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1 RELIGIOUS BOOKS 1. LOST CHRISTIANITIES: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew 2. FROM JESUS TO CHRISTIANITY by L. Michael White 3. THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS: THE HIDDEN SAYINGS OF JESUS by Marvin Meyer 4. READING JUDAS by E. Pagel and Karen King 5. PETER, PAUL, AND MARY MAGDALINE: the Followers of Jesus in History and Legend 6. MISQUOTING JESUS, THE STORY BEHIND WHO CHANGED THE BIBLE AND WHY 7. LOST GOSPEL OF JUDAS ISCARIOT 8. THE LOST GOSPEL: THE BOOK OF Q AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS by Burton Mack 9. WHO WROTE THE GOSPELS by Randel McCraw Helms 10. JESUS: A REVOLUTIONARY BIOGRAPHY by John Dominic Crossan 11. GOD S PROBLEM: HOW THE BIBLE FAILS TO ANSWER OUR MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION WHY WE SUFFER 12. THE BROTHER OF JESUS AND THE LOST TEACHINGS OF CHRISTIANITY by Jeffrey J. Butz 13. THE ORTHODOX CORRUPTION OF SCRIPTURE: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament 14. JESUS: A NEW VISION, SPIRIT, CULTURE, AND THE LIFE OF DISCIPLESHIP by Marcus Borg 15. THE LAST WEEK: WHAT THE GOSPELS REALLY TEACH ABOUT JESUS S FINAL DAYS IN JERUSALEM by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan 16. WHO KILLED JESUS? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus by John Dominic Crossan 17. EXCAVATING JESUS: BENEATH THE STONES, BEHIND THE TEXTS by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed 18. WHO ON EARTH WAS JESUS? THE MODERN QUEST FOR THE JESUS OF HISTORY by David Boulton 19. GOD AND EMPIRE: JESUS AGAINST ROME, THEN AND NOW by John Dominic Crossan 20. JESUS, INTERRUPTED: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don t Know About Them) 21. WHAT CRUCIFIED JESUS? By Ellis Rivkin 22. JUDAS: The definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends About the Infamous Apostle of Jesus by Marvin Meyer 23. THE SECRETS OF JUDAS: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel by James M. Robinson 24. WHEN JESUS BECAME GOD: The Epic Fight over Christ s Divinity in the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein
2 25. THE SINS OF SCRIPTURE: Exposing the Bible s Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love by Bishop John Shelby Spong 26. THE GOSPEL OF MARY OF MAGDALA: JESUS AND THE FIRST WOMAN APOSTLE by Karen L. King 27. THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY: A Sociologist Reconsiders History 28. THE FIRST CHRISTMAS: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus s Birth by Marcus Borg & John Dominic Crossan 29. JESUS FOR THE NON RELIGIOUS: Recovering the Divine at the Heart of the Human by Bishop John Shelby Spong 30. THE HELL JESUS NEVER INTENDED by Keith Wright 31. RESURRECTING JESUS: The Earliest Christian Traditions and Its Interpreters by Dale C. Allison 32. ETERNAL LIFE: A NEW VISION: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell by Bishop John Shelby Spong 33. FROM JESUS TO CONSTANTINE: A HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY 34. PAUL WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle not finish by Pamela Eisenbaum 35. THE NEW TESTAMENT: Parts I & II 36. THE EVOLUTION OF GOD by Robert Wright 37. JESUS NOW AND THEN by Richard A. Burridge and Graham Gould 38. GOSPEL FICTIONS by Randel McCraw Helms 39. THE SECOND CHURCH: Popular Christianity A.D by Ramsey MacMullen 40. READING THE NEW TESTAMENT: Methods of Interpretation by Christopher Tuckett 41. SOCIOLOGY OF EARLY PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANITY by Gerd Theissen 42. JESUS AND YAHWEH: THE NAMES DIVINE by Harold Bloom 43. GOSPEL WOMEN: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels by Richard Bauckham 44. SCRIPTING JESUS: THE GOSPELS IN REWRITE by L. Michael White 45. CHRISITIANIZING THE ROMAN EMPIRE: A.D by Ramsey MacMullen 46. THE MASKS OF CHRIST: Behind the Lies and Cover-ups about the Life of Jesus by Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince 47. THE INDELIABLE IMAGE: THE THEOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL THOUGHT WORLD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT: THE INDIVIDUAL WITNESSES by Ben Witherington III 48. A WORLD FULL OF GODS: The Strange Triumph of Christianity by Keith Hopkins 49. THE JESUS DYNASTY: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity by James D. Tabor 50. PONTIUS PILATE not finished by Ann Wroe
3 51. JESUS WARS; How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years by Phillip Jenkins 52. FROM JESUS TO CHRIST: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus by Paula Fredriksen 53. JESUS OF NAZARETH, KING OF THE JEWS: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity by Paula Fredriksen 54. THE HISTORICAL FIGURE OF JESUS by E. P. Sanders 55. THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus by John Dominac Crossan 56. FORGED: Writing in the Name of God - Why the Bible s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are 57. TRUTH AND FICTION IN THE DA VINCI CODE A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine 58. LIFE IN YEAR ONE: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine by Scott Korb 59. DESIRE OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS: THE WORLD BEFORE AND AFTER JESUS by Thomas Cahill 60. JESUS OUTSIDE THE NEW TESTAMENT: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence by Robert E. Van Voorst 61. WOMEN AND THE GENESIS OF CHRISTIANITY by Ben Witherington III 62. THE LOST HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: The thousand Year Golden Age of the Church In the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-and How It Died by Phillips Jenkins 63. DID JESUS EXIST? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth 64. AND MAN CREATED GOD:A History of the World at the Time of Jesus by Selina O Grady 65. CITIES OF GOD: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome 66. EARLY CHRISTIAN HERESIES by Joan O Grady 67. SOCIAL ASPECTS OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY by Abraham J. Malherbe 68. THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURIES: Perspectives on the Early Church by Paul McKechnie 69. THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY: HOW THE JESUS MOVEMENT BECAME THE WORLD S LARGEST RELIGION 70. DISCOVERING GOD: THE ORIGINS OF THE GREAT RELIGIONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF BELIEF 71. HIDDEN GOSPELS: How the Search for Jesus Lost its Way by Philip Jenkins 72. A POLITICAL HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY by Allen Brent 73. A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY not finished by Paul Johnson 74. HOW JESUS BECAME GOD: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
4 75. HOW JESUS BECAME CHRISTIAN by Barrie Wilson 76. HERETICS: THE OTHER SIDE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY by Gerd Ludemann 77. THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST: A HISTORICAL INQUIRY by Gerd Ludemann 78. THE HISTORICAL RELIABILITY OF THE GOSPELS by Craig L. Blomberg 79. JESUS REMEMBERED: CHRISTIANITY IN THE MAKING- VOL. 1 by James D. G. Dunn 80. ZEALOT: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JESUS OF NAZARETH by Resa Aslan 81. CHRIST ACTUALLY: THE SON OF GOD FOR THE SECULAR AGE By James Carroll 82. SECRET SCRIPTURES REVEALED: A NEW INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN APOCRYPHA By Tony Burke 83. THE GNOSTICS: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity By David Brakke 84. THE FIRST THEOLOGIANS not finished By Charles W. Lowry 85. THE HISTORY OF GOD not finished By Karen Armstrong 86. BEYOND BELIEF: THE SECRET GOSPEL OF THOMAS By Elaine Pagels 87. THE FIVE GOSPELS: THE SEARCH FOR THE AUTHENTIC WORDS OF JESUS By Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover, and the Jesus Seminar 88. THE SISTERS OF SINAI: HOW TWO LADY ADVENTURERS DISCOVERED THE HIDDEN GOSPELS By Janet Soskice 89. WHAT PAUL MEANT By Garry Wills 90. WHAT JESUS MEANT By Garry Wills 91. WHAT THE GOSPELS MEANT By Garry Wills 92. JESUS: THE FOUR GOSPELS, MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN, COMBINED INTO ONE NARRATIVE AND RENDERED IN MODERN ENGLISH By Charles B. Templeton 93. JESUS: THEN AND NOW By Richard A. Burridge and Graham Gould 94. THE NEW TESTAMENT WORLD: INSIGHTS FROM CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY By Bruce J. Malina 95. THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS By Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter 96. CHRISTIANITY IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD By Moyer V. Hubbard 97. JESUS BEFORE THE GOSPEL: HOW THE EALIEST CHRISTIANS REMEMBERED, CHANGED, AND INVENTED THEIR STORIES OF THE SAVIOR 98. MARY MAGDALEN: MYTH AND METAPHOR not finished by Susan Haskins 99. MARK S OTHER GOSPEL: RETHINKING MORTON SMITH S CONTROVERSIAL DISCOVERY by Scott G. Brown
5 100. MIRACLE MYTH: WHY BELIEF IN THE RESURRECTION AND THE SUPERNATURAL IS UNJUSTIFIED by Larry Shapiro 101. SECRET GOSPELS: ESSAYS ON THOMAS AND THE SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK by Marvin Meyer 102. THE FIRST CHRISTMAS: WHAT THE GOSPELS REALLY TEACH ABOUT JESUS S BIRTH by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan 103. WHOSE BIBLE IS IT?: A HISTORY OF THE SCRIPTURES THROUGH THE AGES by Jaroslav Pelikan 104. REVELATION OF THE MAGI: THE LOST TALE OF THE WISE MEN S JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM by Brent Landau 105. THE TRIAL AND DEATH OF JESUS by Hain Colm 106. A PEOPLE S HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: CHRISTIAN ORIGINS by Richard A. Horsley 107. THE FATE OF ROME: CLIMATE, DISEASE, AND THE END OF EMPIRE by Kyle Harper 108. THE FORMATION OF THE RESURRECTION NARRATIVES by Reginald H. Fuller 109. THE TWELVE: THE LIVES OF THE APOSTLES AFTER CALVARY by C. Bernard Ruffin 110. WOMEN IN CHRITIANITY by Hans Kung 111. APOSTLE: TRAVELS AMONG THE TOMBS OF THE TWELVE by Tom Bissell 112. THE JESUS LEGEND: A CASE FOR THE RELIABILITY OF THE SYNOPTIC JESUS TRADITION not finished by Gregory A. Boyd and Paul Rhodes Eddy 113. THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN BELIEFS: THE THOUGHT WORLD OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY not finished by Heikki Raisanen 114. DID JESUS REALLY RISE FROM THE DEAD? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS. by Carl E. Olson 115. THE TRIMUPH OF CHRISTIANITY
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