Bibliography for Biblical Studies and Early Christian Origins

Barnett, Paul. After Jesus. Vol. 1, The Birth of Christianity: The First Twenty Years. Grand
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. After Jesus. Vol. 2, Paul: Missionary of Jesus. Grand Rapids: William B.

Eerdmans, 2008.

Bauckham, Richard, ed. The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences.
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1998.

Blomberg, Craig L. From Pentecost to Patmos: An Introduction to Acts Through Revelation.

Nashville: B&H Academic, 2006.

Bockmuehl, Marcus, and James Carleton Paget, eds. Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic
Hope of Jews and Christians in Antiquity. New York: T&T Clark, 2009.

Burge, Gary M, Lynn. H. Cohick, and Gene L. Green. The New Testament in Antiquity: A
Survey of the New Testament Within Its Cultural Contexts. Grand Rapids: Zondervan,
2009.

Cohen, Shaye J.D. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah. 2 ed. Louisville: Westminster John
Knox Press, 2006.

Collins, Adela Yarboro, and John J. Collins. King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human,
and Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature. Grand Rapids:
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Flusser, David. Judaism of the Second Temple Period. Vol. 2, The Jewish Sages and Their
Literature. Trans. Azzan Yadin. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2009.

Freyne, Sean. Galilee From Alexander the Great to Hadrian, 323 BCE to 135 CE: A Study of
Second Temple Judaism. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1980.

Hanson, K.C., and Douglas E. Oakman. Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and
Social Conflicts. 2d ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008.
Hengel, Martin. Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979.

Horsley, Richard A., ed. In The Shadow of the Empire: Reclaiming the Bible as a History of

Faithful Resistance. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008.

. Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea. Louisville:

Westminster John Knox, 2007.

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 Hurtado, Larry W. The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins. Grand
Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2006.

. How On Earth Did Jesus Become A God? Historical Questions About Earliest
Devotion to Jesus. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2005.

. One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism.
2 ed. Edinburgh: T &T Clark, 1998.

Knohl, Israel. The Messiah Before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Kovacs, Joe. Shocked by the Bible: The Most Astonishing Facts You’ve Never Been Told.
Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008.

McCready, Wayne O. and Adele Reinhartz, ed. Common Judaism: Explorations in Second-
Temple Judaism. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008.

McDonald, Lee Martin. The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority. Rev. 3d
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. Forgotten Scriptures: The Selection and Rejection of Early Religious Writings.

Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2009.

Millard, Alan, James K. Hoffmeier, and David W. Baker. Faith, Tradition, and History: Old
Testament Historiography in Its Near Eastern Context. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns,
1994.

Nickelsburg, George W.E., and Michael E. Stone. Early Judaism: Texts and Documents of Faith
and Piety. Rev. Ed. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009.
Perrin, Nicholas. Thomas: The Other Gospel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007.

Raisanen, Heikki. The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians.

Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010.

Rowland, Christopher. Christian Origins: The Setting and Character of the Most Important
Messianic Sect of Judaism. 2d ed. Great Britain: SPCK, 2002.

Simmons, William A. Peoples of the New Testament World: An Illustrated Guide. Peabody:
Hendrickson, 2008.

Skarsaune, Oskar. In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity.
Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2002.

., and Reidar Hvalvik, eds. Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries.
Peabody: Hendrickson, 2007.

Witherington, Ben, III. New Testament History: A Narrative Account. Grand Rapids: Baker
Academic, 2001.

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 Wise, Michael O. The First Messiah: Investigating the Savior Before Christ. San Francisco:
HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.

Wright, N.T. Christian Origins and the Question of God. Vol. 1, The New Testament ad the
People of God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.

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