I’ve added a few more books to the list, including a pocket-size hymnbook, and a history with the most elaborate acknowledgment I’ve ever received (the book does not fall open to that page, though, I promise).
Let’s try something different this week:
If there is one book that you’d especially like to have, leave a comment on this post and tell us which book it is. Then on Friday morning, I’ll announce two winners: I’ll draw names from among those who want the most popular book, if there is such a thing, for the first winner; and if there’s a book that only one person speaks for, that person will be our second winner.
Also, if you’re a lurker who still hesitates to put your name on a comment, you can write to me at AEParshall at AOL dot com and get in on the drawing anonymously. (I think it’s only fair to everybody, though, if I add a comment saying that an unnamed lurker has expressed interest in such-and-such a book.)
I don’t know how this will work out, especially if there are several books that only one person speaks for, or if no book gets more than one claim. Please, no hard feelings if this doesn’t work out quite as well as I hope. You understand that I’m just trying to find good homes for these books and reward commenters for participation, right? Let’s keep it good-natured.
A strikeover means that a book was chosen by an earlier winner.
Kenneth E. Bailey, Jacob & the Prodigal (2003). Paper.
David Bokovoy, Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis–Deuteronomy (2014). Paper.
Bart D. Ehrman, The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations (2011). Hardcover.
Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament (2003). Paper.
Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture (2011). Paper.
Bart D. Ehrman, Peter, Paul, & Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend (2006). Paper.
Brant A. Gardner, Translating the Book of Mormon (2011). Hardcover.
Brant A. Gardner, Translating the Book of Mormon (2011). Hardcover. (second copy)
Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life (2012). Hardcover.
Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. Grow, Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism (2011). Hardcover.
Paul C. Gutjahr, The Book of Mormon: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books series) (2012)
Grant Hardy, The Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition (2003). Hardcover. Jacket shelfworn; book perfect.
Charles R. Harrell, This Is My Doctrine: The Development of Mormon Theology (2011). Hardcover. Still in shrinkwrap.
Jeffrey R. Holland, Christ and the New Covenant (1997). Hardcover. Previous owner’s name on flyleaf.
Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985). Pocket-size edition, burgundy.
Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (2011). Paper.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011). Hardcover.
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, The Jewish Annotated New Testament: New Revised Standard Version (2011). Hardcover. Bump to upper right corner of front cover.
Armand L. Mauss, Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic (2012). Hardcover.
Steven L. Peck, Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist (2015). Paper.
David Roberts, Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the great Mormon Handcart Tragedy (2008). Hardcover.
Royal Skousen, ed., The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text (2009). Hardcover.
Huston Smith, Why Religion Matters (2001). Paper.
Kenton L. Sparks, Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority & the Dark Side of Scripture (2012). Paper.
Joseph M. Spencer and Jenny Webb, Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: Reading 2 Nephi 26-27 (2011). Paper.
John Taylor, Gospel Kingdom: Writings and Discourses. (1987). Hardcover. 1996 LDS employee gift edition.
Richard Toye, Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction (2013). Paper.
John W. Welch, et al., eds., Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem (2004). Paper. Slightly shelfworn.
I’d like to throw my hat in the ring for Ehrman’s Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament, please, Ardis. (You know I’ve read the one with the super acknowledgement 😉 )
I really want David Bokovoy’s book. I had him as an institute teacher in Boston and have wanted to read his book for a while.
I’d like to throw my hat in for the pocket sized hymn book
I’d love the Brant Gardner “Translating the Book of Mormon” book. Thanks for the contest
I’ll put my name in the ring for the Bokovoy book. I’ve been interested in that one for a long while.
I’m interested in The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text
I’ve long been interested in Royal Skousen’s earliest text of the Book of Mormon.
I’d be interested in the Welch “Glimpses.” Thanks for doing this!
Brant Gardner’s Translating the Book of Mormon, please.
I’d love my own copy of David Roberts’ “Devils Gate.” (The copy I read belonged to a colleague.)
Oh, and it’s not just any acknowledgment of Ardis, folks (not just in the Acknowledgments section). The reader of “Devil’s Gate” is treated to a lovely description of Ardis’ research help in the episode about debunking the Marriott handcart myth.
I do like the book, even if I don’t agree with all Roberts’ conclusions. (Roberts should have intertwined the facts about BY into the narrative to be more convincing that it was all Brigham’s fault.) But even still, I marvelled at his descriptions of the trail and the handcart companies’ trials. Gripping writing. I’d love to have it on my shelves.
I’ve never really understood so many Mormons’ horror at reading Isaiah, so i’ll put in a bid for Spencer & Webb’s Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah.
Fun: When i looked online to see if it looked like what i hoped it would be, i found a copy for sale on Amazon for $1,439.11. I suspect that this price is slightly inflated.
Dang. I’m still holding out for She Shall Be An Ensign.
Indeed, it is. I picked mine up for only $1,200.
I would love to win a copy of Bart D. Ehrman’s, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture.
Thanks.
I would love to have a copy of Authoring the Old Testament by David Bokovoy. Thanks for doing this. I thoroughly enjoy your blog and the comments you leave at other places in the bloggernacle.
I would like to provide a new home for and read- Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament (2003). Thanks for doing this. My fingers are crossed!
I love any book that helps with deeper understanding of the
Book of Mormon. Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah by Spencer and Webb really fits the bill. Love seeing how this is all coming about.
It looks like no one else is going for John Taylor’s Gospel Kingdom, so I would be interested in that.
I’ll take Ehrman’s Apocryphal Gospels, if still available.
I’d like the Ehrman Orthodox Corruption book.
Ardis, while I would be thrilled to have any of these books my first choice would be David Roberts, Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the great Mormon Handcart Tragedy.
Thank you for this and the wonderful work you do for this blog.
We have a lurker expressing interest in Gutjahr, The Book of Mormon: A Biography.
Sort of lurkerish type person, being cajooled out with the temptation of books. I would throw my name in also for the small hymn book.
Skousen’s Earliest Text. Thanks.