1. PAUL THE APOSTLE: SURVEYS & INTRODUCTIONS

 

Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, Paul: A Critical Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) paperback, $20.  An up-to-date “biography” of St. Paul.  Murphy-O’Connor is rightly suspicious of the value of the material from Luke’s Acts and reconstructs things almost entirely from Paul’s letters. 

 

James D.G. Dunn, ed., The Cambridge Companion to St. Paul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) paperback, $24.  Like others in this series, this collection of essays provides a good introductory overview.

 

Richard S. Ascough, What are they saying about the Formation of the Pauline Churches? (New York: Paulist Press, 1998) paperback, $10.

Jouette M. Bassler, Navigating Paul: An Introduction to Key Theological Concepts (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2007) paperback, $20.  NEW.

Jurgen Becker, Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles (Louisville, KY: Westminster / John Knox, 1993).

J. Christiaan Beker, Paul the Apostle: The Triumph of God in Life and Thought (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984) paperback, $25.

J. Christiaan Beker, The Triumph of God: The Essence of Paul’s Thought, trans. Loren T. Stuckenbruck (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990) paperback, $16.

D. Boyarin, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).

David A. Brondos, Paul on the Cross: Reconstructing the Apostle’s Story of Redemption (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006) paperback, $20.  NEW.

Charles Cousar, A Theology of the Cross: The Death of Jesus in the Pauline Letters, Overtures to Biblical Theology 24 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990) paperback, $17.

Nils Dahl, Studies in Paul: A Theology for Early Christian Mission (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1977).

William D. Davies, Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982).

James D.G. Dunn, The Theology of Paul the Apostle (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1997) hardcover, $46.

Kathy Ehrensperger, Paul and the Dynamics of Power: Communication and Interaction in the Early Christ-Movement, Library of New Testament Studies (New York: T&T Clark, 2007) hardcover, $140.  NEW.

Troels Engberg-Pedersen, ed., Paul in Hellenistic Context (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995) hardcover, $40.

Gordon D. Fee, God’s Empowering Presence: the Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994) hardcover, $40.

Gordon D. Fee, Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2007) hardcover, $40.  NEW.

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Paul and His Theology: A Brief Sketch (Prentice-Hall, 1998) paperback, $23.

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, According to Paul: Studies in the Theology of the Apostle (New York: Paulist Press, 1993) paperback, $13

Fred O. Francis & J. Paul Sampley, Pauline Parallels, revised ed. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1987) paperback, $24.  Like Throckmorton’s Gospel Parallels, this lines up parallels & doublets in Paul’s letters.

Victor Paul Furnish, Jesus According to Paul, Understanding Jesus Today Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) paperback, $14.

Victor Paul Furnish, The Moral Teaching of Paul: Selected Issues, 2nd rev. ed. (Nashville: Abingdon, 1985) paperback, $15.

John C. Gager, Reinventing Paul (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) paperback, $15. 

Robert G. Hammerton-Kelly, Sacred Violence: Paul’s Hermeneutic of the Cross (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992).

Gerald Hawthorne, Ralph Martin, & Daniel Reid, eds., Dictionary of Paul and His Letters: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1993) hardcover, $50.

Craig S. Keener, Paul, Women, and Wives: Marriage and Women’s Ministry in the Letters of Paul (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1992) paperback, $15.

Helmut Koester, Paul and His World: Interpreting the New Testament in Its Context (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007) hardcover, $39.  NEW.

Veronica Koperski, What are they saying about Paul and the Law (New York: Paulist Press, 2001) paperback, $13.

Michelle V. Lee, Paul, the Stoics, and the Body of Christ, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) hardcover, $90.  NEW.

Eugene Lovering & Jerry L. Sumney, ed., Theology and Ethics in Paul & His Interpreters: Essays in Honor of Victor Paul Furnish (Nashville: Abingdon, 1996) paperback, $20.

Abraham Malherbe, Paul and the Popular Philosophers (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989).

Bruce J. Malina & John J. Pilch, Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006) paperback, $27.  NEW.

Bruce J. Malina & Jerome H. Neyrey, Portraits of Paul: An Archeology of Ancient Personality (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1996) paperback, $30.

Bruce J. Malina, Timothy: Paul’s Closest Associate, Paul’s Social Network (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2008) paperback, $17.  NEW.

