SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
The following is not intended as a complete bibliography of works consulted or cited, but as suggestions for further reading.
BIBLE
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, New Revised Standard Version. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1999.
BY THE AUTHORS
Jacobovici, Simcha, and Charles Pellegrino. The Jesus Family Tomb. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007.
Tabor, James D., and Simcha Jacobovici. The Jesus Discovery. New York: Simon & Shuster, 2012.
Wilson, Barrie A. How Jesus Became Christian. New York: St. Martin’s Press; Toronto: Random House; London: Orion Publishing, 2008.
———. About Interpretation: From Plato to Dilthey—A Hermeneutic Anthology. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.
———. Hermeneutical Studies: Sophocles, Plato, Bultmann. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990.
———. “Bardaisan: On Nature, Fate and Freedom,” in Barrie Wilson, Hermeneutical Studies, 131–155.
BY TONY BURKE
Burke, Tony. Secret Scriptures Revealed. A New Introduction to the Christian Apocrypha. London: SPCK, 2013.
———, ed. Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate. Proceedings from the 2011 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012.
———. De Inantia Iesu euangelium Thomae graece. Corpus Christianorum Series Apocryphorum. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.
THE SYRIAC MANUSCRIPT
British Library Manuscript 17,202 was transcribed by J. P. N. Land in Anecdota Syriaca, vol. 3. E. J. Brill, 1870.
APHRAHAT
Demonstration 21 (Of Persecution). newadvent.org/fathers/370121.htm.
APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA
Charlesworth, James H. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volumes 1 and 2. New York: Doubleday, 1983–1985.
Sparks, H. F. D. The Apocryphal Old Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Wills, Lawrence M. Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology. Edited and translated by Lawrence M. Wills. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
ARTEMIS
d’Este, Sorita. Artemis: Virgin Goddess of the Sun & Moon. London: Avalonia, 2005.
Kampen, John. “The Cult of Artemis and the Essenes in Syro-Palestine.” Dead Sea Discoveries 10, no. 2 (2003): 205–220.
DEAD SEA SCROLL COMMUNITY/ESSENES—TEXTS AND INTRODUCTION
Vermes, Geza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. New York: Penguin, 1998.
Wise, Michael O., Martin Abegg, and Edward M. Cook. The Dead Sea Scrolls—Revised Edition: A New Translation. New York: HarperOne, 2005.
DEAD SEA SCROLL COMMUNITY/ESSENES—SELECTED STUDIES
Eisenman, Robert. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians. Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 2004.
Jones, Allen H. Essenes: The Elect of Israel and the Priests of Artemis. Lanham: University Press of America, 1985.
Vanderkam, James, and Peter Flint. The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance for Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity. New York: HarperOne, 2004.
Wise, Michael O. The First Messiah: Investigating the Savior Before Jesus. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.
EARLY CHRISTIANITY/JESUS
See especially:
Wilson, Barrie. How Jesus Became Christian. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008.
Tabor, James D. The Jesus Dynasty. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Tabor, James D. Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
———. Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
———. Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Smith, Morton. Jesus the Magician. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978.
Bütz, Jeffrey J. The Brother of Jesus. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2005.
———. The Secret Legacy of Jesus. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2010.
Also see:
Beavis, Mary Ann. Jesus & Utopia: Looking for the Kingdom of God in the Roman World. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006.
Chilton, Bruce. Rabbi Jesus. New York: Image Books, 2000.
Eisenman, Robert. The New Testament Code: The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ. London: Watkins Publishing, 2006.
Roth, Wolfgang. Hebrew Gospel: Cracking the Code of Mark. Oak Park, Illinois: Meyer Stone Books, 1988.
Rousseau, John J., and Rami Arav. Jesus and His World: An Archaeological and Cultural Dictionary. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1995.
Schäfer, Peter. Jesus in the Talmud. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
EPHREM THE SYRIAN
Ephrem, Sermon on Joseph the Most Virtuous. Anastasis.org.uk/Joseph.pdf.
McVey, Kathleen E. (trans.). Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns. New York: Paulist Press, 1989.
Murray, Robert. Symbols of Church and Kingdom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
EUSEBIUS
Cruse, C. F. (translator). Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2001.
GNOSTIC WRITINGS
DeConick, April D. “The True Mysteries: Sacramentalism in the Gospel of Philip.” Vigiliae Christianae 55 (2001): 225–261.
———. “The Great Mystery of Marriage: Sex and Conception in Ancient Valentinian Traditions.” Vigiliae Christianae 57 (2003): 307–342.
Meyer, Marvin. The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus. New York: HarperOne, 2005.
Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
Translations of Gnostic writings available at gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html.
HEROD ANTIPAS
Hoehner, Harold W. Herod Antipas: A Contemporary of Jesus Christ. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1980.
