John the Baptist and Jesus

Tatum, W. Barnes.  John the Baptist and Jesus: A Report of the Jesus Seminar.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1994.

 

Culpability for the Crucifixion

 

Resurrection

Carter, Warren.  "'To See the Tomb': Matthew's Women at the Tomb."  Expository Times 40 (1994) 201-205.

 

Collins, Adela Y.  "Apotheosis and Resurrection."  In The New Testament and Hellenistic Judaism (ed. Peder Borgen, Søren Giversen; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1997; original 1995) 88-100.

 

--------.  "The Empty Tomb in the Gospel according to Mark."  In Hermes and Athena: Biblical Exegesis and Philosophical Theology (ed. Eleonore Stump and Thomas P. Flint; Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993) 107-137.

 

--------.  "Fundamentalist Interpretation of Biblical Symbols."  In Fundamentalism Today (Elgin, Illinois: Brethren Press, 1984) 107-114.

 

Cotes, Mary.  "Women, Silence and Fear (Mark 16:8)."  In Women in the Biblical Tradition (ed. George J. Brooke; Studies in Women and Religion 31; Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen, 1992) 150-66.

 

Craig, William L.  "The Disciples' Inspection of the Empty Tomb (Lk 24,12.24; Jn 20,2-10)."  In John and the Synoptics (ed. Adelbert Denaux; Leuven: University Press, 1992) 614-19.

 

--------.  "The Historicity of the Empty Tomb of Jesus."  New Testament Studies 31 (1985) 39-67.

 

Crossan, John D.  "Empty Tomb and Absent Lord (Mark 16:1-8)."  In The Passion in Mark: Studies on Mark 14-16 (ed. Werner H. Kelber; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976) 135-52.

 

Danove, Paul.  "The Characterization and Narrative Function of the Women at the Tomb."  Biblica 77 (1996) 374-97.

 

Davis, Stephen T.  "Was the Tomb Empty?."  In Hermes and Athena: Biblical Exegesis and Philosophical Theology (ed. Eleonore Stump and Thomas P. Flint; Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993) 77-100.

 

Henaut, Barry W.  "Empty Tomb or Empty Argument: A Failure of Nerve in Recent Studies of Mark 16."  Studies in Religion 15 (1986) 177-90.

 

Hodges, Zane C.  "Women and the Empty Tomb."  Bibliotheca Sacra 123 (1966) 301-309.

 

Kretzmann, Norman.  "Resurrection Resurrected: Comment on the Paper of Adela Yarbro Collins."  In Hermes and Athena: Biblical Exegesis and Philosophical Theology (ed. Eleonore Stump and Thomas P. Flint; Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993) 141-50.

 

Longstaff, Thomas R. W.  "The Women at the Tomb: Matthew 28:1 Re-examined."  New Testament Studies 27 (1981) 277-82.

 

Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers.  "Fallible Followers: Women and Men in the Gospel of Mark."  Semeia 28 (1983) 29-48.

 

Manek, Jindrich.  "The Apostle Paul and the Empty Tomb."  Novum Testamentum 2 (1958) 276-80.

 

Munro, Winsome.  "Women Disciples in Mark."  Catholic Biblical Quarterly 44 (1982) 225-41.

 

Neirynck, Frans.  "John and the Synoptics: The Empty Tomb Stories."  New Testament Studies 30 (1984) 161-87

 

O'Collins, Gerald.  "Mary Magdalene as Major Witness to Jesus' Resurrection."  Theological Studies 48 1987) 631-46.

 

Osiek, Carolyn.  "The Women at the Tomb: What Are They Doing There?"  Hervormde Teologiese Studies 53 (1997) 103-118.

 

Perkins, Pheme.  "'I Have Seen the Lord' (John 20:18): Women Witnesses to the Resurrection."  Interpretation 46 (1992) 31-41.

 

Setzer, Claudia.  "Excellent Women: Female Witnesses to the Resurrection."  Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (1997) 259-72.

 

Winger, Michael.  "When Did the Women Visit the Tomb?"  New Testament Studies 40 (1994) 284-8.

 

• Redaction Criticism - This introduction to redaction criticism will provide you a working definition and steps for the method. It also includes a bibliography which lists mostly gospel studies. Beyond these resources, your two most useful types of resources will be a couple of good commentaries on your chosen passage and a synopsis of the gospels.

Räisänen, Heikki.  The "Messianic Secret" in Mark, trans. Christopher Tuckett.  Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1990.

 

Tuckett, Christopher, ed.  The Messianic Secret.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.

 

Wrede, William.  The Messianic Secret, trans. J. C. G. Greig.  Cambridge: J. Clarke, 1971.

Charlesworth, James H., ed.  The Messiah: Developments in Earliest Judaism and Christianity; The First Princeton Symposium on Judaism and Christian Origins.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

 

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.

• Review

 

Knohl, Israel.  The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls, trans. David Maisel.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

 

Neusner, Jacob, William Scott Green and Ernest S. Frerichs, eds.  Judaisms and their Messiahs at the Turn of the Christian Era.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Braaten, Carl E.  Eschatology and Ethics: Essays on the Theology and Ethics of the Kingdom of God.  Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1974.

 

Chilton, Bruce, ed.  The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.

 

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, Charles E.  Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Future Hope in Early Christianity.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

 

Perrin, Norman.  The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus.  London: SCM, 1975.

 

Pippin, Tina and George Aichele.  Violence, Utopia, and the Kingdom of God: Fantasy and Ideology in the Bible.  New York: Routledge, 1998.

