Bibliography

(I) Editions of the Bible: The following are editions of the Bible that should be particularly useful to students interested in commentary and supplementary footnotes.

The Anchor Bible 1964-2000. Various editors, translators, and commentators. 44+ volumes. Garden City, NY: Doubleday

The Cambridge Annotated Study Bible. 1993. New Revised Standard Version. Edited by Howard Clark Kee.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

The Complete Parallel Bible with Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books. 1993. New York: Oxford University Press.

The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. 1995. The Schocken Bible;Volume I. Translated with an Introduction, Commentary, and Notes by Everett Fox. New York: Schocken Books.

The Five Books of Moses. 2004. A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter.

New York: W.W. Norton.

Gospel Parallels: A Synopsis of the First Three Gospels. 1967. 3rd edition. Edited by Burton H. Throckman, Jr.Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

The NIV Study Bible. 1995. General Editor: Kenneth Barker. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.

The New Jerusalem Bible. 1985. New York: Doubleday.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha. 1991. NewRevised Standard Version. Edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Roland E. Murphy. New York:Oxford University Press.

The Precise Parallel New Testament. 1995. General Editor John R. Kohlenberger III. New York:Oxford University Press.

The Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha. 1989. Oxford University Press. Cambridge University Press.

The Synoptic Gospels: Arranged in Parallel Columns. 1910. by J.M.Thomson. London: Oxford University Press

Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures. 1988. The New JPS Translation According to the Hebrew Text. Philadelphia: Jewish Publications Society.

(II) Other Primary Texts: The following are a range of other interesting and useful primary tests either selected from, derived from, related to, or about the Bible.

Acts and Letters of the Apostles. 1982. Newly Translated from the Greek by Richmond Lattimore. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Girouz.

Barnstone, Willis. 1984. The Other Bible: Jewish Pseudepigrapha,Christian Apocrypha, Gnostic Scriptures, Kabbalah, Dead Sea Scrolls. San Francisco: Harper SanFrancisco.

The Book of Job. 1998. Translated, Introduction and Notes by Raymond P. Scheindlin. New York: Norton.

Burrows, Millar. 1955. The Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Viking Press.

Charlesworth, James H. 1983. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments. Garden City: Doubleday.

Cohen, Abraham. Everyman's Talmud: The Major teachings of theRabbinic Sages. With a New Forward by Jacob Neusner. New York: Schocken Books.

Ehrman, Bart D. 2003. Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press.

Eisenman, Robert and Michael. 1992. The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered: The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents Withheld for Over 35 Years. New york: Barnes and Noble.

The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus.1993. New translation and commentary by Robert Funk, Roy W. Hoover and the Jesus Seminar. New York: Polebrige Press Book.

The Four Gospels and the Revelation. 1979. Newly Translated from the Greek by Richmond Lattimore. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Girouz.

Grant, Robert and David Noel Freedman. 1960. The Secret Sayings of Jesus: A Modern Translation of the Gospel of Thomas with Commentary. New York: Barnes and Noble.

The Gospel of Judas. 2006. Edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst with Additional Commentary by Bart D. Ehrman. Washington D.C. National Geographic.  (See also April D. Deconik. “Gospel Truth.” New York Times. December 1, 2007; Stefan Lovgren. “Judas Was “Demon” After All, New Gospel Reading Claims.” National Geographic News. News.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/12813993.html.)

The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel. 1992. A Translation and Commentary by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jefferson, Thomas. 1904/1989. The Jefferson Bible. With an Introduction by F. Church and an Afterward by Jaroslav Pelikan. Boston: Beacon Press.

Josephus, Flavius. 1987. The Works of Josephus. Complete andUnabridged. New Updated Edition. Translated by William Whiston. Peabody, MASS: Henrickson Publishers.

The Lost Books of the Bible. 1979. With a New Forward by Solomon Schepps. New York: Bell Publishing Company.

