TOP 10
Suggested Readings for Scholarship
* Highly Suggested
Current Rebuttals to Christ Mythicism:
2012, DID JESUS EXIST -- BART EHRMAN
2014, JESUS: EVIDENCE AND ARGUMENT OR MYTHICIST MYTH? -- Maurice Casey*
2000, JESUS OUTSIDE THE NEW TESTAMENT -- Robert Van Voorst*
2009, THE HISTORICAL JESUS: FIVE VIEWS -- Edited by James Beilby and Paul Eddy
2007, THE JESUS LEGEND -- Paul Eddy and Gregory Boyd*
2006, FABRICATING JESUS -- Craig Evans
2012, JESUS AND HIS WORLD -- Craig Evans
1984, JESUS CHRIST: MAN OR MYTH -- E. M. Blaiklock
2005, JESUS MAN OR MYTH? -- Carsten Peter Thiede
2006, UNMASKING THE PAGAN CHRIST -- Stanley Porter and Stephen Bedard
1985, THE EVIDENCE FOR JESUS -- James D. G. Dunn
1986, THE EVIDENCE FOR JESUS -- R. T. France
1999, THE HISTORICAL JESUS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Walter P. Weaver
2016, JESUS IS NO MYTH -- David Marshall
1986, JESUS IN HISTORY AND MYTH -- Edited by R. Joseph Hoffmann and Gerald Larue*
1984, JESUS: THE EVIDENCE -- Ian Wilson
Old Rebuttals to Christ Mythicism:
1912, THE HISTORICITY OF JESUS, Shirley J. Case
1911, DID JESUS REALLY LIVE, Herbert Rossington
1913, THE QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS, 2nd Ed., Albert Schweitzer*
1938, DID CHRIST REALLY LIVE?, H. G. Wood
1956 (Translation by S. H. Hooke), JESUS, Charles Guignebert
1926 (Translation by F. Stevens), JESUS THE NAZARENE, Maurice Goguel
1946, JESUS: MYTH OR HISTORY, Archibald Robertson
1914, THE HISTORICAL CHRIST, Frederick C. Conybeare*
On New Testament:
1993, PHILO IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE, David Runia*
2013, THE MYTH OF PERSECUTION, Candida Moss*
1999, JESUS: APNM, Bart Ehrman
2003, THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY, Hans-Josef Klauck
1993, THE QUEST FOR Q, David Catchpole
2003, THE BROTHER OF JESUS, Ben Witherington III and Hershel Shanks
1990, JESUS, PAUL, AND THE LAW, James D. G. Dunn*
1994, THE APOSTLE PAUL, CHRISTIAN JEW, Edwin Freed
2008, FIRST CORINTHIANS (Anchor Bible), Joseph Fitzmyer*
1997, GALATIANS (Anchor Bible), J. Louis Martyn
On the Old Testament and Ancient Near East:
2002, THE EARLY HISTORY OF GOD, Mark S. Smith*
2008, GOD IN TRANSLATION, Mark S. Smith*
2001, ORIGINS OF BIBLICAL MONOTHEISM, Mark S. Smith*
2001, THE RIDDLE OF RESURRECTION, Tryggve Mettinger*
2015, UNSEEN REALMS, Michael Heiser
2000, THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT ISRAEL, Patrick D. Miller
2003, WHO WERE THE EARLY ISRAELITES [...], William G. Dever
2001, WHAT DID THE BIBLICAL WRITERS KNOW [...], William G. Dever*
2012, THE LIVES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE IN ANCIENT ISRAEL, William G. Dever
1991, THE RISE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL, Shanks, Dever, et al.
2005, DID GOD HAVE A WIFE?, William G. Dever
1988, ASHERAH AND THE CULT OF YAHWEH IN ISRAEL, Saul Olyan
2004, JUDAISM BEFORE JESUS, Anthony J. Tomasino*
2016, ESTHER (Evangelical Exegetical Commentary Series), Anthony J. Tomasino*
1999, TO EACH ITS OWN MEANING, Edited by Stven McKenzie and Stephen Haynes*
1983, UGARIT AND THE OLD TESTAMENT, Peter C. Craigie
1995, THE TRIUMPH OF ELOHIM, Edited by Diana Edelman
1958, THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST IN PICTURES, James Pritchard
2001, LIFE IN BIBLICAL ISRAEL, Philip King and Lawrence Stager*
1998, THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE BIBLICAL WORLD, Edited by Michael Coogan
1964, ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA: PORTRAIT OF A DEAD CIVILIZATION, Leo Oppenheim
2014, 1177 BC: THE YEAR CIVILIZATION COLLAPSED, Eric Cline*
1993, THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE, Robert Drews