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An important general resource for the study of the historical Jesus is the academic periodical, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, published twice a year out of Sheffield Academic Press in London (Volume 1 = 2003).
  Ancient Sources   General Studies  
  Socio-Political Context   Jesus in Paul  
  Jesus in Q   Gospel Studies  
  Jesus of Nazareth   Jesus the Christ  
  The Quests (1700-2017)   The Jesus Seminar  
  Anthologies   Bibliographies  
  Jesus in Art   Jesus in Film  
 
Ancient Sources
 
Elliott, J. K.  The Apocryphal Jesus: Legends of the Early Church.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
 
Evans, Craig A.  Jesus and the Remains of His Day: Studies in Jesus and the Evidence of Material Culure. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 2015.
 
Hock, Ronald F.  The Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas: Text, Translation and Notes.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1996.
 
Kirk, Alan.  The Composition of the Sayings Source: Genre, Synchrony, and Wisdom Redaction in Q, NovTSup 91.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998.
 
Kloppenborg, John S.  Q Parallels: Synopsis, Critical Notes and Concordance.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1988.
 
Kloppenborg, John S., et al.  Q-Thomas Reader: The Gospels before the Gospels.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1990.
 
Koester, Helmut.  Ancient Christian Gospels: Their History and Development.   Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990.
 
Reed, Jonathan L.  Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus: A Re-examination of the Evidence.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000.
 
Robinson, James M., ed.  The Sayings of Jesus: The Sayings Gospel Q in English.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.
 
Robinson, James M., Paul Hoffmann and John S. Kloppenborg.  Critical Edition of Q, Hermeneia Supplement.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.
 
--------.  The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.
 
Schmidt, Daryl D.  The Gospel of Mark: Text, Translation and Notes.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1991.
 
Voorst, Robert E. Van.  Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence, Studying the Historical Jesus.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2000.
 
Whealey, Alice.  Josephus on Jesus: The Testimonium Flavianum Controversy from Late Antiquity to Modern Times.  New York: Lang, 2003.
 
 
 
General Studies
 
Anderson, Chales C.  The Historical Jesus: A Continuing Quest.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1972.
 
Bock, Darrell L.  Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2002.
 
Borg, Marcus J.  Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship.  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1994.
 
Burridge, Richard A. and Graham Gould.  Jesus Now and Then.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
 
Byrskog, Samuel, Tom Holmén and Matti Kankaanniemi, eds.  The Identity of Jesus: Nordic Voices, WUNT 2/373.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.
 
Childs, Hal.  The Myth of the Historical Jesus and the Evolution of Consciousness, SBLDS.  Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.
 
Cornfeld, Gaalyahu.  The Historical Jesus: A Scholarly View of the Man and His World.  New York: Macmillan, 1982.
 
Crossan, John Dominic.  The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately after the Execution of Jesus.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.
 
Crossan, John and Jonathan Reed.  Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts.  New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.
 
Dunn, James D. G.  Christianity in the Making, vol. 1, Jesus Remembered.   Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003.
 
--------.  A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed, Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2005.
 
Evans, Craig A. and Bruce Chilton, eds.  Authenticating the Activities of Jesus, NTTS 28/2.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999.
 
--------.  Authenticating the Words of Jesus, NTTS 28/1.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999.
 
--------.  Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the Current State of Research, NTTS 19.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998.
 
Ferda, Tucker S.  Jesus, the Gospels, and the Galilean Crisis, LNTS 601.   New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.
 
Gnilka, Joachim.  Jesus of Nazareth: Message and History, trans. Siegfried Schatzmann.  Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1997; German original, Freiburg: Herder, 1990.
 
Greenspoon, Leonard, Dennis Hamm and Brian F. Le Beau, eds.  The Historical Jesus through Catholic and Jewish Eyes.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000.
 
Harrington, Daniel, S.J.  Who Is Jesus?  Why Is He Important?  An Invitation to the New Testament.  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
 
Hiers, Richard H.  The Historical Jesus and the Kingdom of God: Present and Future in the Message and Ministry of Jesus.  Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1973.
 
