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The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant

John Dominic Crossan

Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

Bart D. Ehrman

The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament

Bart D. Ehrman

Jesus' Promise to the Nations (Study in Bible Theology)

Joachim Jeremias

The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Albert Schweitzer, W. Montgomery

The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews,Pagans,and Heretics

Elaine Pagels

The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart D. Ehrman and Daniel B. Wallace in Dialogue (Greer-Heard Lectures)

Robert B. Stewart

The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle (The Albert Schweitzer Library)

Albert Schweitzer,William Montgomery

The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

John J. Collins

The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus

Gary R. Habermas,Michael Licona

The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach

Michael R. Licona

Questioning: A Multidimensional Critique

Mark Goodacre,Nicholas Perrin

Dating Acts: Between the Evangelists and the Apologists

Richard I. Pervo

Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews,Former Gentiles,Israelites

Jason A. Staples

The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People,Exile,and Israelite Identity

Jason A. Staples

The Beginnings of Christianity: Part I,the Acts of the Apostles

Kirsopp Lake,Foakes-Jackson

Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: Third Edition

John J. Collins

Rhetorical Mimesis and the Mitigation of Early Christian Conflicts: Examining the Influence that Greco-Roman Mimesis May Have in the Composition of Matthew,Luke,and Acts

Brad McAdon

The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters

Elaine Pagels,Lloyd Kramer

Galilee

Richard A Horsley

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (2 Volume set)

James H Charlesworth

Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism (Library of Early Christology)

Alan F. Segal

The Books of Enoch: Complete edition: Including (1) The Ethiopian Book of Enoch,(2) The Slavonic Secrets and (3) The Hebrew Book of Enoch

Paul C. Schnieders,Robert H Charles

The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible

Michael S. Heiser

The Birthing of the New Testament: The Intertextual Development of the New Testament Writings (New Testament Monographs)

Thomas L Brodie

The Encyclopedia of Lost and Rejected Scriptures: The Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha

Joseph B Lumpkin

Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Traditions

Alexander Kulik,Sergey Minov

The Mystery of Acts: Unraveling Its Story

Richard I Pervo

Jesus and Judaism

E. P. Sanders

Hurlbut's Story of the Bible for Young and Old: A continuous narrative of the Scriptures told in one hundred sixty-eight

Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Paul and Palestinian Judaism: 40th Anniversary Edition

E. P. Sanders,Mark A. Chancey

James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls II: The Damascus Code,the Tent of David,the New Covenant,and the Blood of Christ

Robert Eisenman

Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness

Michael S. Heiser

Pagans and Christians

Robin Lane Fox

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology (Folkloristics)

John Miles Foley

Greek and Roman Historians: Information and Misinformation

Michael Grant

Archaeology,History,and Society in Galilee: The Social Context of Jesus and the Rabbis (T&t Clark Cornerstones)

Richard A. Horsley

Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel

Katell Berthelot

Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers

Carl J. Richard

Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria

Torrey Seland

The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams

Lester J. Cappon

Judaism: Practice and Belief,63 BCE66 CE

E. P. Sanders

Creators,Conquerors,and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece

Robin Waterfield

The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity

Johanna Hanink

Byzantium & the Slavs

Dimitri Obolensky

Codex Sinaiticus: The Discovery of the World's Oldest Bible

Constantine Tischendorf,Trustees British Museum

History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

Diarmaid MacCulloch,Gillian Bancroft,Sian Salt

Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

Victor Davis Hanson,Jeff Riggenbach

Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (Text Only)

James Davidson

Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World by Louis H. Feldman (1996-10-14)

Louis H. Feldman

The Christians Who Became Jews: Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City (Synkrisis)

Christopher Stroup

NOVA: A to Z - The First Alphabet And How Writing Changed The World

David Sington

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Peter Frankopan,Laurence Kennedy

The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans: Context and Consequences (Turning Points)

Michael Angold

Why Are There Differences in the Gospels?: What We Can Learn from Ancient Biography

Michael R. Licona,Craig A. Evans

Jesus, Contradicted: Why the Gospels Tell the Same Story Differently

Michael R. Licona

A History of the Synoptic Problem: The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels

David Dungan

The Synoptic Problem: A Way through the Maze (Understanding the Bible and Its World)

Mark Goodacre

What is a Gospel? The Genre of the Canonical Gospels

Charles H. Talbert

Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel,Third Edition

David Rhoads,Joanna Dewe,Donald Michie

Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas's Familiarity with the Synoptics