Meyer, Marvin W. ed. and trans. 1984. The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels. New York: Random House.

Miller, Robert J. ed. 1994. The Complete Gospels. Annotated Scholar's Version. Revised and expanded edition. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Mitchell, Stephen. trans. 1979. 1987. The Book of Job. San Francisco: Northpoint Press

.......... 1991. The Gospel According to Jesus: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings. New York: Harper Collins.

.......... 1996. Genesis: A New Translation of the Classic Biblical Stories. New York: Harper Collins.

Nadich, Judah. 1983/1993. The Legends of the Rabbis: JewishLegends of the Second Commonwealth. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson.

.......... 1983/1993. The Legends of the Rabbis: The First Generation after the Destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson.

Rosenberg, David. trans. 1990. The Book of J. Interpreted by Harold Bloom. New York: Grove Weidenfeld

Vermes, Geza. 1987. The Dead Sea Scrolls in English. 3rd.edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

(III) Secondary Texts: The bimonthly Biblical Archaelogy Review contains scholarly articles about modern Bible scholarship that are accessible to the general public. The following are secondary sources that I have found interesting, useful, controversial, or just plain fun. It is by no means meant to be an exhaustive, definitive, or comprehensive review of the literature.

Alter, Robert. 1992. The World of Biblical Literature. New York: Basic Books

Alter, Robert and Frank Kermode. eds. 1987. The Literary Guide to the Bible. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Armstrong, Karen. 1993. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. New York: Ballantine Books.

Akenson, Donald Harman. 2000. IU. New York: Oxford University Press.

Armstrong, Karen. (1996). In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis. New York: Knopf.

Bamberger, Bernard J. 1952. Fallen Angels: The Soldiers of Satan's Realm. New York: Barnes and Noble.

Barker, Glenn W., William L. Lane, and J. Ramsey Michaels. 1969. The New Testament Speaks. New York: Harper and Row.

Barton, John. 1984. Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.

Betz, Otto and Rainer Riesner. Jesus, Qumran and the Vatican: Clarifications. New York: Crossroad

Bickerman, E.J. 1979. The God of the Maccabees: Studies on theMeaning and Origins of the Maccabean Revolt. Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity 32. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Blenkinsopp, Jospeh. 1995. Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament: The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Boadt, Lawrence. 1984. Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction. New York: Paulist Press.

Boberick, Benson.  2001.  Wide as Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired.  New York: Simon and Schuster.

Borg, Marcus J. 1987. Jesus: A New Vision Spirit, Culture and the Life of Discipleship. New York: Harper and Row.

.......... 1994. Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship. Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International.

.......... 1994. Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

.......... ed. 1997. Jesus at 2000. Boulder: Westview Press.

Bornkamm, Gunther. 1975. Jesus of Nazareth. New york: Harper and Row.

Bright, John. 1979. The Community of the Beloved Disciple. New York: Paulist Press.

.......... 1981. A History of Israel. 3rd. edition. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.

Brown, Raymond E. 1994. The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemanet o the Grave. A Commentary on the Passion Narrative of the Four Gospels. 2 vols. with continuous pagination. Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday.

Brown, Raymond E, S.S., Joseph A. Fitzmyer. S.J., and Roland E. Murphy. eds. 1968/1990. The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.

Brownrigg, Ronald. 1993. Who's Who in the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bruce, F.F. 1963. The Books and the Parchments: Some Chapter on the Transmission of the Bible. Revised 3rd edition. Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Ravell Company.

..........  1978.  History of the Bible in English: From the Earliest Versions.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Buber, Martin. 1968. 1982. On the Bible: Eighteen Studies. Edited by Nathum N. Glatzer. Introduction by Harold Bloom. New York: Schocken Books.

Charpentier, Etienne. 1993. How to Read the Old Testament. New York: Crossroad.

.......... 1995. How To Read the New Testament. New York: Crossroad.

