TMU ONLINE GRADUATE TEXTBOOK MASTER LIST

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1	TMU Online Graduate Course Textbook Master List
2	This is the master textbook list for all online graduate courses and is good for any semester.
3	Biblical Studies
4	Course #	Course Name	Instructor	Required/Optional	Book Title	Author	Edition	Publisher	ISBN	Book Link	Additional Info
5	BTS500	Intro to Biblical Studies	Aaron Valdizan	Required	Quality Research Papers:	Vyhmeister & Robertson	2014	Zondervan	310 514029	Amazon
6				Required	A Survey of Old Testament Introduction	Archer, Gleason	2007	Moody	802484344	Amazon	1996 and 2007 version = the same
7				Required	An Introduction to the New Testament	D.A. Carson; Moo, Douglas	2005	Zondervan	310-238595	Amazon
8	BTS501	Hermeneutics	Will Varner	Required	Scripture as Communication	Brown, Jeannine	2007	Baker Academic	801027888	Amazon
9				Required	"Grasping God's Word" Companion Video Series; streamed for a fee through Zondervan or Vimeo					Zondervan
10				Required						Vimeo
11				Required	Grasping God's Word (Textbook)	Duvall & Hays	3rd	Zondervan	978-0310492573	Amazon
12				One of the following	The Hermeneutics of the Biblical Writers: Learning to Interpret Scripture from the Prophets and Apostles	Chou, Abner	2018	Kregel Academic	978-0825443244	Amazon
13				One of the following	Basic Bible Interpretation	Zuck, Roy	1st	David C Cook	978-0781438773	Amazon
14	BTS510	Land of the Bible	Jared Kingsley	Required	The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide	Murphey-O'Conner, Jermoe	5th	Oxford University Press	199-236666	Amazon
15	BTS510	Land of the Bible	Jared Kingsley	Required	Jesus, A Visual History:	Brake, Donald; Bolen, Todd	2014	Zondervan	310-515378	Amazon
16	BTS511	Creation and Covenant	Peter Goeman	Required	Coming to Grips with Genesis	Mortenson, Terry; Ury, Thane H.	2008	Publishing Group	978-0890515488	Amazon
17				Required	What Happened in the Garden	Chou, Abner	2016	Kregel Academici	978-0825442094	Amazon
18				Required	From Paradise to the Promised Land	Desmond Alexander	3rd	Baker Academic	978-0801039980	Amazon
19	BTS512	History of the Covenant People	Jason Beals	Required	Kingdom of Priests	Merrill, Eugene M.	2nd	Baker Academic	978-0801031991	Amazon
20				Optional	Giving the Sense*	Grisanti and Howard	2003	Kregel Publishing	978-0825428920	Amazon	*The resources marked this way are valuable resources and recommended. However, the professor has posted in Canvas the pdf files of the essays you must read for this course.
21				Optional	The World and the Word*	Merrill, Rooker and Grisanti	2011	Broadman & Holman	978-0805440317	Amazon
22	BTS513	Prophecy and Prophets in Context	Aaron Valdizan	Required	Bible (NASB or ESV)
23				Required	The Message of the Prophets	Hays, Daniel J.	3rd	Zondervan	978-0310271529	Amazon
24				Extra-Credit	How to Read and Understand Biblical Prophets	Gentry, Peter J.	2017	Crossway	978-1433554032	Amazon
25	BTS515	Worship and Wisdom	Timothy Anderson	Required	Awake O Harp: A Devotional Commentary	Varner, William	3rd/2017	CreateSpace	978-1548743789	Amazon
26	BTS515	Worship and Wisdom	Timothy Anderson	Required	Old Testament Wisdom Literature	Bartholomew, C; O'Dowd, R.	2011	IVP Academic	978-0-8308-3896-7	Amazon
27	BTS520	Early Church and Book of Acts	Jason Beals	Required	The New Testament in Antiquity	Burge, Cohick, Green	2009	Zondervan	978-0310244950	Amazon
28				Required	The Illustrated Life of Paul	Quarles, Charles	2014	B & H Academic	978-0805494532	Amazon
29				Required	In the Footsteps of Saint Paul: An Illustrated Guide to Paul's Journey	Peter Walker	2019	Augsburg Fortress Publishers	978-1506457894	Amazon
30	BTS521	Historical Background of the New Testament	Aaron Valdizan	Required	Backgrounds of Early Christianity	Ferguson, Everett	3rd	Eerdmans	802-822215	Amazon
31				Required	Josephus: The Essential Works	Josephus, Falvius; Maier,Paul	2nd	Kregel Academic & Professional	082543260X	Amazon
32				Optional	Jewish Backgrounds of the New Testament	Scott, Julius J.	1st	Baker Academic	801-022401	Amazon
33				Optional	The New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha	Cooga, Brettler, Newsom & Perkins	4th; 2010	Oxford University Press	195-289617	Amazon
34	BTS522	Life, Ministry & Theology of Christ	Tom Halstead	Required	One Perfect Life: The Complete Story of the Lord Jesus	MacArthur, John	2013	Thomas Nelson	978-1401676322	Amazon
35	BTS522	Life, Ministry & Theology of Christ	Tom Halstead	Required	Th Earthly Career of Jesus, the Christ	Culver, Robert D.	2002	Mentor	978-1857927986	Amazon