Mark Goodacre

The Historical Reliability of the Gospels

Craig L. Blomberg

Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences,Allusions,Intertextuality (Early Judaism and Its Literature)

Loren T. Stuckenbruck,Gabriele Boccaccini

The Synoptic Problem and Statistics

Andris Abakuks

The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem

Mark Goodacre

Synopsis of the Four Gospels,Revised Standard Version

American Bible Society

Two Shipwrecked Gospels: The Logoi of Jesus and Papias's Exposition of Logia about the Lord (Early Christianity and Its Literature)

Dennis Ronald MacDonald

The Complete Gospels: The Scholars Version

Robert J. Miller

The Complete Gospel Parallels

Arthur J. Dewey,Robert J. Miller

Mark Canonizer of Paul: A New Look at Intertextuality in Mark's Gospel

Tom Dykstra

Matthew,Mark,Luke,and Paul: The Influence of the Epistles on the Synoptic Gospels

David Oliver Smith

Why Four Gospels?

David Alan Black

Textual Criticism and the Synoptic Problem in Historical Jesus Research: The Search for Valid Criteria (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology)

HW Shin

Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I

Maurice Balme, Gilbert Lawall

Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek

James Morwood

New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin

Andrew L Sihler

Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs)

Buist M. Fanning

Verbal Syntax in the Greek Pentateuch: Natural Greek Usage and Hebrew Interference

T. V. Evans

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth

The Linguistic Roots of Ancient Greek

Don Ringe

A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature,3rd Edition

Walter Bauer, Frederick William Danker

The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek: An Introduction: Third Edition

Albert Rijksbaron

Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament with Scripture, Subject, and Greek Word Indexes

Daniel B. Wallace

Morphology of Biblical Greek, The

William D. Mounce

Biblical Greek Laminated Sheet (Zondervan Get an A! Study Guides)

William D. Mounce

Advances in the Study of Greek: New Insights for Reading the New Testament

Constantine R. Campbell, D. A. Carson

Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar: Fourth Edition (Zondervan Language Basics Series)

William D. Mounce

The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek

Evert van Emde Boas, Albert Rijksbaron

An Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose

Eleanor Dickey

Vox Graeca: The Pronunciation of Classical Greek

W. Sidney Allen

Reading Greek: Text and Vocabulary

Joint Association of Classical Teachers

The Cambridge Greek Lexicon 2 Volume Hardback Set

Faculty of Classics, James Diggle

The Odyssey: Books 1-12 (The Loeb Classical Library,No 104)

Homer,George E. Dimock

The Odyssey: Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library,No 105)

Homer,George E. Dimock

The Iliad: Volume I,Books 1-12 (Loeb Classical Library No. 170)

Homer,William F. Wyatt

The Iliad: Volume II,Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library No. 171)

Homer,A. T. Murray

All the Greek Verbs (Greek Language)

N. Marinone

Reading Koine Greek: An Introduction and Integrated Workbook

Rodney J. Decker

A Primer of Biblical Greek (Eerdmans Language Resources (ELR))

N. Clayton Croy

The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam (Eerdmans Language Resources (ELR))

Benjamin Kantor

A Short Guide to the Pronunciation of New Testament Greek (Eerdmans Language Resources (ELR))

Benjamin Kantor

Learn to Read New Testament Greek

David Alan Black

Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners

Clyde Pharr,John Wright

Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament,with Reference to Tense and Mood: Third Printing (Studies in Biblical Greek)

Stanley E. Porter

Greek: An Intensive Course,2nd Revised Edition

Hardy Hansen,Gerald M. Quinn

Mastering New Testament Greek Vocabulary Through Semantic Domains (Greek Edition)

Mark Wilson,Jason Oden

Kaegi's Greek Grammar.: With Tables for Repetition

Adolf Kaegi

Longus' Daphnis & Chloe (English and Greek Edition)

Longus,Shannon N. Byrne

Homer: A Transitional Reader (Ancient Greek Transitional Reader Series) (Ancient Greek and English Edition)

John H. O'Neil,Timothy F. Winters

Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary

Geoffrey D. Steadman

Plato's Meno: Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary

Geoffrey Steadman

A History of Ancient Greek 2 Volume Set: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity

Anastassios-Fivos Christidis

Hellenistic and Biblical Greek: A Graduated Reader

B. H. McLean

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers

Geoffrey Horrocks

Beginning with New Testament Greek: An Introductory Study of the Grammar and Syntax of the New Testament