Charlesworth, James H. 1988. Jesus within Judaism: New Light from Exciting Archaeological Discoveries. New York: Anchor Bible Reference Library, Doubleday.

.......... ed. 1992. Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Doubleday.

Chilton, B.D. and C.A. Evans, eds. Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current Research. Leiden: Brill.

Coggins, Richard. 1990. Introducing the Old Testament. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cohen, Shaye J.D. 1987. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah. Edited by Wayne A. Meeks. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.

Cohen, Norman. 1993. Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith. New Haven: Yale University Press

Comay, Joan. 1993. Who's Who in the Old Testament. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cook, Edward M. Solving the Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls: New Light on the Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Coote, Robert B. and Mary P. Coote. 1990. Power, Politics and the Making of the Bible: An Introduction. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Crossan, John Dominic. 1973. In Parables: The Challenge of the Historical Jesus. New York: Harper and Row.

.......... 1988. The Cross that Spoke: The Origins of the Passion Narrative. New York: Harper and Row.

.......... 1991. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Peasant. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

.......... 1994. Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. New York: Harper Collins.

.......... 1995. Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-semitism in the Gospels Story of the Death of Jesus. New York: Harper Collins

.......... 1996. Who Was Jesus? New York: HarperPaperbacks.

Dart, John. 1988. The Jesus of Heresy and History: The Discovery and Meaning of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library. New York: Harper and Row.

Deconick, April D. 2007. The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says New York: Continuum International Publishing Group

Drury, John. 1985. The Parables in the Gospels. New York: Crossroads.

Ehrman, Bart D. 2003.  Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. New York: Oxford University Press.

Eisenman, Robert. 1996. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians: Essays and Translations. Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element.

Eisenman, Robert and Michael Wise. 1994. The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered. New York: Barnes and Noble Books.

Erlich, Avi. 1995. Ancient Zionism: The Biblical Origins of the National Idea. New York: Free Press.

Farmer, William R. 1956. Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus: An Inquiry into Jewish Nationalism in the Greco-Roman
Period. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press

.......... 1964. The Synoptic Problem: A Critical Review of the Problem of the Literary relationships Between Matthew, Mark and Luke. New York: Macmillan.

.......... 1982. Jesus and the Gospel: Tradition, Scripture, and Canon. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

.......... 1994. The Gospel of Jesus: The Pastoral Relevance of the Synoptic Problem. Louisville: Westminster/John Know Press.

Finkelstein, Israel and Neil Asher Silberman.  2000.   The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts.  New York: Free Press.

Finkelstein, Idsrael and Neil Asher Silberman. 2006. David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition. New York: Free Press.

Fox, Robert Lane. 1992. The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible. New York: Knopf.

Fredriksen, Paula. 1988. From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus. New Haven: Yale University Press.

……….  Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity.  New York: Knopf, 1999.

Freedman, David Noel.(2000) The Nine Commandments: Uncovering the Hidden Pattern of Crime and Punishment in the Hebrew Bible. New York: Doubleday.

Friedman, Richard Elliott. 1989. Who Wrote the Bible? New York: Harper and Row.

........…. 1995. The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery. Boston: Little Brown.

………. 1999. The Hidden Book of the Bible.   San Francisco: HarperCollins.

............  2007. “Ancient Biblical Interpreters vs. Archaelogy and Modern Scholars.” Biblical Archaelogy Review. (January/February): 62-67.

Frye, Northrop. 1982. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Janovich.

Funk, Robert W. 1996. Honest to Jesus: Jesus for a New Millennium. New York: Harper Collins.

Gabel, John B. and Charles B. Wheeler. 1990. The Bible as Literature: An Introduction 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gentz, William H. ed. 1986. The Dictionary of Bible and Religion. Nashville: Abington Press.

Gillman, Neil. 1990. Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew. New York: Jewish Publication society

Ginsberg, Louis. 1992. Legends of the Bible. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society.

