Talk:Jesus/Historical Jesus/Sources

Scholarly sources on the historical Jesus
See also Talk:Jesus/Scribes Pharisees and Saducees and Talk:Jesus/Cited Authors Bios.

General or unsorted

 * 1) Shaye Cohen. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Westminster Press, 1987. ISBN 0664250173. Summary of late Second Temple-period Judaism.
 * 2) Jacob Neusner. A Rabbi Talks With Jesus, McGill-Queen's University Press; Revised ed., 2000. ISBN 0773520465. Jesus in the context of first-century Judaism. Shows similarities between the teachings of Jesus and Shammai.
 * 3) Geza Vermes The Religion of Jesus the Jew (Paperback)  Augsburg Fortress Publishers; 1st ed., 1993. ISBN 0800627970.
 * 4) Jewish Encyclopedia article on Jesus has a lot to say on how His teachings compare with other first-century schools of Judaism.
 * 5) Flusser, David. Jesus last days in Jerusalem. Publisher unknown, Date unknown, ISBN unknown. Seems to be out of print. Flusser (now deceased) was Professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
 * 6) Cohn, Haim. The Trial and Death of Jesus, Konecky & Konecky, 2000. ISBN 1568525028. Cohn is a former Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. Originally published in 1963.
 * 7) Winter, Paul, Geza Vermes, & T. Alec Burkill. On the Trial of Jesus, Walter De Gruyter Inc; 2nd ed., 1974. ISBN 3110022834.
 * 8) Strobel, August. Die Stunde Der Wahrheit (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament), J. Mohr, 1980. ISBN 3161430417. Only in German.
 * 9) L. Michael White. From Jesus to Christianity, HarperSanFrancisco, 2004. ISBN 0060526556.
 * 10) Darrell L. Bock. Jesus According to Scripture, Baker Academic, 2002. ISBN 080102370X.

Jesus as moral teacher

 * 1) John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant,  HarperSanFrancisco (1993), ISBN 0060616296.
 * 2) Robert Funk, The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the AUTHENTIC Words of Jesus, Harper San Francisco (1997), ISBN 006063040X.
 * 3) Robert Funk, The Acts of Jesus: What Did Jesus Really Do?, The Jesus Seminar, Harper San Francisco (1998), ISBN 0060629789.
 * 4) The Jesus Seminar, The Gospel of Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar, Robert Walter Funk (Editor), Polebridge Press (1999), ISBN 0944344747.
 * 5) Strauss?

Jesus as apocalyptic prophet

 * 1) Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede, Scribner (1968). ISBN 0020892403
 * 2) Bart Ehrman, Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, Oxford University Press, USA (1999). ISBN 019512474X
 * 3) E. P. Sanders, The Historical Figure of Jesus (Paperback), Penguin (Non-Classics); Reprint edition (1996). ISBN 0140144994
 * 4) Dale Allison, Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet, Augsburg Fortress Publishers (1999). ISBN 0800631447
 * 5) Paula Fredriksen, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, Vintage (2000). ISBN 0679767460
 * 6) John P. Meier. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus Anchor Bible (1991, 1994, 2001). ISBN 0385264259, ISBN 0385469926, ISBN 0385469934. There is a fourth and final volume to this series that has yet to be published.
 * 7) N. T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Volume 2), Augsburg Fortress Publishers (1997). ISBN 0800626826.
 * 8) Gerd Lüdemann, Jesus after 2000 Years: What He Really Said and Did, Prometheus Books (2001). ISBN 1573928909.

Jesus as the Messiah who comes twice

 * 1) Joseph Klausner, The messianic idea in Israel: From its beginning to the completion of the Mishnah, Macmillan (January 1, 1955), no ISBN. This book is out of print.
 * 2) Joseph Klausner, Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, Times, and Teaching (Paperback), Bloch Publishing Company; 1 ED edition (May 1997), ISBN 0819705659. A more recent book by Klausner.
 * 3) Raphael Patai, Messiah Texts (Paperback), Wayne State University Press; Reprint edition (January 1989), ISBN 0814318509.
 * 4) Michael L. Brown, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus: Messianic Prophecy Objections (Paperback), Baker Books (March 2003), ISBN 0801064236. Somewhat POV as this was written by a Messianic Jew.

Jesus as Pharisee

 * 1) E. P. Sanders. Jesus and Judaism, Fortress Press, 1987. ISBN 0800620615.
 * 2) Hyam Maccoby 'Jesus the Pharisee (Paperback), Scm Press (July 2003). ISBN 0334029147.
 * 3) Harvey Falk Jesus the Pharisee: A New Look at the Jewishness of Jesus, Wipf & Stock Publishers (August 2003). ISBN 1592443133.

Jesus as Essene

 * 1) Robert Eisenman. James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Penguin (Non-Classics) (March 1, 1998). ISBN 014025773X. Were John the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth and James the Just Essenes?

Jesus and the Zealots

 * 1) S.G.F Brandon, Jesus and the Zealots: a study of the political factor in primitive Christianity, Manchester University Press (1967). ISBN 0684310104