Best Historical Jesus Books

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Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them 3.99 avg rating — 10,808 ratings
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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why 3.93 avg rating — 19,884 ratings
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth 3.86 avg rating — 72,050 ratings
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The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was & Is
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was & Is 4.14 avg rating — 2,995 ratings
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Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony 4.35 avg rating — 1,174 ratings
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The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus
The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus 4.13 avg rating — 282 ratings
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The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?
The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition? 4.10 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament 4.10 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Not the Impossible Faith
Not the Impossible Faith 4.12 avg rating — 333 ratings
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The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark 4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3)
The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3) 4.53 avg rating — 2,161 ratings
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Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #2)
Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #2) 4.44 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History
Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History 4.49 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Jesus Potter Harry Christ: The Fascinating Parallels Between Two of the World's Most Popular Literary Characters
Jesus Potter Harry Christ: The Fascinating Parallels Between Two of the World's Most Popular Literary Characters 4.02 avg rating — 92 ratings
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How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee 4.10 avg rating — 7,403 ratings
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Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All
Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All 4.08 avg rating — 1,592 ratings
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Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith 4.09 avg rating — 5,965 ratings
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Challenging the Verdict: A Cross-Examination of Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christ"
Challenging the Verdict: A Cross-Examination of Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christ" 3.65 avg rating — 49 ratings
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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II - Mentor, Message, and Miracles
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II - Mentor, Message, and Miracles 4.29 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Gospel of the Rauschmonstrum
The Gospel of the Rauschmonstrum 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Christ Conundrum: The Skeptic's Guide to Jesus
The Christ Conundrum: The Skeptic's Guide to Jesus 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet
Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet 4.25 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails
The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 862 ratings
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Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth 3.86 avg rating — 2,242 ratings
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Searching for Jesus: New Discoveries in the Quest for Jesus of Nazareth—and How They Confirm the Gospel Accounts
Searching for Jesus: New Discoveries in the Quest for Jesus of Nazareth—and How They Confirm the Gospel Accounts 4.14 avg rating — 167 ratings
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The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?
The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?
by: Tim Freke
3.99 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume I - The Roots of the Problem and the Person
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume I - The Roots of the Problem and the Person 4.32 avg rating — 369 ratings
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What Have They Done with Jesus? Beyond Strange Theories & Bad History-Why We Can Trust the Bible
What Have They Done with Jesus? Beyond Strange Theories & Bad History-Why We Can Trust the Bible 3.84 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters
Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters 4.42 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus
The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus 4.11 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence
Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence 3.95 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Lazarus, Man
Lazarus, Man 3.61 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Jesus and the Zealots
Jesus and the Zealots 3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,817 ratings
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The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus & the Truth of the Traditional Gospels
The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus & the Truth of the Traditional Gospels 3.85 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Jesus the Jewish Theologian
Jesus the Jewish Theologian 4.22 avg rating — 223 ratings
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How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature—A Response To Bart Ehrman
How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature—A Response To Bart Ehrman 3.82 avg rating — 342 ratings
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The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed
The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed 4.14 avg rating — 100 ratings
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The Missing Gospels: Unearthing the Truth Behind Alternative Christianities
The Missing Gospels: Unearthing the Truth Behind Alternative Christianities 3.79 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of his Life and Teaching
Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of his Life and Teaching 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Historical Figure of Jesus
The Historical Figure of Jesus 3.99 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
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The Gospel of Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar
The Gospel of Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar 3.99 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity 4.02 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I (The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion, #2)
Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I (The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. II (The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion, #3)
Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. II (The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion, #3) 4.49 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The New Testament and the People of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #1)
The New Testament and the People of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 2,749 ratings
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Deconstructing Jesus
Deconstructing Jesus really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives 4.51 avg rating — 3,416 ratings
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Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels 4.47 avg rating — 2,978 ratings
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The Jesus the Jews Never Knew: Sepher Toldoth Yeshu and the Quest of the Historical Jesus in Jewish Sources
The Jesus the Jews Never Knew: Sepher Toldoth Yeshu and the Quest of the Historical Jesus in Jewish Sources 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Authentic Gospel of Jesus
The Authentic Gospel of Jesus 3.80 avg rating — 102 ratings
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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume IV - Law and Love
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume IV - Law and Love 4.34 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond The Grave
The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond The Grave 3.98 avg rating — 63 ratings
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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume III - Companions and Competitors
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume III - Companions and Competitors 4.29 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Investigating Jesus: An Historian's Quest
Investigating Jesus: An Historian's Quest really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
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A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed
A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed 3.89 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Jesus Tradition in Q
The Jesus Tradition in Q 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Fifth Gospel (Rosicrucian Quartet, #4)
Fifth Gospel (Rosicrucian Quartet, #4) 3.65 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Jesus Told Me to Do What? Looking Beyond the Golden Rule
Jesus Told Me to Do What? Looking Beyond the Golden Rule it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewishness of Jesus Can Transform Your Faith
Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewishness of Jesus Can Transform Your Faith 4.43 avg rating — 3,078 ratings
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Revelation Mysteries Decoded - Unlocking the Secrets of the Coming Apocalypse
Revelation Mysteries Decoded - Unlocking the Secrets of the Coming Apocalypse 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Doubting Jesus' Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box?
