Theological

BOOKS

• A Survey on Some Recent Books on Gnosticism

• Recent Books on the Historical Jesus

• Hector Avalos' The End of Biblical Studies

• Joseph Atwill's Caesar’s Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus

• Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh's The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception

• Margaret Barker's The Great Angel, A Study of Israel's Second God

• Margaret Barker's  The Older Testament: The Survival of Themes from the Ancient Royal Cult in Sectarian Judaism and Early Christianity

• Bruno Bauer's Christ and the Caesars: The Origin of Christianity from Romanized Greek Culture

• Jason David BeDuhn's Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament

• Craig L. Blomberg's Contagious Holiness: Jesus’ Meals with Sinners

• Dan Brown's  The Da Vinci Code

• Scott G. Brown's  Mark’s Other Gospel: Rethinking Morton Smith’s Controversial Discovery

• Stephen C. Carlson's The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith’s Invention of Secret Mark

• Robert Carter and Sheldon Isenberg editors, The Ideal in the World's Religions: Essays on the Person, Family, Society and Environment

• Luigi Cascioli's The Fable of Christ: Book of Accusation

• Norman Cohn Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith

• David L. Dungan's Constantine’s Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament

• Paul Rhodes Eddy and Greg Boyd's The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition

• Bart D. Ehrman's  The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament

• Lena Einhorn's The Jesus Mystery: Astonishing Clues to the True Identities of Jesus and Paul

• Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise (editors) The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered

• Robert Eisenman's  James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls

• Robert Eisenman's The New Testament Code: The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ

• Eldon J. Epp's Junia: The First Woman Apostle

• Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy's Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teaching of the Original Christians

• Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy's The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom

• Norman Golb Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

• Michael Goulder's St. Paul versus St. Peter: A Tale of Two Missions

• Adolf von Harnack  Marcion: The Gospel of the Alien God

• Tom Harpur's The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light

• Charles W. Hedrick's Many Things in Parable: Jesus and his Modern Critics

• Stephan Hermann Huller's Jesus the Good Samaritan

• Peter Jeffery's The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled: Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery

• Luke Timothy Johnson's The Real Jesus: T he Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels

• J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, and Daniel B. Wallace, Reinventing Jesus: What The Da Vinci Code and other Novel Speculations Don’t Tell You

• Yuri Kuchinsky's The Magdalene Gospel: A Journey Behind the New Testament

• Robert Kysar's Voyages with John: Charting the Fourth Gospel

• Gerd Lüdemann's   Heretics: The Other Side of Christianity

• Gerd Lüdemann's  Paul the Founder of Christianity

• Michael Martin's The Case against Christianity

• Candida Moss's The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom

• Elizabeth A. McCabe's  An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration into New Testament Studies

• Hyam Maccoby's Jesus the Pharisee

• Hyram Maccoby's The Myth-Maker, Paul and the Invention of Christianity

• Norman Mailer's The Gospel according to the Son

• Antti Marjanen's The Woman Jesus Loved: Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library & Related Documents

• Billy Meier's The Talmud of Jmmanuel

• Dan Merkur's The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible

• Tryggve N.D. Mettinger The Riddle of Resurrection: “Dying and Rising Gods” in the Ancient Near East

• William W. Mountcastle's The Secret Ministry of Jesus: Pioneer Prophet of Interfaith Dialogue

• D.M. Murdock (Acharya S.), Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection

• Arlo J. Nau's Peter in Matthew: Discipleship, Diplomacy, and Dispraise... with an Assessment of Power and Privilege in the Petrine Office

• Joe Nickell's  Relics of the Christ

• Richard I. Pervo's  Dating Acts: Between the Evangelists and the Apologists

• Ray A. Pritz's  Nazarene Jewish Christianity, From the End of the New Testament Period Until Its Disappearance in the Fourth Century

• Gregory J. Riley's Resurrection Reconsidered: Thomas and John in Controversy

• Acharya S's The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

• Rene Salm's The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus

• Friedrich Schleiermacher's Luke: A Critical Study

• Walter Schmithals's The Theology of the First Christians

• Hugh J. Schonfield's The Essene Odyssey

• Hugh J. Schonfield's Jesus: Man – Mystic - Messiah

• Hugh J. Schonfield's  Proclaiming the Messiah: The Life and Letters of Paul of Tarsus, Envoy to the Nations.

• Luise Schottroff's Lydia's Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity

• Turid Karlsen Seim's The Double Message: Patterns of Gender in Luke & Acts

• Andrew Phillip Smith's The Lost Sayings of Jesus: Teachings from Ancient Christian, Jewish Gnostic, and Islamic Sources

• Jonathan Z. Smith's Drudgery Divine. On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity

• John Shelby Spong's Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile: A New Reformation of the Church's Faith and Practice

• Daniel Spoto's The Hidden Jesus: A New Life

• Rodney Stark's The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History

• James D. Tabor's The Jesus Dynasty

• Barbara Thiering's  Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls

• Thomas L. Thompson's The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David

• David Trobisch's The First Edition of the New Testament

• Joseph B. Tyson's  Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle

• Robert E. Van Voorst's The Ascents of James, History and Theology of a Jewish Christian Community

• William O. Walker, Jr. Interpolations in the Pauline Letters

• Ibn Warraq (ed.), The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book

• A.J.M. Wedderburn’s  Beyond Resurrection

• Andrew Welburn's The Beginnings of Christianity: Essene Mystery, Gnostic Revelation and the Christian Vision

• Gary Wills' What Jesus Meant

• N.T. Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God

• Frank B. Zindler's  The Jesus the Jews Never Knew
   

ARTICLES

• Gary R. Habermas’s The Resurrection Appearances of Jesus

• James Patrick Holding's The Impossible Faith or, How Not to Start an Ancient Religion

• Glenn Miller's Were the Gospel Miracles Invented by the New Testament Authors?