Seminary: Year 1, Semester 1

These are the just the books I actually bought for my first semester of seminary.  There were many more that were “required” texts that I didn’t buy.  Seminary is a time for reading.  Lots and lots of reading.  I put this up to let all you up and coming seminarians what’s in store.  Also, I want this to be a preview for an upcoming blog post I’m working on that will be up in the next couple of days.  So, for all the nerds out there who are interested . . .

Here are the book listings for each course:

• PTC151: Dynamics of Biblical Change (David Powlison)
• ST101: Intro to Systematic Theology (David Garner)
• NT111: New Testament Intro (Steve Vanderhill/Tommy Keene/Harold Scanlin)
• NT011: Greek a (Marcus Mininger)
• OT011: Hebrew a (Karyn Traphagen)
• PTC451: Inter-Seminary Seminar (Larry Sibley) – no specific books

Here are all the books:

• Greek New Testament (God)
• Hebrew Old Testament (God)
• Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 vols. (John Calvin)
• Lectures to My Students (C.H. Spurgeon)
• Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments (Geerhardus Vos)
• General Revelation (G.C. Berkouwer)
• Perspectives on Pentecost (Richard Gaffin)
• Seeing With New Eyes (David Powlison)
• Speaking Truth in Love (David Powlison)
• The Christian Life (Sinclair Ferguson)
• Why Does It Have to Hurt? The Meaning of Christian Suffering (Dan McCartney)
• How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil (D.A. Carson)
• Judaism Before Jesus (Anthony Tomassino)
• Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (Bruce Metzger/Bart Ehrman)
• Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures (Herman Ridderbos)
• Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period (Larry Helyer)
• Church Dogmatics: The Word of God (Karl Barth)
• God’s Word in Servant Form (Richard Gaffin)
• Sufficiency of Scripture (Noel Weeks)
• Thy Word is Truth (E.J. Young)
• When God Weeps (Joni Eraekson Tada)
• Reasons of the Heart (William Edgar)
• Christian Apologetics (Cornelius Van Til)
• Handbook of Biblical Criticism (Soulen & Soulen)
• Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek (Bruce Metzger)
• A Primer of Biblical Greek (N. Clayton Croy)
• New Testament Greek for Beginners (J. Gresham Machen/Dan MacCartney)
• Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar (Christo Van der Merwe)
• A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew (J. Weingreen)
• Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (William Holladay)
• The Belgic Confession
• The Westminster Standards

and the Scotch is just because it’s a Presbyterian Seminary . . . and it’s good.