I have revised and finalized my reading list for this summer. Academically, my year is marked by three seasons: Fall semester, Spring semester, and Summer. Each season I try to be intentional about what I read, while also trying to stretch myself beyond my comfort zone. Each year, along with doing research in my area of expertise, I try to read at least one book in each of the following categories: an Old Testament Monograph, a New Testament Monograph (outside of my area of expertise), a modern theologian, an early church father, a Second Temple text, a Greco-Roman primary source text, something about the history of the church, a book on hermeneutics, a philosophy of higher education book, a book on spiritual formation, and a novel. I won't be able to cross everything off the list this summer, but here is what I am shooting for before August 15: 1. Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching by Irenaeus. 2. The Struggle to Understand Isaiah as Christian Scripture by Bre...
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