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General
 
General New Testament
Aageson, James W.  In the Beginning: Critical Concepts for the Study of the Bible.  Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 2000.
 
Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland.  An Introduction to the New Testament, ABRL.  New York: Doubleday, 1997.
 
Conzelmann, Hans and Andreas Lindemann.  Interpreting the New Testament: An Introduction to the Principles and Methods of N. T. Exegesis.  Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1999.
 
du Toit, A. B., ed.  The New Testament Milieu, Guide to the New Testament 2.  Halfway House, South Africa: Orion, 1998.
 
Ehrman, Bart D.  The New Testament: An Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 2d ed.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
 
Fee, Gordon D.  New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors, rev. ed.   Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1993.
 
Fitzmyer, Joseph A., S. J.  The Biblical Commission's Document, "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church": Text and Commentary, StudBib 18.  Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1995.
 
Hartin, P. J.  Text and Interpretation: New Approaches in the Criticism of the New Testament, New Testament Tools and Studies 15.  Leiden: Brill, 1997.
 
MacDonald, Dennis R., ed.  Mimesis and Intertextuality in Antiquity and Christianity, Studies in Antiquity and Christianity.  Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 2001.
 
Metzger, Bruce M.  The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1997; original 1987.
 
Pontifical Biblical Commission.  "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church."  Washington, D. C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1996.
 
Porter, Stanley E., ed.  Handbook to the Exegesis of the New Testament.  Leiden: Brill, 2002.
 
 
Gospel Studies
Brown, Raymond E.  The Birth of the Messiah.  New York: Bantam, 1999.
 
--------.  The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels.  New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1994.
 
Bultmann, Rudolf.  History of the Synoptic Tradition, rev. ed., trans. John Marsh.  Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, n.d.; original translation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1963, based on the 5th German edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
 
Byrskog, Samuel.  Story as History--History as Story: The Gospel Tradition in the Context of Ancient Oral History.  Leiden: Brill, 2002.
 
Cartlidge, David R. and David L. Dungan.  Documents for the Study of the Gospels, rev. ed.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
 
Dungan, David L.  A History of the Synoptic Problem: The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels, ABRL.  New York: Doubleday, 1999.
 
Gerhardsson, Birger.  The Reliability of the Gospel Tradition.  Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2001.
 
Koester, Helmut.  Ancient Christian Gospels: Their History and Development.  Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990.
 
Neville, David J.  Mark's Gospel—Prior or Posterior: A Reappraisal of the Phenomenon of Order, JSNTSup 222.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
 
Nickle, Keith F.  The Synoptic Gospels: An Introduction, revised and expanded edition.  Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 2001.
 
Rohrbaugh, Richard L. and Bruce J. Malina.  Social Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.
 
Sanders, E. P. and Margaret Davies.  Studying the Synoptic Gospels.  Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1989.
 
Weren, Wilhelmus J. C.  Windows on Jesus: Methods in Gospel Exegesis.  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1999.

Historical Jesus
 
Please see the SCTR 27 The Historical Jesus Course Bibliography.

Mark
 
MacDonald, Dennis R.  The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2000.

Matthew
 
Charette, Blaine.  Restoring Presence: The Spirit in Matthew's Gospel, Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 18.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
 

Sim, David C.  The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism: The History and Social Setting of the Matthean Community, Studies of the New Testament and Its World.  Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1997.

Luke
 
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Other Gospels
 
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