Hill, Brennan.  Jesus the Christ: Contemporary Perspectives.  Mystic, Connecticut: Twenty-Third Publications, 1991.
 
Hoover, Roy W., ed.  Profiles of Jesus.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 2002.
 
Jenkins, Philip.  Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost its Way.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Jeremias, Joachim.  Problem of the Historical Jesus, trans. Norman Perrin.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1965.
 
MacDonald, Dennis R.  Mythologizing Jesus: From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero.  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
 
Meier, John P.  "Jesus."  In The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (ed. Raymond E. Brown, S. S., Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S. J. and Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm.; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1990) 1316-1328.
 
--------.  A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, 5 vols.  New York: Doubleday, 1991-.
 
Meyer, Ben F.  The Aims of Jesus.  London: SCM, 1979.
 
--------.  "Jesus Christ."  In Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman et al.; New York: Doubleday, 1992) 3.773-96.
 
Meyer, Marvin and Charles Hughes, eds.  Jesus Then and Now: Images of Jesus in History and Christology.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2001.
 
O'Neill, J. C.  Who Did Jesus Think He Was? BibInt 11.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995.
 
Patterson, Stephen J.  The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning.  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1998.

Powell, Evan.  The Unfinished Gospel: Notes on the Quest for the Historical Jesus.  Symposium, 1994.
 
Powell, Mark Allan.  Jesus as a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999.
 
Sanders, E. P.  The Historical Figure of Jesus.  New York: Penguin, 1996; original 1993.
 
Schweitzer, Albert.  The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede.  Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
 
--------.  The Quest of the Historical Jesus, ed. John Bowden.   Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.
 
Soulen, Richard N.  Defining Jesus: The Earthly, the Biblical, the Historical, and the Real Jesus, and How Not to Confuse Them.  Eugene, Oregon: Cascade, 2015.
 
Stegemann, Ekkehard W. and Wolfgang Stegemann.  The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century, trans. O. C. Dean, Jr.  Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1999, German original, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1995.
 
Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz.  The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998.
 
Theissen, Gerd and Dagmar Winter.  The Quest for the Plausible Jesus: The Question of Criteria, trans. M. Eugene Boring.  Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 2002.
 
Vermes, Geza.  Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels.  New York: Macmillan, 1974.
 
Weaver, Walter P.  The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century, 1900—1950.  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1999.
 
Wilkins, Michael J.  Jesus Under Fire.  Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.
 
Wright, N. T.  The Contemporary Quest for Jesus.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.
 
--------.  "Quest for the Historical Jesus."  In Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman et al.; New York: Doubleday, 1992) 3.796-802.
 
 
 
Socio-Political Context
 
Freyne, Sean.  Galilee and Gospel.  Leiden: Brill, 2002.
 
Horsley, Richard A.  Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
 
Neville, David J.  The Vehement Jesus: Grappling with Troubling Gospel Texts, Studies in Peace and Scripture: Institute of Mennonite Studies 15.  Eugene, Oregon: Cascade, 2017.
 
Reed, Jonathan L.  Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus: A Re-examination of the Evidence.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000.
 
Udoh, Fabian E.  To Caesar What is Caesar's: Tribute, Taxes, and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine, 63 B.C.E. - 70 C.E., Brown Judaic Studies 343.  Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, 2005.
 
 
 
Jesus in Paul
 
Akenson, Donald Harman.  Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus.  New York: Oxford University Press/McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.
 
 
 
Jesus in Q
 
Ageirsson, Jon, Kristin de Troyer and Marvin W. Meyer, eds.  From Quest to Q: Festschrift for James M. Robinson.  Leuven: Peeters, 2000.
 
Arnal, William E.  Jesus and the Village Scribes: Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.
 
Crossan, John Dominic.  In Parables: The Challenge of the Historical Jesus, 2d ed.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1992.
 
Jefford, Clayton N.  The Sayings of Jesus in the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, VCSup 11.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989.
 
Kirk, Alan.  The Composition of the Sayings Source: Genre, Synchrony, and Wisdom Redaction in Q, NovTSup 91.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998.
 
