Soon-coming books from WJK

I saw that Westminster John Knox has posted their new 2009 catalogue.  It is not just academic books, but it includes many of them.  Here are some highlights.

The Interpretation series is starting a new collection of books called ‘Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church’, edited by Patrick D. Miller, Richard Hays, Ellen Davis, and James Mays.  Topics will include Sermon on the Mount, the Lord’s Prayer, Sacraments, Miracles, the Apostle’s Creed, Violence in the Bible, Women in the Bible, Money and Possessions, Eschatology, and Introduction to Christian Scripture.  The inaugural volume is entitled ‘The Ten Commandments’, and is by Patrick Miller.

I am also excited about Bonhoeffer for Armchair Theologians by Stephen Haynes and Lori Hale.  I have read the John Wesley title and it is so well-written and, obviously, accessible to the non-expert.  This Bonhoeffer one tops my list of new books to get – already published titles in this series includes Augustine, Luther, Calvin, and Barth.

Seeing Things John’s Way: The Rhetoric of Revelation is by David deSilva – one of my favorite scholars academically and he is also a friendly and warm person.  His work on Hebrews is well-known.  His intro to the NT is among the best.  He is going to be written prolifically for the Rhetoric in  Religious Antiquity series (DEO).  He knows ancient rhetoric, and he will have many, many insights into Revelation.  NB: A large portion of this book was written during a prestigious Von Humboldt research fellowship in Germany (hosted by Tuebingin).

Victor Furnish’s Theology and Ethics in Paul was first published in 1968 – I think by Abingdon Press.  It is now being re-published in WJK’s ‘New Testament Library’ series with a new foreward by Richard Hays.  Richard let me peek at the foreward and it helps to situate Furnish’s work, both within its own context theologically, and also shows where the study of Paul’s ethics has grown and developed since Furnish’s 1968 contribution and especially because of it.  I don’t actually own an old copy of TEP, so I am eager to get my hands on this.  It may be of interest for you to know that I plan on assigning this book as required reading in virtually any course on Paul I teach.