J. Louis Martyn, Theological Issues in the Letters of Paul (Nashville: Abingdon, 1997) hardcover, $40.

Wayne Meeks, The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983) paperback, $19.  A widely-acclaimed social analysis of the early Christian movement.

Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, Paul the Letter-Writer: His World, His Options, His Skills (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1995) paperback, $14.

John J. Pilch, Stephen: Paul and the Hellenist Israelites, Paul’s Social Network series (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2008) paperback, $10.  NEW.

Calvin J. Roetzel, Paul, The Man and the Myth, Personalities of the New Testament Series (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999) paperback, $22.

Calvin J. Roetzel, The Letters of Paul: Conversations in Context, 4th ed. (Westminster John Knox, 1998) paperback, $25.

J. Paul Sampley, Walking Between the Times: Paul’s Moral Reasoning (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991) paperback, $15.

E.P. Sanders, Paul: A Very Short Introduction, rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) paperback, $10.

E.P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983) paperback, $30.  A landmark study.

E.P. Sanders, Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985) paperback, $23.

Alan F. Segal, Paul the Convert: the Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990) paperback, $20.

Gerd Theissen, The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity: Essays on Corinth, trans. John Schulz (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982).

Ben Witherington III, Paul’s Narrative Thought World (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1994).

Ben Witherington III, The Paul Quest: The Renewed Search for the Jew of Tarsus (Downer’s Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1999) paperback, $23.

N.T. Wright, Paul in Fresh Perspective (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2005) paperback, $25.

N.T. Wright, The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992) paperback, $21.

 

 2. THE LETTERS OF PAUL: COMMENTARIES & STUDIES

 

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Romans, Anchor Bible 33 (New York: Doubleday, 1993) hardcover, $40.  Fitzmyer’s treatment of Pauline theology has long been one of the finest.  This is the exhaustive study, the fruit of a lifetime’s research.

 

C.K. Barrett, A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, Harper’s New Testament Commentaries (New York: Harper & Row, 1968).

C.K. Barrett, A Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Harper’s New Testament Commentaries (New York: Harper & Row, 1973).

Markus Barth & Helmut Blanke, Colossians, Anchor Bible 34B, trans. Astrid Beck (New York: Doubleday, 1995) hardcover.

Jouette Bassler, Pauline Theology, vol. I: Thessalonians, Philippians, Galatians, Philemon (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994) paperback, $22.

Jouette Bassler, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Abingdon New Testament Commenataries (Nashville: Abingdon) paperback, $21.

Ernest Best, Second Corinthians, Interpretation Series (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1997) hardcover, $22.

Hans Dieter Betz, Galatians: A Commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Churches in Galatia, Hermeneia Series (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1979).

Hans Dieter Betz, 2 Corinthians 8 and 9: A Commentary on Two Administrative Letters, Hermeneia Series (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).

Christopher Bryan, A Preface to Romans: Notes on the Epistle in its Literary and Cultural Setting (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) hardcover, $60.

Brendan Byrne, Romans, Sacra Pagina 6 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1996) NEW in paperback, $35.

Raymond F. Collins, The Birth of the New Testament: The Origin and Development of the First Christian Generation (New York: Crossroad, 1993).  Despite the title, a study of the Letter to the Thessalonians.

Raymond F. Collins, First Corinthians, Sacra Pagina 7 (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1999) NEW in paperback, $40.

Raymond F. Collins, 1 &  2 Timothy and Titus: A Commentary, New Testament Library (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002) hardcover, $35.

P. Coutsoumpos, Community, Conflict, and the Eucharist in Roman Corinth: The Social Setting of Paul’s Letter (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2006) paperback, $26.  NEW.

Hans Conzelmann, 1 Corinthians: A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, Hermeneia, trans. James W. Leitch (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975).

Charles B. Cousar, Galatians, Interpretation Commentary (Louisville, KY: John Knox, 1982) hardcover, $25.

A. Andrew Das, ed, Solving the Romans Debate (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2007) paperback, $24.  NEW.

Karl P. Donfried, The Romans Debate, revised ed. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1977; reprint: Peabody, MA: Hendrikson, 1991).

