Heads up! The fourth volume of John Meier’s magisterial investigation of Jesus in history is about to be released: A Marginal Jew—Rethinking the Historical Jesus: Law and Love.
Professor Jacob Neusner gives it two thumbs up (so to speak), having contributed a very positive blurb. So keep an eye out. It’s assured to be excellent. The release date on the Yale University Press site is 4 May 2009.
Christ is risen!
This is wonderful news, of course. Sadly, my copies of vols. I & II seem to have vanished from storage, so whenever I’m finally in a position to spend that kind of money, I’ll have to start again at the beginning. Augh!
Truly He is risen!
The Storagehiding Bookeating Monster has struck again! O woe!
Thanks, Kevin, for pointing this out. I’m looking forward to it.
Esteban: I’ll keep my eye out for lightly used copies.
John, I’d certainly appreciate your help in scouting the used books field. Alas, my book-hunting sixth sense is not what it used to be.
Kevin, O woe indeed! My heart dropped when I realized they were gone. You know, one year I went to check on the books and found that rust had caused the lock to open; who knows how long it had been like that. I’m not entirely sure some evildoer didn’t get in there and extract a box or three. Too much is missing!
Anyway, yay Meier vol. IV! 😉
Finally!