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2011 Book Reviews

Hometown Prophet, by Jeff Fulmer
The God Whom Moses Knew, by J. Roger Nelson, M.D.
Lion's Honey, the Myth of Samson, by David Grossman
A Christian Nation?, by David Rosman, MA
Revelation: Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, by Grant R. Osborne
Jesus, A Revolutionary Biography, by John Dominic Crossan
The Science of God, by Gerald L. Schroeder
Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World, by John Shelby Spong
The God Theory, by Bernard Haisch
The Secret Sect, by Doug & Helen Parker
Gospel Fictions, by Randel Helms
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near-Death Experiences, by P.M.H. Atwater with David H. Morgan
When People Speak for God, by Henry E. Neufeld
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, by John Shelby Spong
Banned Questions about the Bible, by Christian Piatt
The Rise and Fall of the Bible, by Timothy Beal
The Bible for Dummies, by Jeffrey Geoghegan, PhD & Michael Homan, PhD
How We Believe, by Michael Shermer
The Calling: Living a Life of Significance, by Kurt Senske
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, by Brant Pitre
Is There An Afterlife,  by David Fontana
Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius, Illustrated by Barry Moser
Rabbi Jesus, An Intimate Biography, by Bruce Chilton
Kingdom Coming, by Michelle Goldberg
Evidence for Jesus, by Ralph O. Muncaster
Man of God, by Debra Diaz
The Last Week, by Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan
The Language of God, by Francis S. Collins
A New Reformation, by Matthew Fox
Darwin's Cathedral, by David Sloan Wilson
The Feasts of Israel, by Bruce Scott
Holy Ghost Girl, by Donna Johnson
No Wonder They Call Him the Savior, by Max Lucado
Angel, by Laura Lee
Thus Saith Eve, by Chris Wind
The Galilean, by Tom Colgan
The Teaching of the Twelve, by Tony Jones
Hell Yes / Hell No, by John Noe, Ph. D.
The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, by Craig Bloomberg
Who is Jesus?, by John Dominic Crossan and Richard G. Watts
Everything I Know About God I Learned From Football, by Eric Chaffin
Angel, by Laura Lee
Early Christian Writings, Letters of the Church Fathers
Toward a True Kinship of Faiths, by the Dalai Lama
Resurrection: Myth or Reality, by John Shelby Spong
The First Paul, by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan
Beyond Belief, The Secret Gospel of Thomas, by Elaine Pagels
The Scholar's Bible: Mark, by Daryl D. Schmidt
The Misunderstood Jew, by Amy-Jill Levine
Has God Spoken?, by Hank Hanegraff
What's In A Version?, by Henry Neufeld
Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John, by Steven J. Friesen
Jesus: Last of the Pharoahs, by Ralph Ellis
Eternal Life: A New Vision, by John Shelby Spong
Bakkhai, by Euripides, translated by Reginald Gibbons
Evidence for the Historical Jesus, by Josh McDowell and Bill Wilson
The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Odyssey of a Soul in Bondage, by Jon E. Quick
Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment, by Deepak Chopra
God & Empire, by John Dominic Crossan
A New Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels, by Roland Meynet
Naked Pastor 101, by David Hayward
The New Complete Works of Josephus , by William Whiston and Paul L. Maier
Jerusalem, by Karen Armstrong
Jesus, a Very Jewish Myth , by R. G. Price
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
The Feasts of the Lord , by Kevin Howard and Marvin Rosenthal
The Message Bible , by Eugene H. Peterson
God Soul Mind Brain, by Michael S. A. Graziano
Jesus Potter Harry Christ , by Derek Murphy
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, by Elaine Pagels
How Jesus Became Christian, by Barrie Wilson, Ph.D.
Four Views on the Book of Revelation, by Stanley N. Grundy and C. Marvin Pate
Points of Apostasy: Conservatives vs. The Bible, by Richard Musick
The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lamb
Encountering John, by Andreas J. Kostenberger
Other Prayers of Jesus, by John Henson
The Gospel of Mark as Reaction and Allegory, by R. G. Price
Tomorrow's God, by Neale Donald Walsch
Why God Won't Go Away, by Alister McGrath
The Dark Side of Christian History, by Helen Ellerbe
The Blackberry Bush, by David Householder
Devil's Ink, by Jeffrey C. Pugh
Nero, by Jurgen Malitz
God's Trombones, by James Weldon Johnson
Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife, by Lisa Miller
Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor, by S.R.F. Price
Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil, by Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Revelation, The New Cambridge Bible Commentary, by Ben Witherington III
Papias and the Mysterious Menorah, by Ben Witherington III & Ann Witherington
The Search for the Twelve Apostles, by William Steuart McBirnie, P.H.D.