Girard, Rene. 1987. Job: The Victim of His People. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Golb, Norman. 1995. Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Search for Qumran. New York: Scribner.

Gowan, Donald E. 1994. Theology in Exodus: Biblical theology in the Form of Commentary. Louisville: Westminster John Know Press.

Grant, Michael. 1973. The Jews in the Roman World. New York:Charles Scribner's and Sons.

.......... 1977. Jesus: An Historian's Review of The Gospels. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

.......... 1994. Saint Peter: A Biography. New York: Scribner.

Grant, Robert M. 1986. Gods and the One God. edited by Wayne A. Meeks. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.

Graves, Robert and Raphael Patai. 1989. Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis. New York: Anchor Books.

Harvey, A.E. 1970. The New English Bible: Companion to the New Testament. Cambridge: Oxford University Press. Cambridge University Press.

Herrin, Judith. 1987. The Formation of Christendom. London: Blackwell.

Hill, Christopher. 1993. The English Bible and the Seventeenth Century Revolution. London: Penguin Books.

Jacobson, Dan. 1982. The Stories of the Stories: The Chosen People and Its God. New York: Harper and Row

Jasper, David. 1986. The New Testament and the Literary Imagination. Foreword by Sallie McFague. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International.

Johnson, Luke T. 1991. The Real Jesus and the Misguided Quest of the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels. San FranciscoHarper SanFrancisco.

......... 1995. "The Search for (the Wrong) Jesus." Bible Review 6 (December) 11.

Josipovici, Gabriel. 1988. The Book of God: A Response to the Bible. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Katz, David S. 2004.  God’s Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Keller, Werner. 1965. 1980. The Bible as History. Revised and Updated. New York: Bantam Books.

Kingsbury, Jack Dean. 1991. Conflict in Luke: Jesus, Authorities, Disciples. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Kirsch, Jonathan. 2006. A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization. New York: HarperSanFrancisco

Kugel, James L. 2003.  The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible. New York: Free Press.

......... 2007. How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now. New York: Free Press.

Kugel, James L. and Rowan A. Greer. 1986. Early Biblical Interpretation. Edited by Wayne A. Meeks. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Landis, Benson Y. 1963. An Outline of the Bible Book by Book. New York: Barnes and Noble Books.

Lawton, David. 1990. Faith, Text and History: The Bible in English. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

Linnemann, Eta 1995. "Is There a Gospel of Q?" Bible Review. 4 (11) August.

Lohse, Berhard. 1966/1985. A Short History of Christian Doctrine: From The First Century to the Present. Revised American edition. Translated by F. Ernest Stoeffler. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Mack, Burton L. 1988. A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins. Philadelphia.

.......... 1993. The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

.......... 1995. Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth. New York: Harper Collins.

Maccoby, Hyam. 1992. Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil. New York: Free Press.

McGrath, Alister.  2001.  In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, A Language, and A Culture.  New York: Anchor Books.

Marcus, David. 1986. Jephthah and His Vow. Lubboch: Texas Tech Press.

Mayes, James L. ed. 1988. Harper's Biblical Commentary. San Francisco: Harper and Row.

McGinn, Bernard. 1994. Anti-Christ: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil. New York: HarperCollins.

Meier, John P. 1991. 1995. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. 2 vols. New York: Doubleday

Metzger, Bruce C. and Michael D. Coogan. eds. 1993. The Oxford Companion to the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press.

Miles, Jack. 1995. God: A Biography. New York: Knopf.

....... 2001.  Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God. New York: Knopf.

Morgan, Robert with John Barton. 1988. Biblical Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press.

Moynahan, Brian. 2002. God’s Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible—A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal.. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Myers, Allen C. 1987. The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

Neil, William. 1962. Harper's Bible Commentary. New York: Harper and Row.

Neill, Stephen and Tom Wright. 1964. 1989. The Interpretation of the New Testament: 1861-1986. New York: Oxford University Press.

