Correctives on Church History: Recommended Reading
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So Many Christians, So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States?
by:
George Yancey
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 2. 
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East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church from Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence
by:
Henry Chadwick
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings 6. 
Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (The IVP Bible Dictionary Series)
by:
Joel B. Green
4.35 avg rating — 503 ratings 7. 
Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Developments
by:
Ralph P. Martin
4.31 avg rating — 93 ratings 
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The Scholastics and the Jews: Coexistence, Conversion, and the Medieval Origins of Tolerance
by:
Edmund Mazza
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 11. 
How New Is the New Testament?: First-Century Judaism and the Emergence of Christianity
by:
Donald Hagner
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings 12. 
When Children Became People: The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity
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O.M. Bakke
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings 13. 
Ignatius of Antioch and the Parting of the Ways: Early Jewish-Christian Relations 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity
by:
Lamin Sanneh
3.91 avg rating — 68 ratings 19. 
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
by:
Larry W. Hurtado
4.49 avg rating — 146 ratings 20. 
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
by:
Thomas C. Oden
3.70 avg rating — 458 ratings 21. 
The African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition
by:
Thomas C. Oden
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45 ratings 22. 
Early Libyan Christianity: Uncovering a North African Tradition
by:
Thomas C. Oden
3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings 23. 
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament
by:
Craig S. Keener
4.36 avg rating — 685 ratings 24. 
Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts
by:
Craig S. Keener
4.41 avg rating — 191 ratings 
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Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence (Studying the Historical Jesus 3.92 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence
by:
Elliott Horowitz
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings 34. 
Early Christian Literature (Routledge Early Church Monographs)
by:
Helen Rhee
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 35. 
Wealth and Poverty in Early Christianity (Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, 4)
by:
Helen Rhee
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 36. 
The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory the Great
by:
Henry Chadwick
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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The Acts of Peter, Gospel Literature, and the Ancient Novel: Rewriting the Past 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World 3.95 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Daily Life of the Jews in the Middle Ages (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)
by:
Norman Roth
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 44. 
Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
by:
Norman Roth
3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
by:
Emily M. Rose
3.60 avg rating — 151 ratings 47. 
Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom 4.12 avg rating — 492 ratings
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ZEITGEIST: The Farce: Thoughts on a Jesus Mythicist Phenomenon (A Christian Response to Jesus Mythicism Book 10)
by:
Albert McIlhenny
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 52. 
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Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism
by:
Paula Fredriksen
4.07 avg rating — 58 ratings 54. 
Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity
by:
Vince L. Bantu
4.31 avg rating — 134 ratings 57. 
Christian Mission: Old Testament Foundations and New Testament Developments really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Introducing Christian Mission Today: Scripture, History, and Issues 3.85 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Rise of Christianity : A Sociologist Reconsiders History
by:
Rodney Stark
4.06 avg rating — 2,032 ratings 60. 
The Rise of Network Christianity: How Independent Leaders Are Changing the Religious Landscape
by:
Brad Christerson
4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings 61. 
Plan 9 from Jesus Mythicism: A Critique of Acharya S' "The Christ Conspiracy" (A Christian Response to Jesus Mythicism Book 15)
by:
Albert McIlhenny
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Sunday Will Never Be the Same: A Rock & Roll Journalist Opens Her Ears to God
by:
Dawn Eden
4.08 avg rating — 51 ratings 65. 
The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 5: c.1198-c.1300
by:
David Abulafia
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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Semitic Christianity: St. Aphrahat & The Sages of Babylonian Talmud 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Homilies on Joshua (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series)
by:
Barbara J Bruce
4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings 72. 
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
by:
Tom Holland
4.27 avg rating — 10,414 ratings 73. 
Compromising Scholarship: Religious and Political Bias in American Higher Education
by:
George Yancey
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 74. 
Coptic Civilization: Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt
by:
Gawdat Gabra
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature: Second Printing
by:
John D. Martin
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 78. 
Perception and Identity: A Study of the Relationship between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Evangelical Churches in Ethiopia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Devil's Redemption: A New History and Interpretation of Christian Universalism 3.51 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity 3.75 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity
by:
Richard Bauckham
4.31 avg rating — 271 ratings 87. 
Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture
by:
David A. deSilva
4.36 avg rating — 261 ratings 
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Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797-1920 (Studies in the History of Christian Missions
by:
Jane Samson
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 92. 
Christians in South Indian Villages: Decline and Revival in Telangana liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Spiritual in the Secular: Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa (Studies in the History of Christian Missions
by:
Patrick Harries
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 94. 
Light on Darkness?: Missionary Photography of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
by:
T. Jack Thompson
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 95. 
British Missionaries and the End of Empire: East, Central, and Southern Africa, 1939-1964
by:
John Stuart
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 96. 
The Conversion of the Maori: Years of Religious and Social Change, 1814-1842 (Studies in the History of Christian Missions
by:
Timothy Yates
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 97. 
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Jewish Civilization (2003): An Encyclopedia
by:
Norman Roth
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 98. 
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, 2nd ed.: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
by:
Richard Bauckham
4.35 avg rating — 1,174 ratings 
