Today I am getting rid of books. At about 2:30 this afternoon, a Twitter friend I’ve never met in real life will be rolling up to my driveway to carry away about six boxes full of works of theology, exegesis, Biblical studies, history of the ancient near east, linguistic studies, and general reference works. Some highlights:  two different multi-volume Bible encyclopedias, one by Eerdmans and one by InterVarsity Press, IVP’s Dictionary of the Gospel’s, IVP’s Dictionary of the Pauline Epistles, Oxford University Press’s three-volume Dictionary of Byzantium, Thomas Oden’s three-volume systematic theology, Veli Matti Karkkainnen’s works of systematic theology and Read more