SELECT WORKS RELATED TO JEWISH AND JESUS MOVEMENT HISTORY Click AMAZON to order any text.
BROTHER OF JESUS,THE: The Dramatic Story & Meaning of the First Archaeological Link to Jesus & His Family, Hershel Shanks & Ben Witherington III, HarperSanFrancisco, 2003
BROTHER OF JESUS AND THE LOST TEACHINGS OF CHRISTIANITY, THE, Jeffrey J. Butz, Inner Traditions, Rochster, Vermont, 2005
DAVID AND SOLOMON: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition, Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, Free Press, New York, 2006
GNOSTIC GOSPELS OF JESUS, THE: The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books About Jesus of Nazareth, Marvin Meyer, HarperSanFrancisco, 2005
GOSPEL OF JUDAS, THE, Ed by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and George Wurst, National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 2006
GOSPEL OF MARY, THE: Listening to the Beloved Disciple, Esther A. De Boer, Continuum, New York, 2006
GOSPELS OF MARY, THE: The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdelene the Companion of Jesus, Marvin Meyer, Harper San Francisco, 2004
HOW JESUS BECAME CHRISTIAN, Barrie Wilson. St. Martin's Press, NY, 2008 Highly recommended by Prof. James Tabor
HISTORICAL JESUS IN CONTEXT, Eds Amy-Jill Levine, Dale C. Allison Jr., and John Dominic Crossan, Princeton University Press, 2006
JAMES THE BROTHER OF JESUS: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Robert Eisenman, Penguin Books, 1997
JESUS DYNASTY, THE: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity (With a New Epilogue), James D. Tabor, Simon&Schuster Paperbacks, 2006 & 2007
JESUS FAMILY TOMB, THE by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, Forword by James Cameron, HarperCollins, San Francisco, 2007 The companion 2-hour DVD is "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" available from The Discovery Channel or from Amazon.
JESUS PAPERS, THE: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History, Michael Baigent, HarperSanFrancisco, 2006
LOST CHRISTIANITIES: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, Bart D. Ehrman, Oxford University Press, 2003
LOST GOSPEL,THE: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, Herbert Krosney, National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 2006
LOST GOSPEL OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, THE by Bart D. Ehrman, Oxford University Press, New York, 2006
MISQUOTING JESUS: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Bart D. Ehrman, HarperSanFrancisco, 2005
READING JUDAS: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King, Viking Penguin, London, 2007