36	BTS523	Letters and Theology of Paul	Rich Gregory	Required	Visual Outline Charts of the New Testament	Bashoor, M. Scott	2020	Southern California Seminary Press	978-0986444258	Amazon
37				Note*	The digital version of this work in WORDsearch Bible software is also permitted
38				Required	Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free	Bruce, F.F, Paul	2000	Eerdmans	978-0802847782	Amazon
39				Recommended	Four Views on the Apostle Paul	Gundry, Stanley and Bird	2012	Zondervan	978-0310326953	Amazon
40				Recommended	Paul and His Letters	Polhill, John	1999	B & H Academic	978-0805410976	Amazon
41				Recommended	The Illustrated Life of Paul	Quarles, Charles	2014	B & H Academic	978-0805494532	Amazon
42	BTS524	Hebrews and General Epistles	Will Varner	Required	Letters to the Church:	Jobes, Karen H.	2011	Zondervan	978-0310267386	Amazon
43	BTS524	Hebrews and General Epistles	Will Varner	Required	James: A Devotional Commentary	Varner, Williams	2017	CreateSpace	978-1546339793	Amazon
44	BTS550	Central Themes in Biblical Theology	Abner Chou	Required	The Hermeneutics of the Biblical Writers: Learning to Interpret Scripture from the Prophets and Apostles	Chou, Abner	2018	Kregel Academic	978-0825443244	Amazon
45				Required	I Saw the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Vision	Chou, Abner	2013	Wipf & Stock	978-1620323014	Amazon
46				Required	God's Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology	Hamilton, James	2010	Crossway	978-1581349764	Amazon
47	BTS570	Biblical Turkey & Greece
48	BTS571	Contemporary Issues in Theology	Brian Morley	Required	To Know and Love God: Method for Theology	Clark, Feinberg	2003	Crossway	1581344848	Amazon
49				Required	Modern Christian Thought - Volume II	Livingston, James	2nd	Fortress Press	978-0800637965	Amazon
50				Required	The Modern Theologians Reader	Ford, Higton and Zahl	2011	Wiley-Blackwell	978-1405171106	Amazon
51	BTS572	Seminar in Applied Biblical Studies	Abner Chou	TBD
52	BTS600	Intermediate Greek	William Varner	Required	Going Deeper with New Testament Greek: An Intermediate Study of the Grammar and Syntax of the New Testament	Kostenberger, Merkle and Plummer	2016	B & H Academic	978-1433679087	Amazon
53	BTS600	Intermediate Greek	William Varner	Required	Lexical Aids for New Testament Greek	Metzger, Bruce	1998	Baker Academic	978-0801021800	Amazon
54	BTS601	Intermediate Greek Exegesis	William Varner	Either	Greek New Testament-Either NA28 or Tyndale House GNT*		2017	Crossway Books	978-1433552175	Amazon
55				Either	*Novum Testamentum Graece: Greek-English New Testament		28th, 2013	Hendrickson Publishers	978-1619700352	Amazon
56				Required	Lexical Aids for New Testament Greek	Metzger, Bruce	1998	B & H Academic	978-0801021800	Amazon
57				Required	Philippians: An Exegetical Commentary	Varner, William	2021	Fontes Press	978-1948048569	Amazon
58				Required	An Introduction to the Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge	Jongkind, Dirk	2019	Crossway Books	978-1433564093	Amazon
59				Required	Using New Testament Greek in Ministry: A Practical Guide for Students and Pastors	Black, David	1993	Baker Academic	978-0801010439	Amazon
60	BTS602	Intermediate Hebrew	Greg Stephens	Required	Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia- Edito Major	Elliger, K. and W. Rudolph Eds.	1997	New York: NY: American Bible Society	978-3438052186	Bibles.com
61	BTS602	Intermediate Hebrew	Greg Stephens	Required	Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia- Edito Minor	Elliger, K. and W. Rudolph Eds.	1997	New York: NY: American Bible Society	978-1598561630	Amazon
62	BTS603	Intermediate Hebrew Exegesis	Greg Stephens	Required	From Exegesis to Exposition	Chisholm, Robert B. Jr.	1998	Grand Rapids: Baker	0-8010-2171-5	Amazon
63				Required	A Workbook for Intermediate Hebrew: Grammar, Exegesis and Commentary on Jonah and Ruth	Chisholm, Robert B. Jr.	2006	Kreger Acacademic	0-8254-2390-2	Amazon
64				Required	Interpreting the Psalms	Futato, Mark	2007	Kregel Academic and Professional	978-0825427657	Amazon
65				Required	An Exegetical and Expository Syntax of Biblical Hebrew		2016			jamesdprice.com
66				One of the following	Biblia Sacra Hebraica et Graeca		1996	Amer Bible Society; Greek Edition	3438052504	Amazon
67					Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia		1977	Deutsche Bibelstiftung	3438252180	Amazon
68					Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia		1997	Deutsche Bibelstiftung	3438052199	Amazon
69				One of the following	A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament	Brown, Driver and Briggs	1996	Hendrickson Publishing	1565632060	Amazon
