SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

for SYNOPTICS STUDIES

BOOKS

• Ernest Best. The Temptation and the Passion: the Markan Soteriology. Cambridge University Press, 1965.
• Raymond E. Brown. The Birth of the Messiah. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co. 1977.
• Rudolph Bultmann. Theology of the New Testament. Tr. Kendrick Grobel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Volume 1: 1951. Volume 2: 1955.
• Richard Burridge. What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Greco-Roman Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• H. J. Cadbury. The Making of Luke-Acts. 2^nd ed. London: SPCK, 1968.
• Warren Carter. What Are They Saying About Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount? New York: Paulist, 1994.
• David R. Cartlidge and David L. Dungan, eds. Documents for the Study of the Gospels. 2^nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1994.
• Adela Yarbro Collins. The Beginning of the Gospel : Probings of Mark in Context. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 1992.
• John J. Collins. The Apocalyptic Imagination. An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix of Christianity. New York: Crossroad. 1984.
• Raymond Collins. Introduction to the New Testament.
• Hans Conzelmann. The Theology of St. Luke. London: Faber and Faber. 1960.
• John Dominic Crossan. Finding is the First Act. Trove Folktales and Jesus' Treasure Parable. Philadelphia: Fortress Press; Missoula, MT: Scholars Press. 1979.
• Martin Dibelius. From Tradition to Gospel. Trans. B. L. Woolf. New York: Scribner, 1934.
• James D. G. Dunn. Jesus, Paul, and the Law : Studies in Mark and Galatians. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990.
• James D. G. Dunn. Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: An Inquiry into the Character of Earliest Christianity. 2^nd ed. London: SCM Press, 1990.
• Richard A. Edwards. Matthew’s Story of Jesus. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.
• Philip F Esler. Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts: The Social and Political Motivations of Lukan Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
• William R. Farmer. The Synoptic Problem. A Critical Analysis. New York: the Macmillan Company; London: Collier-Macmillan Limited. 1964.
• William Reuben Farmer. The Gospel of Jesus : the Pastoral Relevance of the Synoptic Problem. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994.
• Gordon D. Fee. New Testament Exegesis. A Handbook for Students and Pastors. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. 1983.
• Bart D. Ehrman. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effects of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Reginald H. Fuller. The Foundations of New Testament Christology. Glasgow: Collins. 1979.
• Robert W. Funk. New Gospel Parallels. 2 Vols. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. 1985-86.
• John Gager. Kingdom and Community. Prentice Hall. 1975.
• Harry Gamble. The New Testament Canon: Its Making and Meaning. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.
• Morma Hooker. The Message of Mark. London: Epworth, 1983.
• Joachim Jeremias. New Testament Theology I. The Proclamation of Jesus. London: SCM Press. 1971.
• Joachim Jeremias. The Parables of Jesus. Revised edition. Tr. by S. H. Hooke from the German Die Gleichnisse Jesu, sixth edition, 1962. Scribner Studies in Biblical Interpretation; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1963.
• Donald Juel. Luke-Acts: The Promise of History. Atlanta: John Knox, 1983.
• Howard Clark Kee. Miracle in the Early Christian World: A Study in Sociohistorical Method. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1983.
• Howard Clark Kee. The New Testament in Context. Sources and Documents. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1984.
• Howard Clark Kee. Understanding the New Testament. Fourth Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1983.
• George A. Kennedy. New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism. Chapel Hill, NC/London: The University of North Carolina Press. 1984.
• J. D. Kingsbury. Matthew. Structure, Christology, Kingdom. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. 1975.
• Jack D. Kingsbury. The Christology of Mark’s Gospel. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
• J. Kloppenborg. The Formation of Q: Trajectories in Ancient Wisdom Collections. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.
• Helmut Koester. Introduction to the New Testament. Two volumes. Philadelphia: Fortress Press; Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter. 1982.
• Werner G. Kuemmel. Introduction to the New Testament. Fourteenth revised edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press. 1966.
