Reading List

The Pals often mention books that are neat and also good and sometimes show up on the show. Sometimes, more stuff comes up in the Discord, too.

Title	Author(s)	About
The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholar's Version	Robert J. Miller, ed	The Complete Gospels includes all twenty of the known gospels from the early Christian era, clearly presented for the scholar, student and general reader alike. The new Scholars Version translation captures the full spirit and vitality of the original texts. This gospel picture of early traditions and Christian origins gives the reader a fresh and exciting glimpse into the world of Jesus and his followers. Informative and highly-readable introductions, essays, notes, and annotations make this work a remarkably comprehensive one-volume library of all gospel texts.
New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures	Tony Burke, ed and Brent Landau, ed	Compilation of little-known and never-before-published apocryphal Christian texts in English translation This anthology of ancient nonbiblical Christian literature presents informed introductions to and readable translations of a wide range of little-known apocryphal texts, most of which have never before been translated into any modern language. An introduction to the volume as a whole addresses the most significant features of the writings included and contextualizes them within the contemporary study of the Christian Apocrypha. The body of the book comprises thirty texts that have been carefully introduced, copiously annotated, and translated into English by eminent scholars. With dates of composition ranging from the second century CE to early in the second millennium, these fascinating texts provide a more complete picture of Christian thought and expression than canonical texts alone can offer.
New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures (Volume 2)	Tony Burke, ed	A compilation of apocryphal Christian texts, many translated into English for the first time, with comprehensive introductions. This second volume of New Testament Apocrypha continues the work of the first by making available to English readers more apocryphal texts. Twenty-nine texts are featured, including The Adoration of the Magi and The Life of Mary Magdalene, each carefully introduced, copiously annotated, and translated into English by eminent scholars. These fascinating texts provide insights into the beliefs, expressions, and practices of a range of Christian communities from the early centuries through late antiquity and into the medieval period.
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures	(contributors)	This work stands among the most important publications in biblical studies over the past twenty-five years. Richard Bauckham, James Davila, and Alexander Panayotov’s new two-volume collection of Old Testament pseudepigrapha contains many previously unpublished and newly translated texts, complementing James Charlesworth’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and other earlier collections. Including virtually all known surviving pseudepigrapha written before the rise of Islam, this volume, among other things, presents the sacred legends and spiritual reflections of numerous long-dead authors whose works were lost, neglected, or suppressed for many centuries. Excellent English translations along with authoritative yet accessible introductions bring those ancient documents to life for readers today.

Dan McClellan's Recommendations

Title	Author(s)
A History of the Bible	John Barton
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible	John J. Collins
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings	Bart Ehrman
God: An Anatomy	Francesca Stavrakopoulou
The Bible With and Without Jesus	Amy-Jill Levine & Marc Zvi Brettler

Anne Theriault's Recommendations

Title	Author(s)
Jesus Wars	Philip Jenkins
Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy	John Julius Norwich
The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus	Amy-Jill Levine
Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible	Amy Kalmanofsky
Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, and Women of the Cloth: The Women in Jesus' Life	F. Scott Spencer

Aaron Higashi's Recommendations

Title	Author(s)
An Introduction to the Old Testament, Third Edition: The Canon and Christian Imagination	Walter Brueggemann, Tod Linafelt, et al.
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings	Bart Ehrman
Who Wrote the Bible?	Richard Friedman, Julian Smith, et al.
Liberation Theologies in the United States: An Introduction	Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas and Anthony B. Pinn, eds.

Tony Burke's Recommendations

Title	Author(s)
New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures vol 1, vol 2, vol 3	Tony Burke, ed. (with Brent Landau, 2017)
Secret Scriptures Revealed. A New Introduction to the Christian Apocrypha	Tony Burke
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew	Bart Ehrman
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha	Andrew Gregory and Christopher Tuckett, eds.
Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible	Brandon Hawk
The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels	Philip Jenkins

Alexiana Fry's Recommendations

Title	Author(s)
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture	Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative	Melissa Febos
Feminist Trauma Theologies: Body, Scripture & Church in Critical Perspective	Karen O'Donnell and Katie Cross, eds.
Bearing Witness: Intersectional Perspectives on Trauma Theology	Karen O'Donnell and Katie Cross, eds.

Justin Sledge's Recommendations

Title	Author(s)
Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed	Wouter Hanegraaff
Kabbalah	Gershom Scholem
Three Books of Occult Philosophy	Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Eric Purdue translator
Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic	Dan Attrell, David Porreca translators
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition	Daniel Matt translator