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.
General topics
Bird, Michael F. & James G. Crossley (2008). How Did Christianity Begin? A Believer and Non-believer Examine the Evidence. Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.
Corley, Kathleen E. (2002). Women and the Historical Jesus: Feminist Myths of Christian Origins. Polebridge Press.
Freeman, Charles (2009). A New History of Early Christianity. Yale University Press.
Fredriksen, Paula (2024). Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years. Princeton University Press.
Greene, Ciara & Gillian Murphy (2025). Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember. Princeton 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.
The resurrection
Allison, Dale C. (2005). “Resurrecting Jesus,” pp. 198-375 in Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters. T&T Clark.
Barclay, John M. G. (1996). “The Resurrecton in Contemporary New Testament Scholarship,” in Gavin D’Costa, ed., Resurrection Reconsidered, pp. 13-30.
D’Costa, Gavin, ed. (1996). Resurrection Reconsidered. Oneworld.
Gundry, Robert H. (1976). Sōma in Biblical Theology with Emphasis on Pauline Anthropology. Cambridge University Press.
Habermas, Gary R. (2024) “Conclusion: From the Disciples’ Experience to Real Appearances,” pp. 939-962 in On the Resurrection, Vol. 1: Evidences. B&H Academic.
Levenson, Jon D. (2006). Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life. Yale University Press.
Licona, Michael R. (2010). The Resurrection of Jesus. InterVarsity Press.
Lüdemann, Gerd (2004). The Resurrection of Christ: A Historical Inquiry. Prometheus Books.
Martin, Dale B. (1995). The Corinthian Body. Yale University Press.
Morray-Jones, C.R.A. (1993a). “Paradise Revisited (2 Cor 12:1-12): Jewish Mystical Background of Paul’s Apostolate, Part 1: The Jewish Sources.” Harvard Theological Review, 86:2, pp. 177-217.
Morray-Jones, C.R.A. (1993a). “Paradise Revisited (2 Cor 12:1-12): Jewish Mystical Background of Paul’s Apostolate, Part 2: Paul’s Heavenly Ascent and its Significance.” Harvard Theological Review, 86:3, pp. 265-292.
Pilch, John J. (2011) Flights of the Soul: Visions, Heavenly Journeys, and Peak Experiences in the Biblical World. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
Segal, Alan F. (2004). Life after Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion. Doubleday.
Smith, Daniel A. (2010). Revisiting the Empty Tomb: The Early History of Easter. Fortress Press.
Wright, N.T. (2003). The Resurrection of the Son of God. Fortress Press.
The life and death of Jesus
Akenson, Donald Harman (2000). Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus. Oxford University Press.
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.
Fredriksen, Paula (2025). “Herod’s Temple,” presentation at New Insights into the New Testament Conference 2025.
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.
Perry, John Michael (1993). Exploring the Transfiguration Story. Sheed & Ward.
Sanders, E.P. (1985). Jesus and Judaism. Fortress Press.
Pre-70 C.E. Christianity
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.
Lendering, Jona (2020). “Qumran’s dual Messianism,” Livius website, accessed October 2025.
Tabor, James (2017). “One or Two Messiahs?–What Christians and Jews Have Overlooked,” Religion Matters website, accessed October 2025.
The gospels
Burridge, Richard A. (2004). What Are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography, 2nd edition. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
Croy, N. Clayton. (2003). The Mutilation of Mark’s Gospel. Abingdon Press.
Ferguson, Matthew. (2015). “The Certamen of Homer and Hesiod and the Gospels of the New Testament: A Comparison of Biographical Genre.” Presented at the Pacific Coast Society of Biblical Literature, March 2016.
Ferguson, Matthew. (2016). “Greek Popular Biography: Romance, Contest, Gospel.” ἱστορία φιλοσοφία σκέψις website.
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.
Jesus Reconstructed 