PhD Comprehensive Reading List for NT

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.

Read The Following Texts:

• Letter of Aristeas
• 2 Baruch
• 3 Baruch
• 1 Enoch
• 2 Enoch
• 3 Enoch
• 4 Ezra
• Joseph and Aseneth
• The Book of Jubilees
• 3 Maccabees
• 4 Maccabees
• Sibylline Oracles
• Odes of Solomon
• Psalms of Solomon
• Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition

Read The Following Texts:

• The Temple Scroll 11Q19-20
• The Community Scroll 1QS with Fragments 4Q255, 4Q256, 4Q257, 4Q258, 4Q259, 4Q260, 4Q261, 4Q262, 4Q263, 4Q264
• The Damascus Scroll CD with Fragments 4Q265, 4Q266, 4Q267, 4Q268, 4Q269, 4Q270, 4Q271, 4Q272, 4Q273; 5Q12; 6Q15
• Rule of the Community 1Q28a
• Ritual Purity Laws and Initiation Laws 4Q274, 4Q275, 4Q276, 4Q277, 4Q278, 4Q279; 4Q284
• Purification Ritual 4Q512
• Baptismal Liturgy 4Q414
• The War Scroll 1QM with Fragments 4Q285; 4Q491, 4Q492, 4Q493, 4Q494, 4Q495, 4Q496; 4Q471; 4Q529; 11Q14
• The New Jerusalem 2Q24; 4Q554-555; 5Q15; 11Q18
• Vision of the Messiah 4Q246

Josephus

Read the Following Texts:

• Jewish War: Greek and English
• Against Apion: Greek and English

Apostolic Fathers

• Greek
• English

The Apocryphal New Testament

Lost Gospels

• The Gospel According to the Hebrews
• The Gospel of the Ebionites
• The Gospel of the Egyptians
• The Gospel of Philip
• The Traditions of Matthias
• The Gospel of Peter
• The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
• The Preaching of Peter

Agrapha

• Additions to the Texts of the Gospels
• In Quotations

Fragments of Gospels on Papyrus

• Greek Fragments
• Coptic Fragments

Infancy Gospels

• The Protevangelium of James
• Gospel of Thomas
• The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
• The Gospel of the Birth of Mary
• The Arabic Infancy Gospel
• Armenian Infancy Gospel
• The History of Joseph the Carpenter

Passion Gospels

• Gospel of Peter
• The Acts of Pilate
• Coptic Narratives of the Ministry and Passion
• The Questions of Bartholomew
• The Book of the Ressurection of Jesus Christ by Bartholomew the Apostle
• The Assumption of the Virgin

The Mishnah

Second Division

• The Sabbath
• The Fusion of the Sabbath Limits
• Feast of Passover
• The Shekel Dues
• The Feast of Tabernacles

Fourth Division

• The Sanhedrin

General:

• Aune, David E. The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Library of Early Christianity. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.

• Bauer, Walter. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. 1934. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.

• Fredriksen, Paula. From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

• Hays, Richard B. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation. A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1997.

• Hurtado, Larry W. Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2003.

• Kümmel, Werner Georg. The New Testament: The History of the Investigation of Its Problems. Nashville/New York: Abingdon Press, 1972.

• Moore, S. D. Literary Criticism and the Gospels: The Theoretical Challenge. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

• Robinson, James M., and Helmut Koester. Trajectories Through Early Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.

• Rowland, Christopher. Christian Origins: An Account of the Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism. 2nd ed. London: SPCK, 2002.

• Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. New York: Crossroad, 1983.

• Smith, Jonathan Z. Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Historical Jesus

• Allison, Dale C. “Jesus and the Victory of Apocalyptic.” Pp. 126-41 in Jesus and the Restoration of Israel: A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God. Edited by Carey C. Newman. Downers Grove IL/Carlisle UK: InterVarsity Press/Paternoster Press, 1999.

• ———. “A Plea for Thoroughgoing Eschatology.” JBL 113 (1994): 651-68

• ———. Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters. New York/London: T&T Clark, 2005.

