First week of teaching Jesus and the Gospels! Students will learn quickly that “Pharisee” can’t be used pejoratively in this space. It is only to be employed descriptively for a Jew in or before the 1st century. University should be a place where harmful caricatures/inaccuracies come to die!

Social Justice in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near East and by Moshe Weinfeld

Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart Ehrman

Seconding Sinai by Hindy Najman

Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic by Frank Moore Cross

Inscriptions from the World of the Bible by Peter Bekins

The Dead Sea Scrolls by Florentino García Martinez

Minds and Gods by Todd Tremlin

The Resurrection of the Jesus by Dale Allison

Paul and Judaism at the End of History by Matthew Novenson

Writing on the Tablet of the Heart by David Carr