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

• m. Sanhedrin