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  LIMEX Course 3,
Christian Origins

LIMEX Curriculum Bibliography

Required Texts:

Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation.Rev. CD-Rom ed. Minneapolis: Augsberg Fortress, 2002. ISBN# 080063439X

Lee, Bernard J. The Galilean Jewishness of Jesus: Retrieving the Jewish Origins of Christianity. New York: Paulist, 1988. ISBN# 0809130211.

Official Church Documents:

Bechard, Dean P. The Scripture Documents: An Anthology of Official Catholic Teachings. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2002. ISBN # 0814625916.

Catechism of the Catholic Church. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C: United States Catholic Conference, 2000. Publication #5-109 (hard cover); publication # 5-110 (paperback). Order by calling 800.235.USCC, or outside the U.S. and Canada 202.722.8716; or by visiting the web site http://www.usccb.org/publishing/catechism.shtml. Text is available online at http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/index.htm. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Additional Resource for Course 1, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

The Pontifical Biblical Commission. The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible. Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2002. ISBN # 0819839752. Text is available online at http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/pcb_documents/rc_con

_cfaith_doc_20020212_popolo-ebraico_en.html.

---. The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church. Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 1993. ISBN # 0819836702 [$5.50] Text is available online at http://clawww.lmu.edu/faculty/fjust/Docs/PBC_Interp.htm.

Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents. Vols. 1 and 2. Ed. Austin Flannery, O.P. Northport, NY: Costello, 1998. ISBN # 0918344395 and 0918344166. Documents are available online at
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/index.htm. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Additional Resource for Course 1, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

Additional Sources:

Brown, Raymond E. The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves, and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Time. New York: Paulist, 1979. ISBN# 0809121743.

Dunn, James D. G. The Theology of Paul the Apostle. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans: 1997. ISBN # 0802838448.

Getty-Sullivan, Mary-Ann. Women in the New Testament. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2001. ISBN # 0814625460.

Harrington, Daniel J. The Gospel of Matthew. Sacra Pagina 1. Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier, 1991. ISBN # 0814658032.

Harrington, Wilfrid J. Revelation. Sacra Pagina 16. Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier, 1993. ISBN # 0814658180.

Ilan, Tal. Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996. ISBN # 1565632400.

Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Acts of the Apostles. Sacra Pagina 5. Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier, 1992. ISBN # 0814658075.

---. The First and Second Letters to Timothy. New York: Doubleday, 2001. ISBN # 0385484224.

---. The Letter of James. New York: Doubleday, 1995. ISBN # 0385413602.

---. The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997. ISBN # 0060641665.

Koester, Craig. Hebrews. New York: Doubleday, 2001. ISBN # 0385468938.

Meier, John P. Companions and Competitors. , Vol. 3. of A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. New York: Anchor Bible/Doubleday, 2001. ISBN# 0385469934.

---. Mentor, Message, and Miracles. Vol. 2 of A Marginal Jew: Rethinking theHistorical Jesus. New York: Anchor Bible/Doubleday, 1991. ISBN# 0385469926.

---. The Roots of the Problem and the Person. Vol. 1 of A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. New York: Anchor Bible/Doubleday, 1991. ISBN# 0385264259.

Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of John. Sacra Pagina 4. Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier, 1998. ISBN # 0814658067.

---. The Gospel of Mark. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002. ISBN # 1565636821.

New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Raymond Brown, et al. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN # 0138598363. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Additional Resource for Course 2, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

Osiek, Carolyn, and David L. Balch. Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1997. ISBN # 0664255469.

Sanders, E. P. Paul: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. ISBN # 0192854518.

Witherington, Ben. The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth. Downer’s Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1997. ISBN # 0830815449.

---. Women in the Earliest Churches. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. ISBN # 0521407893.

Wright, N. T. The New Testament and the People of God. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1991. ISBN # 0800626818.

---. Jesus and the Victory of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996. ISBN # 0800626826.

---. The Resurrection of the Son of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002. ISBN # 0800626796.

---. What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity? Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997. ISBN # 0802844456.

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