 

Schnackenburg, Rudolf.  God's Rule and Kingdom, trans. John Murray.  New York: Herder and Herder, 1968.

Ageirsson, Jon, Kristin de Troyer and Marvin W. Meyer, eds.  From Quest to Q: Festschrift for James M. Robinson.  Leuven: Peeters, 2000.

 

Allison, Dale C., Jr.  The Jesus Tradition in Q.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1997.

 

Arnal, William E.  Jesus and the Village Scribes: Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.

 

Funk, Robert W., ed.  "Jesus Seminar Contributions in 1989: The Jesus of Q."  Forum 5 (1989) 7-192.

 

Kloppenborg, John S.  Excavating Q: The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.

 

--------.  The Formation of Q: Trajectories in Ancient Wisdom Collections.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.

 

Mack, Burton L.  The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

 

Patterson, Stephen J.  The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1993.

 

Reed, Jonathan L.  Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus: A Re-examination of the Evidence.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000.

• Review

 

Robinson, James M., Paul Hoffmann and John S. Kloppenborg.  Critical Edition of Q, Hermeneia Supplement.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.

 

--------, eds.  The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.

 

Walker, William O.  "The Son of Man: Some Recent Developments ."  Catholic Biblical Quarterly 45 (1983) 584-607.

 

Vaage, Leif E.  Galilean Upstarts: Jesus' First Followers According to Q.  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1994.

Attridge, Harold W.  "Liberating Death's Captives: Reconsideration of an Early Christian Myth."  In Gnosticism and the Early Christian World (ed.James E. Goehring, Charles W. Hedrick, Jack T. Sanders, and Hans Dieter Betz; Forum Fascicles; Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1990) 103-115.

 

Filoramo, Giovanni. Chapters 4-7 in A History of Gnosticism (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1990) 38-127.

 

Grant, Robert McQueen.  Gnosticism and Early Christianity.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.

 

McGuire, Anne.  "Women, Gender, and Gnosis in Gnostic Texts and Traditions."  In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 257-99.

 

Sanders, Jack T.  "Nag Hammadi, Odes of Solomon, and NT Christological Hymns."  In Gnosticism and the Early Christian World (ed.James E. Goehring, Charles W. Hedrick, Jack T. Sanders, and Hans Dieter Betz; Forum Fascicles; Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1990) 51-66.

Apocalyptic Prophet

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

 

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.

 

Miller, Robert J., ed.  The Apocalyptic Jesus: A Debate.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 2001.

 

Schweitzer, Albert.  The Quest for the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede.  Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press, 1998.

 

Cynic

Betz, Hans Dieter.  "Jesus and the Cynics: Survey and Analysis of a Hypothesis."  Journal of Religion 74 (1994) 453-75.

 

Boyd, Gregory A.  Cynic Sage or Son of God? Wheaton, Illinois: Victor, 1995.

 

Branham, R. Bracht and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé, eds.  The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

 

Crossan, John Dominic.  The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.

 

Downing, Francis Gerald.  Christ and the Cynics: Jesus and the Other Radical Preachers in First-Century Tradition.  Sheffield: JSOT, 1988.

 

--------.  Cynics and Christian Origins.  Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1992.

 

--------.  "Deeper Reflections on the Jewish Cynic Jesus."  Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998) 97-104.

 

Mack, Burton L.  The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

 

--------.  A Myth of Innocence: The Gospel of Mark and Christian Origins.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.

 

Vaage, Leif E.  Galilean Upstarts: Jesus' First Followers According to Q.  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1994.

 

Itinerant Charismatic/Divine Man

Barnett, P. W.  "The Jewish Sign-Prophets -- AD 40-47. Their Intentions and Origin."  New Testament Studies 27 (1981) 679-97.

 

Blackburn, Barry.  Theios Aner and the Markan Miracle Traditions: A Critique of the Theios Aner Concept as an Interpretative Background of the Miracle Traditions, WUNT 40.  Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1991.

 

Corrington, Gail Paterson.  "The Divine Man": His Origin and Function in Hellenistic Popular Religion, American University Studies VII/17.  New York: P. Lang, 1986.

 

Gallagher, Eugene V.  Divine Man or Magician?: Celsus and Origen on Jesus.  Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1982.

 

Green, W. S.  "Palestinian Holy Men: Charismatic Leadership and Rabbinic Tradition."  Aufstieg und Niedergang der röischen Welt 2.19 (1979) 619-47.

 

Holladay, Carl R.  Theios Aner in Hellenistic-Judaism: A Critique of the Use of this Category in New Testament Christology, SBLDS 40.  Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1977.

 

Hull, M. J.  Hellenistic Magic and the Synoptic Tradition.  Naperville, Illinois: A. R. Allenson, 1974.

 

Smith, Morton.  Jesus the Magician.  San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978.

 

Vermes, Geza.  "Hanina ben Dosa. A Controversial Galilean Saint from the Frist Century of the Christian Era."  Journal of Jewish Studies 23 (1972) 28-50; 24 (1973) 51-64.

 

Messiah

Charlesworth, James H., ed.  The Messiah: Developments in Earliest Judaism and Christianity; The First Princeton Symposium on Judaism and Christian Origins.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

 

--------.  "From Jewish Messianology to Christian Christology: Some Caveats and Perpsectives."  In Judaisms and their Messiahs (ed. Jacob Neusner, William Scott Green and Ernest S. Frerichs; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987) 225-64.

