A Review of the History

of Very Early Christianity

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY USED TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO THE VERY EARLIEST CHRISTIANS AND THEIR BELIEFS

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1. Allegro, John M., The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (Second Revised Edition, Prometheus Books, 1992)

2. Anonymous, The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (The World Publishing Company, 1963 – Alpha House copyrights to original 2-book version dated 1926 and 1927)

3. Armstrong, Karen, A History of God : The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Alfred A. Knopf 1994)

4. Bloom, Harold, The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation (Simon & Schuster 1992)

5. Bloom, Harold, Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams and Resurrection (Riverhead Books 1996)

6. Christianity Today, The New Testament in Four Versions: King James, Revised Standard, Phillips Modern English, New English Bible (Christianity Today, Inc. 1965)

7. Churton, Tobias, The Gnostics (Barnes & Noble Books 1987)

8. Copan, Paul, (Ed.) Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? A Debate between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan, Moderated by William F. Buckley Jr. and Withe Responses from Robert J. Miller, Craig L. Blomberg, Marcus Borg and Ben Witherington III (Baker Books 1998)

9. Couliano, Ioan P., The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism (HarperSanFrancisco 1992)

10. Crossan, John Dominic, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (HarperSanFrancisco 1991)

11. Crossan, John Dominic, Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of The Death of Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco 1995)

12. Crossan, John Dominic, The Birth of Christianity; Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately Following the Execution of Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco 1998)

13. Daniélou, Jean, The Theology of Jewish Christianity, The Development of Christian Doctrine before the Council of Nicaea, Volume One, Translated and Edited by John Baker (The Henry Regnery Company 1964)

14. Dart, John, The Jesus of Heresy and History: The Discovery and Meaning of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library, "A revised and expanded edition of The Laughing Savior (Harper & Rowe 1988)

15. Eisenman, Robert and Michael Wise, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered: The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 key Documents Withheld for Over 35 Years (Barnes & Noble 1992)

16. Eisenman, Robert, James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Penguin Books 1997)

17. Fox, Robin Lane, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible (Vintage Books 1991)

18. Freke, Timothy and Peter Gandy, The Jesus Mysteries: Was the ‘Original Jesus' a Pagan God? (Thorsons 1999)

19. Freke, Timothy and Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians (Three Rivers Press 2001)

20. Haydon, A. Eustice, Biography of the Gods (The Macmillan Company 1948)

21. Hedrick, Charles W. and Robert Hodgson Jr., (Eds.) Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism, and Early Christianity: Fourteen leading scholars discuss the current issues in gnostic studies (Hendrickson Publishers 1986)

22. Jenkins, Philip, Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way (Oxford University Press 2001); and The Next Christendom, The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford University Press 2002)

23. Kane, Dan, All Paths Save One, (on the Internet 5 February 2003) Note: click here to go to http://www.lvcm.com/allpathssaveone/ to download Kane's book.

24. Küng, Hans, The Catholic Church: A Short History (A Modern Library Chronicles Book 2001)

25. Leloup, Jean-Yves, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene: Coptic Translation and Commentary by Jean-Yves Leloup; English Translation and Notes by Joseph Rowe; Preface by Jacob Needleman (Inner Traditions 2002)

26. Ludemann Gerd, and Martina Janssen, Suppressed Prayers: Gnostic Spirituality in Early Christianity (Trinity Press International 1998)

27. Maccoby, Hyam, The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity (Barnes & Noble Books 1986)

28. McGiffert, Arthur Cushman, A History of Christian Thought, Volume I: Early and Eastern, From Jesus to John of Damascus (Charles Scribner's Sons 1932)

29. Meyer, Marvin W., The Secret Teachings of Jesus; Four Gnostic Gospels (Vintage Books 1986)

30. Nibley, Hugh, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley (Deseret Book and FARMS 1987, 1992 and other dates)

31. Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels (Random House 1979)

32. Rubenstein, Richard E., When Jesus Became God; The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome (Harcourt Brace and Company 1999)

33. Smith, Morton, Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark (Harvard University Press 1973)

34. Streeter, Burnett Hillman, The Primitive Church, Studied with Special reference to the Origins of the Christian Ministry (The Macmillan Company 1929)

35. Talmage, James E. Jesus the Christ, A Study of the Messiah and His Mission according to Holy Scriptures both Ancient and Modern (Deseret Book Company 1962, first edition 1915)

36. Van Luik, Abraham, Doctrinal Recognitions (Unpublished and Incomplete, 1976)

37. Vermes, Geza, The Changing Faces of Jesus (Viking Compass 2001)

38. White, Michael, The Pope & The Heretic, The True Story of Giordano Bruno, The Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition (William Morrow 2002)