Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Bibliography on Historical Jesus Research

This post is for those of you who are interested in doing some independent research and/or picking up some of the literature we will be discussing in the future.
General Introductions


Darrell L. Bock, Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002).


Mark Strauss, Four Portraits, One Jesus: A Survey of Jesus and the Gospels (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007).


Ben Witherington III, The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995).


Second” Quest Works


Günther Bornkamm, Jesus of Nazareth (New York: Harper & Row, 1960).


Rudolf Bultmann, The History of the Synoptic Tradition, trans. John Marsh (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994).


John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (New York: Harper Collins, 1991).


Ernst Käsemann, Essays on New Testament Themes (London: SCM Press, 1964).


Burton L. Mack, A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1988).


James M. Robinson, A New Quest of the Historical Jesus (London: SCM Press, 1963).


Third Quest Works


Dale C. Allison, Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998).


John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, 4 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1991-).


Nicholas Perrin, Jesus the Temple (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010).


E.P. Sanders, Jesus and Judaism (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985).


Geza Vermes, Jesus the Jew: A Historian’s Reading of the Gospels, 2nd ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1983).


Ben Witherington III, Jesus the Sage: The Pilgrimage of Wisdom (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994).


N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996).

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