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Surveys - Jewish and Christian Studies; theology

Thou shalt not believe what  thou readest

 

  • Adam, A. K. M, What is Post-Modern Biblical Criticism? Fortress Press, 1995
  • *Bright, John, A History of Israel
  • Bowker, John (1969), The Targums and Rabbinic Literature
  • Charlesworth, James H., (Ed.) Hillel and Jesus
  • Charlesworth, James H., (Ed.) Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • *Crossan, J. D., The Birth of Christianity
  • *Crossan, J. D., The Historical Jesus, The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
  • *Crossan, J. D., Who Killed Jesus
  • *Dunn, James D. G., Christology In The Making
  • *Ellul, Jacques, The Meaning of the City
  • Faivre, Alexandre, Emergence of the Laity in the Early Church
  • Feldman, Louis H., Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World
  • Frend, W.H.C., The Early Church
  • *Fry, Northrope, The Great Code
  • *Frymer-Kensky, Tikva, David Novak, Peter Ochs, David Fox Sandmel, Michael A. Signer, Christianity in Jewish Terms
  • Girard, René, A Theatre of Envy, William Shakespeare
  • Girard, René, Violence and the Sacred
  • Greenberg, Steven, Wrestling with God and Men (2004)
  • *Gunton, Colin E., The Actuality of Atonement (1988, reprinted 2003)
  • *Hoffman, Lawrence A., Covenant of Blood
  • Johnson, Luke Timothy, Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity
  • Klausner, Joseph (1943), From Jesus to Paul
  • *Kohlenberger, John R., A comparative Psalter (Hebrew, RSV, LXX, NETS)
  • *Küng, Hans, Christianity
  • *Küng, Hans, The Church
  • *Küng, Hans, Islam
  • *Küng, Hans, Judaism
  • *Küng, Hans, My Struggle for Freedom
  • *Küng, Hans, My Struggle for Freedom (2) Disputed Truth
  • Maccoby, Hyam, Ritual and Morality
  • Maccoby, Hyam, The Mythmaker
  • *Magness, Jody, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • *Marrou, H. I., A History of Education in Antiquity
  • *McBirney, William Steuart, The Search for the 12 Apostles
  • McEntire, Mark, The Blood of Abel, the violent plot in the Hebrew Bible
  • *Miles, Jack, Christ, A Crisis in the Life of God
  • *Miles, Jack, God, A Biography
  • *Millard, Alan, Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus
  • *Nicolson, Adam, Power and Glory (God's Secretaries), Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible
  • *Osiek, Carolyn and David Balch, Families in the New Testament World
  • Polkinghorne, John Science and the Trinity (Warfield Lectures, Princeton, 2003)
  • *Reif, Stefan C., Judaism and Hebrew Prayer, (Cambridge 2002)
  • *Sanders, E. P., Judaism: Practice and Belief
  • Sanders, J. A., The Dead Sea Psalm Scroll
  • Sandys-Wunch, John, What have they done to the Bible?
  • Schwager, Raymund, Must there be Scapegoats (after Rene Girard)
  • *Staubli, Thomas and Silvia Schorer, Body Symbolism in the Bible, translated by Linda Maloney
  • *Tan, Wee-chong, Jesus in the Han Dynasty Records of China
  • *Tcherikover, Victor, Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews
  • *Tomalin, Marcus, The Mathematical Origins of Transformational Generative Grammar Dissertation (Cambridge 2003)
  • Webster, John, Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation
  • Webster, John, Holy Scripture, A Dogmatic Sketch
  • White, Steven R. The Right True End of Love
  • *Williams, Charles, He Came Down from Heaven (1938)
  • *Williams, Rowan, Anglican Identities
  • *Williams, Rowan, Resurrection
  • *WyattNicolas, Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Near East

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference Works

 

 

  • *Appleton, George, General Editor, The Oxford Book of Prayer
  • Brettler, Marc Zvi , Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Israeli Hebrew, 2002 [marvelous!]
  • *Brown, F., S. Driver, and C Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon
  • Cook, John A. and Holmstedt, Robert D. , Ancient Hebrew, A Student Grammar (Draft)
  • Holladay, William L., A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament
  • Kittel, Ed Rudolf, Biblica Hebraica
  • *Lambdin, Thomas O., Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
  • Mandelkern, Solomon Veteris Testamenti Concordiantiae, Hebraicae atque Chaldaicae,
  • *Marshall, Alfred, The Interlinear Greek-English New Testament (Nestle)
  • *Scarre, Chris, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome
  • *Young, Robert, Analytical Concordance to the Bible

 

 

Old Testament

 

 

