Leland, Spurgeon, and other book notices & reviews

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• Book Notice: Evangelicals and Digital Bible Use -- “...the future of Bible engagement involves readers using a mix of print, audio, and screens to suit their needs.”
• Book Review: A Visual History of the English Bible -- “Throughout this book, Brake inserts sidebars containing anecdotes of his insatiable hobby of antique Bible collecting. Living up to its title, the book offers numerous beautiful photos of various antique Bibles...”
• Book Review: John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America -- “Eric Smith’s work on John Leland is not only well-researched but well-written. While this is an academically minded book, it is also an enjoyable read.”
• Book Review: Kiffen, Knollys, and Keach -- “Haykin begins the book by examining three views of the contentious question about interpreting Baptist origins.”
• Book Review: Myths and Mistakes, by James Snapp, Jr -- “In general, each chapter of Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism has something worthwhile to offer to the reader...Bundles of misinformation from apologists such as James White, Matt Slick, Dan Wallace, Ben Witherington III, John MacArthur, the Got Questions website, the Defending Inerrancy website, etc., have been ignored.”
• Book Review: To Cast the First Stone -- “This is not the text-critically focused volume that some readers might expect. Nowhere in its 344 pages is there a straightforward list of Greek manuscripts in which John 7:53-8:11 follows John 7:52, and of Greek manuscripts which have nothing at all between John 7:52 and John 8:11, and of Greek manuscripts which move all twelve verses to another location, and of Greek manuscripts which have only part of the passage.”
• Book Review: The Making of Biblical Womanhood -- “...while I did learn about some obscure medieval women, I didn’t learn much of anything else. And it’s a real shame. There is a great need for a book on this topic.”
• McIntire: The Founding Father of the Religious Right -- “Fighting Fundamentalist presents McIntire as a larger-than-life figure...stating that ‘McIntire’s public image continues to be shaped by the partisan and prejudicial arguments that were first marshaled against him by his liberal opponents.’”
• Particular Baptist Heritage Books -- “Particular Baptist Heritage Books is a relatively recent endeavour, producing heirloom quality republications of historic Particular Baptist works.”
• Review: “Sheltered but Not Protected: Learning to Love, Forgive, and Heal After Emotional and Sexual Abuse” by Justin Woodbury -- “Why is it that we can have the right Bible (and we do), and the right doctrine (at least for the most part), and yet the fruit of so many ministries is complete destruction of families and individuals that should have been helped?”
• The Legacy of Charles Haddon Spurgeon -- “This 238-page volume is a collection of Spurgeon’s sermons (unabridged and modernized English) that cover all ‘five points’ of the Doctrines of Grace.”