Karl P. Donfried, The Theology of the Shorter Pauline Letters, New Testament Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) paperback, $16.

James D.G. Dunn, The Theology of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, New Testament Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) paperback, $16.

James D.G. Dunn, Romans 1-8, Word Biblical Commentary 38A (Word Books, 1988) hardcover, $33.

James D.G. Dunn, Romans 9-16, Word Biblical Commentary 38B (Word Books, 1988) hardcover, $33. 

Joseph Fitzmyer, The Letter to Philemon, Anchor Bible 34C (New York: Doubleday, 2001) hardcover, $22.

Victor Paul Furnish, 2 Corinthians, Anchor Bible 32A (New York: Doubleday, 1984) hardcover, $42.

Mark Harding, What are they saying about the Pastoral Epistles? (New York: Paulist Press, 2001) paperback, $13.

David Hay, Colossians, Abingdon New Testament Commentaries (Nashville: Abingdon, 2000) paperback, $22.

David H. Hay, ed., Pauline Theology, Vol. II: 1 & 2 Corinthians (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993) hardcover, $40.

David H. Hay & E. Elizabeth Johnson, Pauline Theology, Vol. III: Romans (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995) hardcover, $40.

Richard A. Horsley, 1Corinthians, Abingdon New Testament Commentary (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998) paperback, $21.

Robert Jewett, Romans: A Commentary, Hermeneia series (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006) hardcover, $90.  NEW.

Luke Timothy Johnson, Reading Romans: A Literary and Theological Commentary, Reading the New Testament Series (New York: Crossroad, 1997) paperback, $25.

Luke Timothy Johnson, The First and Second Letters to Timothy, Anchor Bible 35A (New York: Doubleday, 2001) hardcover, $45.

Ernst Kasemann, Commentary on Romans (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1980).

Jan Lambrecht, Second Corinthians, Sacra Pagina 8 (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1999) NEW in paperback, $30.

Eduard Lohse, Colossians and Philemon: A Commentary on the Epistles, Hermeneia (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971).

Abraham J. Malherbe, The Letter to the Thessalonians, Anchor Bible 32B (New York: Doubleday, 2000) hardcover, $50.

Frank J. Matera, Galatians, Sacra Pagina 9 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press [A Michael Glazier Book], 1992) paperback, $30.

Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, St. Paul’s Corinth: Texts and Archeology, Good News Studies (Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1983).  A compendium of ancient texts that brings alive the world of Paul.

Margaret Y. MacDonald, Colossians and Ephesians, Sacra Pagina 17 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000) hardcover, $40.

Carolyn Osiek, Philippians, Philemon, Abingdon New Testament Commentaries (Nashville: Abingdon, 2000) paperback, $21.

Jerome D. Quinn, The First and Second Letters to Timothy Anchor Bible 35A (New York: Doubleday, 1995) hardcover, $40.

Jerome D. Quinn & William C. Wacker, The First and Second Letters to Timothy, Eerdmans Critical Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999) hardcover, $65.

Earl J. Richard, First and Second Thessalonians, Sacra Pagina (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1995) paperback, $30

Bonnie Thurston, Reading Colossians, Ephesians, and 2 Thessalonians: A Literary and Theological Commentary, Reading the New Testament Series (New York: Crossroad, 1995).

Sam K. Williams, Galatians, Abingdon New Testament Commentary (Nashville: Abingdon, 1997) paperback, $20.

Ben Witherington III, Conflict and Community in Corinth: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on 1 and 2 Corinthians (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1995).

 

 3. THE CATHOLIC LETTERS

 

Paul J. Achtemeier, 1 Peter: A Commentary, Hermeneia (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996) hardcover, $50.

Richard J. Bauckham, James, New Testament Readings (New York: Routledge, 1999) paperback, $30.

M. Eugene Boring, 1 Peter, Abingdon New Testament Commentary (Nashville: Abingdon, 1999) paperback, $20.

Raymond E. Brown, The Epistles of John, Anchor Bible 30 (New York: Doubleday, 1982) hardcover, $47.

Rudolf Bultmann, The Johannine Epistles, Hermeneia (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973).  A classic, but use with care.

R. Alan Culpepper, The Gospels and Letters of John, Interpreting Biblical Texts (Nashville: Abingdon: 1998) paperback, $20.

