What to Read After The Real Jesus
Readers who loved The Real Jesus by Luke Timothy Johnson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Real Jesus is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Real Jesus
The meaning of Jesus
A history of Christian theology
The Rapture Exposed
An introduction to the New Testament
Gospel Parallels
The quest of the historical Jesus
A marginal Jew
The first urban Christians
Jesus before Christianity
The historical figure of Jesus
From Jesus to Christ
The Five Books of Moses
The parables
The Book of J
Judas and the Gospel of Jesus
The Body and Society
The powers that be
The Bible as it was
The New Jerome Biblical Commentary
Jesus
The Laughing Jesus
Love can wait
Mentor, Message, and Miracles (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 2)
Through new eyes