Recommended Reading

RECENT:

Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, John J. Collins
The Science of God, Gerald L. Schroeder
The Hidden Face of God, Gerald L. Schroeder,
God According to God: A Physicist Proves We’ve Been Wrong About God All along, Gerald L. Schroeder

 

 

HEBREW BIBLE

  • The ARTSCROLL English TANACH [The Stone Edition]
  • The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, J.H. Hertz,
  • The Living Torah, Aryeh Kaplan,
  • The Original Bible Project [A New Scholarly Translation of the Bible], James Tabor, chief editor

 

STUDY AIDS

  • Edward D. Andrews, BIBLE DIFFICULTIES: Debunking The Documentary Hypothesis
  • Rabbi Shai Cherry, Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary, from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times
  • John M. Frame, The Doctrine of GOD: A Theology of Lordship
  • Frederick E. Greenspahn, ed., The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship
  • Abraham Joshua Heschel
    • Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, [Essays edited by Susannah Heschel]
    • The Sabbath: It’s Meaning for Modern Man
    • The Prophets
    • Arthur Kurzweil, The Torah for Dummies
  • Moses Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed
  • Seymour Rossel, The Torah: Portion-by-Portion
  • Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Covenant and Conversation Series, [Genesis: The Book of Beginnings]
  • Watch Tower Society, The Divine Name that Will Endure Forever, [Jehovah’s Witnesses booklet]

 

HISTORY

  • Gary M. Burge, Lynn H. Cohick Gene L. Green, eds. The New Testament in Antiquity: A Survey of the New Testament Within Its Cultural Contexts
  • Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
  • Michael D. Coogan, ed., The Oxford History of the BIBLICAL WORLD
  • Max Dimont, Jews, God, and History
  • Terence Donaldson, Judaism and the Gentiles
  • Richard Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity
  • Jeremias Joachim, Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus
  • Josephus, The Complete Works,[ trans. William Whiston]
  • Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
  • William Nicholls, Christian Anti-Semitism: A History of Hate
  • Simon Markovich Dubnow, Jewish History: An Essay in the Philosophy of History
  • John Phillip Jenkins, JESUS WARS: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years
  • John H. Walton, Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible

 

APOLOGETICS

  • Yisroel Chaim Blumenthal, “The Elephant and the Suit” [A Critical Review of Dr. Michael L. Brown’s “Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus”
  • Michael Brown, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, 5 Volumes
  • Michoel Drazin, Their Hollow Inheritance
  • Jews for Judaism, “Contra Brown: Answering Dr. Brown’s Objections to Judaism”
  • Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, The Real Messiah
  • Samuel Levine, You Take Jesus, I’ll Take God: How to Refute Christian Missionaries

 

RELIGION/PHILOSOPHY

  • Michael Elias Dallen, The Rainbow Covenant
  • Edward K. Kaplan, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Kerry, Terry, Keiner, Faith, Noahic Covenant (Fellowship in The Scriptures Covenant Series)
  • Ronald Hendel, Remembering Abraham
  • Daniel Polish, Talking About God: Exploring the Meaning of Religious Life with Kierkegaard, Buber, Tillich and Heschel

JEWISH PERSPECTIVE

  • Rabbi Elliott J. Cosgrove, Jewish Theology in our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief
  • Moshe Halbertal, People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority
  • Goldie Milgram, Meaning & Mitzvah: Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice
  • Amy-Jill Levine, The Misunderstood Jew
  • Dovid Lieberman, Real Power
  • Harold S. Kushner, To Life! [A Celebration of Jewish Thinking and Being]
  • Hyman MacCoby, Antisemitism and Modernity (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)
  • David W. Nelson, Judaism, Physics and God: Searching for Sacred Metaphors in a Post-Einstein World
  • Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
  • Ken Shapiro, World Perfect
  • Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D., Twerski on Spirituality, Twerski on Prayer

 

 

WORLD RELIGIONS

  • John Blanchard, Does God believe in ATHEISTS?
  • K. Etue, Gen. Ed., Why So Many Gods?
  • Michael McKenzie, Richard Prime, Lisa George, Ray Dunning, Mythologies of the World: The Illustrated Guide to Mythological Beliefs & Customs
  • Robert P. Lightner, The God of the Bible and Other Gods: Is the Christian God Unique Among World Religions?
  • Ron Rhodes, The Complete Guide to Christian Denominations: Understanding the History, Beliefs, and Differences
  • Lew White, Fossilized Customs: The Pagan Origins of Popular Customs
  • Ravi Zacharias, Gen. Ed., The Kingdom of the Cults

CHRISTIANITY

  • Jacques B. Doukhan, Israel and the Church: Two Voices for the Same God
  • Bart D. Ehrman,
    • Misquoting Jesus
    • Whose Word Is It? –The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why
    • Forged: Writing in the Name of God–Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
  • Harvey Falk, Jesus the Pharisee
  • Nehemia Gordon, The Hebrew Yeshua vs. The Greek Jesus
  • Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Babylon or Jerusalem?
  • Hyam McCoby, The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity
  • Rev. William J. Morford, The Power New Testament: Revealing Jewish Roots
  • Ross Nichols, VIDEO: “Following Jesus out of Christianity”, [www.rootsoffaith.net]
  • James Tabor, The Jesus Dynasty: A New Historical Investigation of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity
  • James M. Robinson, The Gospel of Jesus: A Historical Search for the Original Good News
  • E.P. Sanders, The Religion of Jesus the Jew
  • Oskar Skarsaune, In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity
  • David Wenham, Did St. Paul Get Jesus Right: [The Gospel According to Paul]
  • L. Michael White, Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite
  • Marvin Wilson, Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith
  • Fred Wright, Father, Forgive Us: A Christian Response to the Church’s Heritage of Jewish Persecution
  • Geza Vermes, The Religion of Jesus the Jew
  • Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