John H. Elliot, 1 Peter, Anchor Bible 37B (New York: Doubleday, 2000) hardcover, $60.

P.J. Hartin, James, Sacra Pagina  (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2003) hardcover, $40.

Luke Timothy Johnson, The Letter of James, Anchor Bible 37A (New York: Doubleday, 1995) hardcover, $40.

Luke Timothy Johnson, Hebrews: A Commentary, New Testament Library (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2006) hardcover, $50.  NEW.

Craig R. Koester, Hebrews, Anchor Bible 36 (New York: Doubleday, 2001) hardcover, $47.

Steven J. Kraftchick, Jude and 2 Peter, Abingdon New Testament Commentaries (Nashville: Abingdon, 2002) paperback, $20.

Jerome H. Neyrey, 2 Peter, Jude, Anchor Bible 37C (New York: Doubleday, 1993) hardcover, $28.

David R. Nienhuis, Not By Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007) hardcover, $40.  NEW.

John Painter, 1, 2, and 3 John, Sacra Pagina 10 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002) hardcover, $39. 

Pheme Perkins, First and Second Peter, James and Jude, Interpretation Series (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1995) hardcover, $23.

Victor Pfitzner, Hebrews, Abingdon New Testament Commentary (Nashville: Abingdon, 1997) paperback, $21.

David K. Rensberger, 1John, 2John, 3John, Abingdon New Testament Commentary (Nashville: Abingdon, 1997) paperback, $20.

Kenneth L. Schenck, Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews: The Settings of the Sacrifice, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series #143 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).  NEW.

Donald Senior, 1 Peter, Jude, 2 Peter, Sacra Pagina 16 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002) hardcover, $40.

Georg Strecker, The Johannine Letters: A Commentary on 1, 2, and 3 John, Hermeneia Series, trans. Linda Maloney (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996).

Gerald Sloyan, Walkers in the Truth: Perseverers and Deserters: The First, Second, and Third Letters of John (Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1995).

 

 4. THE BOOK OF REVELATION

 

David Aune, Revelation, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 52A, B, & C (Waco: Word Books, 1997) hardcover, $30 per volume.

M. Eugene Boring, Revelation, Interpretation Series (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1989) hardcover, $26.

Peter R. Carrell, Jesus and the Angels: Angelology and the Christology of the Apocalypse of John, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 95 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) hardcover, $60. 

Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1999) paperback, $21. 

Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Revelation: Vision of a Just World, Proclamation Commentaries, rev. ed. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991) paperback, $16.

A.J.P. Garrow, Revelation, New Testament Readings (New York: Routledge, 1997) paperback, $18.

Wilfrid J. Harrington, Revelation, Sacra Pagina 16 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press [Michael Glazier Book], 1993) hardcover, $30.

Bruce J. Malina & John J. Pilch, Social Science Commentary on the Revelation (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000) paperback, $20.

Bruce Metzger, Breaking the Code: Understanding the Book of Revelation (Nashville: Abingdon, 1994).  A very simple introduction for beginners.

Pablo Richard, Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995) paperback, $15.

Leonard L. Thompson, The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) paperback, $19.

Leonard L. Thompson, Revelation, Abingdon New Testament Commentary (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998) paperback, $20.

 

 5. THE CHURCH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

 

Richard S. Ascough, What are they saying about the Formation of the Pauline Churches? (New York: Paulist Press, 1998) paperback, $10.

David E. Aune, Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1991) paperback, $25.

Raymond E. Brown & John Meier, Antioch and Rome: Cradles of New Testament Christianity (New York: Paulist Press, 1983).

Raymond E. Brown, The Churches the Apostles Left Behind (New York: Paulist Press, 1984) paperback, $12.

James D.G. Dunn, Jesus and the Spirit: A Study of the Religious and Charismatic Experience of Jesus and the First Christians as Reflected in the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1997) paperback, $30.

James D.G. Dunn, Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: An Inquiry into the Character of Earliest Christianity, rev. ed. (Trinity Press International, 1990) paperback, $25.

James D. G. Dunn, The Parting of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity, 2nd ed. (London: SCM, 2006) paperback, $27.  NEW.

