I have focused on books that are (1) recent, (2) scholarly (i.e. not apologetic), and (3) reasonably priced. If a book is expensive, but worth the price, I’ve put a dollar sign ($) in front of it.
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New Testament
- Michael Boler, Introduction to Classical & New Testament Greek: A Unified Approach (2020). https://amzn.to/4b6tswA
- Michal Beth Dinkler, Literary Theory and the New Testament (2019). https://amzn.to/3yg9kd6
- Andrew P. Wilson, Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies (2020). https://amzn.to/3QyCri4
- Matthew D. C. Larsen, Gospels Before the Book (2018). https://amzn.to/4bsiuRW
- M. David Litwa, How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths (2019). https://amzn.to/3QF2YtT
- Kara J. Lyons-Pardue, Gospel Women and the Long Ending of Mark (2020). https://amzn.to/4ba2zrK
- Candida R. Moss, Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity (2019). https://amzn.to/3y9MWC7
- $ Max Whitaker, Is Jesus Athene or Odysseus? Investigating the Unrecognisability and Metamorphosis of Jesus in his Post-resurrection Appearances (2019). https://amzn.to/3UCipV1
- $ Lorne R. Zelyck, The Egerton Gospel (2019). https://amzn.to/3JURLSa
Paul
- Bryan Blazosky, The Law’s Universal Condemning and Enslaving Power (2019). https://amzn.to/3wwaGQf
- $ Marlene Crüsemann, The Pseudepigraphal Letters to the Thessalonians (2019). https://amzn.to/4b9U2VM
- Joseph R. Dodson and David E. Briones, ed. Paul and the Giants of Philosophy: Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context (2019). https://amzn.to/3JPS0y5
Gnosis
- $ Nils A. Pedersen, et al. The Old Testament in Manichaean Tradition (2017). https://amzn.to/4dwl8YI
- Peter Schäfer, Two God’s In Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity (2020). https://amzn.to/4dwOKVI
- $ Markus Vinzent, ed. Marcion of Sinope as Religious Entrepreneur (2018). https://amzn.to/3WAnPT8
- Joseph Tyson, Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle (2006). https://amzn.to/4buANWF