Marginal Mennonite Biblical Seminary (MMBS)

Reading List
(Revised 4/15/13)

1. Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (Anchor, 2007)

2. Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Oxford University Press, 2005)

3. Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them) (HarperOne, 2010)

4. Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (Touchstone, 2002)

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5. Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition (Free Press, 2007)

6. Friedman, Richard Elliott. Who Wrote the Bible? (HarperOne, 1987)

7. Friedman, Richard Elliott. The Bible with Sources Revealed (HarperOne, 2005)

8. Funk, Robert W., and the Jesus Seminar. The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus (HarperOne, 1996)

9. Funk, Robert W., and the Jesus Seminar. The Gospel of Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar (Polebridge Press, 1999)

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10. Greenberg, Gary. 101 Myths of the Bible: How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History (Sourcebooks, 2002)

11. Gulley, Philip, and James Mulholland. If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person (HarperOne, 2010)

12. Jenkins, Philip. Laying Down the Sword: Why We Cant Ignore the Bibles Violent Verses (HarperOne, 2012)

13. Kirsch, Jonathan. The Harlot By the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible (Ballantine Books, 1998)

14. Kirsch, Jonathan. Moses: A Life (Ballantine Books, 1999)

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15. Kirsch, Jonathan. King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel (Ballantine Books, 2001)

16. Kloppenborg, John S. Q, the Earliest Gospel: An Introduction to the Original Stories and Sayings of Jesus (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008)

17. Kugel, James L. How To Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now (Free Press, 2008)

18. Levine, Amy-Jill. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (HarperOne, 2007)

19. McKenzie, Steven L. King David: A Biography (Oxford University Press, 2002)

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20. Mitchell, Stephen. The Gospel According to Jesus: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers and Unbelievers (Harper Perennial, 1993)

21. Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels (Vintage, 1989)

22. Penchansky, David. What Rough Beast?: Images of God in the Hebrew Bible (Westminster John Knox Press, 1999)

23. Plotz, David. Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible (Harper Perennial, 2010)

24. Robinson, James M. The Gospel of Jesus: A Historical Search for the Original Good News (HarperOne, 2006)

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25. Rubenstein, Richard E. When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During the Last Days of Rome (Mariner Books, 2000)

26. Spong, John Shelby. Re-Claiming the Bible for a NonReligious World (HarperOne, 2011)

27. Trible, Phyllis. Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Fortress Press, 1984)

28. Vermes, Geza. The Authentic Gospel of Jesus (Penguin Books, 2005)

29. Weyler, Rex. The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message (House of Anansi Press, 2009)

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