John, by R. Alan Culpepper
Good Book, by David Plotz
New Testament Essays, by Raymond E. Brown
Michael's Reward, by Mario Bernheim
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, by Mary Roach
The Lost Gospel Q, by Marcus Borg
Wide Awake Worship, by John Henson
The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran, by Robert Spencer
Woman of Sin, by Debra Diaz
Putting Away Childish Things, by Marcus Borg
Jeremiah: The Last Days, by Buddy Helms
Revelation: The Way it Happened, by Lee Harmon
Jesus, An Historical Approximation, by Jose A. Pagola
The Book of J, by Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg
Heaven is for Real, by Todd Burpo
The Last Disciple, by Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer
The Jefferson Bible, by Thomas Jefferson
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
Whose Bible Is It?, by Jaroslav Pelikan
The Gospel and the Greeks, by Ronald H. Nash
The Spiral Staircase, by Karen Armstrong
Refracted, by Sheila Deeth
Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene, by Bart D. Ehrman
Noah's Flood, by William Ryan & Walter Pitman
Megabelt, by Nick May
The End of Christianity, by William A. Dembski
The Path of a Christian Witch, by Adelina St. Clair
The Question of God, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex and the Meaning of Life , by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.
Biblical Archaeology Review
Good Without God, by Greg M. Epstein
History and Christian Faith, by Edward W. H. Vick
The First Christmas, by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan
The Riddles of th Fourth Gospel, by Paul N. Anderson
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards
Why God Won't Go Away, by Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene D'Aquili, M.D., Ph.D., and Vince Rause
The Jews in the Time of Jesus, by Stephen M. Wylen
The Bible Code, by Michael Drosnin
Abraham, by Bruce Feiler
Satan, a Biography, by Henry Ansgar Kelly
Christianity, How a Tiny Sect From a Despised Religion Came to Dominate the Roman Empire , by Jonathan Hill
GOD: The Evidence, by Patrick Glynn
The Word of Life, a Theology of John's Gospel, by Craig R. Koester
When Jesus Became God, by Richard E. Rubinstein
Kissing the Leper, by Brad Jersak
101 Myths of the Bible, by Gary Greenberg
The Year of Living Biblically, by A. J. Jacobs
The Sins of Scripture, by John Shelby Spong
How the Bible Came to Be, by John Barton
Carta's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, by Israel Ariel and Chaim Richman
Dawn Behind the Dawn, by Geoffrey Ashe
The Bible With Sources Revealed, by Richard Elliott Friedman
Socrates Meets Jesus, by Peter Kreeft
The Ancestor's Tale, by Richard Dawkins
Revelation: The Way It Happened, by Lee Harmon
The Beast of Revelation, by Kenneth L. Gentry
The Days of Vengeance, by David Chilton
The Resurrection of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright in Dialogue, by Robert B. Stewart
Reading the Bible Through New Covenant Eyes, by Alan Bondar
Jesus Christ: The Jesus of History, the Christ of Faith, by J. R. Porter
The Unworthy Servant, by Bob Williston
The Irresistable Revolution, by Shane Claiborne
In the Beginning, by Karen Armstrong
The Path of the Blue Raven, by Mark Townsend
Pocket History of Theology, by Roger E. Olson and Adam C. English
Atoms & Eden, by Steve Paulson
Life In Abundance, by John R. Donahue
Jesus and Buddha, The Parallel Sayings, by Marcus Borg
The Gospel and Epistles of John, by Raymond E. Brown
I Sold My Soul On Ebay, by by Hemant Mehta
Celebrating Jesus in the Biblical Feasts, by Dr. Richard Booker
Thinking Is Authorized!, by Nash Khatri
The Existential Jesus, by John Carroll
David & Solomon, by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
Pagan Christianity?, by Frank Viola and George Barna
Paul, by Walter Wangerin Jr.
The Final Days of Jesus, by Shimon Gibson
Love is Letting go of Fear, by Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD
A New Christianity for a New World, by John Shelby Spong
My Stroke Of Insight, by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
Einstein's God, by Krista Tippett
Take This Bread, by Sara Miles