What other historical books talk about Jesus?

Top 10 Books on the Historical Jesus

• Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz, The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide (1998)
• Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus (2nd German edition 1913; English, 2001)[2]
• Martin Kähler, The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic, Biblical Christ (1964)

What are the 5 historical books of the Bible?

These five books (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts) begin with the birth of Jesus Christ and conclude with the first imprisonment of the apostle Paul about six decades later.

Which book tells the story of Jesus?

The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Christ or birth of Jesus is described in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew.

How many books about Jesus have been written?

You mentioned as we were walking here that you’ve read more than 200 books about Jesus. That’s a guesstimate. There are scores of historical books about Jesus and thousands of articles, hundreds of theological books, and thousands of religious books. There are also scores of scholarly books on each of the four gospels.

What are the 17 historical books in Old Testament?

List

• Joshua.
• Judges.
• Ruth.
• Samuel, split in two in Christian Bibles: I Samuel. II Samuel.
• Kings, split in two in Christian Bibles: I Kings. II Kings.
• Chronicles, split in two in Christian Bibles: I Chronicles. II Chronicles.
• Ezra (1 Esdras)
• Nehemiah (2 Esdras)

What is the six books of wisdom?

The Book of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Psalms, Song of Solomon (Song of Songs), Wisdom of Solomon, and Ecclesiasticus (Wisdom of Sirach) are all covered.

What is the best book on Jesus and Judaism?

E. P. Sanders, Jesus and Judaism (1985) and The Historical Figure of Jesus (1993) These two books – the former more scholarly, the latter less so – offer a vision of Jesus firmly grounded in the Judaism of his day.

How many books have been written about Jesus?

There is simply no end to the deluge of books written about Jesus. The author of the Gospel of John already opined, at the end of the first century, that the world could not contain them! This list is one person’s choices.

What are the best books on race in the Bible?

10. Shawn Kelley, Racializing Jesus: Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship (2002); Susannah Heschel, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (2010); Halvor Moxnes, Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism: A New Quest for the Nineteenth-Century Historical Jesus (2012)

Is there such a thing as historical Jesus?

Martin Kähler, The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic, Biblical Christ (1964) Writing in the 1890s, Kähler rejected the very possibility of doing historical Jesus work since the Gospels are entirely invested in presenting Jesus from the standpoint of Christian faith.