My 2024 Reading List

For the past several years, my goal has been to read at least one book a week for 52 weeks. I read the Bible every day. I have spent the last year in Paul's first letter to Timothy (1 Timothy) and Exodus, carefully reading through the original languages (Greek and Hebrew). In the coming year, I plan to complete my reading in the Pastoral Epistles (2 Timothy and Titus) and move on to studying Leviticus in Hebrew. 

I practice three types of reading.

(~50%) Reading for the forest -- very broad reading to get a big picture of the book. I familiarize myself with the table of contents, the introduction, the conclusion, headings, subheadings, and perhaps the conclusion of each chapter. 

(~30%) Reading for the trees -- this type of reading is more nuanced and would require rereading book chapters, intros, conclusions, and references. This would also include very light highlights, annotations, and some comments. 

(~20%) Reading for the bark -- the most detailed reading possible, with detailed and heavy notes, annotations, comments, and analysis. I reserve this reading for highly technical and challenging works, commentaries on the Bible, and the Bible itself. 

*books I reread every year or every other year

GENERAL THEOLOGY

PARENTING AND FAMILY













PRODUCTIVITY






MISCELLANEOUS/GENERAL INTEREST/CULTURE








PERSONAL FINANCE/INVESTING






Personal Finance (13th Edition) by E. Thomas Garman, Raymond Forgue

The Marriage Challenge: A Finance Guide for Married Couples by Art Rainer

Housing Allowance for Ministers: Made Easy by Art Rainer






















PHYSICS/MATH/GENERAL SCIENCE

(I've challenged myself to gain a better grasp on math and physics -- these are some of the books I'm using. I've been following this guide for Math and this one for Physics)

Khan Academy Math -- Precalculus, Calculus, Physics




READING FOR ThM Studies (Master of Theology)

Bartlett, Andrew. Men and Women in Christ: Fresh Light from the Biblical Texts. Nottingham: IVP, 2019.

Carlson, Robert A. “An Evaluation of 1 Timothy 3:15 As a Pauline Description of the Nature and Task of the Local Church,” 2002.

Collins, Raymond F. “How Not to Behave in the Household of God.” Louvain Studies 35 (2011): 7–31.

Ehrensperger, Kathy. “Striving for Office and the Exercise of Power in the ‘House of God’: Reading 1 Timothy 3:1–16 in the Light of 1 Corinthians 4:1.” Pages 104–23 in The Bible in Church, Academy and Culture: Essays in Honour of the Reverend Dr. John Tudno Williams. Edited by Alan P. F. Sell. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011.

Henson, Joshua D. “Getting God’s House in Order: An Intertexture Analysis of Titus 1.” Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership 6 (2014): 176–200.

Huizenga, Annette Bourland. “God’s Household Management: 1 Timothy 1:4.” The Bible Today 57.3 (2019): 157–64.

King, Fergus J., and Dorothy A. Lee. “Lost in Translation: Rethinking Words about Women in 1–2 Timothy.” Scottish Journal of Theology 74.1 (2021): 52–66.

Köstenberger Andreas J, and Terry L Wilder. Entrusted with the Gospel : Paul's Theology in the Pastoral Epistles. Nashville, Tenn.: B & H Academic, 2010.

Köstenberger, Andreas J. “Faithful Stewardship in God’s Household: Discipleship in the Letters to Timothy and Titus.” Pages 193–212 in Following Jesus Christ: The New Testament Message of Discipleship for Today. Edited by John K. Goodrich. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2019. 

Malherbe, Abraham J. “Overseers as Household Managers in the Pastoral Epistles.” Pages 72–88 in Text, Image, and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World: A Festschrift in Honor of David Lee Balch. Edited by Aliou Cissé Niang and Carolyn Osiek. PTMS 176. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2012. 

Oppong-Kumi, Peter Yaw. “Akan Concept of House in the Light of the Concept of Church as ‘House of God’ in 1 Tim 3:15.” Pages 191–212 in Ein Meisterschüler: Titus and sein Brief, ed. Hans-Ulrich Weidemann and Wilfried Eisele. Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 2008.

Stanford, Robert Lee. “The Ecclesiological Grounding of Pauline Language of Leadership in 1 and 2 Timothy.” Dissertation, Boyce Digital Library, 2015.

Thornton, Dillon. Hostility in the House of God: An Investigation of the Opponents in 1 and 2 Timothy. BBRSup 15. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016.

Verner, David C. The Household of God: The Social World of the Pastoral Epistles. SBLDS 71. Chico, CA: Scholars, 1983.

Wieland, George M. “Re-Ordering the Household: Misalignment and Realignment to God’s οἰκονομία in 1 Timothy.” Pages 147–60 in Sin and Its Remedy in Paul. Contours of Pauline Theology. Edited by Nijay K. Gupta and John K. Goodrich. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2020.

Zamfir, Korinna. “Is the ekklēsia a Household (of God)? Reassessing the Notion of οἶκος θεοῦ in 1 Tim 3.15.” New Testament Studies 60 (2014): 511–28.
___________. Men and Women in the Household of God: A Contextual Approach to Roles and Ministries in the Pastoral Epistles. NTOA/SUNT 103. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.


BIBLE COMMENTARIES

Dibelius, Martin, and Hans Conzelmann. The Pastoral Epistles : A Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles. Edited by Helmut Koester. Translated by Adela Yarbro Collins. Hermeneia--A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1972.

Marshall, I. Howard. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles. In collaboration with Philip H. Towner. The International Critical Commentary. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999.

Mounce, William D. Pastoral Epistles. Word Biblical Commentary 46. Nashville: Nelson, 2000.





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