 

Collins, John J.  The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature, ABRL.  New York: Doubleday, 1995.

 

Novakovic, Lidija.  "Jesus as the Davidic Messiah in Matthew."  Horizons in Biblical Theology 19 (1997) 148-91.

 

Pesch, Rudolf.  "'He will be Called a Nazorean': Messianic Exegesis in Matthew 1-2."  In The Gospels and the Scriptures of Israel ed. Craig A. Evans and W. Richard Stegner; JSNTSup 104/Studies in Judaism and Early Christianity 3; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994) 129-78.

 

Verseput, Donald J.  "The Davidic Messiah and Matthew's Jewish Community."  SBL Seminar Papers 1995 (ed. Eugene H. Lovering, Jr.; Atlanta: Scholars, 1995) 102-116.

 

Rabbi

Chilton, Bruce.  Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography.  New York: Doubleday, 2000.

 

Montefiore, Claude G.  Rabbinic Literature and Gospel Teachings.  New York: Ktav, 1970; original 1930.

 

Sanders, E. P.  Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah: Five Studies.  Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990.

 

Revolutionary

Bammel, Ernst and C. F. D. Moule.  Jesus and the Politics of His Day.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984; especially Bammel's essay, "The Revolution Theory from Reimarus to Brandon," 11-68.

 

Brandon, S. G. F.  Jesus and the Zealots: A Study of the Political Factor in Primitive Christianity.  Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1967.

 

Cullmann, Oscar.  Jesus and the Revolutionaries, trans. Gareth Putnam.  New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

 

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

 

Hengel, Martin.  Was Jesus a Revolutionist? trans. William Klassen, Facet Books Biblical Series 28. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971; German original, Stuttgart: Calwer, 1970.

 

Herzog, William R.  Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.

 

Horsely, Richard A.  Jesus and the Spiral of Violence.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

 

--------.  Sociology and the Jesus Movement.  New York: Crossroad, 1989.

 

Segal, Alan F.  "Jesus, the Revolutionary."  In Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986) 68-95; reprinted in Jesus' Jewishness (Shared Ground Among Jews and Christians 2; New York: Crossroad, 1991) 199-225.

 

Silberman, Neil.  "Searching for Jesus: The Politics of First-Century Judea."   Archaeology 47 (1994) 30-41.

 

Social Reformer and Pacifist

Yoder, John Howard.  The Politics of Jesus: Vicit agnus noster.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1972.

 

Son of God

Miller, Robert J.  Born Divine: The Births of Jesus and Other Sons of God.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 2002.

 

Muller, Mogens.  "The Theological Interpretation of the Figure of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: Some Principal Features in Matthean Christology."  New Testament Studies 45 (2 1999) 157-73

 

Hengel, Martin.  The Son of God: The Origin of Christology and the History of Jewish-Hellenistic Religion, trans. John Bowden.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976.

 

Luz, Ulrich.  "The Son of Man in Matthew: Hevaenly Judge or Human Christ?"  Journal for the Study of the New Testament 48 (1992) 3-21.

 

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.

 

Nolland, John .  "No Son-of-God Christology in Matthew 1:18-25."  Journal for the Study of the New Testament 62 (1996) 3-12.

 

Weren, Wim.  "Quotations from Isaiah and Matthew's Christology."  In Studies in the Book of Isaiah: Festschrift Willem A. M. Beuken (ed. J. Van Ruiten and M. Vervenne; BETL 132; Louvain: Leuven University Press, 1997) 447-65.

Women

See also the complete bibliographies as the Research Bibliography site for my course, SCTR 26 Gender in Early Christianity.

 

Corley, Kathleen.  Women and the Historical Jesus: Feminist Myths of Christian Origins.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 2002.

 

Jones, F. Stanley, ed.  Which Mary?: The Marys of Early Christian Tradition.   Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

• Reviews

 

Kraemer, Ross Shepard and Mary Rose D'Angelo, eds.  Women & Christian Origins.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

 

van Henten, Jan Willem and Athalya Brenner, eds.  Families and Family Relations as Represented in Early Judaisms and Early Christianities: Texts and Fictions, Studies in Theology and Religion 2.  Leiden: Deo, 2000.

• Review

 

Children

Charlesworth, James H.  "From the Philopedia of Jesus to the Misopedia of Acts of Thomas."  In By Study and By Faith (Salt Lake City: Deseret, 1990) 46-66.

 

Cohen, Shaye J. D., ed.  The Jewish Family in Antiquity, Brown Judaic Studies 289.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.

 

Collins, John J.  "Marriage, Divorce and Family in Second Temple Judaism."  In Families in Ancient Israel (eds. Leo G. Perdue, Joseph Blenkinsopp, John J. Collins and Carol Meyers; The Family, Religion and Culture; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997) 104-162.

 

Fowl, Stephen E.  "Receiving the Kingdom of God as a Child: Children and Riches in Luke 18:15ff."  New Testament Studies 39 (1993) 153-8.

 

Perdue, Leo G.  "The Israelite and Early Jewish Family: Summary and Conclusions."  In Families in Ancient Israel (see citation above) 163-222.

 

Rodger, Lynlea.  "The Infancy Stories of Matthew and Luke: An Examination of the Child as a Theological Metaphor."  Horizons in Biblical Theology 19 (1997) 58-81.