  • Alter, Robert, The Five Books of Moses
  • Alter, Robert, The Book of Psalms
  • Andersen, Francis I., Habakkuk, The Anchor Bible
  • Anderson, A. A., Psalms (73-150)
  • Avishur, Yitzhak, Studies in Hebrew and Ugaritic Psalms, Hebrew University Press 1994
  • Psalms in community : Jewish and Christian textual, liturgical, and artistic traditions / edited by Harold W. Attridge and Margot E. Fassler.
  • Baumann, Lynn C., Ancient Songs Sung Anew, the Psalms as Poetry (2000)
  • Bloom, Harold Ed., The Song of Songs (1988)
  • Bloom, Harold Ed., The Book of Job
  • Bruggemann, Walter The Message of the Psalms (1984)
  • Cheney. Michael, Dust, Wind, and Agony
  • Clines, David, Word Biblical Commenary Job 1-20
  • Cooper, Alan, The Life and Times of King David according to the Book of Psalms in The Poet and the Historian Ed. R. E. Friedman
  • *Craigie, Peter C., The Problem of War in the Old Testament
  • Craigie, Peter C., Word Biblical Commentary, Psalms 1-50
  • Creach, Jerome F. D. Yahweh as Refuge and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter ( JSOT  SS 127 1996)
  • Dahood, Michael, Psalms 1-150 Anchor Bible Commentary (3 volumes - 1968)
  • Davidson, Robert, The Vitality of Worship, A Commentary of the Book of Psalms, Eerdmans 1998
  • *Ellul, Jacques, The Judgment of Jonah
  • Fisch, Harold, Poetry with a Purpose(1988)
  • Fokkelman, J. P., Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible, Vol II Psalms and Job 4-14 (2000)
  • Fox, M.V. The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs (1985)
  • Girard, Marc, Les psaumes redécouverts, 51-100, 1984
  • Good, Edwin, In Turns of Tempest, A Reading of Job
  • Goodman, A.E., דסח and הדות in the Linguistic Tradition of the Psalter in Words and Meanings Ed. Ackroyd and Lindars
  • Goulder. Michael, The Psalms of the sons Korah JSOT 1982
  • Gruber, Mayer I., Rashi’s Commentary on Psalms
  • Gunkel, P.S.A.L.M.S, completed Begrich translated Nogalski 1998
  • Kugel, James L., The Idea of Hebrew Poetry
  • Kugel James L, The Ladder of Jacob
  • Lemche, Niels Peter, Prelude to Israel’s Past (1998)
  • *Loader, William, The Septuagint, Sexuality, and the New Testament
  • Magonet, A Rabbi reads the Psalms 1994 (2004)
  • Mannati, M. and De Solms E., Les Psaumes, Desclee de Brower 1967
  • Mays, James L., Interpretation, for teaching and preaching Psalms, 1994
  • Mowinkel, Sigmund, The Psalms in Israel’s Worship (1962, 2004)
  • Milgrom, Jacob, Leviticus (3 Volumes), The Anchor Bible Commentary
  • Nasuti, H. P., Defining the Sacred Songs JSOT 218, 1999
  • Commentary on the Psalms from primitive and mediaeval writers : and from the various office-books and hymns of the Roman, Mozarabic, Ambrosian, Gallican, Greek, Coptic, Armenian, and Syriac rites / by J.M. Neale and R.F. Littledale.
  • O'Connor, M., Hebrew Verse Structure
  • Pope, Marvin H., Song of Songs, The Anchor Bible Commentary
  • Pope, Marvin H., Job, The Anchor Bible Commentary
  • Raabe, Paul R., Psalm Structures (JSOT  SS 104 1990)
  • J. Rogerson and J. W. McKay, Psalms 101-150
  • Rosenberg, Martin and Zlotowitz, Bernard, The Book of Psalms, 1999
  • Scott, R. B. Y., Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, The Anchor Bible
  • Simon, Uriel, Four Approaches to the Book of Psalms (1982, tr. from the Hebrew 1991)
  • Staples, W.E. The Speeches of Elihu
  • Tur Sinai, N. H The Book of Job, A New Commentary (1967)
  • Vanderkam, James C., From Revelation to Canon
  • *Walsh, Carey Ellen, Exquisite Desire, Religion, the Erotic, and the Song of Songs
  • Weiser, Arthur, The Psalms, Translated by Herbert Hartwell (1955-62)

 

 

New Testament - Gospels

 

 