Daniel J. Harrington, The Church According to the New Testament: What the Wisdom and Witness of Early Christianity Teach Us Today (Sheed & Ward, 2001) paperback, $20.

Richard Horsley, Christian Origins, A People’s History of Christianity 1 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005).

Matt Jackson-McCabe, ed., Jewish Christianity Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007) hardcover, $35.  NEW.

Luke Timothy Johnson, Scripture and Discernment: Decision-Making in the Church (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996) paperback, $20.

Robert J. Karris, Prayer and the New Testament, Companions to the New Testament Series (New York: Herder & Herder / Crossroad, 2000) paperback, $26.

Jerome Kodell, The Eucharist in the New Testament, Zaccheus Studies (Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1988 / Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press).

Eugene LaVerdiere, Dining in the Kingdom of God: The Origins of the Eucharist According to Luke (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1994). 

Eugene LaVerdiere, The Breaking of Bread: The Development of the Eucharist According to Acts (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1998) paperback, $12. 

Étienne Nodet & Justin Taylor, The Origins of Christianity: An Exploration (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1998) paperback, $40.

Michael Philip Peen, Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church, Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) hardcover, $43.

Michelle Slee, The Church in Antioch in the First Century CD: Communion and Conflict, Library of New Testament Studies (New York: T&T Clark, 2004) hardcover, $70.

Ekkehard W. Stegemann and Wolfgang Stegemann, The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century, trans. O.C. Dean, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999) hardcover, $45.

Graham Twelftree, In the Name of Jesus: Exorcism Among Early Christians (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007) paperback, $27.  NEW.

Ben Witherington III, Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord’s Supper (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007) paperback, $20.  NEW.

N.T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God, Vol. 1 of Christian Origins and the Question of God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992) paperback, $30.

 

 6. N.T. APOCRYPHA & OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE

 

Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003) paperback, $17.  Studies noncanonical gospels, acts, and epistles, as well as groups, such as the Gnostics, Ebionites, and Marcionites, that lost in the battle of Christianity’s emerging orthodoxy.  Ehrman has also published an accompanying reader: Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003) paperback, $17.

 

Bart D. Ehrman, After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) paperback, $25.  A fine anthology of Christian literature from 100 to 300.  It includes excerpts from apocrypha gospels and the apostolic fathers.

 

Andrew E. Bernhard, ed., Other Early Christian Gospels: A Critical Edition of the Surviving Greek Manuscripts, Library of New Testament Studies, vol. 315 (New York: T&T Clark, 2007) paperback, $55.  NEW.

Paul Bradshaw, Maxwell E. Johnson, & L. Edward Phillips, ed., The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary, Hermeneia Series (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2002) hardcover, $47.

François Bovon, Ann Graham Brock & Christopher R. Matthews, The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, Harvard Divinity School Studies (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998) paperback, $25.

April D. De Conick, Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas: A History of the Gospel and Its Growth, Library of New Testament Studies (New York: T&T Clark, 2005) NEW in paperback, $45.

Bart D. Ehrman, The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) paperback, $22.  NEW.

J.K. Elliott, ed., The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) paperback.

Andrew Gregory & Christopher Tuckett, The Reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) NEW in paperback, $45. 

Andrew Gregory & Christopher Tuckett, Trajectories Through the New Testament and Apostolic Fathers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) NEW in paperback, $55.

Michael W. Holmes, ed., The Apostolic Fathers, 3rd edition (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007) paperback.  Revision of the classic edition of J.B. Lightfoot, with Greek text & English on facing pages.

Charles Horton, Earliest Gospels: The Origins and Transmission of the Earliest Christian Gospels; The Contribution of the Chester Beatty Gospel Codex P45, Library of New Testament Studies (New York: T&T Clark, 2005) paperback, $70.

Clayton N. Jefford, The Didache in Context: Essays on Its Text, History, and Transmission, Supplements to Novum Testamentum, vol. 77 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995).

Bentley Layton, ed., The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation (New York: Doubleday, 1995) paperback, $23. 

Marvin Meyer, The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992).  Includes both the Coptic text with an English translation and commentary.

Aaron Milavec, The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2004) paperback, $10.

Kurt Niederwimmer, The Didache: A Commentary, Hermeneia, trans. Linda M. Maloney (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998) hardcover, $50.

