Feedback on criteria for posting books here

[Matthew Longhorn]

My only comment would be could we see more book recommendations that are under a £50 price tag

Hey, I posted an open access one recently!
But yes… I wish I were finding more on the lower end also

[Devenios Doulenios]

Hear, Hear! Amen!

[Devenios Doulenios]

Open access is great also. Matthew, refresh my memory please: which open access one did you post about recently?

[Matthew Longhorn]

pen access is great also. Matthew, refresh my memory please: which open access one did you post about recently?

Muraoka's new book on The Wisdom of Ben Sira
https://www.peeters-leuven.be/pdf/9789042949157.pdf

[S Walch]

Perhaps it would be good to have one topic per book price range?

So an open access topic to post new open-access books on; a topic for those books under £/$/€100; a topic for those books over £/$/€100?

Updates on the topics would still show (plus you can put a new subject title in, and it'll appear in the same topic), and discussion on any of the books could then produce their own topic by whoever wants to talk about said book?

[Devenios Doulenios]

Thanks, Matthew. As I am interested in Ben Sira (Am planning on returning to reading him next year, after reading the first 11 chapters awhile back), this should be a helpful resource. While Muraoka's work is outstanding, his for purchase volumes are normally outside my budget.

[Matthew Longhorn]

Perhaps it would be good to have one topic per book price range?

So an open access topic to post new open-access books on; a topic for those books under £/$/€100; a topic for those books over £/$/€100?

Updates on the topics would still show (plus you can put a new subject title in, and it'll appear in the same topic), and discussion on any of the books could then produce their own topic by whoever wants to talk about said book?

I am not totally sure that this would work. I can't edit the title of a post after a while subsequent to posting it, and also it might make it harder for people to find things they are interested in.
I will try to post the lowest price of a book in the title of each post to make it easier to filter posts you aren't interested in though

[Stephen Carlson]

Many of these books haven't been published yet, and I always forget about them. We need some follow up when they're out.

[Matthew Longhorn]

Many of these books haven't been published yet, and I always forget about them. We need some follow up when they're out.

I do try to post an update when they are out

[Matthew Longhorn]

Ok, another question. I regularly come across books that are not Koine Greek but will be classical or byzantine, or may just be not be related to biblical matters. If I put these in the "other" category would these be appropriate for here? I could prefix with CG or BG to make clear in the title. For me these will be of interest, but then I am weird.
an example is this upcoming book https://cart.sbl-site.org/books/061658C

The Life of Aesop the Philosopher, an anonymous Greek literary work, presents one version of the novelistic biography of Aesop, which dates to the fourth to fifth century CE. In this volume, Grammatiki A. Karla offers an extended introduction to the Life of Aesop in general, the history of the textual tradition, and the MORN manuscript family and its relationship to other versions and papyrus fragments. She then presents a new edition of the late antique version (MORN) alongside David Konstan’s English translation. A commentary addresses editorial choices and focuses on words and phrases that are of interest for the history of the Greek language.