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Books

The catalog, as he sent it

Publisher covers where they could be obtained — Tyndale HiRes, Baylor, IVP, Wiley, Amazon. Every published title links to Amazon, as on his earlier site. From 2020 is the list he asked to have posted.

  • 2024Sagamore of the Wabash
  • 2021Three Telly Awards
  • 2020United Nations address
  • 2017Museum of the Bible opens
  • 2014Inaugural University Professor
  • 1994NEH · Isthmia / Corinth

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Three volumes in the IVP Higher Education Series were Lilly Book Award finalists. Forthcoming titles are marked and are not linked until they exist in the market. Where a publisher cover could not be pulled, original plate art stands in.

Tyndale House

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The World’s Greatest Book: The Story of How the Bible Came to Be · 2nd edition

June 2023 · Tyndale House

Co-author · with Lawrence H. Schiffman

With Lawrence H. Schiffman, a history of the Bible’s making, copying, and translation — first issued with Worthy in 2017, revised for Tyndale in 2023.

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The New Book of Christian Martyrs

April 2023 · Tyndale House

Co-author · with Johnnie Moore

With Johnnie Moore, a successor to Foxe: martyr stories from the first century to the present. The book prompted the TBN special Heroes of the Faith.

Prompted the 60-minute on-camera film Heroes of the Faith

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The Bible in the U.S. Capital

November 2022 · Tyndale House

Co-author · with Christian Askeland, Ashley Carter, and colleagues

How Scripture is written into the stones, speeches, and civic memory of Washington, D.C.

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Global Publishing Partners

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The History of the Bible

December 2026 · Global Publishing Partners

Author · in editing

A forthcoming history of the biblical text. Pattengale’s content is in and in editing for a December 2026 release.

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Teacher’s Guide: The Bible’s Influence on Western Civilization

September 25, 2026 · Global Publishing Partners

Author · forthcoming

A 400-page online teacher’s guide companion to the Western civilization curriculum, written for classroom use at scale.

400+ pages, online

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The Story of the Bible

August 25, 2026 · Global Publishing Partners

Author

Biblical narratives as windows into real worlds: leaders, prophets, shepherds, queens, and exiles, in the cities, deserts, and villages they inhabited. The first of a three-book Museum of the Bible series.

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The Bible’s Influence on Western Civilization

March 23, 2026 · full release 2027 · Global Publishing Partners / Museum of the Bible

Author

A curriculum text on the Bible’s imprint on law, letters, art, and public life in the West, with a complete release scheduled for 2027.

Public-school textbook; full release in 2027

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The Gospels: A Historical and Cultural Journey

November 2025 · Global Publishing Partners

Author

The life of Jesus presented through history, art, and the plain claim of the Gospels — written to be held, seen, and read, not merely assigned.

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IVP Higher Education Series

Three of these were Lilly Book Award Finalists.

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A Mission Held in Trust

September 1, 2026 · IVP Academic

Contributor

In A Mission Held in Trust, leading administrators and educators from both Protestant and Catholic institutions provide wisdom on mission alignment in higher education. Mission is designed to be held in trust by members of a community and stewarded for the next generation.

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Habits of Hope

November 2024 · IVP Academic

Co-editor · with Todd Ream and Christopher J. Devers

Educational Practices for a Weary World. An IVP volume on the practices that keep Christian colleges honest, hopeful, and intellectually serious.

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Cultivating Mentors

September 2022 · IVP Academic

Co-editor · with Todd Ream and Christopher J. Devers

Sharing Wisdom in Christian Higher Education. An IVP volume on mentoring as a craft of the Christian university.

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Public Intellectuals and the Common Good

January 2021 · IVP Academic

Co-editor · with Todd Ream and Christopher J. Devers

Edited with Todd Ream and Christopher J. Devers. Pattengale spoke on Capitol Hill in 2022 from this book’s argument: scholarship in public is a form of neighbor-love.

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The State of the Evangelical Mind

December 2018 · IVP Academic / Christian Scholar’s Review

Contributor

A CSR/IVP project on the evangelical mind. Lilly Fellows Book Award finalist, 2018–19 — one of three Lilly finalists in this higher-education series.

Lilly Fellows Book Award finalist, 2018–19. One of three Lilly finalists in this IVP series.

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Baylor University Press

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The Anxious Middle

August 2023 · Baylor University Press

Co-author · with Todd Ream

A Baylor Press argument about the future of the Christian college — the anxious middle between nostalgia and surrender.

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Trilogy

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Inexplicable: How Christianity Spread to the Ends of the Earth

2020 · Trilogy / TBN

Co-author

The teachings of Jesus captured human hearts and minds across the globe long before Christianity was legalized, and well before it was protected or supported by world governments and armies. It survived centuries of brutal persecution, making its explosive growth seem historically inexplicable.

Companion to the six-hour TBN series hosted by Dennis Haysbert; three Telly Awards

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HarperCollins

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Color and Praise

2021 · HarperCollins / Quarto

Author

A HarperCollins/Quarto volume pairing image and praise — Scripture encountered through color as well as type.

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Color and Pray

2020 · HarperCollins

Editor

An edited HarperCollins volume of prayer and image, issued the year before Color and Praise.

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Front matter

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Marx and Moody

September 1, 2026 · Moody

Foreword

Foreword to a Moody volume placing evangelical intellectual life against the long shadow of modern ideology.

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The Women in Jesus’s Life

Forthcoming · Listed on his Amazon author page

Co-author · with Jackelyn Viera Iloff · forthcoming

Forthcoming co-authored volume on the women in the life of Jesus, listed on his Amazon author biography.

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Scripture in Its Material and Literary Context: Historical, Archaeological, and Cultural Correlations

2027 · T&T Clark

Foreword · forthcoming

Foreword to the T&T Clark festschrift for Edwin Yamauchi — the ancient historian who directed Pattengale’s doctorate on the Anargyroi.

Festschrift for Dr. Edwin Yamauchi, his mentor

Scholarly chapters & curricula

Beyond the trade list

  • 1992Anchor Bible DictionaryContributing scholar — the standard English reference dictionary of biblical studies.
  • 2016–2020Israeli / Compedia augmented-reality Bible curriculaGeneral editor: TAMAR (Hebrew), The Book, and The Bible and Its Impact on Western Culture — editor-in-chief of 20+ high-tech volumes.
  • —Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical AntiquityHendrickson. Scholarly articles on the material world of the text.
  • —The Light of DiscoveryYamauchi festschrift chapter — honor to the mentor who directed the Anargyroi dissertation.