Shepherd’s Fodder
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Listed below are some of my favorite resources. This list could be titled my “Works Cited” for nearly everything I teach.
Some of my favorite books:
The Bible
Complete Jewish Bible : An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’Rit Hadashah (New Testament) by David H. Stern
Jewish New Testament Commentary: A Companion Volume to the Jewish New Testament by David H. Stern
Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson
Jesus the Jewish Theologian by Brad Young
Paul the Jewish Theologian by Brad Young
They Loved the Torah: What Yeshua’s First Followers Really Thought About the Law by David Friedman
New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus: Insights from His Jewish Context by David Bivin
Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus by David Bivin
Everyman’s Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages by Abraham Cohen
Yeshua: A Guide to the Real Jesus and the Original Church by Ron Moseley
The Parables: Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation by Brad H. Young
Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Favorite Websites:
www.followtherabbi.com
www.jerusalemperspective.com
Favorite teachers/authors:
Ray Vander Laan
Rob Bell
Zig Ziggler
John Maxwell
Jim Rohn
Brad H. Young
All the scholars at www.jerusalemperspective.com
Favorite Podcast:
Mars Hill Bible Church (Rob Bell)
Favorite DVD Teachings:
Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan
Leadership Teachings by John C. Maxwell
THE FOLLOWING is the bibliography used by Ray Vander Laan:
In the Footsteps of the Disciples:
Bibliography
Note: The point of view of the author varies. Some are ‘Jesus’ followers and others are not. Some value the text; others treat it as any other history and not the inspired word of God. All contribute to understanding the context of the Biblical story. Read carefully to gain the insights of the authors but being aware of their perspective on the text and on Jesus the Messiah. The asterisk indicates unusually helpful resources. Most have extensive and helpful bibliographies in them which are invaluable for research.
Judaic Perspective:
Wilson, Our Father Abraham, Eerdmans.*
Heschel, Abraham: The Earth is the Lord’s.
God in Search of Man.*
The Insecurity of Freedom.*
The Sabbath.
Israel: An Echo of Eternity.
Cohen, Everyman’s Talmud, Schocken Books.
Sandgren, The Shadow of God, Hendriksen.*
Jesus in Culture:
Bailey, Eerdmans, The Poet and the Peasant.
Brad Young, The Parables.
Ben-Chorin, Brother Jesus, Georgia Press.
Stern, Jewish New Testament Commentary, JNTP.*
Edersheim: Bible History.
Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah.
The Temple.
Safrai, Stern, Flusser, van Unnik, The Jewish People in the First Century (9 vols.), Van Gorcum.
Bivin, Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus, Arcadia.
New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus, En-Gedi.
Brad Young, Jesus the Jewish Theologian, Hendrickson.
Pixner, The Fifth Gospel: With Jesus Through Galilee, Corazin Publishing.
Charlesworth, Jesus Within Judaism, Doubleday.
Lachs, A Rabbinic Commentary on the New Testament, Ktav.
David Flusser: Jesus, Magness Press.*
Judaism and the Origins of Christianity, Magnes Press.
Gabriele Boccaccini, Roots of Rabbinic Judaism, Eerdmans Publishing.
Ed. Hershel Shanks, Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, BAS Publications.
Horsley, Archaeology, History, and Society in Galilee: Jesus and the Rabbis,
Trinity Press.
Donald Hagner, The Jewish Reclamation of Jesus, Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Urbach, The Sages, Harvard Press.
David Flusser, Jewish Sources in Early Christianity, MOD Books.
Chaim Pearl, Theology in Rabbinic Stories, Hendrikson Publishers.
Jacob Neusner, Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period, Hendrikson.
Moore, Judaism, Hendriksen (3Vols).
Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Westminster Press.
Pritz, Nazarene Jewish Christianity, Magness Press.
Lindsay, Jesus: Rabbi and Lord, Cornerstone.
Vermes, Jesus the Jew, Collins.
The Religion of Jesus the Jew, Fortress Press.*
Jesus and the World of Judaism, Fortress Press.
The Changing Face of Jesus, Compass.*
Petr Pokorny, Jesus in the Eyes of His Followers, Bibal Press.
Anthony Saldarini, Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society,
Eerdmans.
N. T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
Intervarsity Press. *
Paul in Culture:
Brad Young: Paul,the Jewish Theologian, Hendriksen.
Krister Stendahl, Paul Among the Jews and Gentiles, Fortress Press.*
Wright, Paul in Fresh Perspective, Fortress Press.*
Wright, Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology,
Fortress Press.
Paul : Fresh Perspectives, SPCK Publishing.
What Saint Paul Really Said, Eerdmans.*
Hegg, The Letter Writer: Pauls Background and Torah Perspective, First Fruits of Zion.
Davies, Paul and Rabbinic Judaism, SPCK Press.
Crossan and Reed, In Search of Paul, Harper. *
Shulam, A Commentary on the Jewish Roots of Romans, Lederer.
The Early Church:
Wayne Meeks, The First Urban Christians, Yale University Press.
Ben Witherington, New Testament History: A Narrative Account, Baker. Academic
The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting. Six Volume set. Eerdmans.*
Vol.1 The Book of Acts in its Ancient Literary Setting
Vol.2 The Book of Acts in its Graeco-Roman Setting
Vol.3 The Book of Acts and Paul in Roman Custody
Vol.4 The Book of Acts in its Palestinian Setting
Vol.5 The Book of Acts in its Diaspora Setting
Vol.6 The Book of Acts in its Theological Setting
L.Michael White, Building God’s House in the Roman World, Johns Hopkins.
The Social Origins of Christian Architecture, Trinity Press.
W.M.Ramsay, The Letters to the Seven Churches, Hendrikson Publishers.
Colin Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia: Eerdmans.*
Roland Worth, The Seven Churches of the Apocalypse & Roman Culture, Paulist Press.
The Seven Churches of the Apocalypse & Greco-Asian Culture,
Paulist Press.*
James Carroll, Constantine’s Sword, Houghton Mifflin.
Longnecker, The Lost Letters of Pergamum, Baker.
Akurgal, Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey, Net.
Harris, Sport in Greece and Rome, Thames.
Kraybill, Imperial Cult and Commerce in John’s Apocalypse, Sheffield Press.
Chilton, Days of Wrath, Dominion Press (Book of Revelation).
Jeffers, The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era, Intervarsity
Press.
Stauffer, Christ and the Caesars, Westminster Press.*
The Christians: Their First Two Thousand Years, (A Church History Series), Friesens Publishing.
The Veil is Torn, (30 – 70 AD)
A Pinch of Incense. ((70 – 250 AD)*
By This Sign. (250 – 350 AD)
Articles:
“Aquila and Priscilla”, Murphey-O’Connor, Bible Review, December 1992.
“Ephesus: Key to a Vision in Revelation”, Friesen, Biblical Archaeology Review,
May-June 1993.
“Multi-Culturalism at Sardis”, Crawford, Biblical Archaeology Review, September-
October, 1996.
“Satan’s Throne”, Collins, Biblical Archaeology Review, May-June 2006.
“Jesus Triumphal March to Crucifixion”, Schmidt, Bible Review, February 1997.
“Mithraic Mysteries”, Ulansey, Bibical Archaeology Review, September-
October 1994.
