Jesus (71 page)

Crossan, John Dominic.
The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.

Crossan, John Dominic, and Jonathan L. Reed.
Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts
. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2001.

Cunningham, Philip A., Joseph Sievers, Mary C. Boys, Hans Hermann Henrix, and Jesper Svartvik, eds.
Christ Jesus and the Jewish People Today
. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011.

Dahood, Mitchell, SJ.
Psalms II: 51–100.
Anchor Bible Series. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.

Daniel-Rops, Henri.
Daily Life in Palestine at the Time of Christ
. London: Phoenix, 2002.

Dodd, C. H.
The Founder of Christianity
. London: Collins, 1971.

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The Parables of the Kingdom
. New York: Scribner, 1961.

Donahue, John R., SJ.
The Gospel in Parable
. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1990.

Donahue, John R., SJ, and Daniel Harrington, SJ.
The Gospel of Mark
. Sacra Pagina series. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002.

Downey, Michael.
The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality
. Collegeville,

MN: Order of St. Benedict, 1993.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A.
The Gospel According to Luke, I–IX.
Anchor Bible, vol. 28. New York: Doubleday, 1982.

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A Christological Catechism: New Testament Answers
. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1991.

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The Gospel According to Luke, X–XXIV
. Anchor Bible, vol. 28A. New York: Doubleday, 1985.

Green, Julien.
God's Fool: The Life and Times of Francis of Assisi.
New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Harrington, Daniel J., SJ.
The Gospel of Matthew.
Sacra Pagina series. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2007.

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Historical Dictionary of Jesus
. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2010.

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How Do Catholics Read the Bible? Come and See Series
. Lanham, MD: Sheed & Ward, 2005.

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Jesus: A Historical Portrait
. Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2006.

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Who Is Jesus? Why Is He Important? An Invitation to the New Testament.
Come and See series. Franklin, WI: Sheed & Ward, 1999.

Harrington, Wilfred J., OP.
Jesus Our Brother: The Humanity of the Lord
. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2010.

Haughey, John, SJ.
Housing Heaven's Fire: The Challenge of Holiness
. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2002.

Horns, Cornelia B., and John W. Martens.
Let the Little Children Come to Me: Children and Childhood in Early Christianity
. Washington, DC: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2009.

Ignatius of Loyola.
A Pilgrim's Testament: The Memoirs of Saint Ignatius Loyola
. St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1995.

Johnson, Elizabeth A.
Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology
. New York: Crossroad, 1991.

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Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints
. New York: Continuum, 2003.

Johnson, Luke Timothy.
The Gospel of Luke
. Sacra Pagina series. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991.

Keith, Chris, and Larry W. Hurtado.
Jesus Among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011.

Komonchak, Joseph A., Mary Collins, and Dermot A. Lane, eds.
The New Dictionary of Theology
. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1987.

Korb, Scott.
Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine.
New York: Penguin, 2010.

Lassalle-Klein, Robert.
Jesus of Galilee: Contextual Christology for the 21st Century.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011.

Levine, Amy-Jill.
The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus.
San Francisco: HarperOne, 2006.

Levine, Amy-Jill, and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds.
The Jewish Annotated New Testament
. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011.

Licona, Michael.
The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Appraisal
. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2010.

Lohfink, Gerhard.
Jesus of Nazareth: What He Wanted, Who He Was
. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2012.

Magness, Jodi.
Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus
. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011.

Marrow, Stanley B.
The Gospel of John: A Reading
. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1995.

Marshall, Alfred.
The Interlinear Greek-English New Testament
. London: Samuel Bagster, 1958.

Matthews, Christopher R., and Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, eds.
Encountering Jesus in the Scriptures
. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2012.

Mays, James L., ed.
HarperCollins Bible Commentary
. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2000.

McKenzie, John L., SJ.
Dictionary of the Bible
. New York: Touchstone, 1995.

McNamer, Elizabeth, and Bargil Pixner.
Jesus and the First Century of Christianity in Jerusalem
. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1989.

Meier, John P.
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus
, vol. 1,
The Roots of the Problem and the Person.
New York: Doubleday, 1991.

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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus
, vol. 2,
Mentor, Message, and Miracles.
New York: Doubleday, 1994.

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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus
, vol. 3,
Companions and Competitors.
New York: Doubleday, 2001.

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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus
, vol. 4,
Law and Love.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2009.

Merton, Thomas.
New Seeds of Contemplation.
New York: New Directions, 1961.

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Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

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The Seven Storey Mountain
. New York: Harcourt, 1998.

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The Sign of Jonas.
New York: Harcourt, 1953.

Meyer, Ben F. “Jesus Christ.” In David Noel Freedman, ed.,
The Anchor Bible Dictionary
, vol. 3. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Moloney, Francis J., SDB.
The Gospel of John.
Sacra Pagina series. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1998.

Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome.
The Holy Land.
Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008.

Nouwen, Henri J. M.
The Return of the Prodigal Son
. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

O'Collins, Gerald, SJ.
Christology: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study of Jesus.
2nd ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.

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Following the Way: Jesus, Our Spiritual Director
. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2001.

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Jesus: A Portrait.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2008.

Pilch, John J.
A Cultural Handbook to the Bible
. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012.

Pixner, Bargil.
With Jesus in Jerusalem: His First and Last Days in Judea.
Israel: Corazin, 1996.

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With Jesus Through Galilee According to the Fifth Gospel.
Israel: Corazin, 1992.

Powell, Mark Allan, ed.
HarperCollins Bible Dictionary.
Rev. ed. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2011.

