RS110 Life and Teachings of Jesus: Course Bibliography

RS110 Life and Teachings of Jesus
Course Bibliography

A. Gospels (Interpretation, Criticism, Introduction, Reference)
B. Historical Jesus
C. Teaching of Jesus
D. Historical and Cultural Background
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A. Gospels (Interpretation, Criticism, Introduction, Reference) (back to top)

Alter, Robert and Frank Kermode. The Literary Guide to the Bible. Harvard, 1987.

Aune, David E. The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Westminster, 1987.

Blomberg, Craig. The Historical Reliability of the Gospels. IVP, 1987.

Burridge, R. Four Gospels, One Jesus? Eerdmans, 1994.

Green, J., McKnight, S. and Marshall, I.H. Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. IVP, 1992.

Johnson, Luke T. The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation. Fortress Press, 1986.

Kloppenborg, John S. Q Parallels: Synopsis, Critical Notes & Concordance. Polebridge Press, 1988.

McKnight, Scot. Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels. Baker, 1988.

McKnight, Scot and M. C. Williams. The Synoptic Gospels: An Annotated Bibliography. Baker, 2000.

Ryken, Leland.How to Read the Bible as Literature. Zondervan, 1984.
________. Words of Delight: A Literary Introduction to the Bible. Baker, 1987.
________. Words of Life: A Literary Introduction to the New Testament. Baker, 1987.

Sanders, E.P. and M. Davies. Studying the Synoptic Gospels. Trinity Press International, 1989.

Stein, R. The Synoptic Problem: An Introduction. Baker, 1987.

Smith, D. Moody. Anatomy of the New Testament. Fifth ed. Prentice-Hall, 1995.

Throckmorton, Jr., B. H. ed. Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels, 5th ed. Thomas Nelson, 1992.

Wright, N.T. The New Testament and the People of God. Fortress, 1992.

B. Historical Jesus (back to top)

Allison, Dale C. Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet. Fortress, 1998.

Bockmuehl, Markus. This Jesus: Martyr, Lord, Messiah. InterVarsity, 1994.

Borg, Marcus J. Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship. Trinity Press International, 1994, 97-126.

Borg, Marcus, ed. Jesus: A New Vision. Harper & Row, 1987.

Borg, M. J. & N. T. Wright. The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions. HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.

Boyd, Gregory A. Cynic, Sage, or Son of God: Recovering the Real Jesus in an Age of Revisionist Replies. Victor, 1995.

Brown, R. E. The Birth of the Messiah. Doubleday, 1977.
________. The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave. Doubleday, 1994.

Crossan, John Dominic. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. Harper Collins, 1991.

________. Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.

Dawes, Gregory W., ed. The Historical Jesus Quest: Landmarks in the Search for the Jesus of History. Westminster/JKP, 1999.

Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Funk, R. W., and R. W. Hoover. The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus. Macmillan, 1993.

Funk, R. W. and The Jesus Seminar. The Acts of Jesus: What did Jesus really do? Polebridge Press, 1998.

Harvey, A. E. Jesus and the Constraints of History. Westminster, 1982.

Horsley, R. A. Jesus and the Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine. Harper & Row, 1987.

Johnson, Luke T. The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels. HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.

Keck, Leander E. Who is Jesus? History in Perfect Tense. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2000.

Meier, J. P. A Marginal Jew. 2 vols. Doubleday, 1991/1994.

Meyer, Ben F. The Aims of Jesus. SCM, 1979.

Newman, Carey C. ed. Jesus and the Restoration of Israel: A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God. InterVarsity, 1999.

Powell, Mark Allan. Jesus as a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee. Westminster/JKP, 1998.

Sanders, E. P. The Historical Figure of Jesus. Penguin, 1993.

Schweitzer, Albert. The Quest of the Historical Jesus. MacMillan, 1968 (1906).

Stein, R. Jesus the Messiah: A Survey of the Life of Christ. IVP, 1996.

Tatum, W. Barnes. In Quest of Jesus. Rev. ed. Abingdon, 1999.

Theissen, Gerd. The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form. J. Bowden, trans. Fortress, 1987.

Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz. The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998.

Vermes, G. Jesus the Jew: A Historian’s Reading of the Gospels. Fortress, 1973.

Wright, N. T.The Original Jesus: The Life and Vision of a Revolutionary. Eerdmans, 1996.
________. Jesus and the Victory of God. Fortress, 1996.

Witherington III, Ben.The Jesus Quest: the Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth. IVP, 1995.
________. Jesus the Sage: The Pilgrimage of Wisdom. Fortress, 1994.
________. Jesus the Seer: The Progress of Prophecy. Hendrickson, 1999.