--------.  Q in Matthew: Ancient Media, Memory, and Early Scribal Transmission of the Jesus Tradition, Library of New Testament Studies 564.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
 
Kloppenborg, John S., et al.  Q-Thomas Reader: The Gospels before the Gospels.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1990.
 
Petersen, William L., Johan S. Vos and Henk J. de Jonge, eds.  Sayings of Jesus: Canonical and Non-Canonical. Essays in Honour of Tjitze Baarda, NovTSup 89.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997.
 
Joseph, Simon J.  The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition.  The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic TraditionMinneapolis: Fortress, 2014.
 
Vaage, Leif E.  Galilean Upstarts: Jesus' First Followers According to Q.  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1994.
 
 
 
Gospel Studies
 
Jenkins, Philip.  Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost its Way.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
 
Kirk, J. R. Daniel.  A Man Attested by God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2016.
 
Patterson, Stephen J.  The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1992.
 
Stanton, Graham.  Gospel Truth? New Light on Jesus and the Gospels.   Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1995.
 
Wills, Lawrence M.  The Quest of the Historical Gospel A: 80.00 John, and the Origins of the Gospel Genre.  New York: Routledge, 1997.
 
 
 
Jesus of Nazareth
 
Corley, Kathleen.  Women and the Historical Jesus: Feminist Myths of Christian Origins.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 2002.
 
Crossan, John Dominic.  The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images.  Book Sales, 1998.
 
--------.  The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
 
--------.  Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.
 
Downing, Francis Gerald.  Cynics and Christian Origins.  Edinburgh: T& T Clarke, 1992.
 
--------.  "Deeper Reflections on the Jewish Cynic Jesus."  Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998) 97-104.
 
Ehrman, Bart D.  Jesus, Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
 
Evans, Craig A.  Jesus and His Contemporaries, SupJSJ 50.  Leiden: Brill, 2001.
 
Fredriksen, Paula.  From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1990.
 
--------.  Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity.  New York: Vintage, 2000.
 
Hedrick, Charles W.  When History and Faith Collide: Studying Jesus.  Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1999.

Miller, John W.  Jesus at Thirty: A Psychological and Historical Portrait.  Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1997.
 
Miller, Robert J., ed.  The Apocalyptic Jesus: A Debate.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 2001.
 
Patterson, Stephen J.  The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1998.
 
Powell, Mark Allan.  Jesus As a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998.
 
Price, Robert M.  Deconstructing Jesus.  Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2000.
 
Taussig, Hal.  Jesus before God: The Prayer Life of the Historical Jesus.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1999.
 
Wright, N. T.  The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is.  Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity, 1999.
 
--------.  Christian Origins and the Question of God, vol. 2, Jesus and the Victory of God.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1997.
 
--------.  The Original Jesus: The Life and Vision of a Revolutionary.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1997.
 
--------.  Who Was Jesus?  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1993.
 
 
 
Jesus the Christ
 
Brown, Raymond E., S. S.  An Introduction to New Testament Christology.   Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist, 1994.
 
Collins, John J.  The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature, ABRL.  New York: Doubleday, 1995.
 
Day, John, ed.  King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar, JSOTSup 270.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
 
Hurtado, Larry W.  Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003.
 
Miller, Robert J.  Born Divine: The Births of Jesus and Other Sons of God.   Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 2002.
 
Newman, Carey C., James R. Davila, and Gladys S. Lewis, eds.  The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism: Papers from the St. Andrews Conference on the Historical Origins of the Worship of Jesus, JSJSup 63.  Leiden: Brill, 1999.
 
 
 
The Quests (1700-2017)
 
Bernier, Jonathan.  The Quest for the Historical Jesus after the Demise of Authenticity, Library of New Testament Studies 540.  New York: T&T Clark, 2016.
 
Bessler, Joseph A.  A Scandalous Jesus: How Three Historic Quests Changed Theology for the Better.  Salem, Oregon: Polebridge, 2013.
 
Dawes, Gregory W., ed.  The Historical Jesus Quest: Landmarks in the Search for the Jesus of History.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.
 
Den Heyer, C. J.  Jesus Matters: 150 Years of Research.  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1995.
 
