Below are books and CD’s,  I recommend and own. As with links and such, I do not wholly advocate all opinions and beliefs listed. They are listed by title. If you need to check a quote, from one of the books that I have listed, email us and we can send you the full passage.  Please list page numbers I also have the Encyclopedia Judaica, the Massorah, and the Talmud on CD if you need full quotes.

 

 

 

 

 

  • The Age of Faith, Will Durant

 

  • The Alternative Story of the Division of the Kingdom, Zipora Talshir

 

  • Ancient and Medieval History, Maude Kivlen

 

  • Ancient Hebrew Writings, Schmuel Ahituv

 

  • Ancient History, Philip Van Ness Myers

 

  • The Ancient World and Its Legacy To Us, A. W. F. Blunt

 

  • Appellations of the Jews (Ioudaios, Hebraios, Israel) in the Literature

              From Alexander To Justinian, Abraham Arazy

 

  • An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts, Matthew Black

 

  • The Aramaic Bible, Vol. 12, The Targum of Jeremiah, Robert Haywood

 

  • Aramaic Origin of the Four Gospels, Frank Zimmermann

 

  • The Aramaic Origin of the Fourth Gospel, C. F. Burney

 

  • Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, 10,000-586 B.C.E., Amihai Mazar

 

  • Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel, Beth Alpert Nakhai

 

  • The Asatir: The Samaritan Book of the Secrets of Moses, Moses Gaster

 

  • The Assyrian Eponym Canon, George Smith

 

  • The Atlas of Jewish History, Martin Gilbert

 

  • Atra-Hasis, The Babylonian Story of the Flood, Lambert and Millard

 

  • Bandits, Prophets & Messiahs, Richard A. Horsley
  • Beyond Babel, A Handbook For Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages, John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzi

 

  • The Bible Unearthed, Israel Finklestein and Neil Asher Silberman

 

  • Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

 

  • Biblical Hebrew-A Text and Workbook,  Kittel, Hoffer & Wright

        Moses-Hillel & Co., Christian Book Distributors, Eisenbrauns Inc.

 

            This is a good book to learn Biblical Hebrew. It is great for  teaching you 

            to identify the roots of words.

 

  • A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar, Merwe, Naude and Kroeze

 

  • Biblical Period Personal Seals in the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection,

              Robert Deutsch and Andre Lemaire

 

  • The Book of Hebrew Script, Ada Yardeni

 

  • The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Brown, Driver

              and Briggs

 

  • Calendar & Chronology, Jewish & Christian, Roger Beckwith

 

  • Caesar and Christ, Will Durant

 

  • Coins of Bible Days, Florence Aiken Banks

 

  • Come out of Her My People, C.J. Koster

        Institute for Scripture Research

 

  • Commentary on the New Testament From the Talmud and Hebraica,  4

             Vols., John Lightfoot

 

  • Concordance to the Septuagint, Hatch and Redpath

 

  • The Chronicler's History of Israel, Charles Torrey

 

  • The Chronicler's Use of the Deuteronomistic History, Steven McKenzie

 

  • The Chronicles of Jerahmeel, Moses Gaster

 

  • The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah, Judith Hadley

 

  • The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East, Mark Cohen

 

  • Cyclopaedia of Universal History, Vol. 1, Oriental Monarchies and

               Hellenic Ascendency, John Clark Ridpath

 

  • David's Secret Demons, Baruch Halpern

 

  • The Dead Sea Community, Kurt Schubert

 

  • The Dead Sea Scriptures,  Theodor Gaster

 

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, Abegg, Flint and Ulrich

 

  • Dictionary of Ancient Deities, Turner and Coulter

 

  • The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, David Clines  Vols. 1-

 

  • Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period, Jacob Neusner and

              William Green

 

  • Early History of the Alphabet, Joseph Naveh

 

  • The Emperor Julian and His Generation, Augustus Neander

 

  • Eusebius' Ecclesiatical History, C. F. Cruse

 

  • Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language, Ernst Klein

        

            This book is a must, especially if you get the Aramaic Peshitta with the

            Hebrew translation. There is Biblical Hebrew, which is used in the Tanak,

            but the post- Biblical Hebrew and the Mishnaic Hebrew  are used as well

            as the Biblical, at the time of Yahusha`  and the writing of the Testimony,

            Letters and Revelations  [NT]. This book will help in translating. All the

            words are listed as to what type of Hebrew it is and its origin, if it is

            borrowed. It also lists other Semitic Language words that are the same or

            similar.