 

Stein, Andre.  "Reflecting on Biblical Children: From Adam and Eve, Isaac and Jesus to the Betrayal and Sacrifice of our Children."  In Peace, In Deed: Essays in Honor of Harry James Cargas (ed. Zev Garber and Richard Libowitz; South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 162; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998) 135-46.

 

Van Aarde, Andries G.  "The Evangelium Infantium, the Abandonment of Children, and the Infancy Narrative in Matthew 1 and 2 from a Social-scientific Perspective."  In SBL Seminar Papers 31 (1992) 435-53.

 

van Henten, Jan Willem and Athalya Brenner, eds.  Families and Family Relations as Represented in Early Judaisms and Early Christianities: Texts and Fictions, Studies in Theology and Religion 2.  Leiden: Deo, 2000.

• Review

 

von Balthasar, Hans Urs.  "Jesus as Child and his Praise of the Child," trans. Adrian Walker.  Communio 22 (1995) 625-34.

 

Purity Laws

Betz, Hans Dieter. "Jesus and the Purity of the Temple (Mark 11:15-18): A Comparative Approach.  " Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (1997) 455-72.

 

Booth, Roger P.  Jesus and the Laws of Purity: Tradition History and Legal History in Mark 7.  Sheffield: JSOT, 1986.

 

Chilton, Bruce D.  "The Purity of the Kingdom as Conveyed in Jesus' Meals."  Society of Biblical Literature (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992) 473-88.

 

Chilton, Bruce D. and Craig A. Evans.  Jesus in Context: Temple, Purity and Restoration.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997.

 

Douglas, Mary.  Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.  New York: Praeger, 1966.

 

Dunn, James D. G.  "Jesus and Ritual Purity: A Study on the Tradition-history of Mark 7:15."  In À cause de l'Évangile (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1985) 251-76.

 

Fredriksen, Paula.  "Did Jesus Oppose the Purity Laws?" Bible Review 11 (1995) 18-25, 42-7.

 

Harrington, Hannah K.  The Impurity Systems of Qumran and the Rabbis: Biblical Foundations.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.

 

Ilan, Tal.  Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine.  Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1996.

 

McKnight, Scot.  "A Parting within the Way: Jesus and James on Israel and Purity."  In James the Just and Christian Origins (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999) 83-129.

 

Neusner, Jacob.  "First Cleanse the Inside: The 'Halakhic' Background of a Controversy Saying."  New Testament Studies 22 (1976) 486-95.

 

Neyrey, Jerome H.  "The Idea of Purity in Mark's Gospel."  Semeia 35 (1986) 91-128.

 

Räisänen, Heikki.  "Jesus and the Food Laws: Reflections on Mark 7:15."  Journal for the Study of the New Testament 16 (1982) 79-100.

 

Smith, David.  "Jesus and the Pharisees in Socio-anthropolgoical Perspective."  Trinity Journal 6 (1985) 151-6.

 

Taylor, Walter F., Jr.  "Jesus within His Social World: Insights from Archaeology, Sociology, and Cultural Anthropology."  Word and World Supplement 3 (1997) 49-71.

 

Zaas, Peter S.  "What Comes Out of a Person Is What Makes a Person Impure: Jesus as Sadducee."  In Jewish Law Association Studies VII (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996) 217-26.

 

Temple

Betz, Hans Dieter.  "Jesus and the Purity of the Temple (Mark 11:15-18): A Comparative Approach."  Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (1997) 455-72.

See also the complete bibliographies as the Research Bibliography site for my course, SCTR 26 Gender in Early Christianity.

 

Bauckham, Richard.  Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels.   Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2002.

• Review

 

Corley, Kathleen.  Women and the Historical Jesus: Feminist Myths of Christian Origins.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 2002.

 

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler.  Discipleship of Equals: A Critical Feminist Ekklesia-logy of Liberation.  New York: Crossroad, 1993.

 

--------.  Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation.  New York: Continuum, 2000.

 

--------.  Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology.  New York: Continuum, 1994.

 

--------.  In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins.  New York: Crossroad, 1983.

 

Jones, F. Stanley, ed.  Which Mary?: The Marys of Early Christian Tradition.   Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

• Reviews

 

Kraemer, Ross Shepard and Mary Rose D'Angelo, eds.  Women & Christian Origins.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

 

Schaberg, Jane.  The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha and the Christian Testament.   New York: Continuum, 2002.

• Review

• Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature - maintains a searchable bibliography of all articles and books on the scrolls.

 

Consensus Views

Charlesworth, James H.  "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Historical Jesus."  In Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. James H. Charlesworth; ABRL; New York: Doubleday, 1992) 1-74.

 

Collins, John J.  The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature, ABRL.  New York: Doubleday, 1995.

 

Stegemann, Hartmut.  The Library of Qumran. On the Essenes, Qumran, John the Baptist and Jesus.  Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1995.

 

VanderKam, James C.  "The Scrolls and the New Testament."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls Today.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1994) 159-85.

 

Knoll Hypothesis

Knohl, Israel.  The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls, trans. David Maisel.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

• Review

 

Eisenman Hypothesis

Eisenman, Robert H.  The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians.  Rockport, Massachusetts: Element, 1996.

 

--------.  James, the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.  New York: Viking, 1996.

 

--------.  "Maccabees, Zadokites, Christians and Qumran: A New Hypothesis of Qumran Origins."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians: Essays and Translations (Rockport, Massachusetts: Element, 1996) 3-110.

 

Berger, Klaus.  The Truth under Lock and Key? Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995.

