The Bible Skeptic's Library
Books from my personal collection
Unlike some websites, I don't get a dime off listing and linking books. I'm not an resell partner so I won't have links below directing you to some specific online retailer to buy any of the titles listed below from my collection. You'll find no conflict of interest here! This is merely a list of books I own which are relevant to the subject of The Bible Skeptic. I provide this list of books to not only let you in on some good titles (and some not-so-good!), but also to let you know what it is that I read in my spare time. These are books that have found their way onto my own personal library shelves. They are cataloged according to the Library of Congress classification system to place them in some sort of reasonable order. Below you will also find a WorldCat search box. This will allow you to type in any of the titles you find below and see their availability in libraries near you. WorldCat also provides links to on-line booksellers in the event you want to purchase one of the titles (but, again, I'm not getting a dime out of this! Also, a word of caution - the search engine does NOT open a new window. You'll need to use your browser's "back" button to return here).
To find out all the titles I read, head over to my blog and check out "The Nightstand." There I list all the books I've been reading in a twelve-month period: the good, the bad and the ugly, whether I've purchased them or not. If you happen to know of any books that you'd recommend, drop me a line and let me know. I'm always on the look-out for good titles so your endorsement would certainly be appreciated!
CLASS B - PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION
BD - Speculative Philosophy
BD 495 .W75 1995 Wright, M.R.
Cosmology in Antiquity
BJ - Ethics
BJ 47 .W54 2005 Wielenberg, Erik J.
Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe
BL - Religions, Mythology, Rationalism
BL 53 .P819 1985 Proudfoot, Wayne
Religious Experience
BL 240.3 .S738 2007 Stenger, Victor
God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
BL 1650 .D48 2005 Dever, William G.
Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel.
BL 2775.2 .W45 1988 Wells, G.A.
Religious Postures: Essays on Modern Christian Apologists and Religious Problems
BL 2775.3 .D39 Dawkins, Richard
The God Delusion
BM - Judaism
BM 487 .U49 1996 Shanks, Hershel, ed.
Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls
BM 645 .H45W75 1999 Wright, J. Edward.
The Early History of Heaven.
BR - Christianity
BR 128 .R7L36 1986 Lane Fox, Robin
Pagans and Christians
BR 129 .C75 1998 Crossan, John Dominic
The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus
BR 162.2 .F733 1984 Frend, W.H.C.
The Rise of Christianity
BR 1642 .U5D53 1989 Diamond, Sara
Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right
BS - The Bible
BS 440 .S746 1996 Vine, W.E.
Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary with Topical Index
BS 475.2 .A66 1994 Shanks, Hershel, ed.
Approaches to the Bible: The Best of Bible Review Volume 1: Composition, Transmission and Language
BS 475.2 .A66 1994 Minkoff, Harvey, ed.
Approaches to the Bible: The Best of Bible Review Volume 2: A Multitude of Perspectives
BS 475.2 .E33 1993 Eddy, Pat.
Who Tampered With the Bible?
BS 491.3 .O94 2001 Barton, John and John Muddiman, eds.
The Oxford Bible Commentary
BS 514.2 .H6813 1983 Howson, Mark
What the Bible Really Says. Translation and Adaptation of: Was Wirklich in der Bibel Steht / Manfred Barthel
BS 520.5 .C35 2002 Callahan, Tim
Secret Origins of the Bible
BS 612 .A73 Archer, Gleason L.
New International Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties
BS 621 .C76 2001 Crossan, John Dominic and Jonathan L. Reed
Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts
BS 621 .F56 2001 Finkelstein, Israel and Neil Silberman.
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origins of its Sacred Texts.
BS 635.2 .K3713 1981 Keller, Werner
The Bible as History
BS 635.2 .O94 1998 Coogan, Michael D. ed
The Oxford History of the Biblical World
BS 645 .C63 1986 Cohen, Edmund D.
The Mind of the Bible-believer
BS 647.2 .C35 1997 Callahan, Tim.
Bible Prophecy: Failure or Fulfillment?
BS 680.D56 .K45 2006 Kelly, Henry Ansgar
Satan: A Biography
BS 1180 .D66 2001 Dever, William G
What Did the Biblical Writers Know & When Did They Know It?
BS 1180 .K56 2003 Kitchen, Kenneth A.
On The Reliability of the Old Testament
BS 1181.4 .G72 1998 Friedman, Richard Elliot
The Hidden Book in the Bible: The Discovery of the First Prose Masterpiece
BS 1223 1990 Friedman, Richard E.
The Bible: With Sources Revealed.
BS 1223 1991 Bloom, Harold
The Book of J: Translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg: Interpreted by Harold Bloom
BS 1225.2 .B544 1992 Blenkinsopp, Joseph.
The Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible.
BS 1225.2 .F75 1987 Friedman, Richard E.
Who Wrote the Bible? Simon & Schuster
BS 1225.2 .M33 1993 McDowell, Josh
Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Volume 2: Historical Evidences for the Christian Faith
BS 2325 .E45 2005 Ehrman, Bart D.
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.
BS 2361.2 .M13 1995 Mack, Burton L
Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth.
BS 2410 .W47 2004 White, Michael L.
From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries & Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith.
BS 2506.3 .C76 2004 Crossan, John Dominic and Jonathan L. Reed
In Search of Paul: How Jesus's Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom. A New Vision of Paul's Words & World.
BS 2515 .E37 2006 Ehrman, Bart D.
Peter, Paul, & Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend
BS 2553 .S24 1993 Funk, Robert W., Roy W. Hoover and the Jesus Seminar
The Five Gospels: The Search For the Authentic Words of Jesus New Translation and Commentary
BS 2555.2 .B85 1992 Burridge, Richard A.
What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison With Graeco-Roman Biography
BS 2555.2 .H38 1988 Helms, Randel
Gospel Fictions
BS 2555.2 .M2535 1993 Mack, Burton L
The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q & Christian Origins
BS 2555.3 .B7633 1994 Brown, Raymond Edward.
The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels. Volume 1
BS 2555.3 .B7633 1994 Brown, Raymond Edward.
The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels. Volume 2
BS 2555.6 .D5P34 1995 Pagels, Elaine.
The Origins of Satan. Random House
BS 2560 .F84 1990 Funk, Robert W.
New Gospel Parallels: Volume 1,2: Mark
BS 2560 .I5 1979 Throckmorton Jr., Burton H.
Gospel Parallels: A Synopsis of hte First Three Gospels
BS 2840 .E4 2003 Ehrman, Bart D.
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew.
BT - Doctrinal Theology
BT 82.2 .E92 1988 Evans, Rod L.and Irwin M. Berent
Fundamentalism: Hazards and Heartbreaks
BT 198 .F82 1988 Fredriksen, Paula
From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus
BT 198 .S53 1988 Sheehan, Thomas
The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity
BT 301.2 .C76 1991 Crossan, John Dominic.
The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant.
BT 301.2 C77 1994 Crossan, John Dominic.
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
BT 303.2 .C76 1999 Crossan, John Dominic and Richard G. Watts
Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus
BT 301.2 .F74 1999 Fredriksen, Paula
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity
BT 303.2 .M465 1991 Meier, John P.
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Volume 1: The Roots of the Problem and the Person.
BT 303.2 .M465 1991 Meier, John P.
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Volume 2: Mentor, Message, and Miracles.
BT 303.2 .P38 1998 Patterson, Stephen J.
The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning
BT 304.93 .S63 Smith, Morton
Jesus the Magician
BT 315.2 .S66 1992 Spong, John Shelby
Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus
BT 375.2 .C76 1992 Crossan, John Dominic
In Parables: The Challenge of the Historical Jesus
BT 431.5 .C76 1995 Crossan, John Dominic.
Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus.
BT 1390 .P3 1981 Pagels, Elaine
The Gnostic Gospels
BX - Christian Denominations
BX 7200 .F864A45 1987 Ammerman, Nancy Totom
Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World
CLASS D - WORLD HISTORY AND HISTORY OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, ETC
DS - Asia
DS 115.5 .D39 2003 Dever, William G.
Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?
DS 121 .A53 1999 Shanks, Hershel, ed.
Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple.
CLASS K - LAW
KF - United States
KF 4783 .L48 1986 Levy, Leonard W.
The Establishment Clause
CLASS P - LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
PA - Greek Language and Literature. Latin Language and Literature
PA 881 .G8 2002 Thayer, Joseph H.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament
PJ - Oriental Languages and Literatures
PJ 4833 .G4 1996 Brown, Francis, et. al.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
CLASS Q - SCIENCE
QE - Geology
QE 721.2 .E85P76 2007 Prothero, Donald R.
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
QH - Natural history - Biology
QH 362 .M55 2008 Miller, Kenneth R.
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
QH 366.2 .C74 2009 Coyne, Jerry A.
Why Evolution Is True
QH 366.2 .D374 2009 Dawkins, Richard
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
QH 366.2 .Y69 2009 Young, Matt and Paul K. Strode
Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)
QH 367 .S395 2009 Scott, Eugenie C.
Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction Second Edition
QM - Human Anatomy
QM 26 .S58 2008 Shubin, Neil
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year-History of the Human Body
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