#1 Rethinking Genesis is an exploration of the literary origins of Genesis, specifically a refutation of the Documentary Hypothesis which is flawed from its roots. Garrett takes a look at the different styles and genres in Genesis, and notices distinct patterns which point to the book's sources which he concludes were redacted by Moses.
#2 The Pentateuch as Narrative, I have only just started reading. It seems intriguing as it examines the relation between whole Pentateuch. How the different parts relate will influence how we interpret the text. 
#3 God's Pattern for Creation is a fresh look at the creation story in light of man being made in God's image. God created the universe by forming it and filling it. In the same way, God commanded us to rule over the creation (forming) and to reproduce (filling). After the fall, God cursed our role by cursing the ground (making our forming more difficult) and increasing the pains of childbirth (making our filling more difficult). 
#4 How to read Genesis did not really stand out in my mind, but it was a good overview of Genesis and is a helpful introduction to the book for those who are not familiar with it. 
#5 Creation and Blessing, I am still working through, but it appears to trace certain themes throughout the book of Genesis. Nothing overly inciteful has come up yet, but I still have 500 pages to go.
#6 Genesis 1-4: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Commentary introduces a methodology of interpreting story from a linguistic basis. Essentially, there is a change in verb tense from when a story is being set up or background information is being established, to when the story is being told. There were many other insights involved with this too numerous for this space. From here I will be finishing some introductions to a couple of books, namely the Pentateuch as Narrative and the Holman Bible Atlas and will proceed to read through Genesis (and later the whole Pentateuch) along with the following books as they go in chronological order, Sailhammer's Pentateuch as Narrative, Brisco's Holman Bible Atlas, Vos's Biblical Theology, Josephus's Works and Ross's Creation and Blessing. I also have a friend who just wrote a book that I will add to the list. It is not for sale, yet and I do not remember what it was called. It has to do with Jesus in the Old Testament. After Genesis, I will drop Creation and Blessing since that will be finished and I will continue with the others adding Riddle of the Exodus by James D. Long and The Structure of Biblical Authority by Meredith G. Kline. After I finish the Pentateuch, I will reevaluate where I go from there. I will be done with my Greek course and will have more time to study my own interests. I may just continue my way through the rest of the Bible as Vos, Josephus, and Brisco go the whole way.
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Sweet! Vos is difficult, but worth the work! (I've been slowly amassing all of his works...haven't read them all, but they're handy to have around. Meredith Cline is also difficult, but also very much worth reading (his book, "By Oath Consigned" turned me into an infant baptist :)
How's Greek going? Ready to tackle Hebrew?
Anymore thoughts on the ministry lately :)
Hey Nevada,
I made it though about half of Vos, but I want to try it again to absorb a little more.
Whoa, Mereddith Kline is responsible for your downfall?...I might want to steer clear of that one what with the warnings about false teachers and all :-D
Regarding Greek, I am forgetting a lot of what I memorized last semester and the beginning of this semester. That makes things difficult.
For Hebrew I am going to work through a book by a friend of mine (same friend as in my post, but different book). His book doesn't have much grammar, but I think is a useful primer so you don't get bogged down in the letters vowels and pronunciations. You can check out his site here http://www.hebrew4christians.com/ If I get through a good chunk of this book I will consider taking the course at TBI. I may take next year off so I can solidify my Greek studies more.
So. When are you gonna do Revelation?
For some reason Blogger wants me to be Robert. But this is Rob from Greek class.
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Revelation is one I have my sights set on, but I think it will have to come last, not only because it is the last book of the Bible, but also because it will take the rest of Scripture to understand what is going on in Revelation.
So, where's your blog?
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