Fabisiak, Thomas.  The "Nocturnal Side of Science" in David Friedrich Strauss's Life of Jesus Critically Examined, Emory Studies in Early Christianity 17.  Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015.
 
Kloppenborg, John S. and John W. Marshall, eds.  Apocalypticism, Anti-Semitism and the Historical Jesus: Subtexts in Criticism, JSNTSup 275; London: T & T Clark, 2005.
 
Marsh, Clive.  Albrecht Ritschl and the Problem of the Historical Jesus.  New York: Edwin Mellen, 1992.
 
Martin, Raymond.  The Elusive Messiah: A Philosophical Overview of the Quest for the Historical Jesus.  Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1999.
 
Schweitzer, Albert.  The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede.  Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
 
--------.  The Quest of the Historical Jesus, ed. John Bowden.   Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.
 
Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz.  The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998.
 
Van der Waat, Jan, ed.  The Quest for the Real Jesus: Radboud Prestige Lectures by Prof. Dr. Michael Wolter, Biblical Interpretation 120.  Leiden: Brill, 2013.
 
Weaver, Walter P.   The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century 1900-1950.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1999.
 
Wright, N. T.  "Quest for the Historical Jesus."  In Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman et al.; New York: Doubleday, 1992) 3.796-802.
 
 
 
The Jesus Seminar
 
Textual Studies by the Seminar
 
Funk, Rober Walter, ed.  New Gospel Parallels, vol. 1.2, Mark, 3d ed.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1998.
 
Funk, Robert W.  A Credible Jesus: Fragments of a Vision.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 2002.
 
Funk, Robert W. and the Jesus Seminar.  The Acts of Jesus: The Search for the Authentic Deeds.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1998.
 
Funk, Robert Walter, James R. Butts, B. Brandon Scott.  The Parables of Jesus: Red Letter Edition: A Report of the Jesus Seminar.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1988.
 
Funk, Robert Walter and Mahlon H. Smith.  The Gospel of Mark: Red Letter Edition;, Jesus Seminar Series.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1991.
 
Funk, Rober Walter, Roy W. Hoover and the Jesus Seminar, trans.  The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus, rev. ed.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997; original Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1993.
 
Funk, Rober Walter and the Jesus Seminar, ed.  The Gospel of Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1999.
 
Hedrick, Charles W.  Many Things in Parables: Jesus and His Modern Critics.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.
 
Hedrick, Charles W and Paul A. Mirecki.  The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel.  Sonoma: Polebridge, 1999.
 
Miller, Robert J.  The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version, 3d. rev. ed.  Sonoma: Polebridge, 1995; original 1995.
 
Tatum, W. Barnes.  John the Baptist and Jesus: A Report of the Jesus Seminar.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1994.
 
 
Literature about the Seminar
 
Copan, Paul, ed.  Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? A Debate between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 1998.
 
Crossan, John Dominic, Luke Timothy Johnson and Werner W. Kelber.  The Jesus Controversy: Perspectives in Conflict.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1999.
 
Johnson, Luke Timothy.  The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.
 
Miller, Robert J.  The Jesus Seminar and Its Critics.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1999.
 
Miller, Robert J, ed.  The Apocalyptic Jesus: A Debate.  Santa Rosa, California: Polebridge, 2001.
 
 
 
Anthologies
 
Dawes, Gregory W., ed.  The Historical Jesus Question: The Challenge of History to Religious Authority.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.
 
--------, ed.  The Historical Jesus Quest: Landmarks in the Search for the Jesus of History.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.
 
 
 
Bibliographies
 
Evans, Craig A.  Life of Jesus Research: An Annotated Bibliography, NTTS 24.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.
 
 
 
Jesus in Art
 
Jensen, Robin Margaret.  Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
 
Mathews, Thomas F.  The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art, rev. ed.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999; original, 1993.
 
Morgan, David, ed.  Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996.
 
Pelikan, Jaroslav.  The Illustrated Jesus through the Centuries.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1997.
 
Rosenthal, Peggy.   The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
 
Steinberg, Leo.  The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, 2d rev. ed.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; original 1983.
 
 
 
Jesus in Film
 
Please see the course bibliography for PMIN 221, Jesus: Real to Reel.
 
 
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