New Testament Bibliography
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Introductions

  • Achtemeier, Green and Thompson (2001) Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans)
  • Brown, Raymond E (1997) An Introduction to the New Testament (New York: Doubleday)
  • Ehrman, Bart D. Ehrman (2007) The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 4th ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
  • Ferguson, E. (2003) Backgrounds of Early Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans)
  • Marshall, Travis and Paul (2002) Exploring the New Testament, vol. 2: A Guide to the Epistles and Revelation (London: SPCK)
  • Wenham, D. and Walton, S (2001) Exploring the New Testament, vol. 1: A Guide to the Gospels & Acts (London: SPCK)
  • Wright, N T (1992) The New Testament and the People of God (London: SPCK)

Second Temple Judaism

  • Sanders, E P (1992) Judaism: Practice and Belief (London: SCM)
  • Nickelsburg, George W. E. (2005) Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction. 2nd ed. (Fortress)
  • Vermes, Geza (2004) The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (London: Penguin)

Use of the Old Testament in the New

  • Hays, R B (1993) Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (Yale: Yale University Press)
  • McLay, T (2003) The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament Research (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans)
  • Moyise, S (2001) The Old Testament in the New (Edinburgh: T&T Clark)
  • Müller, M (1996) The First Bible of the Church: A Plea for the Septuagint (Sheffield: JSOTS)
  • Porter, S E  ed (2006) Hearing the Old Testament Through the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans)

Christianity and Judaism

  • Dunn, J. D. G. (2006) The Parting of the Ways (London: SCM)
  • Lieu, Judith (2005) Neither Jew nor Greek: Constructing Early Christianity (Edinburgh: T&T Clark)
  • Skarsaune, O.(2002) In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity (Leicester: IVP)

The Roman Empire

  • Carter, Warren (2006) The Roman Empire and the New Testament (Nashville: Abingdon)
  • Horsley Richard A. (2002) Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder (Minneapolis: Fortress Press)

Non Canonical Books

  • Ehrman, Bart D (2003) Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
  • Ehrman, Bart D (2003) Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Gospels

  • Barton, S C ed (2006) The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels (Cambridge: CUP)
  • Bauckham, R. (2006) Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans)
  • Blomberg, C. L. (1997) Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey (Nashville: Broadman & Holman)
  • Green, J. B.  ed. (1992) Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Leicester: IVP)
  • Wright, N. T. (1996) Jesus and the Victory of God (London: SPCK)
  • Wright, N. T. (2003) The Resurrection of the Son of God (London: SPCK)
  • Wright, Tom (2005) Who Was Jesus? (London: SPCK)

Paul

  • Dunn, James D G (1997) The Theology of Paul the Apostle (Edinburgh: T&T Clark)
  • Dunn, James D G ed. (2003) The Cambridge Companion to St. Paul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
  • Murphy-O’Connor, Jerome (1996) Paul: A Critical Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
  • Sanders E P (1983) Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion (Philadelphia: Fortress Press)
  • Wenham, D (1995) Paul: Follower of Jesus or Founder of Christianity? (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans)
  • Wright, N T (1992) The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology (London: SPCK)
  • Wright, N T (2005) Paul in Fresh Perspective (London: SPCK)
  • Wright, Tom (2003) What Saint Paul Really Said (London: SPCK)

Revelation

  • Bauckham, R (1993) The Theology of the Book of Revelation (Cambridge: CUP)
  • Bauckham, R (1998) The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation (Edinburgh: T&T Clark)
  • Caird, G B (1984) The Revelation of St John the Divine (London: Black)
  • Witherington III, B (2003) Revealtion (Cambridge: CUP)