• Braaten, Carl E., and Roy A. Harrisville, eds. The Historical Jesus and the Kerygmatic Christ:

• Essays on the New Quest of the Historical Jesus. New York: Abingdon Press, 1964. Crossan, John Dominic. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. SanFrancisco: Harper, 1991.

• Dodd, Charles Harold. The Parables of the Kingdom. 1935. Glasgow: Collins, 1961.

• Dunn, James D. G. Jesus Remembered. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

• Harvey, Anthony E. Jesus and the Constraints of History. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1982.

• Klausner, Joseph. Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, Times, and Teaching. 1925. New York: Macmillan, 1929.

• Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Vol 1. ABRL. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

• Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Vol 2. ABRL. New York: Doubleday, 1994.

• Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Vol 3. ABRL. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

• Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Vol 4. ABRL. New York: Doubleday, 2009

• Reimarus, Hermann Samuel. Fragments. 1779. Scholars Press Reprints and Translations Series. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985.

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

• Schweitzer, Albert. The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede. Translated by W. Montgomery. 2d ed. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911.

• Strauss, David Friedrich. The Life of Jesus Critically Examined. 1840. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1972.

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

Synoptic Gospels: Mark

• Fowler, Robert. “The History of Reading Mark.” Pp. 228-61 in Let the Reader Understand: Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.

• Marcus, Joel. “Introduction.” Pp. 15-81 in Mark 1-8: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. AB 27. New York: Doubleday, 2000.

• ———. The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark. Louisville/Edinburgh: Westminster-John Knox/T & T Clark, 1992.

• Marxsen, Willi. Mark the Evangelist. Nashville: Abingdon, 1969.

• Telford, William, ed. The Interpretation of Mark: A History of Development and Issues. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1995.

• Tolbert, Mary Ann. Sowing the Gospel: Mark’s World in Literary-Historical Perspective. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989.

• Tuckett, Christopher M., ed. The Messianic Secret. IRT 1. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.

• Wrede, William. The Messianic Secret. 1901. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 1971.

Synoptic Gospels: Matthew

• Allison, Dale C. The New Moses: A Matthean Typology. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993.

• Bornkamm, Günther, Gerhard Barth, and Heinz Joachim Held. Tradition and Interpretation in Matthew. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1963.

• Carter, Warren. Matthew and the Margins: A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

• Goulder, Michael. Midrash and Lection in Matthew. London: SPCK, 1974.

• Luz, Ulrich. The Theology of the Gospel of Matthew. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

• Saldarini, Anthony J. Matthew’s Christian-Jewish Community. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

• Stanton, Graham N. A Gospel for a New People: Studies in Matthew. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1992.

• Stendahl, Krister. The School of St. Matthew and Its Use of the Old Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1968.

Luke-Acts

• Barrett, C. K. “Introduction.”. In A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994.

• Bovon, Francois. Luke the Theologian: Thirty-Three Years of Research (1950-1983). PTMS 12. Allison Park PA: Pickwick, 1987.

• Cadbury, Henry J. The Making of Luke-Acts. London: Macmillan, 1927.

• Conzelmann, Hans. The Theology of St. Luke. 1953. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.

• Jackson, F. J. Foakes, and Kirsopp Lake, eds. The Beginnings of Christianity. 5 Vols. London: Macmillan, 1920-33. (Selected Essays)

• Keck, Leander E., and J. Louis Martyn. Studies in Luke-Acts: Essays Presented in Honor of Paul Schubert. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966.

Johannine Literature

• Ashton, J. Understanding the Fourth Gospel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

• Brown, Raymond E. The Community of the Beloved Disciple. New York: Paulist, 1979.

• ———. The Gospel According to John. AB 29. Garden City: Doubleday, 1966.

• ———. The Gospel According to John. AB 29A. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970.

• Culpepper, R. Alan. Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. Foundations and Facets: New Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.

• Käsemann, Ernst. Jesu letzter Wille nach Johannes 17. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1966.

• Martyn, J. Louis. History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel. 3rd ed. Louisville/London: Westminster John Knox, 2003.