 

García Martínez, Florentino.  "Review: Maccabees, Zadokites, Christians and Qumran.  "  Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 14 (1983) 194-9.

 

Kampen, John.  "Review: James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher.  "  Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (1989) 297-8.

 

White, Richard.  "Review: James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher.  "  Journal of Jewish Studies 40 (1989) 117.

 

Thiering Hypothesis

Thiering, Barbara E.  "The Date and Order of Scrolls, 40 BCE to 70 CE."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls: Fifty Years after Their Discovery 1947-1997. Proceedings of the Jerusalem Congress, July 20-25, 1997 (ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman, Emanuel Tov, and James C. VanderKam; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society in cooperation with the Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, 2000) 191-8. [see professor for copy]

 

--------.  The Gospels and Qumran: A New Hypothesis, Australian and New Zealand Studies in Theology and Religion.  Sydney: Theological Explorations, 1981.

 

--------.  "Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Question of Method."  Journal of Higher Criticism 3 (2 1996) 215-36.

 

--------.  Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Unlocking the Secrets of His Life Story.  

 

--------.  Jesus the Man: New Interpretation from the Dead Sea Scrolls.  New York: Doubleday, 1992.

 

--------.  "Christian History and the Dead Sea Scrolls: More About Method."  Journal of Higher Criticism 5 (1 1998) 88-112.

 

Betz, Otto and Rainer Riesner.  Jesus, Qumran and the Vatican.  New York: Crossroad, 1994).

 

Paton, D. M.  "An Evaluation of the Hypothesis of Barbara Thiering Concerning Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls."  In Mogilany 1993. Papers on the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. Z. J. Kapera; Qumranica Mogilanesia 13. Kraków: Enigma Press, 1996) 89-108.

Elliott, J. K.  The Apocryphal Jesus: Legends of the Early Church.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

 

Horton, Adey.  The Child Jesus.  New York: Dial, 1975.

Primary Texts and Orientation to Islam

'Ali, 'Abdullah Yusuf.  The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an.  Beltsville, Maryland: Amana, 1989.

Use this edition of the Qur'an or any other indexed edition, or use a concordance to the Qur'an, to look up all of the references to Jesus.  It is also instructive to look up passages on the Virgin Mary.

 

Esposito, John L.  Islam: The Straight Path, 3d ed.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

 

"Isa."  In The Encyclopaedia of Islam, new ed., comp. J. van Lent and H.-U. Qureshi (ed. P. J. Bearman; New York: E. J. Brill, 1995).

 

Parrinder, Edward G.  Jesus in the Quran.  London: Sheldon, 1976.

 

Peters, F. E.  Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982.

 

Other Secondary Sources

Khalidi, Tarif, ed. and trans.  The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature, Convergences: Inventories of the Present.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.

• Review

 

Küng, Hans and Jürgen Moltman, eds.  Islam: A Challenge for Christianity.  Maryknoll: Orbis, 1994.

 

McAuliffe, Jane Dammen.  "Images of Jesus in Islam."  Theological Studies 62 (1 2001).

 

Robinson, Neal.  Christ in Islam and Christianity [computer files]. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1991.

 

Tebbe, James A.  "Comparing Christ and Qur'an."  International Review of Mission 88 (1999).

 

Waardenburg, Jacques.  Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions: A Historical Survey.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

 

Watt, Montgomery.  Islam and Christianity Today: A Contribution to Dialogue.  London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.

General Background

Barnett, Victoria.  For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

 

Bax, Douglas S.  "The Barmen Theological Declaration: Its Historical Background."  Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 47 (1984) 12-20.

 

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich.  The Cost of Discipleship, 2d ed., trans. R. H. Fuller.  New York: Macmillan, 1963; German original Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1937.

 

Busch, Eberhard.  "The Covenant of Grace Fulfilled in Christ as the Foundation of the Indissoluble Solidarity of the Church with Israel: Barth's Position on the Jews during the Hitler Era," trans. James Seyler and Arnold Neufeldt-Fast.  Scottish Journal of Theology 52 (1999) 476-503.

 

Cochrane, Arthur C.  The Church's Confession under Hitler.  Philadelphia: Westminster, 1962.

 

Ericksen, Robert P. and Susannah Heschel.  Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust.   Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.

 

Feige, Franz G. M.  The Varieties of Protestantism in Nazi Germany: Five Theopolitical Positions, Toronto Studies in Theology.  Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen, 1990.

 

Forstman, Jack.  Christian Faith in Dark Times: Theological Conflicts in the Shadow of Hitler.  Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

 

Goldberg, Michael.  "Bonhoeffer and the Limits of Jewish-Christian Dialogue."  Books and Religion 14 (3 1986) 3-4.

 

Gounelle, Andre.  "Pour ou Contre Hitler?  Le debat entre Hirsch et Tillich en 1934."  Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses 74 (1994) 411-429.

 

Helmreich, Ernest C.  The German Churches under Hitler: Background, Struggle, and Epilogue.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1979.

 

Hughes, John J.  "The Pope's 'Pact with Hitler': Betrayal or Self-Defense?"  A Journal of Church and State 17 (1975) 63-80.

 

Jantzen, Kyle.  Faith and Fatherland: Parish Politics in Hitler's Germany.   Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008.

 

Matheson, Peter C.  "Luther and Hitler: A Controversy Reviewed."  Journal of Ecumenical Studies 17 (1980) 445-53.

 

Reymond, Bernard.  "Paul Tillich et le socialisme national (nazisme) allemand."   Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 13 (1984) 353-61.

