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Topic
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Intro
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2nd
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3rd
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Archeology, Chronology,
Literary context
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Archaeology and the Old Testament, Alfred J. Hoerth, Baker:1998
Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ, Harold Hoehner, Zondervan:1977
Readings
from the First-Century World, Walter A. Elwell and Robert W.
Yarbrough (eds.), Baker:1998
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Chronos, Kairos, Christos I, E.
Jerry Vardaman (ed)
Chronos, Kairos, Christos II,
E. Jerry Vardaman (ed)
The
City in Roman Palestine, Daniel Sperber,
Oxford:1998.
Bible Archaeology: An Exploration of the History and Culture of Early Civilizations. Alfred Hoerth and John McRay
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Brills New Pauly, Supplements I, Chronologies of the Ancient World. Walter Eder and Johannes Renger (eds)
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Israel in the context of
ANE/Egypt
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The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, John H. Walton & Victor Matthews, IVP:2000.
A
History of Israel from the Bronze Age through the Jewish Wars.
Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Broadman and Holman: 1998
A Biblical History of Israel. Provan, Long, Longman III. WJK:2003. [Absolutely the
best available!]
A Survey of Israel's History (Revised Ed). Leon Wood and David O'Brien
Kingdom
of Priests: A History of Old Testament Israel. Eugene Merrill.
Baker:1987/96.
Life
in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 BCE, Daniel C. Snell,
Yale:1997
The Pentateuch in Its Cultural Environment.
Livingston, Herbert G., Baker, 1987 (2nd ed)
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Ancient Israelite Literature in its Cultural Context,
John H. Walton, Zondervan: 1989
Israel and Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the
Exodus Tradition, James K. Hoffmeier,
Oxford: 1997
Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, John D. Currid, Baker:1997.
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The Bible and the Ancient Near East, Cyrus Gordon and Gary Rendsburg, Norton:1997 (4th ed)
Persia and the Bible, Edwin
Yamauchi, Baker:1990/1996
Life and Culture in the Ancient Near East. Averbeck,
Chavalas, Weisberg (eds). CDL:2003.
Peoples of the Old Testament World; Hoerth, Mattingly, Yamauchi (eds.), Baker: 1994
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New Testament History
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Behind the Scenes of the New Testament, Barnett, IVP: 1990.
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New Testament History. Bruce,
F.F., Anchor, 1972
The
Seven Cities of the Apocalypse & Greco-Asian Culture.
Roland H. Worth, Jr. Paulist:1999.
The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse & Roman Culture.
Roland H. Worth, Jr. Paulist:1999.
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Jesus "Theories" (& Jesus
Seminar)
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Jesus
Under Fire--Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus.,
Wilkins and Moreland (eds), Zondervan: 1995.
Jesus in an Age of Controversy,
Douglas Groothuis, Harvest House: 1996.
Who
was Jesus?, N.T. Wright, Eerdmans:1992.
The
Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ.
Gary R. Habermas. College Press:1996.
The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition. Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory A Boyd
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Cynic Sage or Son of God?,
Gregory Boyd, Bridgepoint: 1995.
Jesus and the Victory of God,
by N.T. Wright, Fortress:1996.
The Christology of Jesus, Ben
Witherington III, Fortress:1990
Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke. C Kavin Rowe
Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels. Craig Evans
The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth, Ben Witherington III, IVP: 1995
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest
Christianity. Larry
Hurtado. Eerdmans:2003.
How on Earth Did Jesus Become God? Historical Questions about the Earliest Devotion to Jesus. Larry Hurtado.
The Pre-existent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Simon Gathercole
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Jesus as God: The New Testament Use of Theos in Reference to
Jesus, Murray Harris, Baker: 1998
Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of
Current Research, Bruce Chilton and Craig
Evans, eds. Brill: 1994
Jesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies, Craig Evans, Brill:1995
Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. Joel Green, Scot McKnight, I Howard Marshall (eds.),
IVP:1992
Gospel Perspectives: The Jesus Tradition Outside the Gospels (vol 5). David Wenham (ed).
