Recent Awards and Honors

Infinity Dwindled to Infancy

Edward T. Oakes

Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue Book Prize 2012

The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism

John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow, eds.

Choice Magazine
Outstanding Academic Titles, 2011

Word Made Global

Mark Gornik

Christianity Today Book Awards 2012
Mission/Global Affairs (winner)

Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind

Mark A. Noll

Christianity Today Book Awards 2012
Christianity and Culture (award of merit)

The Insulted and Injured

Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. Boris Jakim

Christianity Today Book Awards 2012
Fiction (award of merit)

Michigan Polar Bear Received a 2011 Historical Society of Michigan State History Award

The Historical Society of Michigan presented its 2011 State History Awards in September, recognizing four books with State History Awards in the Publications: University and Commercial Press category. The first of these honors was posthumously awarded to Godfrey Anderson’s A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks: A War Memoir, expertly edited by Gordon L. Olson.

Eight Eerdmans Authors Received 2011 Catholic Press Association Awards

The Catholic Press Association selected Maurice Blondel by Oliva Blanchette as the winner in the Biography Category, New Proofs for the Existence of God by Robert J. Spitzer, S.J. as winner in the Faith and Sciences Category, and gave second and third place honors to six other Eerdmans titles. To see the full list of award winners, read the The Catholic Journalist.

Nathan MacDonald Received the 2011 Freedman Award

The Society of Biblical Literature has awarded the 2011 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship to Nathan MacDonald for his paper, “Ritual Innovation: The Feast of Weeks from the Covenant Code to the Temple Scroll.” MacDonald is lecturer in Old Testament at St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews, and the author of What Did the Ancient Israelites Eat? Diet in Biblical Times.

Piet Naudé Awarded the Andrew Murray–Desmond Tutu Book Prize

South African professor and author Piet Naudé’s new book, Neither Calendar nor Clock: Perspectives on the Belhar Confession, was awarded the prestigious Andrew Murray–Desmond Tutu Prize for 2011. Visit the NMMU website for more details.

 

Academy of Parish Clergy Awarded Three Eerdmans Titles

The Academy of Parish Clergy awarded Martin E. Marty's Building Cultures of Trust the 2011 Book of the Year Award and listed two other Eerdmans titles as Top Ten Books of 2011: Hannah's Child by Stanley Hauerwas and Practice Resurrection by Eugene Peterson. For the full list of winning titles, visit Sharing the Practice, the Academy of Parish Clergy blog.

Three Eerdmans Authors Received 2011 Christianity Today Book Awards

Christianity Today selected Hope in a Scattering Time by Eric Miller as the winner in History and Biography, Practice Resurrection by Eugene Peterson as the winner in Spirituality, and recognized Calvin's Ladder by Julie Canlis with an award of merit in Theology and Ethics. For the full list of winning titles, visit ChristianityToday.com.

The Word of God for the People of God Won the 2011 CCED Book Prize

The Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue awarded J. Todd Billings's The Word of God for the People of God the 2011 CCED Book Prize for its significant contribution to biblical interpretation. Visit the CCED website for more information about this award.

To find out about honors given to our Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, visit the EBYR awards page.

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