Books in the mail

I just came home from university and was pleased to find three books in the mail:

1. Dale Allison – The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus (2009)

2. Aaron Levine – Moral Issues of the Marketplace in Jewish Law (2005)

3. The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an (2006)

The first one I heard about through two inspiring reviews. See here for James McGrath’s and here for Scot McKnight’s.

The second one I bought because Im about to finish my bachelor degree and will do an internship in August at a well known bank. Not that I will be calling the shots overthere but still I would like to learn about business ethics as Im slowly entering the corporate world. And the last one I bought with the reason of broadening my understanding of the Qur’an as I will most probably have discussions in Turkey again.

In the mail

The following books I received today: 

1. James D.G. Dunn, Unity and Diversity in the New Testament 

2. Keith Ward, Big Questions in Science and Religion

3. N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope

 

Ill definitely be looking forward to reading them, especially Dunn’s as I think his exegesis will be very interesting and open up a whole new dimension to my outlook on the NT. Also Ward’s as Im very interested to read about his views on the compatibility of faith and evolution, as he holds to whats called Theistic-Evolution.

A strange relationship:P

Today during my Turkish class the teacher brought up the topic of folk sayings, one of them was vakit nakittir, which means time is money. A friend of mine who sat next to me asked me:

When you spend time with girls what do you spend? Time and money right?

So we can say that Girls=time x money,

we know from the saying that time = money,

thus we get that G=money²

We know that money is the root of the devil (or evil), money=√devil

And so we get G=(√devil)² which makes G=devil

And thus my friend concluded that spending time with girls equalled the devil (or evil)

The thing which made this even more funny was the fact that I met him the other day while on my way to the movies