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OT in the NT (&
intertextuality)
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Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period. Longenecker, Richard. , Eerdmans Publishing, 1999.
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Jesus and the Old Testament. France,
R.T. , Intervarsity Press, 1971
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It is Written: Scripture Citing Scripture, DA Carson and H.G.M. Williamson, Cambridge:1988
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BIBLICAL criticism/reliability
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The Historical Reliability of the Gospels by Craig Blomberg, IVP: 1987.
On the Reliability of the Old Testament. K A Kitchen. Eerdmans:2003.
The Case for Christ, Lee
Strobel, HarperCollins:1998.
Is the New Testament Reliable? Barnett,
Paul. , Intervarsity Press, 1986
The
New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?, F. F. Bruce,
Eerdmans: 1943.
The Old Testament Documents: Are They Reliable & Relevant?
Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. IVP:2001.
Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey, Craig L. Blomberg, Broadman & Holman:1997.
Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus. Timothy Paul Jones
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Easter
Enigma--Are the Resurrection accounts in conflict? 2nd. ed., John Wenham, Baker: 1992.
The Gospel and the Gospels,
Peter Stuhlmacher, ed. Eerdmans: 1991
Redating Matthew, Mark, and Luke by John Wenham, IVP: 1992
The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel
Audiences, Richard Bauckham (ed),
Eerdmans:1998
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Richard Bauckham
The Origins of Mark: The Markan Community in Current
Debate. Dwight Petersen. Brill:2003.
Rethinking
the Synoptic Problem. David Alan Black and David R Beck (eds).
Baker:2001.
The
Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem.
Mark Goodacre. Trinity:2002.
Questioning Q: A Multidimensional Critique. Mark Goodacre and Nicholas Perrin (eds)
Foundations for Biblical Interpretation, Dockery, Mathews, Sloan (eds.), Broadman&Holman: 1994
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Gospel Perspectives:
Gospel
Perspectives, Volume 6: The Miracles of Jesus. David Wenham
(Editor), Craig Blomberg (Editor). Wipf & Stock.
Gospel
Perspectives, Volume 1: Studies of History and Tradition in the Four
Gospels. R. T. France (Editor), David Wenham (Editor) . Wipf
& Stock.
Gospel
Perspectives, Volume 3: Studies in Midrash and Historiography.
R. T. France (Editor), David Wenham (Editor) . Wipf & Stock.
Gospel
Perspectives, Volume 2: Studies of History and Tradition in the Four
Gospels. R. T. France (Editor), David Wenham (Editor). Wipf
& Stock.
Gospel
Perspectives, Volume 4: The Rediscovery of Jesus' Eschatological
Discourse. David Wenham (Editor) . Wipf &
Stock.
The Past of Jesus in the Gospels, Eugene Lemcio, Cambridge: 1991.
What are the Gospels: A comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography, Richard A. Burridge, Cambridge: 199
Expositor's
Bible Commentary: Introductory Articles
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Acts Historicity
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Is the New Testament Reliable? Barnett,
Paul. , Intervarsity Press, 1986
The
New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?, F. F. Bruce,
Eerdmans: 1943.
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The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History, Colin Helmer, Eisenbrauns:1989
Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity. Martin Hengel. WipfandStock:1979
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The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting: Ancient
Literary Setting
The Book of Acts in its First Century Settting: Diaspora
Setting
The Book of Acts in its First Century Settting: Graeco-Roman
Setting
The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting:Palestinian
Setting
The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting: Paul in Roman
Custody
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Text Criticism
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Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus. Timothy Paul Jones
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The Text of the New Testament--Its Transmission, Corruption,
and Restoration, Bruce Metzger, Oxford
1992 (3rd ed)
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Emanuel Tov, Fortress:2001 (2ndE)
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Early Church history and
issues (heresy, canon)
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The Canon of Scripture, F. F.
Bruce, IVP: 1988
The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History, Rodney Stark, Princeton: 1996.
