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Books by Dan McClellan
Recommended on the show
214 books
1 & 2 Samuel for Normal People
Caring for the Dead in Ancient Israel
Inventing God's Law
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition (NRSVue)
The So-Called Deuteronomistic History
God
Jacob and the Divine Trickster
Jesus and John Wayne
When God Spoke Greek
A Covenant with Death
A Jewish Paul
Black and Slave
Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel
Disembodied Souls
Introduction to the Apocrypha
James (International Critical Commentary)
Jesus and the Forces of Death
Junia
Revelation (Anchor Yale Bible commentary)
The Curse of Ham
The New Oxford Annotated Bible
The Oxford Annotated Apocrypha
When Gods Were Men
Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture
The Jewish Study Bible
Christmaker
The Art of Bible Translation
1 Enoch
A History of the Bible
Armageddon
Before Religion
Deuteronomy and the Meaning of ‘Monotheism’
Good Book
How Catholics Encounter the Bible
JPS Tanakh (New JPS Translation)
Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism
SBL Study Bible
Star-Spangled Jesus
The Consuming Fire
The Hebrew Bible
The Historical David
Writing and Rewriting the Gospels
Writing on the Tablet of the Heart
1 & 2 Chronicles for Normal People
1 Enoch (Hermeneia commentary)
1177 B.C.
A Disabled Apostle
A Long Way from Tipperary
A New New Testament
Aliens and Religion
American Idolatry
American Zion
Among the Host of Heaven
Ancient Sex
Apocalypse as Holy War
Battling the Gods
Between Interpretation and Imagination
Bible Nation
Creatio ex Nihilo
Creation 'ex nihilo'
Daniel (Old Testament Library commentary)
David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory
Deconstructing
Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism
Did God Have a Wife?
Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity
Forged
God's Ghostwriters
God's Secretaries
Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them
Harlot or Holy Woman? A Study of Hebrew Qedesha
Holy Love
Homosexuality and Civilization
How Jesus Became God
How to Not Suck As a Christian
If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?
Immigration and Apocalypse
Israel's Scriptures in Early Christian Writings
Jesus Before the Gospels
John for Normal People
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities (Loeb Classical Library edition)
Jubilees (Hermeneia commentary series translation)
Judeophobia and the New Testament
King and Messiah as Son of God
Lady Eclecte
Land of Our Fathers
Liberation Theologies in the United States
Lord Jesus Christ
Love Between Women
Marriage in the Bible
Misquoting Jesus
Planet Narnia
Polydoxy
Practicing Safer Texts
Religion as Make-Believe
Rituals for Heretics
Roman Sexualities
Satan and the Problem of Evil
Scapegoats
Serving Up Scripture
Sex and Antiquity
Slavery in Early Christianity
Taking America Back for God
Tax Collector to Gospel Writer
The Biblical Qumran Scrolls
The Color of Law
The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son
The Disabled God
The Epistles of St. John (commentary)
The Formation of Genesis 1-11
The Formation of the Hebrew Bible
The Fourth Synoptic Gospel
The Gospel of John
The Gospel on the Margins
The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism
The Invention of the Inspired Text
The Jewish Annotated New Testament
The Letter of Aristeas (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature)
The Magi
The Myth of Religious Violence
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
The Origin and Character of God
The Other Gospels
The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality
The Ritual Animal
The Satan
The Septuagint
The Son of God in the Roman World
The Star of Bethlehem
The Widening of God's Mercy
The Wilderness Narratives in the Hebrew Bible
Unprotected Texts
When Prophecy Fails
Why Christianity Must Change or Die
Why the Bible Began
Womanist Midrash
Women Remembered
Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel
Women's Divination in Biblical Literature
Holy Resilience
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities
A Thousand Thousands Served Him
Is God a Moral Compromiser?
Reading the Fractures of Genesis
Religious Landscape Study
The Epistles of John (Anchor Bible commentary)
The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT)
Translating the Message
What is a God?
BDAG (A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature)
The Meaning and End of Religion
The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel
The Most Famous Man in America
The Origins of Judaism
Quranic Arabic
Islam
Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament
God's Monsters
Zealot
The Righteous Mind
The Annotated Book of Mormon
Permission Granted
The Dead Sea Scrolls, Volume 1
The Myth of Persecution
Passions Within Reason
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (4th edition)
Genesis 1–11 (International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament)
Melchizedek, King of Sodom
The New Testament on Sexuality
Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality
Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality
The Bible, Gender, and Sexuality
John of History, Baptist of Faith
The Bible Unearthed
Religion in American Politics
Big Gods
An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion
Jesus Among the Gods
Imagining Persecution
The Radical Mind
The Religion of Whiteness
The Invention of Judaism
A New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS)
Bird by Bird
Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan
Gods, Goddesses, and Images of God in Ancient Israel
The Religions of Ancient Israel
Paul
Letters That Paul Did Not Write
I & II Timothy and Titus
Ecclesiology and Theosis in the Gospel of John
Yahweh
Yahweh and the Origins of Ancient Israel
The Bible with Sources Revealed
Joseph Smith
The Bible With and Without Jesus
The One Who Is to Come
Romans
Colossians and Philemon (International Critical Commentary)
Learning Biblical Hebrew
The Graven Image
Divine Substitution
The Image of God in the Garden of Eden
Linguistic Categorization
The Missionary Position
The Shroud of Turin
The New Testament
The Gospels
Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife
Genesis 1–11
The Composition of the Pentateuch