Young, Brad H. Jesus the Jewish Theologian. Hendrickson, 1995.

C. Teaching of Jesus (back to top)

Bailey, Kenneth E. Poet & Peasant AND Through Peasant Eyes. Eerdmans, 1983.

Bammel, Ernst and C. F. D. Moule, eds. Jesus and the Politics of His Day. Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Blomberg, Craig. Interpreting the Parables. IVP, 1990.

Bruce, F. F. The Hard Sayings of Jesus. IVP, 1983.

Donahue, J. R.The Gospel in Parable: Metaphor, Narrative, and Theology in the Synoptic Gospels. Fortress, 1988.

Hays, Richard. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation. Harper Collins, 1996.

Jeremias, J. The Parables of Jesus. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1954.

Kealy, Seán P. Jesus and Politics. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1990.

Kissinger, W. S. The Parables of Jesus: A History of Interpretation and Bibliography. Scarecrow, 1979.

McKnight, Scot. A New Vision for Israel: The Teachings of Jesus in National Context. Eerdmans, 1999.

Stein, R. H. The Method and Message of Jesus’ Teachings. Westminster, 1978.
________. An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus. Westminster, 1981.
________. Difficult Passages in the Gospels. Baker, 1984.
________. Difficult Sayings in the Gospels: Jesus’ Use of Overstatement and Hyperbole. Baker, 1985.

Wenham, D. The Parables of Jesus: Pictures of Revolution. IVP, 1989.

Yancey, P. The Jesus I Never Knew. Zondervan, 1995.

Yoder, John Howard. The Politics of Jesus. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, (1972) 1994.

D. Historical and Cultural Background (back to top)

Barrett, C. K. The New Testament Background: Selected Documents. Harper & Row, 1961.
Bruce. F. F. New Testament History. Doubleday, 1972.
Cohen, Shaye J. D. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah. Westminster, 1987.
Daniel-Rops, Henri. Daily Life in the Time of Jesus. Servant Books, 1980 (1961).
Evans, Craig. Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation. Hendrickson, 1992.
Ferguson, E. Backgrounds of Early Christianity. Eerdmans, 1987.
Hanson, K. C. and Douglas E. Oakman, Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts. Fortress, 1998.

Horsley, Richard A. and John D. Hanson. Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements in the Time of Jesus. Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1985.
Hengel, M. Judaism and Hellenism. 2 vols. Fortress, 1974.
________. The Zealots: Investigation into the Jewish Freedom Movement in the Period from Herod I until 70 A.D. T. & T. Clark, 1989.
Horsley, Richard A. Jesus and the Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.
Jeremias, J. Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus. Fortress, 1969.
Mason, Steve. Josephus and the New Testament. Hendrickson, 1992.
Meeks, Wayne A. The Moral World of the First Christians. Westminster, 1986.
Mendels, Doron. The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Murphy, Frederick J. The Religious World of Jesus: An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism. Abingdon, 1991.
Neusner, J. Judaism in the Beginnings of Christianity. Fortress, 1984.
Sanders, E. P. Jesus and Judaism. Fortress, 1985.
Stambaugh, John E., and David L. Balch. The New Testament in Its Social Environment. Westminster, 1986.

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Alter, Robert and Frank Kermode. The Literary Guide to the Bible. Harvard, 1987.
Aune, David E. The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Westminster, 1987.
Blomberg, Craig. The Historical Reliability of the Gospels. IVP, 1987.
Burridge, R. Four Gospels, One Jesus? Eerdmans, 1994.
Green, J., McKnight, S. and Marshall, I.H. Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. IVP, 1992.
Johnson, Luke T. The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation. Fortress Press, 1986.
Kloppenborg, John S. Q Parallels: Synopsis, Critical Notes & Concordance. Polebridge Press, 1988.
McKnight, Scot. Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels. Baker, 1988.
McKnight, Scot and M. C. Williams. The Synoptic Gospels: An Annotated Bibliography. Baker, 2000.
Ryken, Leland.How to Read the Bible as Literature. Zondervan, 1984. ________. Words of Delight: A Literary Introduction to the Bible. Baker, 1987. ________. Words of Life: A Literary Introduction to the New Testament. Baker, 1987.
Sanders, E.P. and M. Davies. Studying the Synoptic Gospels. Trinity Press International, 1989.
Stein, R. The Synoptic Problem: An Introduction. Baker, 1987.
Smith, D. Moody. Anatomy of the New Testament. Fifth ed. Prentice-Hall, 1995.
Throckmorton, Jr., B. H. ed. Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels, 5th ed. Thomas Nelson, 1992.
Wright, N.T. The New Testament and the People of God. Fortress, 1992.

