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Old 12-26-2007, 07:56 PM
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What books did you get for Christ-mass?

For all of the papists out there who got Christ-mass gifts, what new books did oyu get? I got the following:

Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution by Puhl.
by Robert Heilbroner

The Life and Lettes of Robert Lewis Dabney by TC Johnson

, by Thomas Sowell

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

And I got an Amazon gift card for $25.
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Old 12-26-2007, 08:00 PM
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I got none yet, got me a gift card thinking about getting this book: Core Office Suite Workbook for OOo and StarOffice > OpenOffice.org and StarOffice Workbooks > GetOpenOffice.org: Training, Consulting, and Books | CafePress it's for OpenOffice.org as more people are getting OpenOffice.org to use when they come to school it can help me when I tutor them.
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Old 12-26-2007, 08:08 PM
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Covenant and Salvation by Michael Horton
The Christ of the Covenants by O. Palmer Robertson
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Old 12-26-2007, 08:09 PM
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, Zacharias Ursinus

, Thomas Aquinas

Will have to when I get more time . . .
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Old 12-26-2007, 08:31 PM
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you guys got books. nice.

Being in NYC, the materialistic capital of the world, I got clothing. We don't do books in the Northeast I got a watch, scarf and matching head ware.

oops, my boss did gave me a book. Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan
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Old 12-26-2007, 08:55 PM
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I got:

Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (series) and The Lord's Day by someone, i forgot.
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Old 12-26-2007, 11:10 PM
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Heh, we don't do gifts. But we did get a few anyway by buying them. Baxter's A Christian Directory (thanks Ruben), Davidson's Analytical Lexicon of Hebrew and Chaldean, and the much coveted 2006 Pension Protection Act with legal analysis and annotations (actually, it came without charge because of a delay in some other legal books I ordered).

Also, my pastor gave me an old book on telescope design he found at some used bookstore and a 1935 copy of Kells's Elementary Differential Equations, so we're set for a month or two.
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, Ron Paul

...and a few random works of Latin authors.
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I got...

The Oxford Latin Dictionary

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

A Foreign Policy of Freedom, Ron Paul

...and a few random works of Latin authors.
Which random works? The OLD is excellent.
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My wife gave me the full Still Waters Revival collection of Reformation and Puritan books on a gazillion CDs in PDF format, many many hundreds of unabridged classics.

For example: Ames, Barrow, Beza, Bucer, Bullinger, Burgess, Burroughs, Cartwright, Caryl, Cotton, Fairbairn, Flavel, Fuller, Gill, Gillespie, Knox, Lightfoot, Manton, Marshall, Owen, Perkins, Poole, Rutherford, Shedd, Sibbes, Stelle, Symington,Turretin, Twisse, Ursinus, Westminster Assembly of Divines, Wylie, and Zwingli.
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Old 12-27-2007, 04:58 PM
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I got the Master's Books edition of Pilgrim's Progress:

It also has 8 other treatises and sermons by Bunyan. It has an "antiquish" look to it. I'm happy.
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I got...

The Oxford Latin Dictionary

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

A Foreign Policy of Freedom, Ron Paul

...and a few random works of Latin authors.
Which random works? The OLD is excellent.
Yes! I was so happy to get the OLD.

One of the other books that I remember offhand was an 1846 edition of Ciceronis Orationes with a commentary, called "Anthon's Cicero".
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Well, I had asked for the 1599 Geneva Bible (modern spelling). Somehow, whoever placed the order (my sister, I think) did not follow my weblinks and ordering instructions so instead I now have a 20 lb 1560 Geneva Bible (facsimile from Hendrickson). I like the fact that it retains the notes and woodcuts but it is the one that is very difficult to read. But I WILL read it. Until I go blind I WILL read it.
And I will also become much stronger by lifting it.
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Old 12-27-2007, 06:57 PM
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I got:

Chosen for Life by Sam Storms (autographed copy from my brother)

A Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases, Oxford University Press (from my wonderful wife)

And, Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin (single volume, hard cover, Beveridge translation, pre-ordered by my wonder wife)
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John Calvin's Commentaries (22 Volumes) From my Mother

Matthew Henry's Commentaries (6 Volumes) from my Wife

Expository Thoughts on the Four Gospels by Ryle (Two Volumes out of Three of John) from my Parent In Laws

Expository Thoughts on the Four Gospels by Ryle (One Volume of Matthew and Mark) by Sister In Law and Her Hubby

Septuagint with Apocrypha Interlinear Greek/English From a Aunt

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I did get a gift card that I haven't used yet, but I did buy a couple of books for myself when I was buying one for a friend.
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From my wife I recieved...

Beale & Carson's -Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old testament
Holmes' -The Apostolic Fathers in English
Hendrickson & Kistemaker -New Testament Commentary
Keener's -The IVP Bible Background Commentary (OT & NT)
Mark Driscoll's -The Radical Reformission & -Confessions of a Refomission Rev.
Vasholz -Benedictions, A Pocket Resource


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From my wife I recieved...

Beale & Carson's -Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old testament
Holmes' -The Apostolic Fathers in English
Hendrickson & Kistemaker -New Testament Commentary
Keener's -The IVP Bible Background Commentary (OT & NT)
Mark Driscoll's -The Radical Reformission & -Confessions of a Refomission Rev.
Vasholz -Benedictions, A Pocket Resource


She is a Dem Fine Woman!
She's a democrat?
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