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Baylor University Press 2018 Grad Student Sale This Weekend!

Baylor University Press is having a Grad Student Sale

The sale itself runs from Friday, June 22th through Sunday, June 24th. This year the discount codes (BP25, BP30, BP40) apply to all Baylor books, the more you spend the more you save (free shipping on all orders over $75).

Looks like it is time to stock up on the Baylor Handbook on the Greek Text series to survive your next Greek exegesis course. At SBL I was eyeing Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources edited by Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment. Matthew L. Skinner’s recent A Companion to the New Testament: Paul and the Pauline Letters is very tempting as well.

It does not look like they are checking your seminary ID card at the door, but the sale is intended for Grad Students. Grab your fall syllabi and spend some quality time exploring the Baylor University Press website.

Remember, if you are in grad school you are supposed to spend all your money on books.

Baylor University Press “Grad Student Sale” this weekend!

Baylor University Press is having a Grad Student Sale

The sale itself runs from Friday, June 10th through Sunday, June 12th. Use the discount code “BJUN” to order books from their website at a 50% discount! The code applies to all books published in 2014 or earlier. Looks like it is time to stock up on the Baylor Handbook on the Greek Text series to survive your next Greek exegesis course.

I have my eye on the volume edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Apocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthropos in Romans 5-8, or François Bovon’s The Acts of Philip: A New Translation.

It does not look like they are checking your seminary ID card at the door, but the sale is intended for Grad Students. Grab your fall syllabi and spend some quality time exploring the Baylor University Press website.

Remember, if you are in grad school you are supposed to spend all your money on books.

Romans Pillar Commentary at the Kindle Store

Amazon’s Kindle Store has a great deal on Colin Kruse’s Pillar commentary on Romans. The list price is $52.00, but the Kindle version is a mere $2.99. I am not sure if this is a mistake or a short-term sale. I did not see any other Pillar commentaries on sale in the Kindle store.

I reviewed this commentary when it came out, so go read my review and buy a copy of this fine resource.

Logos Bible Software – Thirty Classic Studies on the Parables for $30

Here is a great “community price” deal from Logos, thirty “classic” books on Parables (and miracles, a few on the Sermon on the Mount), currently priced at $30. My experience is that these things usually do go for the suggested price, making the cost a dollar a book. A few of these might be overpriced at $1, but the volume by H. B. Swete is good (a series of lectures at University of Cambridge in 1908). I would like to at least read Siegfried Goebel (1883, T&T Clark, 480 pages). The two books by William Arnot are both substantial volumespublished in 1893. A. C. Gaebelein is an early dispensationalist and the book is really a booklet / pamphlet. At the very least he represents a form of dispensationalism that is all but dead almost 100 years later. I do not recognize many of the names, for $1 a book I will at least look them over.

All thirty are out of print and (likely) all available through Google books, but the Logos format is worth paying for (searching, indexing, etc.) My guess is that a few are egregious allegorizors, A. B. Bruce for example “builds on the foundation of Trench.” But I bought the set for Swete and Goebel alone, and I enjoy comparing approaches on Parables – these thirty are not in my library and I will enjoy reading them in the Logos format.

When Logos gets enough “bidders” they will produce the books, there is no charge until they ship the books via download. Check out the list of books, and bid what you want.