Neusner, Jacob. 1984. Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

.......... 1987. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Exile and Return in the History of Judaism. Boston: Beacon Press.

.......... 1991. Jews and Christians: The Myth of a Common Tradition. Philadelphia: Trinity International Press.

.......... 1993. A Rabbi Talks with Jesus: An Intermillennial, Interfaith Exchange. New York: Doubleday.

.......... 1995. Judaism's Theological Voice: The Melody of the Talmud. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Neusner, Jacob and Bruce D. Chilton. 1995. Revelation: The Torah and the Bible. Valley Forge: Trinity Press International.

Nickle, Keith F. 1980. The Synoptic Gospels: An Introduction. Atlanta: John Knox Press.

Nicolson, Adam.  2003.  God's Secretaries: THe Making of the King James Bible.  New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Noth, Martin. 1958/1960. The Early History of Israel. Revised edition. New York: Harper and Row.

Olson, Roger E. 2007. Pocket History of Evangelical Theology. Downersgrove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press.

Overman, J. Andrew. 1990. Matthew's Gospel and Formative Judaism: The Social World of the Matthean Community. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Pagels, Elaine. 1979. The Gnostic Gospels. New York; Random House.

.......... 1988. Adam, Eve, and the Serpent. Random House.

.......... 1995. The Origin of Satan. New York: Random House.

.......... 2003.  Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas.  New York: Random House,

Pagels, Elaine and Karen L. King. 2007. Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity. New York: Viking.

Pelikan, Jaroslav. 1992. On Searching the Scriptures—Your Own or Someone Else’s: A Reader’s Guide to Sacred Writings and Methods of Studying Them. New York: Quality Paperback Book Club.

………. 2005. Whose Bible is It? A Short History of the Scriptures. New York: Penguin.

Perkins, Pheme. 1988. Reading the New Testament. 2nd edition. New York: Paulist Press.

Podhoretz, Norman. 2002. The Prophets: Who They Are. What They Are. New York: The Free Press.

Pritchard, James B. ed. 1991. The Harper Concise Atlas of the Bible. New york: HarperCollins.

Ranke-Heinemann, Uta. 1992. Putting Away Childish Things. Translated by Peter Heinegg. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.

Redhead, Brian and Frances Gumley. 1987. The Good Book. London: Duckworth.

Reventlow, Henning Graf. 1985. The Authority of The Bible and the Rise of the Modern World. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

Rogers, Jack B. and Donald K. McKim. 1979. The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach. New York: Harper and Row.

Rosenberg, David. 1997. The Book of David: A New Story of the Spiritual Warrior and Leader Who Shaped Our Inner Consciousness. New York: Harmony Books.

Rubenstein, Richard E. 1999. When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ’s Divinity in the Last Days of Rome. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Russell, Jeffrey Burton. 1977. The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiguity to Primitive Christianity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Safire, William. 1992. The First Dissident New York: Random House.

Sanders, E.P. 1977. Paul and Palestinian Judaism. London and Philadelphia.

.......... 1983. Paul, the Law and the Jewish People. Philadelphia.

.......... 1985. Jesus and Judaism. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

.......... 1991. Paul. New York: Oxford University Press.

.......... 1993. The Historical Figure of Jesus. London: Penguin.

Sandmel, Samuel. 1972. The Enjoyment of Scripture. New York: Oxford University Press.

.......... 1978. Judaism and Christian Beginnings. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sarna, Nahum M. 1970. Understanding Genesis: The Heritage of Biblical Israel. New York: Schocken Books.

.......... 1986. Exploring Exodus: The Heritage of Biblical Israel. New York: Schocken.

.......... 1993. Songs of the Heart: An Introduction to the Book of Psalms. New York: Schocken Books.

Satinover, Jeffrey B. 1995. "Divine Authorship? Computer Reveals Starling Word Patterns." Bible Review 5 (11). October.

