List of books about Jesus

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This is a list of written works with information or interpretations of the life and teachings of Jesus.

  • The New Testament of the Bible, especially the Gospels.
  • The Greek New Testament, Aland, United Bible Societies
  • A Textual Commentary on the Greek NT, Metzger
  • Teach Yourself NT Greek, Hudson, ISBN 0-8442-3789-2
  • The Apostolic Fathers, Lightfoot, Harmer, Holmes
  • Akers, Keith, "The Lost Religion of Jesus," ISBN 1-930051-26-3
  • Albright, William F. Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan: An Historical Analysis of Two Contrasting Faiths, ISBN 0-931464-01-3
  • Badenas, Robert. Christ the End of the Law, Romans 10.4 in Pauline Perspective, ISBN 0-905774-93-0
  • Blomberg, Craig L. The Historical Reliablility of the Gospels, ISBN 0-87784-992-7
  • Brown,Raymond E. An Introduction to the New Testament, 1996, ISBN 0-385-24767-2
  • Browne, Sir Thomas. Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 6th edition, 1672, V:vi.
  • Cohen, Shaye J.D. 1988 From the Maccabees to the Mishnah ISBN 0-664-25017-3
  • Craig, William Lane. The Son Rises: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus ISBN 1-57910-464-9
  • Craig, William Lane. Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?: A Debate Between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan ISBN 0-8010-2175-8
  • Crossan, John Dominic. Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
  • Davenport, Guy and Urrutia, Benjamin. The Logia of Yeshua: The Sayings of Jesus, ISBN 1-887178-70-8
  • Doherty, Earl. The Jesus Puzzle. Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ?: Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus, ISBN 0-9686014-0-5
  • Dunn, James D.G. Jesus, Paul and the Law, ISBN 0-664-25095-5
  • Ehrman, Bart. Jesus: apocalyptic prophet of the new millennium, ISBN 0-19-512474-X
  • Ehrman, Bart. The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, ISBN 0-19-515462-2
  • Fredriksen, Paula. Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity ISBN 0-679-76746-0
  • Fredriksen, Paula. From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ ISBN 0-300-08457-9, ISBN 0-300-04018-0
  • Funk, Robert W. The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus
  • Gaus, Andy. The Unvarnished New Testament, A new translation from the original Greek free of doctrines and dogmas, ISBN 0-933999-99-2
  • Harpur, Tom "The Pagan Christ : recovering the lost light", ISBN 0-88762-145-7
  • Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity. A book on Christianity and logical support for Jesus as God, from an Anglo-Catholic perspective. ISBN 0-06-065292-6
  • McDowell, Josh. Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Two volumes looking at Jesus from the point of view of evidence. Vol I: ISBN 0-918956-46-3 , Vol. II: ISBN 0-918956-73-0
  • Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, 3 vol., ISBN 0-385-26425-9
  • Mendenhall, George E. The Tenth Generation: The Origins of the Biblical Tradition, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. ISBN 0-8018-1654-8. A study of the earliest traditions of Israel from linguistic and archaeological evidence which also treats the teachings and followers of Jesus in that context.
  • Mendenhall, George E. Ancient Israel's Faith and History: An Introduction to the Bible in Context, Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. ISBN 0-664-22313-3. Another, less technical, study of the earliest traditions of Israel from linguistic and archaeological evidence which also treats the teachings and followers of Jesus in that context.
  • Messori, Vittorio. Jesus hypotheses, St Paul Publications, 1977, ISBN 0-85439-154-1; The translation from Italian Ipotesi su Gesù. A book which initially explores the question of Jesus from two secular points of view, mythical (Jesus never lived) and critical (Jesus was not God) and finally considers a third hypothesis - faith.
  • Metzger, Bruce, The New Testament Canon, page 254
  • Miller, Robert, The Complete Gospels, the Scholars Version translation of gospels from the first three centuries, includes canonical gospels, Thomas, James, Mary, infancy gospels, fragments, ISBN 0-944344-30-5
  • Mithraic Studies: Proceedings of the First International Congress of Mithraic Studies. Manchester U. Press, 1975.
  • Pelikan, Jaroslav. Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, Yale University Press, 1985, hardcover, 270 pages, ISBN 0-300-03496-2; trade paperback, HarperCollins reprint, 304 pages, ISBN 0-06-097080-4; trade paperback, Yale University Press, 1999, 320 pages, ISBN 0-300-07987-7
  • Price, Robert M. Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? ISBN 1-59102-121-9
  • Sanders, E.P. The historical figure of Jesus, Penguin, 1996, ISBN 0-14-014499-4. An up-to-date, popular, but thoroughly scholarly book.
  • Sanders, E.P. Jesus and Judaism, Fortress Press, 1987, ISBN 0-8006-2061-5. More specialistic than the previous book, though not inaccessible.
  • Schaberg, Jane. Illegitimacy of Jesus: A Feminist Theological Interpretation of the Infancy Narratives
  • Shorto, Russell, Gospel Truth, The New Image of Jesus Emerging from Science and History, and Why It Matters ISBN 1-57322-056-6 (New York, Riverhead Books, 1997).
  • Theissen, Gerd, and Annette Merz. The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide, Fortress Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8006-3122-6. An amazing book, tough but rewarding, exceptionally detailed.
  • Theissen, Gerd. The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form. Fortress Press.
  • Tolstoy, Leo The Kingdom of God is Within You ISBN 0-8032-9404-2
  • Vermes, Geza. Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels ISBN 0-8006-1443-7
  • Walvoord, John F. Jesus Christ Our Lord. Moody Press, 1969. ISBN 0-8024-4326-5
  • Watchtower, "The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived", 1990.
  • Wilson, Ian Jesus: The evidence ISBN 0-297-83529-7
  • Wright, N.T.. Jesus and the Victory of God, SPCK (London), 1996 ISBN 0-281-04717-0. Second in a projected massive five or six volume series on Christian origins, dealing with the life and death of Christ from a very open Evangelical perspective. The author is now Bishop of Durham (Church of England).
  • Yoder, John H. The Politics of Jesus ISBN 0-8028-0734-8
  • Yogananda, Paramahansa: The Second Coming of Christ, ISBN 0-87612-555-0
  • In Quest of the Hero:(Mythos Series)—Otto Rank, Lord Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan and Alan Dundes, Princeton University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-691-02062-0
  • Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History.
  • The Superhuman life of Gesar of Ling—Alexandra David-Neel (A divine hero still in oral tradition)
  • In some editions of Jewish Antiquities by the Jewish historian Josephus Book 18, chapter 3, paragraph 3 www.josephus-1.com refer to Jesus. Most scholars believe that these passages were added to Josephus's text by later Christians. The Arabic version of Josephus is free of these apparent Christian interpolations, but still makes it clear that Pilate ordered the execution of Jesus.
  • Michael H. Hart, The 100, Carol Publishing Group, July 1992, paperback, 576 pages, ISBN 0-8065-1350-0. Jesus is ranked #3 in this list of the most influential figures in history.
  • Kierkegaard, Soren: "Training in Christianity", Vintage Spiritual Classics
  • The Urantia Book; Exact origin unknown; Numerous Authors (1955), Publisher - Urantia Foundation; ISBN 0-911560-50-5. See particularly - "Part IV, The Life and Teachings of Jesus", Full narrative from birth to beyond - Jesus is listed as the fourth epochal revelation to humankind. Jesus is mentioned throughout the tome. There is mention of his life before, during and after his incarnation on earth. Available online: The Urantia Book
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