Doubting Jesus' Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box? 4.06 avg rating — 112 ratings
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While on earth, Jesus was not poor
While on earth, Jesus was not poor 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Yeshua's Yoga: The Non-Dual Consciousness Teachings of the Gospel of Thomas
Yeshua's Yoga: The Non-Dual Consciousness Teachings of the Gospel of Thomas 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Great Gospel of John Vol IV
The Great Gospel of John Vol IV it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Not Paul, But Jesus
Not Paul, But Jesus 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Next Year in Jerusalem
Next Year in Jerusalem liked it 3.00 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Jesus The Way, The Truth, The Life
Jesus The Way, The Truth, The Life 4.77 avg rating — 231 ratings
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What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Jewishness of Jesus: A New Way of Seeing the Most Influential Rabbi in History
What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Jewishness of Jesus: A New Way of Seeing the Most Influential Rabbi in History 4.14 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Ecce Homo: Jesus the Man
Ecce Homo: Jesus the Man it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Gospel of Lie: A Grieving Christian Searches the Bible for a New Jesus
The Gospel of Lie: A Grieving Christian Searches the Bible for a New Jesus 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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#TrueMessiahs
#TrueMessiahs 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Origin of Paul's Religion
The Origin of Paul's Religion 4.17 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Исторический Иисус. Древние свидетельства земной жизни Христа
Исторический Иисус. Древние свидетельства земной жизни Христа 4.23 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus
Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus 3.84 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Creating Chistianity: A Weapon Of Ancient Rome
Creating Chistianity: A Weapon Of Ancient Rome 3.59 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Historical Jesus
The Historical Jesus 4.22 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Jesus: A Short Life
Jesus: A Short Life 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Jesus At 2000
Jesus At 2000 3.96 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine 4.22 avg rating — 16,967 ratings
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Lord or Legend?: Wrestling with the Jesus Dilemma
Lord or Legend?: Wrestling with the Jesus Dilemma 3.94 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Awaken the Supernatural You!
Awaken the Supernatural You! 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Gospel of Lazarus
The Gospel of Lazarus 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life
Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life 4.51 avg rating — 1,846 ratings
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Why Go On? Three Reasons to Keep Living (Awake! April 2014)
Why Go On? Three Reasons to Keep Living (Awake! April 2014) 4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Virgin Birth of Christ
The Virgin Birth of Christ 4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings
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How Jesus Became God
How Jesus Became God 4.10 avg rating — 7,403 ratings
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The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth
The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth 4.03 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
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The Pursuit of Holiness
The Pursuit of Holiness 4.34 avg rating — 24,836 ratings
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Jesus in Context: Background Readings for Gospel Study
Jesus in Context: Background Readings for Gospel Study 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus: Insights from His Jewish Context
New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus: Insights from His Jewish Context 4.36 avg rating — 245 ratings
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, with References
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, with References 4.49 avg rating — 1,394 ratings
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The Politics of Jesus
The Politics of Jesus 4.04 avg rating — 3,525 ratings
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Vintage Jesus: Timeless Answers to Timely Questions
Vintage Jesus: Timeless Answers to Timely Questions 3.87 avg rating — 1,626 ratings
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Ultimate Allegiance: The Subversive Nature of the Lord's Prayer
Ultimate Allegiance: The Subversive Nature of the Lord's Prayer 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Weight of Glory
The Weight of Glory 4.38 avg rating — 25,178 ratings
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Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods
Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods 3.93 avg rating — 165 ratings
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God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now 4.11 avg rating — 829 ratings
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The Power of a Praying Wife
The Power of a Praying Wife 4.34 avg rating — 63,188 ratings
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The Gospel according to Moses: What My Jewish Friends Taught Me about Jesus
The Gospel according to Moses: What My Jewish Friends Taught Me about Jesus 4.29 avg rating — 267 ratings
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