Carolyn Osiek, The Shepherd of Hermas: A Commentary, Hermeneia (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999) hardcover, $48.

Nicholas Perrin, Thomas, The Other Gospel (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2007) paperback, $20.  NEW.

Huub van de Sandt & Davis Flusser, The Didache: Its Jewish Sources and Its Place in Early Judaism and Christianity (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2002) hardcover, $58.

Christopher Tuckett, ed., The Gospel of Mary, Oxford Early Christian Texts (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) hardcover, $120.  NEW.  Critical edition with English translation.

Simon Tugwell, The Apostolic Fathers, Outstanding Christian Thinkers (reprint of 1990 edition: New York: Continuum, 2002) paperback, $25.

Richard Valantasis, The Gospel of Thomas, New Testament Readings (New York: Routledge, 1997) paperback, $18.

 

 7. SPECIAL TOPICS

 

Vicky Balabanski, Eschatology in the Making: Mark, Matthew and the Didache, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 97 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) hardcover, $60.

G.K. Beale & D.A. Carlson, eds., Commentary on New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007) hardcover, $55.  NEW.

George J. Brooke, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005).

Raymond E. Brown, Karl P. Donfried, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, & John Reumann, Mary in the New Testament (New York: Paulist Press, 1978) paperback, $17.

Raymond E. Brown, Karl P. Donfried, & John Reumann, Peter in the New Testament (Minneapolis: Augsburg Press, 1973).

Bruce Chilton & Jacob Neusner, ed., The Brother of Jesus: James the Just and His Mission (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001) paperback, $20.

John J. Collins & Craig A. Evans, eds., Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006) paperback, $17. NEW.

John J. Collins, ed., The Origins of Apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity, Volume 1 of Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism (New York: Continuum, 1998) hardcover, $95.

Raymond F. Collins, Divorce in the New Testament, Good New Studies 38 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press [A Michael Glazier Book], 1992).

Raymond F. Collins, Sexual Ethics and the New Testament, Companions to the New Testament (New York: Crossroad / Herder, 2000) paperback, $18.

Jerome Crowe, From Jerusalem to Antioch: The Gospel Across Cultures (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1997) paperback, $15.

R. Alan Culpepper, John, the Son of Zebedee: Life of a Legend, Personalities of the New Testament Series (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000) paperback, $24.

James D.G. Dunn, Baptism in the Holy Spirit: A Re-Examination of the New Testament Teaching on the Gift of the Holy Spirit in Relation to Pentecost (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1996) paperback, $21.

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, To Advance the Gospel: New Testament Studies (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998) hardcover, $35.

Luke Timothy Johnson, Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity: A Missing Dimension of New Testament Studies (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998) paperback, $20.

Ross Shephard Kraemer & Mary Rose D’Angelo, Women and Christian Origins: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) paperback, $20.

Frank J. Matera, New Testament Ethics: The Legacies of Jesus and Paul (Westminster John Knox, 1996) hardcover, $31.

Wayne A. Meeks, The Origins of Christian Morality: the First Two Centuries (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993) paperback, $15

Halvor Moxnes, ed., Constructing Early Christian Families: Family as Social Reality and Metaphor (New York: Routledge, 1997) paperback, $25.

Pheme Perkins, Peter: Apostle for the Whole Church, Personalities of the New Testament Series (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000) paperback, $20.

Pheme Perkins, Gnosticism and the New Testament (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993) paperback, $18.

Deborah F. Sawyer, Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries, Religion in the First Christian Centuries (Routledge, 1996) paperback, $25.

Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (New York: Crossroad, 1986) paperback, $20.  Controversial and influential.

Dennis E. Smith, From Symposium to Eucharist: The Banquet in the Early Christian World (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003) paperback, $25.

Frank S. Thielman, The Law and the New Testament: The Question of Continuity, Companions to the New Testament Series (New York: Crossroad / Herder & Herder, 1999) paperback, $20.

Bonnie Thurston, Women in the New Testament: Questions and Commentary, Companions to the New Testament (New York: Crossroad, 1998) paperback.

Magnus Zetterholm, ed., The Messiah in Early Judaism and Christianity (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007) paperback, $18.  NEW.

 

 

  William Harmless, SJ