Allison, Dale C. Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet. Fortress, 1998.
Bockmuehl, Markus. This Jesus: Martyr, Lord, Messiah. InterVarsity, 1994.
Borg, Marcus J. Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship. Trinity Press International, 1994, 97-126.
Borg, Marcus, ed. Jesus: A New Vision. Harper & Row, 1987.
Borg, M. J. & N. T. Wright. The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions. HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.
Boyd, Gregory A. Cynic, Sage, or Son of God: Recovering the Real Jesus in an Age of Revisionist Replies. Victor, 1995.
Brown, R. E. The Birth of the Messiah. Doubleday, 1977. ________. The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave. Doubleday, 1994.
Crossan, John Dominic. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. Harper Collins, 1991.
________. Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.
Dawes, Gregory W., ed. The Historical Jesus Quest: Landmarks in the Search for the Jesus of History. Westminster/JKP, 1999.
Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Funk, R. W., and R. W. Hoover. The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus. Macmillan, 1993.
Funk, R. W. and The Jesus Seminar. The Acts of Jesus: What did Jesus really do? Polebridge Press, 1998.
Harvey, A. E. Jesus and the Constraints of History. Westminster, 1982.
Horsley, R. A. Jesus and the Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine. Harper & Row, 1987.
Johnson, Luke T. The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels. HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.
Keck, Leander E. Who is Jesus? History in Perfect Tense. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2000.
Meier, J. P. A Marginal Jew. 2 vols. Doubleday, 1991/1994.
Meyer, Ben F. The Aims of Jesus. SCM, 1979.
Newman, Carey C. ed. Jesus and the Restoration of Israel: A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God. InterVarsity, 1999.
Powell, Mark Allan. Jesus as a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee. Westminster/JKP, 1998.
Sanders, E. P. The Historical Figure of Jesus. Penguin, 1993.
Schweitzer, Albert. The Quest of the Historical Jesus. MacMillan, 1968 (1906).
Stein, R. Jesus the Messiah: A Survey of the Life of Christ. IVP, 1996.
Tatum, W. Barnes. In Quest of Jesus. Rev. ed. Abingdon, 1999.
Theissen, Gerd. The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form. J. Bowden, trans. Fortress, 1987.
Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz. The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998.
Vermes, G. Jesus the Jew: A Historian’s Reading of the Gospels. Fortress, 1973.
Wright, N. T.The Original Jesus: The Life and Vision of a Revolutionary. Eerdmans, 1996. ________. Jesus and the Victory of God. Fortress, 1996.
Witherington III, Ben.The Jesus Quest: the Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth. IVP, 1995. ________. Jesus the Sage: The Pilgrimage of Wisdom. Fortress, 1994. ________. Jesus the Seer: The Progress of Prophecy. Hendrickson, 1999.
Young, Brad H. Jesus the Jewish Theologian. Hendrickson, 1995.

Bailey, Kenneth E. Poet & Peasant AND Through Peasant Eyes. Eerdmans, 1983.
Bammel, Ernst and C. F. D. Moule, eds. Jesus and the Politics of His Day. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Blomberg, Craig. Interpreting the Parables. IVP, 1990.
Bruce, F. F. The Hard Sayings of Jesus. IVP, 1983.
Donahue, J. R.The Gospel in Parable: Metaphor, Narrative, and Theology in the Synoptic Gospels. Fortress, 1988.
Hays, Richard. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation. Harper Collins, 1996.
Jeremias, J. The Parables of Jesus. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1954.
Kealy, Seán P. Jesus and Politics. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1990.
Kissinger, W. S. The Parables of Jesus: A History of Interpretation and Bibliography. Scarecrow, 1979.
McKnight, Scot. A New Vision for Israel: The Teachings of Jesus in National Context. Eerdmans, 1999.
Stein, R. H. The Method and Message of Jesus’ Teachings. Westminster, 1978. ________. An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus. Westminster, 1981. ________. Difficult Passages in the Gospels. Baker, 1984. ________. Difficult Sayings in the Gospels: Jesus’ Use of Overstatement and Hyperbole. Baker, 1985.
Wenham, D. The Parables of Jesus: Pictures of Revolution. IVP, 1989.
Yancey, P. The Jesus I Never Knew. Zondervan, 1995.
Yoder, John Howard. The Politics of Jesus. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, (1972) 1994.

RS110 Life and Teachings of Jesus Course Bibliography

A. Gospels (Interpretation, Criticism, Introduction, Reference) (back to top)

B. Historical Jesus (back to top)

C. Teaching of Jesus (back to top)

D. Historical and Cultural Background (back to top)

RS110 Life and Teachings of Jesus
Course Bibliography