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The Bauer Thesis Examined: The Geography of Heresy in the
Early Christian Church, T.A. Robinson,
Edwin Mellen: 1988
Hellenists and Hebrews: Reappraising Division within the
Earliest Church, Craig C. Hill,
Fortress:1992.
The Rise of Christianity by
W.H.C. Frend, Fortress: 1984. pp1022
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JEDP/DocuHypo (see ANE also)
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Before Abraham Was: The Unity of Genesis 1-11,
Kikawada and Quinn, Ignatius: 1985.
The Old Testament Documents: Are They Reliable & Relevant?
Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. IVP:2001.
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ReThinking Genesis, Duane
Garrett, Baker: 1991
On the Reliability of the Old Testament. K A Kitchen. Eerdmans:2003.
The Pentateuch in Its Cultural Environment.
Livingston, Herbert G., Baker, 1987 (2nd ed)
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The Redaction of Genesis, Gary
A. Rendsburg, Eisenbraus:1986
Place of the Law in the Religion of Ancient Israel. Moshe Weinfeld
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Biblical Intro (author, date,
etc.)
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An Introduction to the New Testament (2nd Ed). DA Carson and Douglas Moo.
New Testament Introduction,
Donald Guthrie, IVP:1990 (rev.ed)
Introduction to the Old Testament.
Harrison, R.K., Eerdmans Publishing, 1969.
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Commentaries/
Reference works/
Bible Background/
Ency/Dictionaries
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The
Bible Background Commentary-NT. Keener, Craig. S. , IVP, 1993.
Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentrary (4 vols). Clinton Arnold (ed). Zondervan:2002.
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, John H. Walton & Victor Matthews, IVP:2000.
The Expositor's Bible Commentary of the OT.
Gaebelein, Frank E., ed.,
The Expositor's Bible Commentary: NT Set.
Zondervan Pictorial Ency. of the Bible 1986.
Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period. Jacob Neusner and William Scott Green (eds.). Hendrickson:1996
Nelson's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Bible Facts, eds. Packer, Tenney, White. Thomas Nelson: 1995 (2nd ed)
Dictionary of New Testament Background. Craig Evans and Stanley Porter (eds). IVP:2000.
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New International Commentary
on the Old Testament (series)
New International Commentary
on the New Testament (series)
Dictionary of the Old Testament Pentateuch, T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker.
IVP:2003
The
IVP Women's Bible Commentary. C.C. Kroeger and Mary J. Evans.
IVP:2002..
Harper's Encyclopedia of Bible Life. Madeline and J Lane Miller
Life and Culture in the Ancient Near East. Averbeck, Chavalas, Weisberg (eds).
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New
Intl Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis, Willem
A. VanGeren (gen. Ed.), Zond:1997 (5 vols)
New Intl Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Colin Brown, eds. Zond.
Word Biblical Commentary
(multi-vol)
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Difficulties
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Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, Gleason L. Archer, Zondervan: 1982
Hard Sayings of the Bible,
Kaiser/Davids/Bruce/Brauch, IVP:1996
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Difficult Sayings in the Gospels: Jesus' Use of Overstatement
and Hyperbole., Robert H. Stein. Baker:
1985.
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ExtraBiblical/
Intertestamental Lit&Hist
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Today,
James VanderKam, Eerdmans:1994.
From Text to Tradition: A History of Second Temple &
Rabbinic Judaism, Lawrence H. Schiffman,
KTAV:1991
Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation,
Craig Evans, Hendrickson: 1992
Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies--A Guide to the Background Literature. Craig Evans
Exploring Jewish Literature of the
Second Temple Period, Larry R. Helyer, IVP:2002.
Introduction to the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and
Significance. David
deSilva. Baker:2002.
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Judaism and Hellenistic: Studies in their Encounter in
Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period, Martin Hengel, Fortress:1974
Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora, Barclay:1996.
Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash, H.L. Strack and Gunter Stemberger, Fortress:1992
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Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period: Apocrypha,
Pseudepigrapha, Qumran Sectarian Writings, Philo, Josephus. Michael E. Stone (ed.), Fortress:1984
Mikra:Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the
Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, Martin Jan Mulder (ed.).
Prophetic Figures in Late Second Temple Jewish Palestine: The
Evidence from Josephus, Rebecca Gray,
Oxford:1993.
The Literature of the Sages: Oral Tora, Halakha, Mishna,
Tosefta, Talmud, External Tractates,
Shmuel Safrai (ed), Fortress:1987
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Messianic beliefs,
Judaism issues
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The Messiah in the Old Testament,
Walter Kaiser, Jr., Zondervan: 1995, 256p.
Judaism
Before Jesus: The Events and Ideas that Shaped the New Testament World.
Anthony Tomasino. IVP:2003.
Answering
Jewish Objections to Jesus: Messianic Prophecy Objections.
Michael L Brown. Baker:2003.
Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, vol 4: New Testament Objections. Michael Brown
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The Lord's Anointed: Interpretation of Old Testament
Messianic Texts. Satterthwaite, Hess, and
G. Wenham (eds.), Paternoster:1995
Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus: General and Historical
Objections. Michael L. Brown. Baker:2000.
Answering
Jewish Objections to Jesus: Theological Objections. Michael L.
Brown. Baker:2000
The Messiah Texts--Jewish Legends of Three Thousand Years, Raphael Patai, Wayne State: 1979.
Jesus in the Talmud. Peter Schafer
Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries. Oskar Sharsaune and Reidar Hvalvik (eds)
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The Scepter and the Star--The Messiahs of the Dead Sea
Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature, John
J. Collins, Doubleday: 1995
Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, R. Travers Herford, KTAV: 1903
Israel's
Messiah in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Richard Hess and
M Daniel Carroll R (eds). Baker:2003.
Where is Boasting? Early Jewish Soteriology and Paul's
Response in Romans 1-5. Simon J. Gathercole. Eerdmans:2002.
The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides' Thirteen
Principles Reappraised. Marc Shapiro. Littman:2004.
Jewish Christianities Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts. Matt Jackson-McCabe
The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian Sources. Bernd Janowski and Peter Stuhlmacher (eds)
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Paul / James
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What Saint Paul Really Said--Was Paul of Tarsus the Real
Founder of Christianity?, by N.T.
Wright, Eerdmans:1997
Paul--Follower of Jesus or Founder of Christianity?,
David Wenham, Eerdmans: 1995.
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Paul between Damascus and Antioch,
Martin Hengel and Anna Maria Schwemer, WJK:1997
The Pre-Christian Paul, Martin
Hengel, SCM/Trinity:1991
The Paul Quest: The Renewed Search for the Jew of Tarsus, Ben Witherington III, IVP:1998
A Challenge to the New Perspective: Revisiting Paul's
Doctrine of Justification. Peter Stuhlmacher. IVP:2001.
Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The Lutheran Paul
and his Critics. Shephen
Westerholm. Eerdmans:2004.
A Challenge to the New Perspective: Revisiting Paul's Doctrine of Justification. Peter Stuhlmacher
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James the Just and Christian Origins. Bruce Chilton and Craig A. Evans (eds.). Brill:1999
Where is Boasting? Early Jewish Soteriology and Paul's
Response in Romans 1-5. Simon J. Gathercole. Eerdmans:2002.
Dictionary of Paul and his Letters. Gerald Hawthorne, Ralph Martin, Daniel G. Reid (eds.),
IVP:1993.
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Philosophy/Apologetics
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No Doubt About It : The Case for
Christianity , Winfried Corduan, Broadman&Holman:1993.
Philosophers Who Believe, IVP.
God
and the Philosophers, Morris.
Why
Believe? Reason and Mystery as Pointers to God. C. Stephen Evans, 1996.
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion. Anthony Thiselton
To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview. Beckwith, William Lane Craig, Moreland (eds).
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Reasonable Faith, William Lane
Craig, Crossway Books:1994.
