I love English and American literature and have been reading all the classics and semi-classics I can find that deal with late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century life. One additional reason for this focus is that for some years now I have been writing a biography of a woman born in 1899 who briefly became a notorious figure of the Jazz Age (and whose story inspired the play behind the 2011 movie "Chicago"). Anyway, this is pleasure reading and a pleasure writing topic.
M. L. West, Greek Metre.
I am writing on an ancient Christian hymn (Sibylline Oracle 6---second century) that is in dactylic hexameters (like Homer's Iliad) and I want to be better able to analyze the meter of this hymn. O.K., so that's technical reading, probably not what you were looking for but mostly the kind of reading I do.
This book treats ancient Jewish messianic beliefs and expectations around the time of Jesus. Collins is a terrific scholar, and I am reading his book in order to review subjects I intend to discuss in a course on Jesus and the Kingdom of God this fall.
Murray and Dorothy Leiffer, Enter the Old Portals
An extremely engaging "informal history" of Garrett Seminary/Garrett-Evangelical from the 1920s through the 1980s by two former students who also became teachers at the seminary, serving for many years. The book is very well written and the anecdotes from long ago are entertaining and in many instances inspiring. I bought my copy very inexpensively online.
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