• Meeks, W. A. “The Man from Heaven in Johannine Sectarianism.” JBL 91 (1972): 44-72.

• Smith, D. Moody. John Among the Gospels: The Relationship in Twentieth-Century Research. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

• ———. The Theology of the Gospel of John. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Pauline Literature

• Baur, Ferdinand Christian. Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ: His Life and Work, His Epistles and His Doctrine. Edited by Eduard Zeller and A. Menzies. Vol. 1. Second Edition. Theological Translation Fund Library. London; Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1876.

• ———. Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ: His Life and Work, His Epistles and His Doctrine. Edited by Eduard Zeller. Translated by A. Menzies. Vol. 2. Second Edition. Theological Translation Fund Library. London; Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1875.

• Beker, J. Christiaan. Paul the Apostle: The Triumph of God in Life and Thought. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980.

• Boyarin, Daniel. A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity. Contraversions 1. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1994.

• Davies, W. D. Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology. New York/Evanston: Harper & Row, 1948.

• Dunn, James D. G. “The New Perspective on Paul.” Pp. 183-214 in Jesus, Paul and the Law: Studies in Mark and Galatians. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990.

• ———. The Theology of Paul the Apostle. New Testament Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

• Harink, Douglas. Paul Among the Post-Liberals: Pauline Theology Beyonhd Christendom and Modernity. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2003.

• Hays, Richard B. Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. New Haven: Yale, 1989.

• Horsley, Richard, ed. Paul and Empire. Harrisburg PA: Trinity Press International, 1997.

• Käsemann, E. “The Righteousness of God in Paul.” Pp. 168-82 in New Testament Questions of Today. 1960. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969.

• Käsemann, Ernst. Perspectives on Paul. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.

• Knox, John. Chapters in a Life of Paul. Rev. ed. London: SCM, 1987.

• Levine, Amy-Jill, and Marianne Blickenstaff, eds. A Feminist Companion to Paul. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2004.

• Longenecker, Bruce, ed. Narrative Perspectives on the Pauline Gospel. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2002.

• Martyn, J. Louis. Theological Issues in the Letters of Paul. SNTW. Edinburgh/Nashville: T. & T. Clark/Abingdon, 1997.

• Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1983.

• Meggitt, Justin J. Paul, Poverty and Survival. Studies of the New Testament and Its World. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998.

• Sanders, E. P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977.

• Schweitzer, Albert. The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle. 1931. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968.

• Stendahl, Krister. Paul Among Jews and Gentiles and Other Essays. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976.

• Watson, Francis. Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith. London/New York: T&T Clark International (Continuum), 2004.

• Wright, N. T. The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and Law in Pauline Theology. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1991.

• ———. Paul and the Faithfulness of God. Vol. 4. Christian Origins and the Question of God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013.

Catholic Epistles and Revelation

• Achtemeier, Paul J. 1 Peter: A Commentary on First Peter. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996.

• Attridge, Harrold W. The Epistle to the Hebrews. Hermeneia. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989.

• Bauckham, Richard. The Theology of the Book of Revelation. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

• Bauckham, Richard J. Jude, 2 Peter. WBC 40. Waco TXC: Word, 1983.

• Caird, George B. A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John the Divine. 2nd ed. Black’s New Testament Commentaries. London: Black, 1984.

• Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

• Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Letter of James: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. AB 37A. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

• Koester, Craig R. Hebrews. AB 36. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

• Schüssler Fiorenza, Elizabeth. The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998.

• Wall, Robert. “Introduction to Epistolary Literature.” Pp. 369-91 in The New Interpreter’s Bible. Edited by L. E. Keck. Nashville: Abingdon, 2002.

New Testament Theology

• Bultmann, R. Theology of the New Testament. 2 vols. in 1. New York: Scribners, 1951-55.

• Childs, Brevard S. Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

• Gabler, Johann Philipp. “On the Proper Distinction Between Biblical and Dogmatic Theology.” Scottish Journal of Theology 33 (1980): 133-58.

• Morgan, Robert. “Theology (NT).” Pp. 6.473-83 in Anchor Bible Dictionary, 1992.