Experience of God and the Rationality of Theistic Belief. Jerome Gellman
Reason and Religious Belief by
Peterson, Hasker, Reichenback, and Basinger, Oxford: 1997 (2nd ed)
In
Defense of Miracles, Geivett &
Habermas (eds.)
Christianity and Western Thought : A
History of Philosophers, Ideas and Movements : From the Ancient World
to the Age of Enlightenment, Colin Brown:1990
Philosophy and the Christian Faith : A
Historical Sketch from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, Colin
Brown: 1980.
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Risen Indeed--Making Sense of the Resurrection, Stephen T. Davis, Eerdmans: 1993
Reason for the Hope Within.
Michael Murray (ed.). Eerdmans:1999 [the Best!]
The
Evidential Argument from Evil.Daniel Howard-Snyder, 1996.
God
and Evil: An Introduction to the Issues. Michael L. Peterson,
1998.
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World Religions
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The Supremacy of Christ, Ajith
Fernando, Crossway: 1995.
Neighboring Faiths: A Christian Introduction to World
Religions, Winfried Corduan, IVP:1998.
A Tapestry of Faith: The Common Threads between
Christianity and World Religions. Winfried Coruan. IVP:2002
Christianity and World Religions,
JND Anderson, IVP: 1984 (rev.ed.).
The Bible and the Quran: A Question of Integrity. Steven Masood. [Exceptionally useful book]
Kissing Cousins? Christians and Muslims Face to Face. Bill Musk. [absolutely the first book you should ever read on Islam--this has the God's heart in it...]
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Christian Faith and Other Faiths by Stephen Neill, IVP:1984
Answering Islam, Norman Geisler
and Abdul Saleeb, Baker: 1993
The Bible and the Quran. Jacques Jomier. Ignatius:1959 (trans. 1964)
Leaving
Islam: Apostates Speak Out. Ibn Warraq (ed). Prometheus:2003.
The Quran. M A S Abdel Haleem. [The best and most helpful translation of the Quran I have found. Beautiful tone, helpful explanations.]
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Religions and the Truth by
Hendrik M. Vroom, Eerd: 1989.
The Global God: Multicultural Evangelical Views of God, Aida Besancon Spencer and William David Spencer (eds.),
Baker:1998.
The Quran and its Exegesis: Selected Texts with Classical and Modern Muslim Interpretations. Helmut Gatje
Quranic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis. Jane Dammen McAuliffe
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Source Materials:
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Dead Sea scrolls
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English, Florentino Martinez, Brill: 1996 (2nd ed.)
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Judaism in Antiquity
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The
Jews among the Greeks & Romans:A Diaspora Sourcebook. Margaret
K. Williams. Johns Hopskins:1998.
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Greek
and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism (3vols), Menahem Stern,
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities:1980
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NT papyri
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New Documents Illustrating
Early Christianity (volumes 1- 6)
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity (volume
7)
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity (volume
8)
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NT Apocrypha
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New Testament Apocrypha,
Wilhelm Schneemelcher (ed) and R. McL. Wilson (trans.),
Westminster/John Knox:1991 [Vol
1 and Vol
2]
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OT Pseudepigrapha
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The Old Testament
Pseudepigrapha, Charlesworth (ed), 1983. [Vol
1 and Vol
2]
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ANE literature
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The Ancient Near East : An Anthology of
Texts and Pictures. JB Pritchard. Princeton:1958
The Ancient Near East : A New Anthology of
Texts and Pictures. JB Pritchard. Princeton:1975.
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Ancient Near Eastern Texts : Relating to
the Old Testament (Supplement Included) JB Pritchard. Princeton: 1969 (3rd ed)
The Context of Scripture: Canonical Compositions from the
Biblical World, William W. Hallo and K.
Lawson Younger, eds., Brill: 1997.
The Context of Scripture, vol 2: Monumental Inscriptions from
the Biblical World. Hallo and Younger
(eds.). Brill:2000.
[Volume 3 in
the above series]
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