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Title: PhD Comprehensive Reading List for NT
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PhD Comprehensive Reading List for NT

Selections from Literature Pertinent to the New Testament Period

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.

Read The Following Texts:

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

The Mishnah

Second Division

Fourth Division

The Sanhedrin

Bibliography for New Testament Exams (Graduate Program in Religion, Duke University)

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. ABRL. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

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: First Complete Edition. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001 [orig. 1901].

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, 1994-1908.

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 & 29A. Garden City: Doubleday, 1966-70.

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, Works, His Epistles and Teaching. 1845. Peabody MA: Hendrickson, 2003.

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

Catholic Epistles and Revelation

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

Attridge, Harry 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 Robet Morgan. Naperville IL: Alec R. Allenson, 1973.

Wrede, William. “On the Task and Methods of ‘New Testament Theology’.” Pp. 68-116 in The Nature of New Testament Theology. Edited by Robet 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.

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Title: PhD Comprehensive Reading List for NT
Author: Clifford B. Kvidahl
Date: 2014 May 20 at 18:53

PhD Comprehensive Reading List for NT

Selections from Literature Pertinent to the New Testament Period

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.

Read The Following Texts:

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

The Mishnah

Second Division

Fourth Division

The Sanhedrin

Bibliography for New Testament Exams (Graduate Program in Religion, Duke University)

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.