot of attention on dogs, the more common pet in the era, but gave sufficient treatment of cats, monkeys, and other pets. Very thorough in considering the aspects of pet ownership in medieval Europe.

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58) Treatises on Noah and David (Fathers of the Church 140) by St. Ambrose of Milan and translated by Brian P. Dunkle

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59) Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution by Eugene E. Harris

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60) The Value of Human Life: A Study of the Story of the Flood (Genesis 6-9) by P.J. Harland

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61) The City of Babylon: A History, c. 2000 BC – AD 116 by Stephanie Dalley

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62) The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior by Craig B. Stanford

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63) Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture by Patrick E. McGovern

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64) A Natural History of Wine by Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle

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65) The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism by Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait

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66) Noah's Curse : The Biblical Justification of American Slavery by Stephen R. Haynes

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67) Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice by Kent J. Dunnington

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68) Philo of Alexandria, vol. 3: On the Unchangeableness of God, On Husbandry, Concerning Noah's Work as a Planter, On Drunkenness, On the Prayers and Curses Uttered by Noah When He Became Sober by Philo of Alexandria and translated by F. H. Colson and G. H. Whitaker

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69) Origins: The Ancient Impact and Modern Implications of Genesis 1-11 by Paul Copan and Douglas Jacoby

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70) Black and Slave: The Origins and History of the Curse of Ham (Studies of the Bible and Its Reception) by David M Goldenberg

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71) Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions: Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World, edited by Maria Brosius

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72) Babel's Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish Interpretation and Phillip Michael Sherman

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73) Reading Genesis Politically: An Introduction to Mosaic Political Philosophy by Martin Sicker

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74) From Creation to Babel: Studies in Genesis 1-11 by John Day

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75) Genesis 1-11 (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture), edited by Andrew Louth

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76) The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11 by Natan Levy

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77) Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts by Dennis Meissner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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