 

Ryan, Michael D.  "Hitler's Challenge to the Churches: A Theological Political Analysis of Mein Kampf."  In The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust (ed. Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1974) 148-64.

 

Scholder, Klaus.  Requiem for Hitler - and Other New Perspectives in the German Church Struggle.  London: SCM, 1989.

 

Tiefel, Hans.  "The German Lutheran Church and the Rise of National Socialism."  Church History 41 (1972) 326-36.

 

Zeender, John.  "Germany: The Catholic Church and the Nazi Regime."  In Catholics, the State, and the European Radical Right, 1919-1945 (ed. Richard J. Wolff and Jörg K. Hoensch; Boulder, Colorado/Highland Lakes, New Jersey/New York: Social Science Monographs/Atlantic Research and Pulbications/Columbia University Press, 1987) 92-118.

 

Reconstruction of Christian Origins

Bergen, Doris L.  "Old Testament, New Hatreds: The Hebrew Bible and Antisemitism in Nazi Germany."  In Sacred Text, Secular Times: The Hebrew Bible in the Modern World (ed. Leonard Jay Greenspoon and Bryan F. LeBeau; Studies in Jewish Civilization 10; Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 2000).  Reprinted at Mark Elliott and Vicki Cox, The Bible and Interpretation, online, http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/bergen_033001.htm.

• Review

 

Ericksen, Robert P.  "Christians and the Holocaust; The Wartime Writings of Gerhard Kittel."  In Remembering for the Future: Working Papers and Addenda (3 vols; ed. Yehuda Bauer et al.; Oxford: Pergamon, 1989) 3.2400-2414.

 

--------.  Theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1985.  Also published as Theologen unter Hitler: Das Bundnis zwischen evangelischer Dogmatik und Nationalsozialismus (Munich: Carl Hanser, 1986).

 

Head, Peter M.  "The Nazi Quest for an Aryan Jesus."  Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 2 (2004) 55-89.

 

Heschel, Susannah.  Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

 

--------.  "The Image of Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Christian New Testament Scholarship in Germany."  In Jewish-Christian Encounters over the Centuries: Symbiosis, Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue (ed. Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer; American University Studies, Series IX History 136; New York: Peter Lang, 1994) 215-40.

 

--------.  "Nazifying Christian Theology: Walter Grundmann and the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life."  Church History 63 (1994) 587-605.

 

--------.  "New Testament Scholarship on the 'Aryan Jesus' during the Third Reich."  In A Multiform Heritage: Studies in Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Robert A. Kraft (ed. Benjamin G. Wright; Scholars Press Homage Series 24; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999) 303-321.

 

--------.  "Redemptive Anti-Semitism: The De-Judaization of the New Testament in the Third Reich."  In Literary Studies in Luke-Acts: Essays in Honor of Joseph B. Tyson (ed. Richard P. Thompson and Thomas E. Phillips; Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1998) 235-63.

 

--------.  "The Theological Faculty of the University of Jena during the Third Reich."  Online, http://www.oslo2000.uio.no/AIO/AIO16/group%208/Heschel.pdf.   Revised and published as "The Theological Faculty at the University of Jena as a Stronghold of National Socialism."  In History of Universities, vol. XVIII/1 (ed. Mordechai Feingold; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

 

--------.  "When Jesus was an Aryan: The Protestant Church and Antisemitic Propaganda."   In Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (ed. Robert P. Ericksen and Susannah Heschel; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999) 68-89, 202-205.

 

Hitler, Adolf.  "Hitler on Jesus."  Christian-Jewish Relations 16 (4 1983) 60-61.

 

Kelley, Shawn.  "Aesthetic Fascism: Heidegger, National Socialism, and the Jews."  In Racializing Jesus: Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship (Biblical Limits; New York: Routledge, 2002) 89-128, 227-31.

 

O'Neill, John.  "Adolf von Harnack and the Entry of the German State into War."  Scottish Journal of Theology

 

Rese, Martin.  "Antisemitismus und neutestamentliche Forschung: Anmerkungen zu dem Thema 'Gerhard Kittel und die Judengrage.'"  Evangelische Theologie 39 (1979) 557-70.

 

Rosen, Alan.  "'Familiarly Known as Kittel': The Moral Politics of the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament."  In Tainted Greatness: Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes (ed. Nancy A. Harrowitz; Themes in the History of Philosophy; Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994) 37-50.

 

Siegele-Wenschkewitz, Leonora.  "Christian Responsibility and Guilt in the Holocaust."  In Remembering for the Future: Working Papers and Addenda (3 vols; ed. Yehuda Bauer et al.; Oxford: Pergamon, 1989) 3.2717-2727.

 

--------.  "Die evangelisch-theologische Fakultat Tübingen in den Anfangsjahren des Dritten Reichs: Gerhard Kittel und die Judenfrage."  Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche 4 (1978) 53-80.

 

Tyson, Joseph B.  Luke, Judaism, and the Scholars: Critical Approaches to Luke-Acts.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.

