Ah that precious library membership!

We would like to welcome Rogan the dog into our library community.
He is our latest library member.

William Paul Young - author of "The Shack"

Come and hear a more in-depth conversation and the story behind

"The Shack".

Paul will speak at :

Carey Baptist College

January 6, 2012

7.30-9.00 pm

Kiwi-made preaching forum

25 October 2011-Auckland

27 October 2011-Waikanae

29 October 2011-Christchurch

(9.30am - 4.30pm)

Provoking engagement with the issues confronting preachers in Aotearoa - New Zealand today.

http://kiwimadepreaching.com/2011-forum/

New e-books

Ecclesiastes [electronic resource] : the traditional Hebrew text with new JPS translation / Michael V. Fox




Wisdom literature in Mesopotamia and Israel [electronic resource] / edited by Richard J. Clifford

The Pentateuch [electronic resource] / edited by John Barton and John Muddiman

Colossians, Philemon [electronic resource] / Ernest D. Martin

Happy birthday William!

17th of August 2011

250th anniversary of William Carey's birth.

Grasping God's word

Library catalogue link:
"Grasping God's word : a hands-on approach to reading, interpreting, and applying the Bible" by John Scott Duvall, J. Daniell Hayes.


One copy of the book is also available in Korean language.

Introducing one useful library resource: Grasping God's Word - J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hays

New Book

Martin Sutherland's new book "Conflict & connection : Baptist identity in New Zealand" is now available in the library.

New e-books in the library

The Blackwell companion to Christian ethics [electronic resource] / edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells.

Christ the key [electronic resource] / Kathryn Tanner.

The Cambridge dictionary of Christian theology [electronic resource] / Ian McFarland.

John Robert Walmsley Stott, 1921 – 2011.

John Stott, English Christian leader, writer and Anglican cleric who was noted as a leader of the worldwide Evangelical movement, died on 27th of July 2011.

Link to the obituary: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/28/the-rev-john-stott-obituary?INTCMP=SRCH

Stuff publishing

Tim Bulkeley's article "L'auteur est mort, but won't lie down : inventing authors while reading Amos" has been published in Colloquium, May 2011, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 59-70.

Electronic books

The Society of Biblical Literature is pleased to offer, in association with Logos Bible Software, a critically edited, The Greek New Testament : SBL edition.
It is now free to download at http://sblgnt.com