JOSEPH AND ASENETH—ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS—ALL BASED ON GREEK MANUSCRIPTS LATER THAN THE SYRIAC.
Brooks, E. W. Joseph and Asenath: The Confession and Prayer of Asenath Daughter of Pentephres the Priest. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918.
Burchard, C. “Joseph and Aseneth,” in James H. Charlesworth (ed.), The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volume 2. New York: Doubleday, 1985.
Cook, D. “Joseph and Aseneth,” in H. F. D. Sparks, The Apocryphal Old Testament. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. ntgateway.com/aseneth/translat.htm.
“The Marriage and Conversion of Aseneth.” Translated and edited by Lawrence M. Wills, in Lawrence M. Wills, Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
JOSEPH AND ASENETH—SELECTED STUDIES
See especially:
Kraemer, Ross Shepard. When Aseneth Met Joseph. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Nir, Rivka. Joseph and Aseneth: A Christian Book. Sheffield: Sheffield University Press, 2012.
———. “Aseneth as the ‘Prototype of the Church of the Gentiles’.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (2007).
———. “The Conversion of Aseneth in a Christian Context.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (2006).
Philonenko, Marc. Joseph et Aséneth: Introduction texte critique traduction et notes. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1968. [Introduction and French translation from later Greek manuscripts]
Also see:
Kasyan, Maria. “The Apocalyptic Scene in the Apocryphal Story Joseph and Aseneth and Artemis of Ephesus.” Paper presented at the International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Lisbon, July 21–26, 2008.
JOSEPHUS
Josephus. The New Complete Works of Josephus. Revised and expanded edition. Translated by William Whiston, commentary by Paul L. Maier. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel Publications, 1999.
MARY THE MAGDALENE
See especially:
Starbird, Margaret. The Woman with the Alabaster Jar. Rochester, Vermont: Bear & Company, 1993.
———. Mary the Magdalene, Bride in Exile. Rochester, Vermont: Bear & Company, 2005.
Brock, Ann Graham. Mary the Magdalene, The First Apostle: The Struggle for Authority. Cambridge Massachusetts: Distributed by Harvard University Press for Harvard Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, 2003.
Burstein, Dan, and Arne J. de Keijzer. Secrets of Mary the Magdalene: The Untold Story of History’s Most Misunderstood Woman. New York: CDS Books in association with Squibnocket Partners LLC, 2006.
Chilton, Bruce. Mary the Magdalene: A Biography. New York: Doubleday, 2005.
Schaberg, Jane. The Resurrection of Mary the Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament. New York: Continuum, 2004.
———. Mary the Magdalene Understood. New York: Continuum, 2006.
MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS
Ionescu, Carla. The Enduring Goddess: Artemis and Mary, Mother of Jesus. Ph. D. dissertation, York University, Toronto, in preparation.
MISCELLANEOUS EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS
Acts of (Judas) Thomas. earlychristianwritings.com/text/actsthomas.html.
Acts of Pilate. earlychristianwritings.com/actspilate.html.
Infancy Gospel of James, in Robert J. Miller (ed.), The Complete Gospels. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994 and, under the name “The Proto-Gospel of James,” in Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
NEW TESTAMENT—CRITICAL INTRODUCTION—SELECTED STUDIES
Ehrman, Bart D. The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Mason, Steve, and Tom Robinson. An Early Christian Reader. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc., 1990.
NEW TESTAMENT—TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION
Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.
PAUL
Crossan, John Dominic, and Jonathan L. Reed. In Search of Paul. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.
Holmen, R. W. A Wretched Man: A Novel of Paul the Apostle. Minneapolis: Bascom Hill, 2009.
Lüdemann, Gerd. Paul: The Founder of Christianity. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002.
Maccoby, Hyam. The Myth-Maker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986.
Murphy-O’Connor, Jerome. Paul: His Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Voskuilen, Thijs and Rose Mary Sheldon. Operation Messiah: St. Paul, Roman Intelligence and the Birth of Christianity. Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008.
Plus, books already cited by James D. Tabor and Barrie Wilson.
SECRET MARK
Smith, Morton. The Secret Gospel: The Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel According to Mark. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Burke, Tony, ed. Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?: The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2013.
SEJANUS
Seepe, Chris. The Conspiracy to Assassinate Jesus Christ. Toronto: Synchronopedia Corp., 3 edition, 2012.
SUETONIUS
Suetonius. The Twelve Caesars. Translated by Robert Graves, revised by J. B. Rives. New York: Penguin, 2007.
TACITUS
Tacitus. The Annals & The Histories. Introduction by Shelby Foote; translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb; edited by Moses Hadas; notes by James Danly. New York: The Modern Library, 2003.