Pritchard, James B.
HarperCollins Atlas of Bible History
. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2008.

Ratzinger, Joseph, Pope Benedict XVI.
Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration.
New York: Doubleday, 2012.

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Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection
. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2011.

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Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
. New York: Doubleday, 2007.

Reed, Jonathan L.
Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus: A Re-examination of the Evidence
. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity International, 2000.

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The HarperCollins Visual Guide to the New Testament: What Archaeology Reveals About the First Christians.
San Francisco: HarperOne, 2007.

Rohr, Richard.
Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
. Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger, 2011.

Sanders, E. P.
The Historical Figure of Jesus
. London: Penguin, 1995.

Schneiders, Sandra M.
Written That You May Believe: Encountering Jesus in the Fourth Gospel.
New York: Crossroad, 2003.

Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth.
In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins
. New York: Crossroad, 1983.

Scirghi, Thomas J., SJ.
Everything Is Sacred: An Introduction to the Sacrament of Baptism.
Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2012.

Senior, Donald.
Jesus: A Gospel Portrait.
Rev. ed. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1992.

Sheed, F. J.
To Know Christ Jesus.
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1962.

Stegemann, Ekkehard, and Wolfgang Stegemann.
The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century
. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1999.

Teresa, Mother.
Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta.
New York: Doubleday, 2007.

Throckmorton, Burton H., Jr.
Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels
. Nashville: Nelson, 1992.

Trueblood, Elton.
The Humor of Christ
. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1964.

Von Speyr, Adrienne.
Book of All Saints
. San Francisco: Ignatius, 2008.

Wright, N. T.
The Challenge of Jesus
. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1999.

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Jesus and the Victory of God: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is.
Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989.

Zerwick, Maximilian, SJ.
A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament
. Translated by Mary Grosvenor. Rome: Editrice Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 1988.

Zimmerman, Irene.
Woman Un-Bent
. Winona, MN: St. Mary's, 1999.

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O LIST ALL THE
resources that have helped me understand the New Testament since I entered the Jesuits would make this book far too long. So I have limited this list to resources I used specifically in writing this book. First, let me single out several that were my constant companions and that I recommend for further exploration.

The Sacra Pagina series, edited by Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, was, after the Bible, my bible. Each book in the superlative series provides not only a line-by-line analysis of the New Testament, but also solid theological exegesis, so that you are able both to study the Jesus of history and to come to know the Christ of faith. The series is learned, wise, balanced, thoughtful, and well organized. It grounds itself on what is known and can be proven, and its use of Greek is helpful for both scholar and newcomer. The authors of the four books on the Gospels are: Daniel J. Harrington, SJ (Matthew); John R. Donahue, SJ, and Daniel J. Harrington, SJ (Mark); Luke Timothy Johnson (Luke); and Francis J. Moloney, SDB (John). I cannot recommend this series highly enough or thank the authors enough for their scholarship and industry.

Let me also recommend three other books on Jesus that I kept close at hand.
A Marginal Jew
, by the Rev. John P. Meier, a massive, multi-volume study of the historical Jesus, offers a wealth of information and the most detailed analysis of Gospel texts from a historical standpoint you will find anywhere. His first volume has an especially good chapter on the tools of historical analysis of the Gospels.
Jesus of Nazareth: What He Wanted, Who He Was
, by Gerhard Lohfink, is a superb book that beautifully combines the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith.
The Misunderstood Jew
, by Amy-Jill Levine, provides an overview of Jewish practices from the time of Christ and corrects some common errors in the “standard” ways that we look at Jesus and “the Jews.”

Several relatively brief books on Jesus were also very useful. To my mind these are the best short books on Jesus for the general reader
. Jesus: A Historical Portrait
, by Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, is a concise and popular treatment of what we can know about Jesus historically.
The Historical Figure of Jesus
, by E. P. Sanders, is a somewhat longer version of the same topic, and a bit more academic.
Consider Jesus
, by Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, looks at Christology and has an especially interesting chapter on Jesus's self-consciousness.
Fully Human, Fully Divine
, by Michael Casey, OCSO, is particularly strong on how the two “natures” of Jesus work together. Gerald O'Collins, SJ, has written a fine book,
Jesus: A Portrait
, which looks at Jesus in his various roles, for example, as “healer,” “storyteller,” and “Lord.” The fine volume
Jesus Our Brother
, by Wilfred Harrington, OP, looks at the human Jesus, and
Jesus: A Gospel Portrait
, by Donald Senior, CP, is particularly good on Jesus in his Jewish context. And although I didn't use his book in my research for this work, Albert Nolan's
Jesus Before Christianity
, the first book I read in the Jesuit novitiate on the historical Jesus, is a fine introduction to the historical Jesus.

As more devotional titles about the Christ of faith that I've enjoyed and used in this book, let me cite two authors from the past and one from more recent times. William Barclay's
Daily Study Bible
not only offers an analysis of the Gospels, but also draws spiritual lessons from it. (Barclay's approach is methodical and creative; he offers you, for example, three insights from a particular passage and then illustrates with an example from real life. Barclay's books
The Mind of Christ
and
Crucified and Crowned
are also fine.) F. J. Sheed's
To Know Christ Jesus
, one of the first books on Jesus I read in the novitiate, retains its power more than fifty years after its publication. Though some of the historical research is outdated, it still ushers us into the life of Christ in a powerful way. More recently,
Jesus of Nazareth
, by Pope Benedict XVI, is an inspiring three-volume series, each book designed for both the scholar and the curious, with an emphasis on Christ of faith. (A longer list of the books that have inspired me to come to know the Risen One would take several pages.)