Some Sources

This is a list of sources I refer to on the website or have consulted for it, or that I read recently and have informed my views on the subjects.

Bird, Michael F. & James G. Crossley (2008). How Did Christianity Begin? A Believer and Non-believer Examine the Evidence. Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.

Bond, Helen (2025). “Last 24 Hours of Jesus’ Life,” presentation at New Insights into the New Testament Conference 2025.

Brown, Raymond E., S.S. (1994) The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave, A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels, vol. 2. Doubleday.

Carrier, Richard (2025). The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus. Pitchstone Publishing.

Ehrman, Bart D. (2012). The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. Oxford University Press.

Ehrman, Bart D. (2014). How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee. HarperOne.

Ehrman, Bart D. (2016). Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior. HarperOne.

Fredriksen, Paula (2025). “Herod’s Temple,” presentation at New Insights into the New Testament Conference 2025.

Freeman, Charles (2009). A New History of Early Christianity. Yale University Press.

Greene, Ciara & Gillian Murphy (2025). Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember. Princeton University Press.

Knohl, Israel (2022). The Messiah Confrontation: Pharisees versus Sadducees and the Death of Jesus. University of Nebraska Press.

Lacey, James (2025). The Year God Died: Jesus and the Roman Empire in 33 AD. Bantam.

Lendering, Jona (2020). “Qumran’s dual Messianism,” Livius website, accessed October 2025.

Levenson, Jon D. (2006). Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life. Yale University Press.

Mason, Steve & Tom Robinson (2013). Early Christian Reader: Christian texts from the first and second centuries in contemporary English translations, including the New Revised Standard Version of the New Testament. Society of Biblical Literature.

Pagels, Elaine (2025). Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus. Doubleday.

Sanders, E.P. (1985). Jesus and Judaism. Fortress Press.

Segal, Alan F. (2004). Life after Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion. Doubleday.

Tabor, James (2017). “One or Two Messiahs?–What Christians and Jews Have Overlooked,” Religion Matters website, accessed October 2025.

Tabor, James (2025). “The Making of a Messiah: How the Gospels Shaped Jesus and Jesus Shaped the Gospels,” presentation at New Insights into the New Testament Conference 2025.

Walsh, Robyn Faith (2021). The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture. Cambridge University Press.