70				One of the following	The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, 2 volume set	Koehler, Baumgartner	2002	Brill Academic Pub	9004124454	Amazon
71				One of the following	Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia		1977	Deutsche Bibelstiftung	3438052180	Amazon
72				One of the following	Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia		1997	Deutsche Bibelstiftung	3438052199	Amazon
73	BTS620	Mission in the Bible	Timothy Anderson	Required	Let the Nations be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions	Piper, John	3rd	Baker Academic	978-0801036415	Amazon
74				Required	Introduction to Global Missions	Pratt, Sills and Walters	2014	B & H Academic	978-1433678752	Amazon
75				Required	* In Step with the God of the Nations: Discovering the Heartbeat of God	Steyne, Philip					*Provided as PDF files
76				Required	The Mission of God's People: A Biblical Theology of the Church's Mission	Wright, Christopher	2010	Zondervan Academics	978-0310291121	Amazon
77	BTS621	Mission in History	Jim Stitzinger	Required	From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions	Tucker, Ruth	2nd	Zondervan Academics	978-0310239376	Amazon
78				Required	In the Year of Our Lord: Reflections on Twenty Centuries of Church History	Ferguson, Sinclair	2018	Reformation Trust	978-1567699708	Amazon
79				Required	Introduction to Global Missions	Pratt, Sills and Walters	2014	B & H Academic	978-1433678752	Amazon
80				Required	Pages From Church History: A Guided Tour of Christian Classics	Nichols, Steve	2006	P & R Publishing	978-0875526362	Amazon
81	BTS622	Misson of God in the Local Church	David Kaneversky	Required	Missions:How the Local Church Goes Global	Johnson, Andy	2017	Crossway	978-1433555701	Amazon
82				Required	Serving as Senders: How to Care for your Missionaries while they are preparing to go, while they are on the field, when they return home	Pirolo, Neil	1991	Emmaus Road International	978-1880185001	Amazon
83				Required	Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence	Livermore, David	2012	Baker Books	978-0801015199	Amazon
84				Required	Missions on Point: The Local Church at the Heart of Ecclesiology and Missiology	Meade, David	2025	SendForward	979-8988389637	https://www.amazon.com/Missions-Point-Church-Ecclesiology-Missiology/dp/B0DLV5LQTY
85	BTS623	Mission of God in the World	Timothy Anderson	Required	Expand your Borders: Discover Ten Cultural Clusters	Livermore, David	2103	Cultural Intelligence Center	978-0989781701	Amazon
86				Required	The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog	Sire, James	2009	IVP Academic	978-0830838509	Amazon
87				Required	The Gospel and Personal Evangelism	Dever, Mark	2017	Crossway	978-1433557248	Amazon
88				Required	Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion	McLaughlin, Rebecca	2019	Crossway	978-1433564239	Amazon
89				Required	Introduction to Global Missions	Pratt, Sills and Walters	2014	B & H Academic	978-1433678752	Amazon
90				Required	Cultural Intelligences Evaluation Testing	*Instructions per Instructor
91	BTS640	Worship Theology	Paul Plew	Required	The Knowledge of the Holy	Tozer, A.W.	2017	Fig	978-1626309906	Amazon
92				Required	Called to Lead: 26 Leadership Lessons from the Life of the Apostle Paul	MacArthur, John	2010	Thomas Nelson	978-1400202867	Amazon
93				Required	Worship: The Ultimate Priority	MacArthur, John	2012	Thomas Nelson	978-0802402158	Amazon
94				Required	The Hidden Life of Prayer: The life-blood of the Christian	McIntyre	2010	Christian Heritage	978-1845505868	Amazon
95	BTS641	Worship Design	Ruta Bloomfield	Required	Gather God's People: Understand, Plan and Lead Worship in your Local Church (Practical Shepherding Series)	Croft, Adkins and Kauflin	2015	Zondervan	978-0310519357	Amazon
96	BTS641	Worship Design	Ruta Bloomfield	Required	Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God	Kauflin	2008	Crossway Books	978-1581348248	Amazon
97	BTS642	Devotional Life of the Worship Leader	Paul Plew	Required	Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life	Whitney, Donald	2014	NavPress	978-1615216178	Amazon
98	BTS645	Worship Leadership and Administration	Paul Plew	Required	Hand Me Another Brick: Timless Lessons on Leadership	Swindoll, Charles	2007	Nelson Books	978-0849914607	Amazon
99	BTS645	Worship Leadership and Administration	Paul Plew	Required	Corporate Worship: How the Church Gathers as God's People (9 Marks: Building Healthy Churches	Merker, Mark	2021	Crossway	978-1433569821	Amazon
100	BTS660	Systematic Theology	Brian Morley	Required	Moving Beyond the Bible to Theology	Meadors, Gary T.	1st edition	Zondervan	978-0310276555	Amazon