Benjamin L Merkle,Robert L. Plummer

The Greek & Latin Roots of English

Tamara M. Green

Beyond the Greek New Testament

Max Botner

Discourse Features of New Testament Greek: A Coursebook on the Information Structure of New Testament Greek

Stephen H Levinsohn

The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis

Steven E. Runge,Christopher J. Fresch

Wilding's Greek for Beginners (Greek Edition)

Wilding,Cynthia Shelmerdine

Greek Paradigm Handbook: Reference Guide and Memorization Tool (Ancient Greek Edition)

Erikk Geannikis,Andrew Romiti

Greek Grammar [Revised Edition]

Herbert Weir Smyth,Gordon M. Messing

Biblical Languages and The Busy Pastor: A Practical Guide to Keeping and Using Greek,Hebrew,and Aramaic in Ministry (GlossaHouse Dissertation Series)

R. Kevin Carroll

Ancient Greek Grammar for the Study of the New Testament

Heinrich von Siebenthal

A Greek Prose Course: Unit 1: Forensic Oratory (Greek Prose Reading Course for Post-Beginners. Unit 1,Foren)

Lysias,Malcolm Campbell

Learning Greek with Plato: A Beginner's Course in Classical Greek (Bristol Phoenix Press Classical Handbooks)

Frank Beetham

Apostolic Fathers Greek Reader: The Complete Edition

Shawn J. Wilhite,Jacob N. Cerone

Polis: Speaking Ancient Greek as a Living Language,Level One,Student's Volume

Christophe Rico,Michael Daise

Athenaze,Book II: An Introduction to Ancient Greek

Maurice Balme,Gilbert Lawall,James Morwood

Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek

Constantine R. Campbell

The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations

Michael W. Holme

A Patristic Greek Reader

Rodney A. Whitacre

Plato's Symposium: Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary

Geoffrey Steadman

Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics: Open Questions in Current Research (The Library of New Testament Studies)

Stanley E. Porter,D.A. Carson

Hellenistic and Biblical Greek: A Graduated Reader

B. H. McLean

A Greek Reader’s Apostolic Fathers

Alan S. Bandy

Liddell and Scott: The History,Methodology,and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek

Christopher Stray,Michael Clarke

The Early Text of the New Testament

Michael J. Kruger, Charles E. Hill

Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

L. D. Reynolds, N. G. Wilson

God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts

Brent Nongbri

Codex Bezae: An Early Christian Manuscript and its Text

David C. Parker

The Living Text of the Gospels

D. C. Parker

New Testament Textual Criticism: A Concise Guide

David Alan Black

Text of the New Testament,The: From Manuscript to Modern Edition

J. Harold Greenlee

The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

Kurt Aland,Barbara Aland

The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis (Studies & Documents)

Bart D. Ehrman,Micahel W. Holmes

The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica

Ernst Wurthwein,Alexander Achilles Fischer

Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism

Elijah Hixson,Peter J. Gurry

New Testament Greek Manuscripts: Matthew

Reuben Swanson

New Testament Greek Manuscripts: Mark

Reuben Swanson

New Testament Greek Manuscripts: Luke

Reuben Swanson

New Testament Greek Manuscripts: 1 Corinthians

Reuben Swanson

Scribes and Scripture: The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible

John D. Meade,Peter J. Gurry

Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Revised and Expanded Fourth Edition

Emanuel Tov

Apologetic Discourse and the Scribal Tradition: Evidence of the Influence of Apologetic Interests on the Text of the Canonical Gospels (Society of Biblical Literature Text-Critical Studies)

Wayne C Kannaday

Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri (New Testament Tools,Studies,and Documents)

James Ronald Royse

A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (UBS4)

Bruce M. Metzger

A New Approach to Textual Criticism: An Introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (Resources for Biblical Study 80)

Tommy Wasserman,Peter J. Gurry

The Byzantine Text-Type & New Testament Textual Criticism

Harry Sturz

Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: An Introduction to Approaches and Problems (Volume 1) (BibleWorld)

Ian Young,Robert Rezetko

Studies in New Testament Lexicography: Advancing toward a Full Diachronic Approach with the Greek Language (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 2.Reihe) (English and Greek Edition)

David S Hasselbrook

The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission,Corruption,and Restoration (4th Edition)

Bruce M. Metzger,Bart D. Ehrman

The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts,2 Volume Set (English and Greek Edition)

