What to Read After Reading Judas
Readers who loved Reading Judas by Elaine Pagels keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Reading Judas 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 Reading Judas
Lost Scriptures
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot
The Nag Hammadi Library
The Gospel of Thomas
Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene
Truth and fiction in the Da Vinci code
Rescuing the Bible from fundamentalism
Beyond belief
Gospel Parallels
The Misunderstood Jew
Essential Judaism
The Last Week
The quest of the historical Jesus
The spiral staircase
Lost Christianities
Islam
Adam, Eve and the serpent
The origin of Satan
When Jesus Became God
The gnostic Gospels
Who wrote the Bible?
The Historical Jesus
Moses
Prayers of the Cosmos