• Review

Films "Documenting" Jesus' Life

• The Passion Play of Oberammergau, Henry C. Vincent (1897, USA)
• La vie et la passion de J&eacut;sus Christ [The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ], M. Norman (1908, France)
• Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet (1911, USA)
• From the Manger to the Cross, Sidney Olcott (1913, USA)
• The Three Wise Men, Frederick W. Huntley (1913, USA)
• The Last Supper, Lorimer Johnstone (1914, USA)
• Business is Business, Otis Turner (1915, USA)
• Intolerance, D. W. Griffith (1916, USA)
• Christus, Giuli Antamoro (1917, Italy)
• Restitution, Howard Gaye (1918, USA)
• Blade af Satans Bog [Leaves from Satan's Book], Carl Theodor Dreyer (1922, Denmark)
• I.N.R.I. , Robert Weine (1923, Germany)
• The King of Kings, Cecil B. DeMille (1927, USA)
• Jesus of Nazareth, Philip Van Loan (1928, USA)
• The Passion Play, Dimitri Buchowetzki (1934, Germany)
• Golgotha, Julien Duvivier (producer; 1935, France)
• Jesús de Nazareth, José Díaz Morales (1942, Mexico)
• Mary Magdalene, Miguel Torres (1946, Mexico)
• The Westminster Passion Play, Charles P. Carr (1951, UK)
• I Beheld His Glory, John T. Coyle (1952, USA)
• The Robe, Henry Koster (1953, USA)
• Day of Triumph, Irving Pichel, John T. Coyle (1954, USA)
• The Power of Resurrection, Howard Schuster (1958, USA)
• Ben-Hur, William Wyler (1959, USA)
• King of Kings, Nicholas Ray (1961, USA)
• Barabbas, Richard Fleischer (1962, USA/Italy)
• Pnzio Pilato [Pontius Pilate], Irving Rapper, Gian Paolo Callegari (1964, Italy/France)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told, George Stevens (1965, USA)
• Il Vangelo secondo Matteo [The Gospel According to Saint Matthew], 1966
• Son of Man, Gareth Davies (1969)
• Salomé , Carmelo Bené (1972, Italy)
• The Master and the Margherite, Aleksander Petrovic (1972, Yugoslavia/Italy)
• Godspell, David Greene (1973, USA)
• The Gospel Road, Robert Elfstrom (1973, USA)
• Jesus Christ Superstar, Norman Jewison (1973, USA)
  • Anonymous, "Jesus Christ Superstar."  Spectrum 50 (1974) 30-32.
  • Bastien, Peter.  "Jesus Christ, Superstar and the Tradition of Anti-Christian Art."  Lutheran Scholar 30 (1973) 79-81.
  • Etter, Urs.  "Jesus Christ Superstar."  Reformatio 23 (1974) 119-20.
  • Wall, James M.  "Jesus Christ Superstar."  Christian Century 90 (1973) 693-4.
• The Passover Plot, Michael Campus (1976, USA)
• Jesus of Nazareth, Franco Zeffirelli (1977, UK/Italy)
  • Henderson, Charles P.  "Zeffirelli's Jesus: A Theological Perspective."  Christian Century 94 (1977) 373-4.
  • McFague, Sallie.  "Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads: Realism in Fiction and Theology."  Semeia 13 (1978) 241-61.
  • Schneider, James D.  "The Dishonesty of 'Jesus of Nazareth.'" Dialog 18 (1979) 131-4.
  • Wood, Melissa K.  "Jesus of Nazareth."  Parabola 2 (1977) 97-8.
• Jesus, Peter Sykes, John Kirsh (1979, USA)
• Monty Python's Life of Brian, Terry Jones (1979, UK)
  • Davies, Philip R.  "Life of Brian Research."  In Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies (Sheffield: Sheffield University Press, 1998) 400-414.
• The Day Christ Died, James Cellan Jones (1980, USA)
• In Search of Historic Jesus, Henning Schellerup (1980, USA)
• History of the World, Part I, Mel Brooks (1981, USA)
• Je vous salue, Marie [Hail, Mary], Jean-Luc Godard (1985, France/Switzerland)
• The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese (1988, USA)
  • Bird, Brian.  "Film Protesters Vow Long War on Universal."  Christianity Today 32 (1988) 41-2.
  • Collum, Danny Duncan.  "The Last Temptation of Christ."  Sojourners 17 (1988) 37-8.
  • Driver, Tom F.  "The Last Temptation of Christ."  Christianity and Crisis 48 (1988) 338-44.
  • Iannone, Carol.  "The Last Temptation Reconsidered."  First Things 60 (1996) 50-54.
  • Neff, David.  "The Last Temptation of Christ."  Christianity Today 32 (1988) 12, 14.
  • --------.  "Scorsese's Christ."  Christianity Today 32 (1988) 12-14.
  • Olds, Mason.  "The Last Temptation."  Religious Humanism 24 (1990) 26-32.
  • Wall, James M.  "The Last Temptation."  Christian Century 105 (1988) 723-4.
• Un Bambino de nome Gesù [A Child Called Jesus], Franco Rossi (1989, Italy)
• Jesus, A (1999, USA)
• Jesus Christ Superstar, Gale Edwards and Nick Morris (2000, USA)

 

