Recommended but not owned
Per Mark Goodacre in his Keynote to Reassessing the Emergence of the Gospels.
Jesus, Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity – edited by Chris Keith and Anthony LeDonne$$$- Interpreting Jesus by Dale Allison
- The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus – Crossley and Keith
God’s Library – Brent Nongbri- Excavating Q – John S. Kloppenborg
The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age – Megan/BSA said the author is a colleague of Joel Baden and the book expresses what Joel talked about in his last lecture about the Hebrew Bible.
Bart Ehrman from here – For anyone who wants the full documentation, I strongly urge you to read the two books by Mark Chancey on Galilee: Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus and The Myth of a Gentile Galilee. The idea that rural Galilee (where Jesus was raised) was thoroughly Hellenized is a myth. (For related issues of literacy, I also recommend highly the most recent and authoritative study, Catherine Hezser’s, Literacy in Roman Palestine.)
Tabor said – The MOST important book to read in dealing with the “historical” Jesus in my view is the two-volume set, edited by David Fiensy and James Riley Strange, Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods (1) Life, Culture, and Society and (2) The Archaeological Record.
Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism by John J. Collins (Author)
Tabor – If you have never read this important and influential work I highly recommend it. It will transform your understanding of earliest Christianity and how it unfolded.
Christ’s Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century Kindle Edition by Markus Vinzent (Author)
Tyson’s main work – An investigation into the motives behind writing the canonical versions of Luke and Acts. Also the one below.
