Book Bargains: Newsom and Schuller
I was wandering around Book Culture (formerly Labyrinth) yesterday and happened upon some very surprising book bargains. I go there for their bargains. They have tons of reduced priced books on their staircase and on the tables upstairs. And in the latter place, I found these two books: Carol Newsom, Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice: A Critical Edition , Harvard Semitic Monographs 27 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1985). Eileen Schuller, Non-Canonical Psalms from Qumran: A Pseudepigraphical Collection , Harvard Semitic Monographs 28 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986). The Schuller volume was on sale for about $7 and the Newsom for $8. I have been trying to acquire my own copy of Newsom's critical edition of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice for years, since I use it in my research. I had completely given up and have had the library's volume checked out for about a year and a half...or so. I was under the impression that it was out of print. But both of these volumes are newl...