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After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity

10 best books like After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity (Bart D. Ehrman): Backgrounds of Early Christianity, The Literary Guide to the Bible, The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholar's Version, The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods, Mark for Everyone, When Women Were Priests, An Introduction to the New Testament, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes

Backgrounds of Early Christianity
AuthorEverett Ferguson
ISBN0802822215
Having long served as a standard introduction to the world of the early church, Everett Ferguson's Backgrounds of Early Christianity has been expanded and updated in this third edition. The book explores and unpacks the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, religious, and philosophical backgrounds...
The Literary Guide to the Bible
AuthorRobert Alter
ISBN0674875311
5. The Literary Guide to the Bible edited by Robert Alter & Frank Kermode
published: 1987
format: 672 page Hardcover
acquired: 2012
read: Jan 2012 – Nov 2015, June 2, 2018 - Jan 23, 2019
time reading: ~50 hr ~4.5 min/page
rating: 4

Contributors: J. P. Fokkelman,...
The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholar's Version
AuthorRobert J. Miller
ISBN0944344496
The Complete Gospels includes all twenty of the known gospels from the early Christian era, clearly presented for the scholar, student and general reader alike. The new Scholars Version translation captures the full spirit and vitality of the original texts. This gospel picture of early traditions...
The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries
AuthorDavid Damrosch
ISBN0321105796
The Longman Anthology of British Literature, 2A / 0-321-10579-6

This anthology belongs to the three-volume set of The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Volumes 2A, 2B, 2C). Each volume contains gorgeous color plates of contemporary artwork and portraits. The authors are arranged...
The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods
AuthorJosiah Blake Tidwell
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Mark for Everyone
AuthorTom Wright
Tom Wright's eye-opening comments on the Gospel of Mark and what it might mean for us are combined, passage-by-passage, with his fresh translation of the Bible text. Making use of his true scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Wright captures the urgency and...
When Women Were Priests
AuthorKaren Jo Torjesen
ISBN0060686618
This is a challenging book, not in the sense that it is a tough read (it's very well written book), but in the sense that it forces readers to address their own assumptions and the way in which they view women and the church. In her book, Karen Jo Torjessen makes an attempt to both defend the reality of women's...
An Introduction to the New Testament
AuthorRaymond E. Brown
ISBN0385247672
Every generation needs a comprehensive, reliable Introduction to the New Testament that opens the biblical text to the novice. Raymond E. Brown's "An Introduction to the New Testament" is the most trustworthy and authoritative guidebook for a generation seeking to understand the Christian Bible.Universally...
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
AuthorBruce M. Metzger
This thoroughly revised edition of Bruce M. Metzger's classic work is the most up-to-date manual available for the textual criticism of the New Testament. The Text of the New Testament, Fourth Edition, has been invigorated by the addition of Bart D. Ehrman--author of numerous best-selling books...
Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes
AuthorJohn Shelby Spong
ISBN0060675578
In this boldest book since Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Bishop John Shelby Spong offers a compelling view of the Gospels as thoroughly Jewish tests.Spong powerfully argues that many of the key Gospel accounts of events in the life of Jesus—from the stories of his birth to his physical...
The Early Church
AuthorHenry Chadwick
This is the first volume of the penguin history of the church and not the beginning of a history of Christianity.

Implicit in this book is the idea that orthodoxy has always existed. This is a problem and a grave weakness. In the absence of a creed, a canon of agreed genuine holy books there is only...
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
AuthorRobert L. Wilken
ISBN0300098391
This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
Pliny: a Roman gentleman. The making of a Roman official; Travels of a provincial governor; A Christian association;...
The Historical Figure of Jesus
AuthorE.P. Sanders
ISBN0140144994
random thoughts:

-for Sanders, Jesus was (and this is not surprising to anyone who has read his other works on Jesus and Paul) very much a faithful, observant Jew; I largely agree; the conflicts with the Pharisees seem, when actually read in context, fairly minor in and of themselves, though...
A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization
AuthorJonathan Kirsch
ISBN0060816988
"[The Book of] Revelation has served as a "language arsenal" in a great many of the social, cultural, and political conflicts in Western history. Again and again, Revelation has stirred some dangerous men and women to act out their own private apocalypses. Above all, the moral calculus of Revelation—the...
The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus
AuthorRobert W. Funk
Did Jesus claim to be the Messiah?
Did he promise to return and usher in a new age?
How did Jesus envision the Kingdom of God?

The Five Gospels answers these questions in a bold, dynamic work that will startle traditional readers of the Bible and rekindle interest in it among secular skeptics....
Understanding the Old Testament
AuthorBernhard W. Anderson
Presents a study of the Old Testament by interweaving historical, archeological, literary, and religious perspectives. The book traces the story of the people of Israel from the Exodus in the time of Moses through the dawn of the Common Era. It considers the importance of literary criticism and other...
The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran: A Contribution to the Decoding of the Language of the Koran
AuthorChristoph Luxenberg
ISBN3899300882
Throughout its history the Koran has presented problems of interpretation. Some scholars estimate that at least a quarter of the text is obscure in meaning, not only for Western translators but even native Arabic speakers, who struggle with the archaic vocabulary that is no longer used in modern Arabic....
The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin
AuthorBernard Meehan
ISBN0500277907
The Book of Kells is a masterpiece of medieval art—a brilliantly decorated version of the four Gospels with full-page depictions of Christ, the Virgin and the Evangelists as well as a wealth of smaller decorative painting. The strange imagination displayed in the pages, the impeccable technique...
Jesus: An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land, and His People
AuthorLeith Anderson
ISBN0764224794
An expanded retelling of the life of Jesus, including all the details from the Gospels in chronological order, the geopolitical scene, the historical and cultural setting, and the likely emotions and motives of those who interacted with Him. Here is a great introduction to the greatest man who ever...
Early Christian Lives
AuthorCarolinne White
ISBN0140435263
Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographies depict men who devoted themselves to solitude, poverty and prayer. Athanasius records Antony's extreme seclusion in the Egyptian desert, despite...
Holy Bible: NIV Student
AuthorAnonymous
The New International Version, Faith Alive, Student Bible, edited by Rev. Carl C. Fickenscher II, has many features that help you to better understand God’s word. Key verses to memorize are in large print or shaded. There are sections that explain life in Bible times. “Let’s Live It!,” meaningfully...
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (Classics of Western Spirituality)
AuthorAthanasius of Alexandria
ISBN0809122952
I read a number of the Classics of Western Spirituality series for a class years ago and can't at this point remember much about which was which, but I'm pretty sure this was one of the ones I liked best. I'm skimming it in order to review. Overall the series is excellent, written in a clear and interesting...
Arabia and the Arabs
AuthorRobert G. Hoyland
ISBN0415195349
Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriors
Arabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and its peoples, from prehistory to the coming...
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