I was thinking earlier today — if I was stranded on a desert island, what 10 books would I want to have with me?
This isn't necessarily a list of my favorite books, it is a list of stuff I'd like to have with me if I could have no other books, no access to libraries, internet, or Logos Bible Software (or other software packages, of course), computers, etc.
That's why the list is heavy on primary texts, lexica and grammar. But there are a few curves in there that you may not have anticipated:
- Bible, probably an NRSV (amazon.com) so I'd also be able to read the apocrypha in a modern translation. I would not want a study bible, but I would want cross-references and translator's notes.
- NA27 Greek New Testament with Dictionary (amazon.com)
- LXX (amazon.com) (Rahlf's one-volume)
- BDAG (amazon.com)
- Holmes' Apostolic Fathers diglot (amazon.com)
- BDF (amazon.com)
- Alexadre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo (amazon.com)
- C.S. Lewis' Perelandra (amazon.com) (vol. 2 in the space trilogy)
- BHS (amazon.com)
- An introductory Hebrew Grammar (not Lambdin). Might as well take the time to learn me some Hebrew while I'm stranded on that thar' desert island ...
Anybody else have a list?