Dustin Thompson
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Total Pages
11178.0
Total Points
213.0850
Fiction
| Title | Author | Pages | Rating | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | J.K Rowling | 448.0 | ★★★★★ | 7.4900 |
| Category: A book that is 750+ pages | ||||
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J.K. Rowling | 367.0 | ★★★★★ | 6.0850 |
| Category: A book that is 500+ pages | ||||
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling | 274.0 | ★★★★★ | 3.6200 |
| Category: A book with over 1 million Goodreads ratings | ||||
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J.K. Rowling | 171.0 | ★★★★☆ | 3.1050 |
| Category: A book you're re-reading | ||||
Nonfiction
| Title | Author | Pages | Rating | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 'Their Sacrifices with Psalms' in the Septuagint of Isaiah 66:20 | Mark A. Awabdy | 9.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.4675 |
| Elements of Biblical Exegesis: A Basic Guide for Students and Ministers | Michael J. Gorman | 325.0 | ★★★★★ | 4.8375 |
| Category: A book directly related to your job or discipline | ||||
| Iranian Influence on Judaism: First Century B.C.E. to Second Century C.E. | Shaul Shaked | 19.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.5425 |
| Purity beyond the Temple in the Second Temple Era | John C. Poirier | 20.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.5500 |
| Eating Death: Divine Activity in the Ancient Near East and the Hubris of Immortality in Harry Potter | John Anthony Dunne | 16.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.5200 |
| Can Love be Commanded | Kengo Akiyama | 9.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.4675 |
| What Does it Mean to be Saved? An African Reading of Ephesians 2 | Daniel K. Darko | 13.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 0.4975 |
| Luke and the Jewish religion | Amy-Jill Levine | 14.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.5050 |
| When the Bible becomes weaponized: Detecting and disarming Jew-hatred | Amy-Jill Levine | 23.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.5725 |
| Isaiah's Suffering Servant: Before and After Christianity | Amy-Jill Levine; Marc Brettler | 15.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.5125 |
| The Scrupulous Priest and the Good Samaritan Jesus’ Parabolic Interpretation of the Law of Moses | Richard Bauckham | 15.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.5125 |
| Going up to Jerusalem: Purity, Pilgrimage, and the Historical Jesus | Susan Haber | 25.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.5875 |
| Common Judaism, Common Synagogue? Purity, Holiness, and Sacred Space at the Turn of the Common Era | Susan Haber | 20.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.5500 |
| Across the Pond: Navigating the Experience of Doing a PhD in Biblical Studies from a Distance | Ryan Heinsch; Nicholas A. Fox; Justin Winzenburg | 110.0 | ★★★★★ | 3.2250 |
| Category: A book published in 2024, 2025, or 2026 | ||||
| Torah and Apocalypse in the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch | Matthias Henze | 15.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.5125 |
| The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations | John Van Maaren | 316.0 | ★★★★★ | 4.7700 |
| Category: A book written by an author born on each continent | ||||
| American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse | Daniel C. Hummel | 27.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.6025 |
| Introduction to the book of Revelation | Ian Paul | 23.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.5725 |
| Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity | John J. Collins | 17.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.5275 |
| Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica | Colin Mcallister | 18.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.5350 |
| Do You Have to Be Pure in a Metaphorical Temple?: Sanctuary Metaphors and Construction of Sacred Space in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Paul’s Letters | Cecilia Wassen | 21.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.5575 |
| The גר and Interpretive Integration in the Damascus Document 6:20–21 and 14:3–6 | Kengo Akiyama | 18.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.5350 |
| Jews, Judaeans, Judaizing, Judaism: Problems of Categorization in Ancient History | Steve Mason | 57.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.8275 |
| Judaean and Christ-Follower Identities: Grounds for a Distinction | Steve Mason and Philip F. Esler | 24.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.5800 |
| Interrogating "Enochic Judaism": 1 Enoch as Evidence for Intellectual History, Social Realities, and Literary Tradition | Annette Yoshiko Reed | 10.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.4750 |
| Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity | Malka Z. Simkovich | 214.0 | ★★★★★ | 4.0050 |
| Category: A book published in 2024, 2025, or 2026 | ||||
| "Exile" and "Restoration" in the Conceptual World of Ancient Judaism | Shemaryahu Talmon | 40.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 0.7000 |
| The Idea of Israel | Jason Staples | 450.0 | ★★★★★ | 5.7750 |
| Category: An author's first book | ||||
| ‘United we stand’: Israelite solidarity in two Jubilean clan rosters | Atar Livneh | 12.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.4900 |
| John the Baptist, Isaiah 40, and the Ingathering of the Exiles | Tucker S. Ferda | 35.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.6625 |
| From the Idealized Past to the Imaginary Future: Eschatological Restoration in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature | David Aune with Eric Stewart | 31.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.6325 |
| How Many Judaisms Were There?: A Critique of Neusner and Smith on Definition and Mason and Boyarin on Categorization | Seth Schwartz | 31.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.6325 |