• Schlatter, Adolf. “The Theology of the New Testament and Dogmatics.” Pp. 117-66 in The Nature of New Testament Theology. Edited by Robert Morgan. Naperville IL: Alec R. Allenson, 1973.

• Wrede, William. “The Task and Methods of ‘New Testament Theology’.” Pp. 68-116 in The Nature of New Testament Theology. Edited by Robert Morgan. Naperville IL: Alec R. Allenson, 1973.

Text and Canon

• Childs, Brevard S. “Excursus I. The Hermeneutical Problem in New Testament Text Criticism.” Pp. 518-30 in The New Testament as Canon: An Introduction. Valley Forge PA: Trinity Press, 1994.

• Ehrman, Bart D. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

• Gamble, Harry Y. “Canon, New Testament.” Pp. 1.852-61 in Anchor Bible Dictionary. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

• Gese, Harmut. “The Biblical View of Scripture.” Pp. 9-33 in Essays on Biblical Theology. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1981.

• Holmes, Michael W. “Reasoned Eclecticism in New Testament Textual Criticism.” Pp. 336-60 in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on The Status Quaestionis. Edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes. Studies and Documents. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

• Metzger, B. M. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. 2nd ed.

• Metzger, Bruce M. The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

• Westcott, B. F., and F. J. A. Hort. Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek with Notes on Selected Readings. 1882. Peabody MA: Hendrickson, 1988.

Greco-Roman Environment

• Carcopino, Jérôme. Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire. London: Routledge, 1941.

• Deissmann, A. Light from the Ancient East: The New Testament Illustrated by Recently Discovered Texts of the Graeco-Roman World. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1978; orig. 1922.

• DeSilva, David A. Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2000.

• Klauck, H.-J. The Religious Context of Early Christianity: A Guide to Graeco-Roman Religions. SNTW. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2000.

• MacMullen, R. Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1981.

• Malherbe, Abraham J., ed. Moral Exhortation: A Greco-Roman Sourcebook. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986.

• Meeks, Wayne A. The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

• Millar, F. The Roman Near East 31 BC-AD 337. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press, 1993.

• Millar, Fergus. The Emperor in the Roman World (31 BC – AD 337). Ithaca NC: Cornell University Press, 1977.

• Nock, Arthur Darby. Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1933.

• Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York: Schocken Books, 1975.

• Price, S. R. F. Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
• Stambaugh, John E., and David L. Balch. The New Testament in Its Social Environment. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.

• Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Jerome Lectures 16. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988.

Jewish environment

• Barclay, J. M. G. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora from Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE – 117 CE). Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1996.

• Boyarin, Daniel. “Introduction; the Close Call; Quo Vadis.” Pp. 1-66 in Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism. Figurae. Stanford University Press, 1999.

• Cohen, S. J. D. “The Significance of Yavneh: Pharisees, Rabbis, and the End of Jewish Sectarianism.” HUCA 55 (1984): 27-53.

• Collins, J. J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix of Christianity. New York: Crossroad, 1984.

• Goodman, M. The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome A.D. 66-70. Cambridge/New York/Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

• Grabbe, L. L. Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian. Vol. 2: The Roman Period. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

• Hengel, M. Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine During the Early Hellenistic Period. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974.

• Ilan, T. Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996.

• Levine, L. I. The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2000.

• Moore, G. F. Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era. New York: Schocken, 1971 [orig. 1927-1930].

• Neusner, J. From Politics to Piety: The Emergence of Pharisaic Judaism. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prenctice-Hall, 1973.

• Nickelsburg, George W. E. Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 2005.

• Sanders, E. P. Judaism: Practice and Belief 63 BCE-66 CE. London/Philadelphia: SCM/Trinity Press International, 1992.

• Schürer, E. The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135). Edited by Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, and Martin Goodman. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1973-87.

• Schwartz, D. R. “Introduction.” Pp. 1-26 in Studies in the Jewish Background of Christianity. WUNT 60. Tübingen: J.C.B.Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1992.

• Schwartz, S. Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001.