Philip Comfort

The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum)

Emanuel Tov

A User's Guide to the Nestle-aland 28 Greek New Testament (Society of Biblical Literature Text-Critical Studies)

David Trobisch

Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

Karel van der Toorn

The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, Vol. 3: Hosea, 4 Maccabees, Psalms of Solomon, Enoch, the Odes (Classic Reprint)

Henry Barclay Swete

The Greek New Testament (Greek Edition)

R. V. G. Tasker

The Vaticanus Bible: GOSPELS: A Modified Pseudo-facsimile of the Four Gospels as found in the Greek New Testament of Codex Vaticanus (Vat.gr. 1209)

Benjamin Paul Kantor,Carlo Vercellone

The Interlinear Bible: Hebrew-Greek-English (English,Hebrew and Greek Edition)

Hendrickson Publishers,Jay P. Green

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) (Hardcover): A Reader's Edition (Hebrew Edition)

Donald R. Vance,George Athas

UBS 5th Revised Edition - Greek New Testament

American Bible Society

Novum Testamentum Graece / Greek New Testament,28th Edition

American Bible Society,Nestle Aland

Nestle Aland 28th Edition Greek - English: English Translations: Nrsb and Reb (English and Greek Edition)

German Bible Society

UBS 5th Revised Greek New Testament Reader's Edition: 124377 (English and Greek Edition)

Nestle-Aland

Novum Testamentum Graecum,Editio Critica Maior VI: Revelation,Complete Set (3 vols) (Ancient Greek Edition)

Institute for New Testament Textual Research,Martin Karrer

The Greek New Testament for Beginning Readers: Byzantine Textform & Verb Parsing

Maurice A Robinson,William G Pierpont

The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform 2018

William G Pierpont,Maurice A Robinson

Statistical Restoration Greek New Testament (Center for New Testament Restoration Series)

Alan Bunning

The Acts of the Apostles (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries)

Joseph A. Fitzmyer

Matthew 1-7: Volume 1 (International Critical Commentary)

W. D. Davies, Dale C. Allison Jr.

Matthew 8-18: Volume 2 (International Critical Commentary)

W. D. Davies, Dale C. Allison Jr.

Matthew 19-28: Volume 3 (International Critical Commentary)

W. D. Davies, Dale C. Allison Jr.

John 1: A Commentary on the Gospel of John,Chapters 1-6 (Hermeneia)

Robert W. Funk,Ulrich Busse

2 Corinthians 8 and 9: A Commentary on Two Administrative Letters of the Apostle Paul (Hermeneia)

Hans Dieter Betz,George W. MacRae S.J.

John 2: A Commentary on the Gospel of John,Chapters 7-21 (Hermeneia)

Robert W. Funk,Ulrich Busse

Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hermeneia: A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible)

Harold W. Attridge,Helmut Koester

Jubilees: A Commentary in Two Volumes (Hermeneia)

James C. VanderKam,Sidnie White Crawford

Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Hermeneia: A Critical & Historical Commentary on the Bible)

John J. Collins

Luke 1: A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 1:1-9:50 (Hermeneia: A Critical & Historical Commentary on the Bible)

Francois Bovon,Helmut Koester

Acts: A Commentary (Hermeneia)

Richard I. Pervo,Harold W. Attridge

1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch,Chapters 1-36; 81-108 (Hermeneia)

George W. E. Nickelsburg,Klaus Baltzer

Mark: A Commentary (Hermeneia: a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible)

Adela Yarbro Collins,Harold W. Attridge

Romans: A Commentary (Hermeneia)

Eldon Jay Epp,Robert Jewett

The Pastoral Letters: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Larry J. Perkins

Mark 1-8: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Rodney J. Decker

Mark 9-16: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Rodney J. Decker

Philippians: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Lidija Novakovic

John 11–21: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Lidija Novakovic

Ephesians: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

William J. Larkin

Matthew 1–14: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Wesley G. Olmstead

Colossians and Philemon: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Constantine R. Campbell

2 Peter and Jude: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Peter H. Davids

Revelation: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

David L. Mathewson

James: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

A. K. M. Adam

Romans: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Stanley E. Porter,David I. Yoon

1 Peter: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Mark Dubis

Luke 3: Commentary on 19:28-24:53 (Hermeneia)

Francois Bovon,James Echols

New Testament Text and Translation Commentary

Philip Comfort

Galatians: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

David A. deSilva

John 1–10: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)

Lidija Novakovic

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