Ben-Chorin, Schalom. Brother Jesus: The Nazarene Through Jewish Eyes. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Borg, Marcus J.  Jesus:  A New Vision.  San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1987.

_____.  Jesus and Buddha:  The Parallel Sayings.  Berkeley:  Ulysses Press, 1997.

_____.  Jesus at 2000.  Oxford:  Westview, 1997.

_____.  Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship.  Harrisburg, PA:  Trinity Press International, 1994.

_____.  Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time.  San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.

_____.  The Lost Gospel Q:  The Original Sayings of Jesus.  Berkeley:  Seastone, 1999.

_____.  The Meaning of Jesus:  Two Visions.  San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.

Borsch, Frederick Houk.  Many Things in Parables.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1988.

Brown, Raymond E.  The Birth of the Messiah.  New York:  Doubleday, 1979.

Buechner, Frederick.  The Faces of Jesus.  New York:  Stearn/Harper & Row, 1989.

Cameron, Ron.  The Other Gospels:  Non-Canonical Gospel Texts. Philadelphia:  Westminster Press, 1982.

Carlson, Jeffrey. Jesus and Faith: A Conversation on the Work of John Dominic Crossan. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994.

Cartlidge, David R.  Documents for the Study of the Gospels.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1989.

Charlesworth, James H.  Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls.  New York:  Doubleday, 1992.

_____.  Jesus Two Thousand Years Later.  Harrisburg, PA:  Trinity Press International, 2000.

_____.  Jesus’ Jewishness:  Exploring the Place of Jesus in Early Judaism.  New York:  Crossroad Herder, 1997.

_____.  Jesus Within Judaism.  New York:  Doubleday, 1988.

_____.  Hillel and Jesus:  Comparisons of Two Major Religious Leaders.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 1997.

Chilton, Bruce.  Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography.  New York:  Doubleday, 2000.

Copan, Paul.  Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?  Grand Rapids:  Baker Books, 1999.

Crossan, John Dominic.  Excavating Jesus: Beneath The Stones, Behind The Texts.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.

_____.  The Birth of Christianity:  Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus.  San
    Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1998.

_____.  The Historical Jesus:  The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant.  San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.

_____.  Who Is Jesus?  Louisville, Kentucky:  Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.

_____.  Who Killed Jesus:  Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of The Death of Jesus.  San Francisco:
    HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.

Dart, John.  The Jesus of Heresy and History.  San Francisco:  Harper & Row, 1988.

Ehrman, Bart D.  Jesus:  Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium.  Oxford:  University Press, 1999.

Eisenman, Robert.  James the Brother of Jesus.  New York:  Penguin Books, 1998.

Fredriksen, Paula. From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus. New Haven: Yale University Press,
    1988.

_____.  Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews:  A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Funk, Robert W.  Honest to Jesus:  Jesus for a New Millennium.  San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.

Grant, Robert M. Jesus After the Gospels: The Christ of the Second Century. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press,
    1990.

Griffith-Jones, Robin.  The Four Witnesses. San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 2000.

Haskins, Susan.  Mary Magadalen:  Myth and Metaphor.  New York:  Riverhead Books, 1993.

Johnson, Luke Timothy.  Living Jesus:  Learning the Heart of the Gospel.  San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1998.

_____.  The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels.  San Francisco:
    HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.

Khalidi, Tarif.  The Muslim Jesus:  Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 2001.

Koester, Helmut.  Ancient Christian Gospels:  Their History and Development.  Philadelphia:  Trinity Press International, 1990.

Loya, Joseph A.  The Tao of Jesus:  An Experiment in Inter-traditional Understanding.  New York:  Paulist Press, 1998.

Mack, Burton L.  The Lost Gospel:  The Book of Q and Christian Origins.  San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

Malina, Bruce J.  The Social World of Jesus and the Gospels.  London:  Routledge, 1996.

Martin, Raymond.  The Elusive Messiah:  A Philosophical Overview of the Quest for the Historical Jesus.  Oxford:  Westview,
    1999.

Meier, John P.  A Marginal Jew:  Rethinking the Historical Jesus.  New York: Doubleday, 1987.

Meyer, Marvin W.  The Secret Teachings of Jesus:  Four Gnostic Gospels.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1986.

_____.  The Gospel of Thomas:  The Hidden Sayings of Jesus.  San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

Miller, John W.  Jesus at Thirty:  A Psychological and Historical Portrait.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 1997.

Murphy, Frederick J. The Religious World of Jesus: An Introduction to Second Temple Palestinian Judaism. Nashville: Abingdon
    Press, 1991.

Pagels, Elaine.  The Gnostic Gospels.  New York:  Random House,1979.

Parrinder, Geoffrey.  Jesus in the Qur’an.  Oxford:  Oneworld, 1995.

Pelikan, Jaroslav.  Jesus Through the Centuries:  His Place in the History of Culture.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1985.

Porter, J. R.  Jesus Christ:  The Jesus of History, The Christ of Faith.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Riley, Gregory J.  One Jesus, Many Christs:  How Jesus Inspired Not One True Christianity, But Many.  San Francisco:
    HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.

Rousseau, John J.  Jesus and His World:  An Archaeological and Cultural Dictionary.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 1995.

Rowland, Christopher.  Christian Origins:  From Messianic Movement to Christian Religion.  Minneapolis:  Augsburg, 1985

Sanders, E. P.  Jesus and Judaism.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1985.

Shorto, Russell.  Gospel Truth:  The New Image of Jesus Emerging from Science and History and Why It Matters.  New York:
    Riverhead Books, 1997.

Smith, Morton.  Jesus the Magician.  San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1978.

Spong, John Shelby.  Liberating the Gospels:  Reading the Gospels with Jewish Eyes.  San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.

Stegemann, Ekkehard W.  The Jesus Movement: A Social History of It's First Century.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 1999.

Stern, Richard C.  Savior on the Silver Screen.  New York:  Paulist Press, 1999.

Theissen, Gerd.  The Historical Jesus:  A Comprehensive Guide.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 1998.

Throckmorton, Burton H.  Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of The Synoptic Gospels.  New York:  Thomas Nelson, 1993.

Vermes, Geza.  Jesus the Jew:  A Historians Reading of the Gospels.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1981.

_____.  The Religion of Jesus the Jew.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 1993.

_____.  The Changing Faces of Jesus.  New York:  Viking Compass, 2001.

Wilson, A. N.  Jesus:  A Life.  New York:  Fawcett Columbine, 1992.

Wright, N. T.  Jesus and the Victory of God.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 1996.

Wroe, Ann.  Pontius Pilate.  New York: Random House, 1999.

Wylen, Stephen M.  The Jews in the Time of Jesus.  New York:  Paulist Press,1996.

Zeitlin, Irving.  Jesus and the Judaism of His Time.  Oxford:  Polity Press, 1989.
 
 

I also have a number of first-rate commentaries on each of the gospel texts, canonical and non-canonical, we will be studying.  My personal library is well stocked with many dictionaries, handbooks and encyclopedias dealing with biblical and first- & second-century CE cultural studies.  If you would like to preview any of the books in this bibliography before going to the library or your favorite bookstore, let me know and I will make them available in my office.  If you are unable to find one of these books in the EMU or U-M libraries, you may borrow it from me.