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An Introduction to the New Testament

10 best books like An Introduction to the New Testament (Raymond E. Brown): Sorcerer to the Crown, Malgudi Days, Lords and Ladies, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Orientalism, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Myra Breckinridge, Dynasty of Evil, Julian, Searching for God Knows What

Sorcerer to the Crown
AuthorZen Cho
ISBN0425283372
Magic and mayhem collide with the British elite in this whimsical and sparkling debut.

At his wit’s end, Zacharias Wythe, freed slave, eminently proficient magician, and Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers—one of the most respected organizations throughout all of Britain—ventures...
Malgudi Days
AuthorR.K. Narayan
ISBN0143039652
Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan’s centennial

Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India “the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.” Composed of powerful, magical...
Lords and Ladies
AuthorTerry Pratchett
A Discworld Novel. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere-even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewseyy Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning...Everything ought to be going like a dream. But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have...
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
AuthorReza Aslan
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker...
Orientalism
AuthorEdward W. Said
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
AuthorJudith Butler
ISBN0415389550
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that...
Myra Breckinridge
AuthorGore Vidal
ISBN1125979488
Determined to reinvent himself and explore new territory in his work, Gore Vidal published a provocative satirical work destined to be on a collision course with social conventions in 1968. Written as a diary, Myra Breckinridge, someone determined not to be possessed by any man, recounts her day as...
Dynasty of Evil
AuthorDrew Karpyshyn
ISBN0345511565
Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and pass on the wisdom, and one apprentice to learn, challenge, and ultimately usurp the Dark Lord in a duel...
Julian
AuthorGore Vidal
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.

Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest...
Searching for God Knows What
AuthorDonald Miller
ISBN0785263713
In Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller's provocative and funny book, he shows readers that the greatest desire of "every" person is the desire for redemption. Every person is constantly seeking redemption (or at least the feeling of it) in his or her life, believing countless gospels that promise...
Foe
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians , J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe—and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself

In 1720 the eminent man of letters...
The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology
AuthorJürgen Moltmann
ISBN0800628225
"This is Jürgen Moltmann's best and therefore most important book. He has substantially changed the central thrust of his theology without sacrificing its most vital element, its passionate concern for alleviation of the world's suffering."
-Langdon Gilkey

"The Crucified God rewards,...
Life Before Man
AuthorMargaret Atwood
ISBN0385491107
Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate,...
Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear
AuthorMax Lucado
ISBN0849921392
Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

They're talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word "terror."...
Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God (and the unlikely people who help you)
AuthorJim Palmer
ISBN0849913985
What does a Hip-Hop artist, Waffle House waitress, tire salesman, and disabled girl have to do with discovering spiritual truth? What if embracing authentic Christianity is a journey of unlearning? Welcome to Jim Palmer's world!
Don Miller meets Anne Lamott meets Brian McLaren in this tale of...
The Meaning of Jesus
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
ISBN0060608765
Was Jesus born of a virgin? Did he know he was the Messiah? Was he bodily resurrected from the dead? Did he intentionally die to redeem humankind? Was Jesus God?

In The Meaning of Jesus two leading Jesus scholars with widely divergent views go right to the heart of these questions and others, presenting...
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
AuthorJohn Dominic Crossan
ISBN0060616628
Crossan does a textual analysis of canonical gospels, non canonical gospels and other extrabiblical texts using fields of study such as medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and biblical archaeology to create a reconstruction of the historical Jesus. What i appreciate most about this...
I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God
AuthorBilquis Sheikh
ISBN0800793242
How do I give myself to God completely? What happens when I do? I Dared to Call Him Father is a book for everyone who has ever asked these questions.
It is the fascinating true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman in South Asia who faced these questions at the crossroads of her life -- and...
The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond
AuthorBill Hybels
ISBN0310591961
I must admit that I started to read this book with a fair amount of prejudice. I had always heard Bill Hybels and Willow Creek referred to in a condescending manner. I was pleasantly surprised. While I'm sure I still disagree with Hybels on a number of things, I found little to actually criticize in this...
Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels
AuthorPheme Perkins
In this book respected New Testament scholar Pheme Perkins delivers a clear, fresh, informed introduction to the earliest written accounts of Jesus ? Matthew, Mark, and Luke ? situating those canonical Gospels within the wider world of oral storytelling and literary production of the first and second...
The Theology of Paul the Apostle
AuthorJames D.G. Dunn
ISBN0802844235
In this major work, James D. G. Dunn brings together more than two decades of vigorous and creative work on interpreting the letters of Paul into an integrated, full-scale study of Paul's thought.

Using Paul's letter to the Romans as the foundation for constructing a fuller exposition of Paul's...
St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate
AuthorKaren Armstrong
ISBN0544617398
St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity throughout...
Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation
AuthorAndrew Pettegree
ISBN1594204969
A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary

When an obscure monk named Martin Luther tacked his “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually...
Codename Villanelle
AuthorLuke Jennings
ISBN0316512524
Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential...
When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam
AuthorMichael Philip Penn
ISBN0520284941
The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under Muslim rule from the seventh century...
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
AuthorBart D. Ehrman
ISBN0195154622
This new edition of Bart Ehrman's highly successful introduction approaches the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Rather than shying away from the critical problems presented by these...
God and the World of Signs: Trinity, Evolution, and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C. S. Peirce
AuthorAndrew J.N. Robinson
ISBN9004187995
Christianity has been described as a religion seeking a metaphysic . Drawing on the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, Robinson develops a metaphysical framework centred around a semiotic model of the Trinity. The model invites a fresh approach to the claim that Jesus was the incarnate Word of God and suggests...
The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
AuthorPaul Hattaway
The dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders.
This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the front line for Jesus, in the face of impossible odds....
From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology
AuthorJohn Dyer
ISBN0825426685
Where does technology belong in the biblical story of redemption? Believers and unbelievers alike are saturated with technology, yet most give it little if any thought. Consumers buy and upgrade as fast as they can, largely unaware of technology's subtle yet powerful influence. In a world where technology...
Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are
AuthorCraig Groeschel
ISBN0310333717
You are NOT who you think you are. In fact, according to bestselling author Craig Groeschel in Altar Ego, you need to take your idea of your own identity, lay it down on the altar, and sacrifice it. Give it to God. Offer it up.

Why? Because you are who GOD says you are. And until you’ve sacrificed...
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