Bibliography: The Historical Jesus

This bibliography was compiled by Dr John McClean, to supplement his article in Case Magazine #29, ‘Veiled in Flesh’.

On the various ‘quests of the historical Jesus’:
J. C. Paget, “Quests for the Historical Jesus” in The Cambridge Companion to Jesus,  Markus Bockmuehl ed. (Cambridge: CUP, 2001), pp138-55.
Craig A. Evans. “Assessing Progress In the Third Quest of the Historical Jesus” JSHJ Vol 4, no.1 (Jan 2006): pp35-54
James H. Charlesworth, The Historical Jesus: an Essential Guide (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008).
James D. G. Dunn and Scot McKnight eds., The historical Jesus in recent research (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005).

For studies of the historical evidence of Jesus self-understanding:
Michael F. Bird, Are You the One who is to Come? The Historical Jesus and the Messianic Question. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009).
Simon Gathercole, The Pre-existent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark and Luke (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006).

On the historicity of John’s gospel:
For a survey, see Paul Anderson, “Beyond the Shade of the Oak Tree: The Recent Growth of Johannine Studies” ET Vol. 119 (2008): pp370-71.
Craig L. Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of John’s Gospel: Issues and Commentary (Downers Grove: IVP, 2001).
Paul N. Anderson, The Fourth Gospel and the Quest for Jesus: Modern Foundations Reconsidered (London and New York: T&T Clark/Continuum, 2006).
R. Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), pp358-471.
R. J. Bauckham,  The testimony of the beloved disciple : narrative, history, and theology in the Gospel of John (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), pp173-238.
P. W. Ensor, “The Johannine Sayings of Jesus and the Question of Authenticity” in Challenging Perspectives on the Gospel of John, ed. John Lierman (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006), pp14-33.

For a discussion of how the evidence of historicity is to be assessed:
C. Stephen Evans, “The Historical Reliability of John’s Gospel: From What Perspective Should it Be Assessed?” in Gospel of John and Christian Theology, eds. Richard Bauckham and Carl Mosser (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008), pp91-119.
C. Stephen Evans, Faith beyond Reason (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998).