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Suggested Reading

This is a short list, if you will, because there simply is not enough room or time to list everything. At least this will let anyone know where I stand in regards to my spiritual or religious philosophy. I might not agree with everything listed here, but I firmly believe that you should read something yourself before deciding if you agree or disagree with it. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible in criminal court and it should be the same in the court of human reason.

Periodicals:

Archaeology Odyssey, Bible Review, Biblical Archaeology Review, Moment Magazine, The Skeptic, Natural History, Scientific American, Cornerstone Magazine

Books: (Non-Fiction)

Essential Papers on Judaism and Christianity in Conflict – Ed. by Jeremy Cohen

The First Coming-How The Kingdom of God Became Christianity - Thomas Sheehan

Man is Not Alone – Abraham Joshua Heschel

A Passion for Truth – Abraham Joshua Heschel

God in Search of Man – Abraham Joshua Heschel

Israel, An Echo in Eternity – Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Message and the Kingdom – Richard Horsley and Neil Asher Silberman

Letters and Papers from Prison – Diedrich Bonhoeffer

The Cost of Discipleship – Diedrich Bonhoeffer

Ethics – Diedrich Bonhoeffer

Philosophical Fragments – Soren Kierkegaard

A Sickness unto Death – Soren Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard

The Present Age – Soren Kierkegaard

A Short Life of Kierkegaard – Walter Lowrie

Works of Love – Soren Kierkegaard

Concluding Unscientific Postscript – Soren Kierkegaard

Training in Christianity – Soren Kierkegaard

Attack upon Christendom – Soren Kierkegaard

Jesus and the World of Judaism – Geza Vermes

The Guide for the Perplexed – Moses Maimonides

Ethical Writings – Moses Maimonides

Jesus and His Jewish Parables – Brad Young

The Most Ancient Testimony – Jerome Friedman

Historical Consciousness and Religious Tradition in Azariah de’Rossi’s Me’or Einayim – Lester A. Segal

Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls – Ed. by Herschel Shanks

The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered – Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise

James the Brother of Jesus (the key to unlocking the secrets of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls) – Robert Eisenman

The Dead Sea Scrolls – Wise, Abegg, and Cook

Reluctant Witnesses -Jews in the Christian Imagination – Stephen R Haynes

Archaeological History of the Ancient Middle East – Jack Finegan

The Bible Unearthed – Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman

Jews and Christians – Jacob Neusner

A Rabbi Talks with Jesus – Jacob Neusner

Zohar, the Book of Splendor – Ed. by Gershom Scholem

The Sepher Yetzirah – Aryeh Kaplan

The Wisdom of Ancient Egypt – Joseph Kaster

The Last Days of Socrates - Plato

The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic – Martin Heidegger

The Jews in the Roman World – Michael Grant

Saint Peter – Michael Grant

Christology in the Making: A New Testament Inquiry into the Origins of the Incarnation – James W. Dunn

The Fathers of the Western Church – Robert Payne

The Fathers of the Eastern Church – Robert Payne

Schismatic, Sectarians, Dissidents, Deviants-the first 100 years of Christianity – Jack T. Sanders

The Gnostics – Tobias Churton

The Gnostic Religion - The message of the alien God and the beginnings of Christianity – Hans Jonas

Revelation and Mystery in Ancient Judaism and Christianity – Markus Bockmuehl

The Mystery Religions and Christianity – Samuel Agnus

The History of Islam – Robert Payne

In the Beginning – Karen Armstrong

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent – Elaine Pagels

The Mythmaker – Paul and the Invention of Christianity – Hyam Maccoby

The Christ Myth – Harold Leidner

Jesus – 100 Years before Christ – Professor Alvar Ellegard

A Radical Jew- Paul and the Politics of Identity – Daniel Boyarin

Reinventing Paul – John Gager

African Proverbs – Gerd de Lay

African Origins of the Worlds Religion – Ed. by Saakana

African Presence in Early Asia – Ed. by Ivan Van Sertima

Black Spark, White Fire – Did African Explorers Civilize Ancient Europe? – Richard Poe

The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son, the Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity – Jon D. Levenson

Jews and Christians – James H. Charlesworth

Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity – Jacob Nuesner

Jewish Contemporaries of Jesus – Pharisees, Sadduces, Essenes – Gunter Stemberger

Isaac Asimov’s Guide to the Bible – Isaac Asimov

Judaism as Story – Jacob Nuesner

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians – James H. Charlesworth

The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden -

Slaying the Dragon–Myth Making in the Biblical Tradition– Bernard F. Batto

Histories – Herodotus

The Letters of the Younger Pliny–

Early Christian Writings – The Apostolic Fathers – Ed. Betty Radice

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

The Awe Inspiring Rites of Initiation – Edward Yarnold

The Moses Mystery-The African Origins of the Jewish People – Gary Geenberg

On Judaism – Martin Buber

Thou and I – Martin Buber

Studies in the Zohar – Yehuda Liebes

Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament – What we cannot show, we do not know – Jacob Nuesner

A History of Ancient Egypt – Nicholas Grimal

History of the World – Gibbons

Ancient History – George Rawlinson

Josephus – the Complete Works

Mesopotamian Myths – Henrietta McCall

What is Judaism? – An Interpretation for the Present Age. – Emil L. Fackenheim

Fox’s Book of Martyrs –

Revelation – Peter Lorie

Moses, a Life – Jonathan Kirsh

Augustus to Constantine – the Emergence of Christianity in the Roman World. – Robert M. Grant

Kabbalah – Kenneth Hanson

The Essential Kabbalah – The Heart of Jewish Mysticism. – Daniel C. Matt

God’s First Love Christians and Jews over 2000 years. – Friedrich Heer

Virgin Birth? The real story of Mary and her son Jesus. – Gerd Ludemann

Thus Spake Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche

Between God and Man – Abraham Joshua Heschel

When Jesus Became God – Richard E. Rubenstein

Minyan 10 Principles for Living a Life of Integrity – Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro

Surpassing Wonder – The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds – Donald Harman Akenson

Philo in early Christian Literature A Survey – David T. Runia

The Race Gallery – Marek Kohn

The Paper Clip Conspiracy – Tom Bower

Trading with the Enemy – Charles Higham

The Unseen Hand – Ralph Epperson

Confucius the Analects

A Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi

The Art of War – Sun Tzu

Messiahs - John Houge

The Devil’s Party – Colin Wilson

The Bible

The Tanakh

The Rig Veda

The Bhagavad- Gita

The Koran

The Book of Mormon

Science and Theology-Questions at the Interface - Ed. by Murray Rae, Hillary Regan and John Stenhouse

The Bible According to Mark Twain – Ed. Howard g. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough

To Be A Jew – Rabbi Hayim Ha Levy Donin

Divine Commitment and Human Obligation Volume 1 and 2 – David Noel Freedman

 

Books: (Fiction)

The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

At the Back of the North Wind – George MacDonald

The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis

The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis

The Perelanda Trilogy – C.S. Lewis

Hrolf Kraki’s Saga – Poul Anderson

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

Les Miserables –

The Never Ending Story – Michael Ende

Momo – Michael Ende

A Spell for Chameleon – Piers Anthony

Conan – Robert E. Howard

Moon of Skulls – Robert E. Howard

Hand of Kane – Robert E. Howard

Almost everything written by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Jacob the Baker – Noah ben Shea

Jacob’s Journey – Noah ben Shea

In the Tradition of Moses and Mohammed – Jewish and Arab Folk Tales - Blanche L. Serwer-Bernstein

Philosophy

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