  • Aland, Kurt  (6th Edition), Synopsis of the Four Gospels, Greek-English Edition of the Synopsis Quattuor Evangelium
  • Allison, Dale, The Jesus Tradition in Q
  • *Anderson, Paul N., The Christology of the Fourth Gospel
  • Bauckham Richard, Gospel Women
  • Bauckham Richard, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, 2006
  • Brown, Raymond, An Introduction to the Gospel of John, Ed. Francis J. Moloney
  • Bultmann, Rudolf, The History of the Synoptic Tradition 
  • *Coloe, Mary, God Dwells with Us
  • *Coloe, Mary, Dwelling in the Household of God
  • Crossan, J.D. and Borg, Marcus, The Last Week
  • Dodd, C. H., Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel
  • *Dunn, James D. G., A New Perspective on Jesus
  • Farmer, William R., The Synoptic Problem
  • Fortna, Robert T., Tom Thatcher, editors, Jesus in Johannine Tradition
  • *Funk, Robert W., Honest to Jesus
  • *Goodacre, Mark, The Case Against Q
  • *Goodacre, Mark, The Synoptic Problem - A Way through the Maze
  • Head, Peter M., Christology and the Synoptic Problem
  • Hengel, Martin, Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Hengel, Martin, Studies in the Gospel of Mark
  • Hooker, Morna D., Beginnings, Keys that Open the Gospels
  • Hooker, Morna D., The Signs of a Prophet, The Prophetic Actions of Jesus
  • *Kloppenburg-Verbin, John, Excavating Q
  • Koester, Helmut, Ancient Christian Gospels, Their History and Development
  • MacDonald, Dennis, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
  • Malina, Bruce J., The Social World of Jesus and the Gospels
  • *Miller, Robert J., (Ed.) The Complete Gospels
  • *Moloney, Francis J., The Johanine Son of Man
  • Montefiore, C. G. (1909), Religious Teaching of Jesus
  • Peterson, Dwight N., The Origins of Mark, The Markan Community in Current Debate
  • *Räisänen, Heikki, The Messianic Secret in Mark's Gospel
  • Robinson, John A. T., The Priority of John
  • Robinson, James M, Hoffmann, Kloppenberg, The Critical Edition of Q
  • *Schmemann, Alexander, For the Life of the World
  • *Temple, William, Readings in John's Gospel

 

 

New Testament - Paul

 

 

  • *Akenson, Donald, Saint Saul
  • *Barrett, C. K. (1991), The Epistle to the Romans
  • *Barth, K., (1933), The Epistle to the Romans
  • Dunn, James D. G., The Theology of Paul the Apostle
  • Esler, Philip, Conflict and Identity in Romans
  • Fitzmyer, Joseph A., Romans, The Anchor Bible
  • *Gaston, Lloyd, Paul and the Torah
  • Hays, Richard B., The Conversion of the Imagination
  • Hooker, Morna D., Paul, A Short Introduction
  • *Horsley, Richard A., (Ed.) Paul and Empire  
  • *Horsley, Richard A., (Ed.) Paul and Politics
  • *Hurd, John, The Origin of I Corinthians
  • Nanos, Mark (Ed.), The Galatians Debate (2002)
  • *Nanos, Mark, The Irony of Galatians
  • *Nanos, Mark, The Mystery of Romans
  • *Plevnik, Joseph, S.J., What are they saying about Paul?  
  • Robinson, John A. T., Wrestling with Romans
  • Sanders, E. P., Paul
  • *Spong, John S., Born of a Woman
  • Spong, John S., Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism
  • Spong, John S., This Hebrew Lord
  • Stendahl, Krister, Final Account, Paul's Letter to the Romans
  • *de Vos, Craig, Church and Community Conflicts
  • *Wilson, A. N., Paul

 

 

New Testament - Other

 

 

  • Aune, David E., Word Biblical Commentary, Revelation, Volume 52A-C
  • Attridge, H., Ed. Helmut Koester, The Epistle to the Hebrews (1989)
  • Bauckham, Richard, Jude and the relatives of Jesus in the early church
  • Bauckham Richard, The Theology of the Book of Revelation CUP 1993
  • Beale, G. K., The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St John
  • Bloom, Harold, (Ed.) The Revelation of St John the Divine
  • Bruce, F.F. The Epistle to the Hebrews (1963 revised 1990)
  • Bultmann, R.,  The Theology of the New Testament
  • Buchanan, George Welsey, To the Hebrews (Anchor 1972)
  • Carrell, Peter R., Jesus and the Angels
  • Cowley,Roger W., The Traditional Interpretation of the Apocalypse of St John in the Ethiopian Church
  • Dussaut, Louis, Synopse structurelle de l'Epitre aux Hebreux (1975)
  • *Ellul, Jacques, Apocalypse
  • Filson, Floyd V., A Study of Hebrews in the Light of Chapter 13
  • Fiorenza, Elizabeth Schlussler, The Book of Revelation
  • Greer, Rowan A., The Captain of our Salvation
  • Hemer, Colin J., The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History
  • Hill, Craig C., Hellenists and Hebrews
  • Hughes, Graham, Hebrews and Hermeneutics
  • Hurst, L. D., The Epistle to the Hebrews
  • Jeremias, Joachim, Jesus and the Message of the New Testament
  • Koester, Craig R., Hebrews : a new translation with introduction and commentary (Anchor 2001)
  • Lehne, Susanne, The New Covenant in Hebrews
  • Lindars, Barnabas, The Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews
  • Marshall, John W., Parables of War
  • Peterson, David, Hebrews and Perfection
  • Ressegue, James L., Revelation Unsealed
  • Richard, Pablo, Apocalypse
  • Scholer, John, Proleptic Priests
  • Spicq C., Epitre aux Hébreux
  • Swetnam, James, Jesus and Isaac, A study of the epistle to the Hebrews in the light of the aqedah (1981)
  • Vanhoye, Albert, La structure littéraire de l'épitre aux Hébreux
  • Westcott, B. F., The Epistle to the Hebrews (1889)
  • *Wilcock, Michael, The Message of Revelation

 

 

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