 

HERMENEUTICS [from the Christian Perspective]

  • Martin Abegg, Jr., Peter Flint Eugene Ulrich, trans., The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible
  • Robert Alter & Frank Kermode, eds., The Literary Guide to the Bible
  • Willis Barnstone, ed., The Other Bible: Ancient Alternative Scriptures
  • Donald G. Bloesch, Holy Scriptures: Revelation, Inspiration and Interpretation
  • Gerald Bray, Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present
  • Mark Zvi Brettler, How to Read the Bible
  • F.F. Bruce, The Books and the Parchments: How We Got our English Bible & The Canon of Scripture
  • E.W. Bullinger, D.D., Figures of Speech Used in the Bible: Explained and Illustrated
  • Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible? & The Hidden Book in the Bible: The Discovery of the First Prose Masterpiece
  • Gordon D. Fee & Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth: A Guide to Understanding the Bible
  • William Girao, How to Understand the Bible Correctly
  • Norman Golb, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Search for the Secret of Qumran
  • A. Berkeley Mickelsen and Alvera M. Mickelsen, Understanding Scripture: How to Read and Study the Bible
  • Grant R. Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Conprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
  • Jarovslav Peliken, Whose Bible Is It?
  • Randall Price, The Temple in Biblical Prophecy: A Definitive Look at Its Past, Present and Future
  • Solomon J. Schepps, The Lost Books of the Bible
  • W. Randolph Tate, Biblical Interpretation: An Integrated Approach
  • J. Benton White, Taking the Bible Seriously: Honest Differenes About Biblical Interpretation
  • Edward J. Young, Thy Word is Truth
  • Roy B. Zuck, Basic Bible Interpretation: A Practical Guide to Discovering Biblical Truth

 

MESSIANIC Resources
  • Michael Barrett, P. V., Beginning at Moses: A guide to finding Christ in the Old Testament
  • Ariel & D’vorah Berkowitz, Take Hold
  • Ariel & D’vorah Berkowitz, Torah: Rediscovered
  • Michael Boaz, Torah Club
  • David Brickner, Christ in the Feast of Tabernacles
  • David Brickner & Rich Robinson, Christ in the Feast of Pentecost
  • Aaron Eby, Boundary Stones
  • J. E. Feinberg, Messianic Jewish Devotional Commentaries – Walk! Genesis to Deuteronomy
  • Dr. John & Patrice Fisher, The Distortion
  • Dr. John Fisher, The Enduring Paradox: Exploratory essays in Messianic Judaism
  • David Friedman, They Loved the Torah
  • Kevin Geoffrey, The Messianic Life
  • Kevin Geoffrey, Messianic Daily Devotional
  • Kaikjaer Hansen, Facts & Myths about the Messianic Congregation in Israel
  • Tim Hegg, Fellow Heirs: Jews & Gentiles together in the family of God
  • Tim Hegg, The Letter Writer: Paul’s background & Torah Perspective
  • Tim Hegg, It is often said (vol. 1 & 2)
  • Tim Hegg, Introduction to Torah Living
  • Tim Hegg, The Assessment of Divine Invitation
  • Tim Hegg, Light in the Darkness
  • Margaret Huey, Messianic Spring Holiday Helper
  • Rabbi Leon Klenicki, The Passover Celebration
  • Aaron Kligerman, Messianic Prophecy
  • Robert & Remy Koch, Christianity: New Religion or Sect of Biblical Judaism?
  • D. Thomas Lancaster, The Mystery of the Gospel: Jew and Gentile and the Eternal Purpose of God
  • D. Thomas Lancaster, Restoration: returning the Torah of God to the disciples of Jesus
  • D. Thomas Lancaster, King of the Jews: Resurrecting the Jewish Jesus
  • Boaz Michael, Passover Encounter
  • Dr. Ron Moseley, Yeshua: A guide to real Jesus & the original church
  • R.H. Mount Jr., A Land Born in a day
  • William J. Morford, The Power: New Testament Revealing Jewish Roots
  • T. A. Perry, God’s Twilight: Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible
  • Ceil & Morshe Rosen, Christ in the Passover
  • Ruth Rose, Jesus for Jews
  • Arthur Rowe, The Essence of Jesus
  • Yosef ben Ruach, Nazarene Israel: The original faith of the apostles
  • Barry & Steffi Rubin, The Sabbath: Entering God’s Rest
  • Stuart Sacks, Hebrew through a Hebrew’s eyes
  • Rabbi Samuel Sandmel, A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament
  • Edith Schaeffer, Christianity is Jewish
  • Victor Schlatter, Where is the body?: Discovering the church in the Heart of Israel
  • Joseph Shulam, A commentary on the Jewish Roots of Romans
  • A. B. Simpson, Christ in the Tabernacle
  • A. B. Simpson, Divine Emblems: Practical Lessons from Old Testament symbolism
  • Oskar Skarsaune, In the shadow of the temple: Jewish influences on early Christianity
  • Ann Sprangler, Sitting at the feet of Rabbi Jesus
  • David H. Stern, Messianic Judaism: a modern movement with an ancient past
  • David H. Stern, Messianic Jewish Manifesto
  • David H. Stern, Jewish New Testament Commentary
  • Johanna W.H. Wijk-Bos, Making Wise the Simple: The Torah in Christian Faith and Practice
  • Leonard C. Yassen, The Jesus connection: to triumph over anti-semitism
  • Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West
  • Martha Zimmerman, Celebrating Biblical Feast: In your home or church

 

ARTICLES

  • US News & World Report, Collector’s Edition [2009]: Secrets of the Bible