Bible Reading List

● The Bible
● The Apocrypha
● The Dead Sea Scrolls
● Poet and Peasant Through Peasant Eyes - Kenneth Bailey
● Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes - Kenneth Bailey
● New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus: Insights from His Jewish Context - David,
Bivin
● The Gospel according to Moses: Why My Jewish Friends Taught Me about Jesus - Athol
Dickson
● Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice - Wayne
Dosick
● Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels - Craig Evans
● The Sage from Galilee: Rediscovering Jesus’ Genius - David Flusser
● The Jewish Reclamation of Jesus: An Analysis and Critique of the Modern Jewish Study
of Jesus - Donald Hagner
● The Sabbath - Abraham Heschel
● God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism - Abraham Heschel
● Man’s Quest for God - Abraham Heschel
● The Prophets - Abraham Heschel
● The Feasts of the Lord - Kevin Howard and Marvin Rosenthal
● Traditions of the Rabbis from the Era of the New Testament Vol 1 - David Instone-Brewer
● Archaeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture -
Walter Kaiser
● God’s Appointed Times - Barney Kasdan
● What Every Christian Needs to Know about Passover - Evan Moffic
● Theology in Rabbinic Stories - Chaim Pearl
● Behold the Man! - Dwight Pryor
● Unveiling the Kingdom of Heaven - Dwight Pryor
● The Jewish People in the First Century - Shmuel Safrai
● A Family Guide to Biblical Holidays - Robin Sampson and Linda Pierce
● Aspects of Rabbinic Theology - Solomon Schechter
● Let Us Break Bread Together: A Passover Haggadah for Christians - Michael Smith and
Rami Shapiro
● Jewish New Testament Commentary - David Stern
● Jewish Literacy - Joseph Telushkin
● The Book of Jewish Values - Joseph Telushkin
● A Code of Jewish Ethics Vol 1 - Joseph Telushkin
● Words That Hurt, Words That Heal: How to Choose Words Wisely and Well - Joseph
Telushkin
● Listening to the Language of the Bible: Hearing It Through Jesus’ Ears - Lois Tverberg
and Bruch Okkema
● Listening to the Language of the Bible: Companion Bible Study - Lois Tverberg
● Walking in the Bust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your
LIfe - Lois Tverberg
● Reading the Bible with Rabbi Jesus: How a Jewish Perspective Can Transform Your
Understanding - Lois Tverberg
● 5 Hebrew Words that Every Christian Should Know - Lois Tverberg
● Faith Lessons - Ray Vander Laan
● Moments & Days: How Our Holy Celebrations Shape Our Faith - Michelle Van Loon
● Cultural Backgrounds NIV Study Bible - John Walton and Craig Keener
● Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith - Marvin Wilson
● Jesus the Jewish Theologian - Brad Young
● The Parables: Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation
● The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Gospels - Daniel Boyarin
● One Bible, Many Versions: Are All Translations Created Equal? - Dave Brunn
● Jesus, the Middle Eastern Storyteller - Gary Burge
● The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
● The Torah Revolution: Fourteen Truths That Changed the World - Reuven Hammer
● Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels - Richard Hayes
● Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul - Richard Hayes
● Reading Backwards Richard Hayes
● The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls - Israel Knohl
● Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot-and-Cold Climate Cultures - Sarah
Lanier
● The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective - Pinchas Lapide
● Meaning Across Cultures - Eugene Nida
● Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Says and Why It Matters - Iain
Provan
● Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes - Randolph Richards and Brandon O’Brien
● The Epic of Eden - Sandra Richter
● The Syrian Christ - Abraham Rihbany
● Introduction to Messianic Judaism - David Rudolph and Joe Willits
● Understanding Genesis: The World of the Bible in Light of History - Nahum Sarna
● Exploring Exodus: The Origins of the Biblical Israel - Nahum Sarna
● The Lost World of Genesis One - John Walton
● Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament - John Walton
● Ancient Israelite LIterature in its Cultural Context, A Survey of Parallels Between Biblical
and Ancient Near Eastern Texts - John Walton
● A Survey of the Old Testament - John Walton
● Covenant: God’s Purpose, God’s Plan - John Walton
● Old Testament Today - John Walton
● Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology - John Walton
● The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority - John Walton
● The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate - John
Walton
● The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the
Canaanites - John Walton
● The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate - John Walton
● The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context
● Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology: Reading the Biblical Text in Its Cultural and
Literary Context - John Walton
● How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels - N.T. Wright
● Paul and the Faithfulness of God - N.T. Wright
● One Gospel for all the Nations - Jackson Wu
● How To Read and Understand the Biblical Prophets - Peter Gentry
● Interpreting the Prophets: Reading Understanding, and Preaching from the Worlds of the
Prophets - Aaron Chalmers
● The Unseen Realm - Michael Heiser
● Supernatural: What the Bible Teaches about the Unseen World and Why it Matters -
Michael Heiser
● Demons - Michael Heiser
● Angels - Michael Heiser
● The Bible Unfiltered: Approaching Scripture on Its Own Terms - Michael Heiser
● I Dare You Not to Bore Me with the Bible - Michael Heiser
● Brief Insights on Mastering the Bible Study: 80 Expert Insights Explained in a Single
Minute - Michael Heiser
● Genesis Unbound: A Provocative New Look and the Creation
● God in Translation: Cross Cultural Recognitions of Deities in the Biblical World - Mark
Smith
● Israelite Religions - Richard Hess
● Covenant: The History of a Biblical Idea - Delbert Hillers
● Did God Really Command Genocide: Coming to Terms with the Justice of God - Paul
Copan and Matthew Flannagan
● Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham - Michael Bergmann, Michael
Murray, and Michael Rea
● The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches - Ziony Zevit
● Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia - Karen Rea and Nemet-Nejat
● Is God A Moral Monster - Paul Copan
● Encountering the Book of Psalms - A Literary and Theological Introduction - C. Hassell
Bullock
 Web Resources

● Our Rabbi Jesus

● En-Gedi Resource Center
● Center for Judaic-Christian Studies
● That the World May Know
● Jerusalem Perspective
● Hebrew for Christians
● Torah Class
● Jewish Encyclopedia
● The Bible Project
● Naked Bible Podcast

Biblical Scholars to Look Into

John Walton
Michael Heiser
Tim Mackey
Daniel De Silva
Mark Smith
Abraham Heschel
Paul Copan
John Sailhamer

Areas the Book List Needs More Of

Genre and Book Specific Literature/Commentaries

Biblical Archaeology
Parallel History and Culture
Textual Criticism
Biblical Themes (Resurrection, Teachings of Jesus, ect)