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The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Books in Order
This page lists the complete The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library reading order by Scott Hahn, with book numbers, publication years, and a publication-order view for readers who want to start at the beginning.
Updated 2026-06-22 / 54 books / 1977-2022
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Reading Order
01
The Gnostic Scriptures(By: Porphyry,Bentley Layton,Irenaeus of Lyons,Basilides,David Brakke,Hermes Trismegistus,Clement of Alexandria,Epiphanius of Salamis,Valentinus,Ptolemy the Gnostic)
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03
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volume 2: Expansions of the Old Testament and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works(By: James H. Charlesworth)
1985
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05
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume I: The Roots of the Problem and the Person(By: John P. Meier)
1991
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07
The Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible(By: Joseph Blenkinsopp)
1992
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08
History and Prophecy: The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions(By: Brian Peckham)
1993
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10
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II: Mentor, Message, and Miracles(By: John P. Meier)
1994
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13
Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel(By: Susan Ackerman)
1998
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16
A History of the Synoptic Problem: The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels(By: David Laird Dungan)
1999
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17
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume III - Companions and Competitors(By: John P. Meier)
2001
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18
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume 2: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods(By: Ephraim Stern)
2001
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19
Peoples of an Almighty God: Competing Religions in the Ancient World(By: Jonathan Goldstein)
2002
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22
No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus(By: Susan R. Garrett)
2008
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23
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4: Law and Love(By: John P. Meier)
2009
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26
The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized(By: James H. Charlesworth)
2010
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28
The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis(By: Joel S. Baden)
2012
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30
Alexander to Constantine - Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume III(By: Mark A. Chancey,Eric M. Meyers)
2012
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31
A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period(By: William M. Schniedewind)
2013
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32
Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge(By: Esther J. Hamori)
2015
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33
Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea: A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents(By: Michael Owen Wise)
2015
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34
Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition(By: Benjamin D. Sommer)
2015
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35
The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods(By: Susan Niditch)
2015
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36
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume V: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables(By: John P. Meier)
2015
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37
Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World(By: Mark S. Smith)
2016
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38
The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry(By: Cynthia R. Chapman)
2016
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40
The Birth of Christian History: Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts(By: Eve-Marie Becker)
2017
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41
Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul(By: Emma Wasserman)
2018
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43
How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?: A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study(By: Ronald Hendel,Jan Joosten)
2018
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48
Jewish Christianity: The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide(By: Matt Jackson-McCabe)
2020
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49
Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature(By: Meghan R. Henning)
2021
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50
The Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism(By: Carol A. Newsom)
2021
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53
Paul Transformed: Reception of the Person and Letters of Paul in Antiquity(By: Adela Yarbro Collins)
2022
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The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Books by Publication Order
The Gnostic Scriptures(By: Porphyry,Bentley Layton,Irenaeus of Lyons,Basilides,David Brakke,Hermes Trismegistus,Clement of Alexandria,Epiphanius of Salamis,Valentinus,Ptolemy the Gnostic)
#1
1977
The Birth of the Messiah(By: Raymond E. Brown)
#2
1985
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volume 2: Expansions of the Old Testament and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works(By: James H. Charlesworth)
#3
1990
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume 1: 10,000-586 B.C.E.(By: Amihai Mazar)
#4
1991
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume I: The Roots of the Problem and the Person(By: John P. Meier)
#5
1992
Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls(By: James H. Charlesworth)
#6
1992
The Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible(By: Joseph Blenkinsopp)
#7
1993
History and Prophecy: The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions(By: Brian Peckham)
#8
1994
Introduction to Rabbinic Literature(By: Jacob Neusner)
#9
1994
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II: Mentor, Message, and Miracles(By: John P. Meier)
#10
1997
An Introduction to the New Testament(By: Raymond E. Brown)
#11
1998
Education in Ancient Israel: Across the Deadening Silence(By: James L. Crenshaw)
#12
1998
Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel(By: Susan Ackerman)
#13
1998
The Death of the Messiah, Volume 1(By: Raymond E. Brown)
#14
1998
The Death of the Messiah, Volume 2(By: Raymond E. Brown)
#15
1999
A History of the Synoptic Problem: The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels(By: David Laird Dungan)
#16
2001
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume III - Companions and Competitors(By: John P. Meier)
#17
2001
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume 2: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods(By: Ephraim Stern)
#18
2002
Peoples of an Almighty God: Competing Religions in the Ancient World(By: Jonathan Goldstein)
#19
2003
An Introduction to the Gospel of John(By: Raymond E. Brown,Francis J. Moloney)
#20
2005
The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel(By: Gregory Mobley)
#21
2008
No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus(By: Susan R. Garrett)
#22
2009
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4: Law and Love(By: John P. Meier)
#23
2009
Kinship by Covenant: A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises
#24
2009
Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity(By: Luke Timothy Johnson)
#25
2010
The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized(By: James H. Charlesworth)
#26
2012
The Formation of the Jewish Canon(By: Timothy H. Lim)
#27
2012
The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis(By: Joel S. Baden)
#28
2012
Ancient Christian Martyrdom(By: Candida R. Moss)
#29
2012
Alexander to Constantine - Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume III(By: Mark A. Chancey,Eric M. Meyers)
#30
2013
A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period(By: William M. Schniedewind)
#31
2015
Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge(By: Esther J. Hamori)
#32
2015
Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea: A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents(By: Michael Owen Wise)
#33
2015
Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition(By: Benjamin D. Sommer)
#34
2015
The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods(By: Susan Niditch)
#35
2015
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume V: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables(By: John P. Meier)
#36
2016
Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World(By: Mark S. Smith)
#37
2016
The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry(By: Cynthia R. Chapman)
#38
2017
Friendship in the Hebrew Bible(By: Saul M. Olyan)
#39
2017
The Birth of Christian History: Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts(By: Eve-Marie Becker)
#40
2018
Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul(By: Emma Wasserman)
#41
2018
Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography(By: Maren R. Niehoff)
#42
2018
How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?: A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study(By: Ronald Hendel,Jan Joosten)
#43
2019
The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred(By: Eyal Regev)
#44
2019
Matthew within Sectarian Judaism(By: John Kampen)
#45
2019
Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine(By: Karel van der Toorn)
#46
2019
Literary Theory and the New Testament(By: Michal Beth Dinkler)
#47
2020
Jewish Christianity: The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide(By: Matt Jackson-McCabe)
#48
2021
Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature(By: Meghan R. Henning)
#49
2021
The Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism(By: Carol A. Newsom)
#50
2022
Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel(By: Susan Ackerman)
#51
2022
Deuteronomy and the Pentateuch(By: Jeffrey Stackert)
#52
2022
Paul Transformed: Reception of the Person and Letters of Paul in Antiquity(By: Adela Yarbro Collins)
#53
2022
The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal(By: Yonatan Adler)
#54
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