Luther Seminary Library: Chew on This.

Perhaps, as the holidays approach, you've had visions of sugar plums dancing across the digital landscape of your final paper of the semester. Maybe you've been thinking about how you'll spend your time after this semester comes to a close. But for those of you who say, "no, I'm a hard-core seminarian, and all I want for Christmas dinner is a book of heavy-duty exegesis," I've got a great title by Peter-Ben Smit, Fellowship and Food in the Kingdom, that just came across the acquisitions desk that may help you to more fully set scenes of festive bliss into the context of the outlined biblical textual trajectory "reaching from the paradise iconography and garden imagery associated with the (Jerusalem) Temple" in the spirit of "yearning for utopian satiation" and continuing on into the dining room of your friends or family (quotations from pg. 382). Unfortunately, since it just came in, you may have to wait until next semester for it to be ready for borrowing. (Image source).

--Will Keillor, Acquisitions

Some other new books to check out when you return:

	The Word Leaps the Gap: Essays on Scripture and Theology in honor of Richard B. Hays Ed. by Wagner, Rowe, and Grieb

	Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ By Thomas F. Torrence, ed. by R. T. Walker

	Global Dictionary of Theology Ed. by Dyrness and Karkkainen