 

  • An Exodus Scroll From Qumran, Judith E. Sanderson

 

  • God's Appointed Times, Barney Kasdan

 

  • A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic, Franz Rosenthal

 

  • A Grammar of Samaritan Hebrew, Ze'ev Ben-Hayyim

 

  • Handbook of Biblical Chronology, Jack Finegan

 

  • The Hebrew-English Concordance to the Old Testament, 

            Kohlenberger/Swanson

             Christian Book Distributors, Eisenbrauns Inc.

 

             This concordance of the Hebrew is from the Masoretic Text and not the

             Greek Septuagint translated back into Hebrew. This is a bonus for those

             of you who cannot read Hebrew well, yet, and need to see English in the

             verses listed. The English is based on the NIV translation. The problem

             with the NIV text is that the Hebrew words are not consistently

             translated in the English and you end up with a wide variety of 

             synonyms. The Hebrew words and the verse listings below them are

             accurate, but  the English word to translate it, in the NIV, varies. For

             example: if you were to look up the Hebrew word nefesh (breath, being,

             soul), you would see all the verses  where that word occurs, but  the

             English verses translate them as soul, spirit (which is the Hebrew  word

             ruach), lifeblood, etc.

 

  • The Hebrew Goddess, Raphael Patai

 

 

  • Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, George Howard

            Mercer University Press, Eisenbrauns Inc.

 

 In the beginning of this book, there is the book of Matthew, in Hebrew, on 

 one side of the page and George Howard’s translation, into English, on 

 the other side. The Hebrew text used is the Shem-Tob. Shem-Tob ben-

 Issac ben- Shaprut, a 14th century Yahudiy [Jew] (not Messianic), wrote a

 treatise called the “Even Bohan”, which included the entire book of 

 Matthew from the Hebrew text, not the Greek. The latter portion of

 George Howard’s book, makes comparisons with other texts and explains

 words, phrases and ideas that are strictly Hebrew, showing the original

 language of the book was Hebrew, not Greek.

 

  • Hebrew Law in Biblical Times, Ze'ev W. Falk

 

  • A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People, Eli Barnavi

 

  • Historical Origins, The Chaldean and Hebrew, The Chinese and

             Hindoo, Robert Shaw

 

  • The History and Geography of Human Genes, Cavalli-Storza, Menozzi, Piazza

 

  • A History of Messianic Speculation in Israel, Abba Hillel Silver

 

  • A History of the Ancient World, vol. 1, The Orient and Greece, M.

            Rostovtzeff

 

  • A History of the Expansion of Christianity, Vol. 1, Kenneth Scott

             Latourette

 

  • A History of the Hebrew Language, Angel Saenz-Badillos

        Eisenbrauns Inc.

 

 This book explains the changes in the Hebrew Language and when they 

 occurred. It explains Biblical Hebrew, Post Biblical, Mishnaic and

 Rabbinical Hebrew.

 

  • The History of the Hebrew Language, Angel Saenz-Badillos

 

  • History of the Jewish Nation, Alfred Edersheim

 

  • History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, 5 Vols., 

             Nathan Schurer

 

  • History of the Jews, Vols. 1 and 2, Heinrich Graetz

 

  • History of the Karaites, Nathan Schur

 

  • Hittite Prayers, Itamar Singer

 

  • The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives, Eliezer D.  

              Oren

 

  • Illustrated Manners and Customs of the Bible, J. I. Packer and M. C.

             Tenney

 

  • Introduction to the Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible, 

             Christian David Ginsburg

 

  • Invitation to the Septuagint, Karen Jobes and Moises Silva

 

  • Jesus, David Flusser

 

  • Jesus in the Jewish Tradition, Rabbi Morris Goldstein

 

  • Jewish-Christian Debates, Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton

 

  • Jewish Contemporaries of Jesus, Pharisees, Saducees, Essenes, Gunter

             Stemberger

 

  • The Jewish Messiah, James Drummond

 

  • Jewish Responses To Early Christians, Claudia Setzer

 

  • Judaism From Cyrus to Hadrian, Vol. 2, Lester L. Grabbe

 

  • Judaisms and Their Messiahs, At the Turn of the Christian Era,

             Neusner,  Green and Frerichs.

 

  • The Keepers, An Introduction to the History and Culture of the Samaritans, Robert Anderson and Terry Giles

 

  • The Lachish Ostraca, Naphtali H. Tur-Sinai

 

  • The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah,  Alfred Edersheim

 

  • The Life of Greece, Will Durant

 

  • Leningrad Codex

 

  • Lexicon to the Syriac New Testament, William Jennings

 

  • Manners and Customs in the Bible, Victor H. Matthews

 

  • A Manual of the Chaldee Language, Elias Riggs

 

  • The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Kelley, Mynatt and 

             Crawford

 

  • The Meaning of the Qumran Scrolls for the Bible, William Hugh

             Brownlee

 

  • Messages From the Past, Robert Deutsch