История Бога: 4000 лет исканий в иудаизме, христианстве и исламе

Childs, Brerand S., Myth and Reality in the Old Testament (London, 1959).

Driver, G. R.,Canaanite Myths and Legends (Edinburgh, 1956).

Fishbane, Michael, Text and Texture, Close Readings of Selected Biblical Texts (New York, 1979). Highly recommended.

Fohrer, G.,A History of Israelite Religion (New York, 1972).

Fox, Robin Lane,The Unauthorised Version, Truth and Fiction in the Bible (London, 1991). A readable, scholarly and extremely entertaining look at the Bible from the historian’s point of view.

Frankfort, H,The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (Chicago, 1946).

Gaster, T. H.,Tbespis, Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East (New York, 1950).

Heschel, Abraham, J.,The Prophets, 2 vols., (New York, 1962). A classic: essential and inspiring reading.

Hooke, S. H.,Middle Eastern Mythology, From the Assyrians to the Hebrews (London, 1963). A very useful, popular summary.

Josipovici, Gabriel,The Book of God, A Response to the Bible (New Haven and London, 1988). A sensitive and original look at the Bible from the point of view of a literary specialist.

Kaufmann, Yehezkel,The Religion of Israel, From its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile (trans. and abridged by Moshe Greenberg, Chicago and London, 1961). An accessible version of a classic work of scholarship.

Nicholson, E. W.,God and His People (London, 1986). Excellent.

Pederson, J.,Israel: its Life and Culture (trans. H. Milford, Copenhagen and London, 1926). Another seminal work.

Smith, Mark S.,The Early History of God; Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (San Francisco, 1990). A scholarly, detailed study.

Новый Завет

Bornkamm, Gunther. Two major and influential works:

Jesus of Nazareth (London, 1960).

Paul (London, 1971).

Bowker, John, Jesus and the Pharisees (Cambridge, 1983). Excellent study by an inspiring scholar.

Bultmann, Rudolf,Jesus Christ and Mythology (London, 1960).

Davies, W. D.,Paul and Rabbinic Judaism (London, 1948).

Hick, John (ed.),The Myth of God Incarnate (London, 1977).

A controversial but stimulating series of essays by major British scholars.

Kasemann, Ernst,Perspectives on Paul (London, 1971).

Moule, C. F. D.,The Origin of Christology (Cambridge, 1977).

Sanders, E. P. Two scholarly and important books:

Paul and Palestinian Judaism (London, 1977).

Jesus and Judaism (London, 1989).

Theissen, Gerd,The First Followers of Jesus, A Sociological Analysis of the Earliest Christianity (trans. John Bowden, London, 1978).

Vermes, Geza, Jesus the Jew (London, 1973). A very valuable study.

Wilson, R. Mc L.,Gnosis and the New Testament (Oxford, 1968).

Раввины

Abelson, J.,The Immanence of God in Rabbinical Literature (London, 1912). A work that brings the Talmud to life.

Belkin, Samuel,In His Image, the Jewish Philosophy of Man as Expressed in Rabbinic Tradition (London, 1961). An excellent book that shows the relevance of the Rabbis to today’s world.

Finkelstein, L.,Akiba, Scholar, Saint and Martyr (Cleveland, 1962).

Kaddushin, Max,The Rabbinic Mind (2nd ed., New York, 1962).

Marmorstein, A.,The Old Rabbinic Doctrine of God; I: The Names and Attributes of God (London, 1927).

Studies in Jewish Theology (eds. J. Rabinowits and M. S. Law, Oxford, 1950).

Montefiore, C. G., and Loewe, H. (eds.),A Rabbinic Anthology (New York, 1974).