BOOK NOTES

 

We are blessed that The Memoirs of Alexander Campbell by Robert Richardson, two volumes in one, continues to be in print, and we will send you a copy for 21.95 postpaid. Earl West, the publisher and leading Church of Christ historian, is issuing a new volume on Elder Ben Franklin: Eye of the Storm. If you are interested in our history, you will want this biography of a pivotal personality. To be published in August at 14.95 postpaid. We will reserve you a copy.

We can send you In Search of God’s Ideal Woman by Dorothy Pape for 6.95 postpaid. It is a brilliant study of women both in the New Testament and history, and she takes on the difficult passages.

It may be old but it stays in print as one of the most important works of its kind. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim is a classic work of 1400 pages, two volumes in one. 19.95 postpaid.

The old Daily Bible Study by William Barclay on the NT, which is still available, now includes the Old Testament, by different authors, but it retains format and purpose of Barclay. Already available is Genesis (2 vols.), Exodus, Psalms (two volumes), Daniel, Leviticus, Numbers, Ezekiel, Samuel. I find them delightful and informative, and we can send them to you one volume at a time if you like, 7.95 each, postpaid.

James S. Evans is now at Princeton Seminary studying for the ministry, but he is a dyslexic who refused to accept defeat. This is a story of enduring faith that you will want to share with someone who is fighting an uphill battle. An ideal gift at 10.95 hardcover, postpaid.

James Barr is one of the church’s most seminal writers and is always worth reading. You will appreciate his Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism. Now and again, along with the Bible, you should read a book about the Bible. 9.95 postpaid.