| Education, Instrumentality, and the Lessons of Useless Art | Education, Instrumentality, and the Lessons of Useless Art | 17.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 0.5275 |
| The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul | John J. Collins | 319.0 | ★★★★★ | 4.7925 |
| Category: A book that you read because of a recommendation | ||||
| Apocalypse Against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism | Anathea E. Portier-Young | 462.0 | ★★★★★ | 5.8650 |
| Category: An author's first book | ||||
| ‘Rise, Kill, and Eat’: Animals as Nations in Early Jewish Visionary Literature and Acts 10 | Jason Staples | 15.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.5125 |
| Unlawful for a Jew? Acts 10:28 and the Lukan View of Jewish-Gentile Relations | Nicholas J. Schaser | 14.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.0050 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Ethos and Identity in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature | John J. Collins | 17.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.0275 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Using and Refusing: Jewish Identity Strategies under the Hegemony of Hellenism | John M. G. Barclay | 13.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.9975 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Displaced in Diaspora? Jewish Communities in the Greco-Roman World | Erich S. Gruen | 16.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.0200 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE - 117 CE) | John M. G. Barclay | 522.0 | ★★★★☆ | 8.3150 |
| Category: A book that is 500+ pages | ||||
| Apocalyptic Representations of Jerusalem | Maria Leppäkari | 259.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 4.3425 |
| Category: A book written by an author born on each continent | ||||
| The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Earthly Jerusalem | Oliver Larry Yarbrough | 19.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.0425 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Jerusalem as Ritual Space | Jeremy D. Smoak | 13.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.9975 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora Jewish Practice and Thought during the Second Temple Period | Jonathan R. Trotter | 236.0 | ★★★★★ | 6.1700 |
| Category: A book you start and finish in one day | ||||
| Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora | John J. Collins | 327.0 | ★★★★☆ | 4.8525 |
| Category: A book about a religion/belief other than your own | ||||
| Exclusions from the Temple: Proselytes and Agrippa I | Joseph M. Baumgarten | 11.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.9825 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Concept of "Impure Birth" in 5th Century Athens and Judea | Lisbeth S. Fried | 22.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.0650 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Just Discipleship | Michael J. Rhodes | 286.0 | ★★★★☆ | 6.5450 |
| Category: A book you start and finish in one day | ||||
| Remembered Space in Biblical Narrative | Victor Matthews | 15.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.0125 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Sinai & Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible | Jon D. Levenson | 227.0 | ★★★★★ | 4.1025 |
| Category: A book that you read because of a recommendation | ||||
| Divine Reversal and the Role of the Temple in Trito-Isaiah | Christopher Middlemas | 24.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.0800 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Temple in the New Testament | Christopher Rowland | 14.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 1.0050 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Temple in First Century CE Judaism | Martin Goodman | 20.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 1.0500 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| New Voices, Ancient Words: The Temple Scroll's Reuse of the Bible | Molly M. Zahn | 24.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.0800 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Ten Temples in the Dead Sea Scrolls | George J. Brooke | 18.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.0350 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Blood Purification and the Temple in Revelation | Christian P. Sanchez | 18.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.0350 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Stories at Work in the Classroom: Towards an Affective Worldview Approach to Faith-Learning Integration for Biblical Studies | John Anthony Dunne | 18.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.0350 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Purity Conceptions in the Book of Numbers | Christian Frevel | 43.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.2225 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Playing a Jewish Game: Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE | Michele Murray | 226.0 | ★★★★★ | 4.0950 |
| Category: A book that you read because of a recommendation | ||||
| From Xeno-Philia to -Phobia: Jewish Encounters with the Other | Lisbeth S. Fried | 31.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.1325 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Intermarriage in the Temple Scroll: Strategies of Neutralization | Hannah K. Harrington | 19.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.0425 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Purity and Persia | Thomas Kazen | 28.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.1100 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| What Is a Temple? A Preliminary Typology | John M. Lundquist | 31.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.1325 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Initiation and the Ritual of Purification from Sin: Between Qumran and the Apostolic Tradition | Yair Furstenberg | 31.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.1325 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Priesthood and Sectarianism: The Rule of the Community, the Damascus Document, and the Book of Revelation | Martha Himmelfarb | 28.