{"id":1149,"date":"2010-09-14T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T03:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2010\/09\/14\/my-3000-book\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T03:08:14","slug":"my-3000-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/my-3000-book\/","title":{"rendered":"My $3,000 Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you recall my post<\/a> a few years back about a commentary on 1 Kings that I really wanted but that cost $2,736.18.  This is a good commentary, but it’s not old and it’s not made out of gold.  It was published by a major company (Anchor) in my sons ‘ lifetime (2001).  It has 556 pages, all made out of paper.  I was mystified why the book was so rare and so expensive.  I consulted major seminary librarians.  I scoured the net.  I could find no reason other than that the book was out of print and no one was selling it.  <\/p>\n

Since that time I have maintained a constant search for this book.  I receive daily email alerts whenever any books I am searching for are found and several times in the past year one was located and I placed an order.  In each case, within a few hours or days, I received a message from the bookseller that the book was unavailable.  Apparently someone beat me to it, or they realized that the book was really worth about $2,706.18 more than I had paid for it.<\/p>\n

My patience has, however, paid off.  It was not unusual last week when the book was located and I placed an immediate<\/em> order.  I was, however, shocked to find the actual book in my mailbox a few days ago.  (Sidenote: the return address said “Bookmans” and I had a similarly named professor visit me that very same day.  True story.)  <\/p>\n

Now I have that book.  Here’s proof.<\/p>\n

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If you think this one is expensive, check out this one<\/a> that may fetch up to $10 million in an upcoming auction.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The very first thing I looked up in this book was in error, unless Hiram reigned from 970-636.<\/p>\n

UPDATE #2: Bonus points to any of my readers who can identify the shirt I’m wearing.  Double points if you<\/em> designed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you recall my post a few years back about a commentary on 1 Kings that I really wanted but that cost $2,736.18.  This is a good commentary, but it’s not old and it’s not made out of gold.  It was published by a major company (Anchor) in my sons ‘ lifetime (2001).  It has\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-israel","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}