Schaberg, Jane. 1990. The Illegitimacy of Jesus: A Feminist Theological Interpretation of the Infancy Narratives. New York: Crossroads.

Schiffman, Lawrence H. 1991. From Text to Tradition: A History of the Second Temple and Rabbinical Judaism. Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav.

.......... Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls: The History of Judaism, the Background of Christianity, the Lost Library of
Qumran. With a Forward byChaim Potok. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society.]

Schonfield, Hugh J. 1965. The Passover Plot: New Light on the History of Jesus. New York: Bantam.

.......... 1973. The Jesus Party. New York: Macmillan.

.......... 1981. After the Cross. New York: A.S. Barnes and Company.

.......... 1984. The Essene Odyssey: The Mystery of the True Teacher and the Essene Impact on the Shaping of Human Destiny. Rockport, MA: Element.

Schowalter, Daniel N. 1995. "Lost in Translation: So We Really Need to Read the Footnotes?" Bible Review 4 (11) August.

Schultz, Samuel J. 1960. The Old Testament Speaks. New York: Harper and Row.

Segal, Alan F. 1990. Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Shanks, Hershel. ed. 1992. Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review. New York: Random House.

.......... ed. 1994. The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels. Washington D.C.: Biblical Archaeological Society.

Sheehan, Thomas. The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity. New York: Random House.

Shorto, Russell. 1997. Gospel Truth: The New Image of Jesus Emerging from Sciene and History , and Why It Matters. New York: Riverhead Books..

Silberman, Neal Asher. 1994. The Hidden Scrolls: Christianity, Judaism, and the War for the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Grosset/Putman Book.

Silver, Abba Hillel. 1956. 1989. Where Judaism Differs: An Inquiry into the Distinctiveness of Judaism. New York: Collier Books.

Silver, Daniel Jeremy. 1990. The Story of Scripture: From Oral Tradition to the Written Word. New York: Basic Books.

Smith, Morton. 1981. Jesus the Magician. New York: Harper and Row.

Smith, Morton and R. Joseph Hoffman. ed. 1989. What the Bible Really Says. New York: HarperCollins.

Spong, John Shelby. 1991. Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

.......... 1992. Born of a Woman: A Bishop rethinks the Birth of Jesus. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

.......... 1994. Resurrection: Myth or Reality. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Stanton, Graham N. 1989. The Gospels and Jesus. New York: Oxford University Press.

Vanderkam, James C. 1994. The Dead Sea Scrolls Today. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Vaux, Roland de. 1978. The Early History of Israel. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.

Vermes, Geza. 1973. Jesus the Jew. New York: Macmillan .

.......... 1977. 1981. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

....... 2000. The Changing Face of Jesus. New York: Viking

Walzer, Michael. 1985. Exodus and Revolution. New York: Basic Books.

Whitherington, Ben, III. 1995. The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press.

Wierzbicka, Anna. 2001. What Did Jesus Mean? Explaining the Sermon on the NMount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wiesel, Elie. 1976. Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends. New York: Summit Books.

Wilcox, John T. 1989. The Bitterness of Job: A Philosophical Reading. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Wildavsky, Aaron. 1984. The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader University of Alabama Press.

Wilkins, Michael J. and J.P. Moreland. 1995. Jesus Under Fire:Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Wood, Leon J. 1970/1986. A Survey of Israel's History. Revised and enlarged edition. Revised by David O'Brien. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Wright, N.T. 1992. Who Was Jesus? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Yoder, John Howard. 1972. 1994. The Politics of Jesus: Behold the Man! Our Victorious Lamb. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans

Zeitlin, Irving M. 1984. Ancient Judaism. Cambridge: Polity Press.

.......... 1988. Jesus and the Judaism of His Time. Campbridge:Polity Press.

Zeitlin, Solomon. 1978. The Rise and fall of the Judaen State.3 vols. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America.

Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb. 1995. The Beginning of Desire:Reflections on Genesis. New York: Image Book.

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