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.1100 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Ethnicity and Identity in Isaiah 56–66 | Christopher Nihan | 38.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.1850 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Blood Purification and the Temple in Revelation | Christian P. Sanchez | 18.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 1.0350 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Relapsing, Reverting, or Rejecting? The Purpose of Hebrews and Early Jewish Religion | Madison Pierce | 29.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.1175 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Wisdom and Apocalyptic | J.Z. Smith | 26.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.0950 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The New Jerusalem: Ideal City | Michael Chyutin | 27.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.1025 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The New Jerusalem and Greco-Roman City Founding | Reuben James and Yi McClain | 20.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.0500 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Defilement and Desecration of the Temple in Ezekiel | Tova Ganzel | 11.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.9825 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Purity among the παρθένοι of Revelation 14:1–5 and the Βάκχοι of Western Asia Minor | Daniel Charles Smith | 23.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.0725 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Paradise, Gardens, and the Afterlife in the First Century CE | Martin Goodman | 16.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 1.0200 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| Paradise in the New Testament | Grant Macaskill | 17.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.0275 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| A Hierarchy of Salvation in the Book of Revelation: Different Peoples, Dwellings, and Tasks in the End Times | Alexander Kocar | 30.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.1250 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| John's Heavenly City: The Book of Revelation and Jewish Narratives of Salvation | Alexander Kocar | 29.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.1175 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Twelve Tribes of Israel out from Every Nation, Tribe, People, and Language in Revelation 7:9–17 | John Van Maaren | 22.0 | ★★★★★ | 1.0650 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| How Not to Build a Temple: Jacob, David, and the Unbuilt Ideal in Ancient Judaism | Eva Mroczek | 35.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.1625 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Purity and Sanctuary of the Body in Second Temple Judaism | Hannah K. Harrington | 419.0 | ★★★★☆ | 5.5425 |
| Category: A book about a religion/belief other than your own | ||||
| Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Revelation | Bruce Malina and John J. Pilch | 296.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 4.6200 |
| Category: A book directly related to your job or discipline | ||||
| Studies on the Iconography of Cosmic Kingship in the Ancient World: The Cosmic City of the Ancient Near East | H.P. L' Orange | 30.0 | ★★★★☆ | 1.1250 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Impenetrable Temple: The Nature and Characteristics of Impurity in the Temple Scroll | Abigail Naidu | 11.0 | ★★★★★ | 0.9825 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| No Temple in the City | David Flusser | 13.0 | ★★★★☆ | 0.9975 |
| Category: A peer-reviewed journal article | ||||
| The Climax of Prophecy: Studies in the Book of Revelation | Richard Bauckham | 550.0 | ★★★★☆ | 6.5250 |
| Category: A book written in the 1900s | ||||
| Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse | Adela Yarbro Collins | 180.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 3.7500 |
| Category: A book that takes place in the 1900s | ||||
| Apocalypticism, Prophecy and Magic in Early Christianity: Collected Essays | David Aune | 482.0 | ★★★★☆ | 6.0150 |
| Category: A book written in the 1900s | ||||
| The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties | Shaye Cohen | 458.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 5.8350 |
| Category: A book about a religion/belief other than your own | ||||
| Grounded Theology in the Hebrew Bible: Exploring the Cultural Context that Formed Ancient Israel | Elizabeth Backfish and Cynthia Shafer-Elliot | 268.0 | ★★★★★ | 4.4100 |
| Category: A book published in 2024, 2025, or 2026 | ||||
| The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza | 211.0 | ★★★☆☆ | 3.9825 |
| Category: A book directly related to your job or discipline | ||||
| A Ransom for Israel: Jesus and Jewish Salvation in Matthew | Nicholas J. Schaser | 420.0 | ★★★★★ | 5.5500 |
| Category: An author's first book | ||||
| Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation | J. Nelson Kraybill | 224.0 | ★★★★★ | 4.0800 |
| Category: A book directly related to your job or discipline | ||||
| Understanding Biblical Law: Skills for Thinking With and Through Torah | Dru Johnson | 208.0 | ★★★★★ | 3.9600 |
| Category: A book written by someone you know or have met | ||||
| God Draws Near: Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission | Collin Cornell | 224.0 | ★★★★★ | 4.0800 |
| Category: A book read by another BookBaller this season | ||||
| Engaging Jesus with Our Senses: An Embodied Approach to the Gospels | Jeannine Hanger | 208.0 | ★★★★☆ | 3.9600 |
| Category: A book written by someone you know or have met | ||||
About the Athlete
| Name | Dustin Thompson |
| Area of residence | Chaska, MN |
| How do you spend your days? | Teacher at SWCHS Fan of reading, sportsball, Bible-nerding |
| Favorite book? | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Favorite genre? | Biblical studies, Russian Literature |
| Relationship to Commissioner | Matt and I have golfed together a dozen times |
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