• Edgar V. McKnight. What is Form Criticism? Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969.
• R. Maddox. The Purpose of Luke-Acts. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1982.
• I. Howard Marshall. The New Century Bible Commentary: 1 and 2 Thessalonians. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publ. Co.; London: Marshall Morgan & Scott Publ. Ltd. 1983.
• Willi Marxsen. Introduction to the New Testament. A Concise and Up-to-date Guide to the New Testament Literature and its Historical Setting. A translation of the German third edition. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. 1968.
• Frank J. Matera. What are they saying about Mark? New York: Paulist, 1987.
• Bruce M Metzger. The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.
• Bruce M. Metzger. The Early Versions of the New Testament. Their Origin, Transmission, and Limitations. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1977.
• Bruce Manning Metzger. The Text of the New Testament. Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. Second edition. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1968.
• Bruce M. Metzger. A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. A Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament (third edition). Corrected edition. London/New York: United Bible Societies. 1975.
• Paul S. Minear. Images of the Church in the New Testament. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. 1960.
• Roland Murphy and Bas Van Iersel, eds. Concilium 80: Office and Ministry in the Church. New York: Herder and Herder. 1972.
• Kieth Nickle. The Synoptic Gospels: Conflict and Consensus. Atlanta: John Knox, 1980.
• Overman, J.A. Matthew’s Gospel and Formative Judaism: the Social World of the Matthean Community. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 1991.
• Elaine Pagels. The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Random House, Vintage Books. 1981.
• Norman Perrin. The New Testament: An Introduction. Proclamation and Parenesis, Myth and History. New York/Chicago/San Francisco/Atlanta: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc. 1974.
• Lynn M. Poland. Literary Criticism and Biblical Hermeneutics: A Critique of Formalist Approaches. AAR Academy Series 48. Chico, CA: Scholars Press. 1985.
• M.A. Powell. What Are They Saying about Luke? New York: Paulist, 1989.
• E. J. Pryke. Redactional Style in the Marcan Gospel : a Study of Syntax and Vocabulary as Guides to Redaction in Mark. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1978.
• John Reumann. Jesus in the Church's Gospels. Modern Scholarship and the Earliest Sources. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. 1968.
• David M. Rhoads. Israel in Revolution: 6-74 CE. A Political History Based on the Writings of Josephus. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. 1976.
• Sanders, E.P. and Margaret Davies. Studying the Synoptic Gospels. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1989.
• Samuel Sandmel. Judaism and Christian Beginnings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
• Rudolph Schnackenburg. The Church in the New Testament.
• Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza. In Memory of Her. New York: Crossroad. 1984.
• Donald Senior. What Are They Saying about Matthew? New York: Paulist, 1983.
• J.E. Stambaugh and D. L. Balch. The New Testament in Its Social Environment. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986.
• Robert Stein. The Synoptic Problem: An Introduction. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1987.
• B.H. Streeter. The Four Gospels. London, Macmillan, 1924.
• Charles Talbert. What is a Gospel? The Genre of the Canonical Gospels. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1997.
• Derek Tidball. The Social Context of the New Testament. A Sociological Analysis. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, Academie Books. 1984.
• M.A. Tolbert. Sowing the Gospel: Mark’s World in Literary-Historical Perspective. Minneapolis, Minn: Fortress, 1989.
• Adolph Von Harnak. Marcion: The Gospel of the Alien God. Trans. John E. Steely and Lyle D. Bierma. Durham, N.C.: Labyrinh Press, 1990.
• William Wrede. The Messianic Secret. Trans J.C.G. Greig. Cambridge: Clarke, 1971.
• Robert L. Wilken. The Myth of Christian Beginnings. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 1971.

Journals and Periodicals:

• Catholic Biblical Quarterly
• Interpretation
• Journal of Biblical Literature
• New Testament Studies
• Novum Testamentum
• Journal of Early Christian Studies
• Second Century
• Vigiliae Christianae

See also the basic reference works and the various commentary series.