Reading through the War in the Pacific

So I got this notion to read up on the War in the Pacific, and as a starter I chose Stanley Weintraub's Long Day's Journey into War, a 600 page account of the 48 hours surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Weintraub has collated the personal testimonies of thousands of people from every part of the globe and interwoven them in an hour-by-hour account. The cumulative effect is somewhat dizzying at times, as Weintruab skips across the globe among hundreds of characters, but the reader comes away with a sense of the sheer weight and fearfulness of that moment in our history. Be prepared for a long grueling read (one reviewer called it ("Long, long, long day's journey...") but this was a good book with which to begin my Pacific War Reading Series.

Candidates for the next book in the series: Scott Walker's The Edge of Terror: The Heroic Story of American Families Trapped in the Japanese-occupied Philippines. James Hornfischer's Ship of Ghosts, or Hampton Sides' Ghost Soldiers.

A Brief Reading List for Gospel Centered Hermeneutics

I'd like to put together a reading list of books that will help me to read the Old Testament in light of the New. Graeme Goldsworhty has contributed much in this field of endeavor, of course, beginning with the excellent Gospel in Kingdom. In addition, he wrote According to Plan, which Brian at A Small Faith has been reading. Two more by Goldsworthy: Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture, and Gospel Centered Hermeneutics. And Goldsworthy himself recommends these titles:

• Days Are Coming by Mark Strom
• God's Big Picture, by Vaughn Roberts

[HT: Buzzard Blog]

With Amazon to help, I've come across a few more titles to add to the list:

• Him We Proclaim, by Dennis E. Johnson
• Preaching the Cross, by the Together for the Gospel gang
  
• Last Things First, by John V. Fesko
• Preaching Christ in All of Scripture, by Edmund Clowney
• Preaching Christ from the Old Testament, by Sidney Greidanus
• The Ancient Love Song: Finding Christ in the Old Testament, by Charles D. Drew
• Beginning with Moses, by Michael Barrett

There, that ought to keep me busy for a while. Actually, I will probably pick only one or two of these to read, but I wanted to pull together a list to choose from. And maybe this list will even help someone else!