What to Read After Jesus the Jew
Readers who loved Jesus the Jew by Géza Vermès keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Jesus the Jew 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 Jesus the Jew
The Jewish Gospels
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian myth
The first urban Christians
A Marginal Jew
The New Testament
The historical figure of Jesus
From Jesus to Christ
From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
James, the brother of Jesus
Bible
Backgrounds of early Christianity
The Early History of God
Jesus Through the Centuries
Becoming Like God
Mentor, Message, and Miracles (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 2)
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
The Orthodox corruption of scripture
Misquoting Jesus
A History of God
How the Irish saved civilization
Zealot
Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The God Delusion