Films with Christ-like Characters

• Civilization, Thomas H. Ince (1916, USA)
• Seduta alla sua destra [Black Jesus], Valerio Zurlini (1968, Italy)
• La Voie Lacté [The Milky Way], Luis Buñuel (1969, France)
• Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo (1971, USA)
• Greaser's Palace, Robert Downey (1972; USA)
• The Ruling Class, Peter Medak (1972, UK)
• God Told Me To, Larry Cohen (1977, USA)
• Platoon, Oliver Stone (1986, USA)
  • Beck, Avent Childress.  "The Christian Allegorical Structure of Platoon."  In Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular Americana Films (ed. Joel Martin and Conrad Ostwalt, Jr.; Boulder: Westview, 1995) 44-54, 163-4.
• Jésus of Montréal [Jesus of Montreal], Denys Arcand (1989, Canada/ France)
  • Carr, Brenda.  "Jesus of Montreal."  Sojourners 19 (1990) 45-6.
  • Racanelli, Ria A.  "Jesus of Montreal."  Grail 6 (1990) 106-110.
• Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton (1990, USA)
  • Malone, Peter.  "Edward Scissorhands: Christology from a Suburban Fairy-tale."  In Explorations in Theology and Film: Movies and Meaning (ed. Clive Marsh and Gaye Ortiz; Oxford: Blackwell, 1998) 73-86.
• The Favor, the Watch and the Very Big Fish, Ben Lewin (1992, UK/France)
• Carne Trémula [Live Flesh], Pedro Almodóvar (1997, Spain)

 

Helpful Web Sites

• The Journal for the Study of Religion and Film - provides film reviews and analytical articles.
• Jesus: Real to Reel - Richard Ascough and Peter Gilmour's site exploring the historical Jesus in contemporary film - thanks to Tori Mayes for finding this one!

 

Secondary Reading

 

Anker, Roy M.  "Lights, Camera, Jesus."  Christianity Today 44 (2000) 58-64.

 

Babington, Bruce and Peter William Evans.  "The Lives of Christ: The Greatest Story Ever Screened."  In Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993) 98-109.

 

Baugh, Lloyd.  Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film.  Kansas City, Missouri: Sheed and Ward, 1997.

 

Chattaway, Peter T.  "Jesus in the Movies."  Bible Review 14 (1998) 28-35, 45-6.

 

Corley, Kathleen E. and Robert L. Webb, eds.  Jesus and Mel Gibson's the Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels and the Claims of History.  New York: Continuum, 2004.

 

Deacy, Christopher.  "Images of Christ in Recent Film."  In Screen Christologies: Redemption and the Medium of Film.  Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001.

 

Graham, David J.  "Images of Christ in Recent Film."  In Images of Christ: Ancient and Modern (ed. Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes and David Tombs; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) 306-314.

 

Hurley, Neil P.  "Cinematic Transfigurations of Jesus."  In Religion in Film (ed. John R. May and Michael Bird; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982) 61-78.

 

Johnston, Robert K.  Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 2000.

 

Keil, Charles.  "From the Manger to the Cross: The New Testament Narrative and the Question of Stylistic Retardation."  In Une invention du diable? Cinema des premiers temps et religion (Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1992) 112-20.

 

Kinnard, Roy and Tim Daly.  Divine Images: A History of Jesus on the Screen.  Citadel Press, 1992.

 

Lyden, John. "To Commend or Critique: The Question of Religion and Film Studies."  The Journal of Film and Religion 1 (2 1997); Online, http://www.unomaha.edu/~wwwjrf/tocommend.htm, 20 April 2000.

 

Mahan, Jeffrey.  "Celluloid Savior: Jesus in the Movies."  The Journal of Film and Religion 6 (1 2002); Online, http://www.unomaha.edu/~wwwjrf/celluloid.htm, 27 August 2002.

 

Malone, Peter.  "Jesus on Our Screens."  In New Image of Religious Film (ed. John R. May; Kansas City, Missouri: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 57-71.

 

Marsh, Clive and Gaye Ortiz, eds.  Explorations in Theology and Film: Movies and Meaning.  Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1998.

 

Martin, Joel and Conrad Ostwalt, Jr., eds.  Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular Americana Films.  Boulder: Westview, 1995.

 

May, John R., ed.  Image and Likeness: Religious Visions in American Film Classics.  New York: Paulist, 1992.

 

May, John R. and Michael Bird.  Religion in Film.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982.

 

McDermott, Jim.  "Is It Possible to Portray Christ in Film."  Christian Arts 1 (1994) 20-22.

 

McEver, Matthew.  "The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology beyond the Biblical Epic."  The Journal of Film and Religion 2 (2 1998); Online, http://www.unomaha.edu/~wwwjrf/McEverMessiah.htm, 27 August 2002.

 

Miles, Margaret.  Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in Contemporary Film.  Boston: Beacon, 1996.

 

Patterson, Stephen J.  Beyond the Passion.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004.

 

Reinhartz, Adele.  "Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus."  The Journal of Film and Religion 2 (2 1998); Online, http://www.unomaha.edu/~wwwjrf/JesusinFilmRein.htm, 27 August 2002.

 

--------.  "Jesus of Hollywood."  In The Historical Jesus through Catholic and Jewish Eyes (ed. Brian F. Le Beau, Leonard Greenspoon and Dennis Hamm; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000) 131-46.

• Review

 

Scott, Bernard Brandon.  Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

 

Soukup, Paul A. "Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ Figures in Film."  Theological Studies 59 (1998) 58-64.

 

Tatum, W. Barnes.  Jesus at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge Press, 1998.

 

Telford, William R.  "Jesus Christ Movie Star: The Depiction of Jesus in the Cinema."  In Explorations in Theology and Film: Movies and Meaning (ed. Clive Marsh and Gaye Ortiz; Oxford: Blackwell, 1998) 115-39.

 

Thompson, John O.  "Jesus as Moving Image: The Question of Movement."  In Images of Christ: Ancient and Modern (ed. Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes and David Tombs; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) 290-304.

 

Whitney-Schenck, Marci, ed.  "Faces of Christ."  Christian Arts 1 (1994) 4-11, 20-26.