AOR Bibliography 

These works represent some of the most influential voices, scholars, and theologians who have profoundly shaped and influenced my own thinking.

Their insights, research, and faith commitments in many ways helped lay the foundation for The Affirmation of Reconciliation Between Jews and Christians.

Where available, entries include live links to the work’s Amazon page for reader convenience.

Steven “Wade” Cunningham

 

o   Arendt, Hannah. The human condition, 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

o   Belmonte, Kevin. William Wilberforce: A hero for humanity. Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2002.

o   Berger, Peter L. The many altars of modernity: Toward a paradigm for religion in a pluralist age. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014.

o   Birnbaum, Pierre. The Jews of the republic: A political history of state jews in France from Gambetta to Vichy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

o   Bloomberg, Craig. The historical reliability of the gospels. Intervarsity Press: 1987.

o   Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Letters and papers from prison. Edited by Eberhard Bethge. New York: Touchstone, 1997.

o   Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. The cost of discipleship. Translated by R.H. Fuller. New York: Macmillan, 1963.

o   Boyarin, Daniel. Border lines: The partition of Judaeo-Christianity . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

o   Branch, Taylor. Parting the waters: America in the King years, 1954–63. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

o   Brown, Peter. The rise of western Christendom: Triumph and diversity, A.D. 200–1000, 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2003

o   Brown, Raymond. The death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the grave, Vol. 1. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

o   Camus, Albert. The myth of Sisyphus. Translated by Justin O’Brien. New York: Vintage, 1991.

o   Chazan, Robert. European Jewry and the first crusade. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

o   Cohen, Jeremy. The friars and the Jews: The evolution of medieval Anti-Judaism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.

o   Cohen, Shaye J.D. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, 2nd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.

o   Collins, John J. The apocalyptic imagination: An introduction to Jewish apocalyptic literature, 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016.

o   Connelly, John. From enemy to brother. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

o   Craig, William Lane. Reasonable faith: Christian truth and apologetics. 3rd ed. Wheaton: Crossway, 2008.

o   D’Costa, Gavin. Christianity and world religions. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

o   Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Notes from the House of the Dead. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Vintage, 2015.

o   Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The brothers Karamazov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.

o   Dunn, James D.G. The partings of the ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and their significance for the character of Christianity. London: SCM Press, 1991.

o   Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922.

o   Fackenheim, Emil L. God’s presence in history: Jewish affirmations and philosophical reflections. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

o   Flannery, Edward H. The anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three centuries of antisemitism. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1985.

o   Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s search for meaning. Translated by Ilse Lasch. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

o   Fredriksen, Paula. From Jesus to Christ: The origins of the New Testament images of Christ. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

o   Fredriksen, Paula. Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish life and the emergence of Christianity. New York: Vintage, 2000.

o   Fredriksen, Paula. Augustine and the Jews: A Christian defense of Jews and Judaism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

o   Fredriksen, Paula. When Christians were Jews: The first generation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

o   Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and method, 2nd ed., trans. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (New York: Continuum, 1994

o   Goodman, Martin. Rome and Jerusalem: The clash of ancient civilizations. New York: Vintage, 2008.

o   Graham, Billy. The Holy Spirit: Activating God’s power in your life. Waco: Word Books, 1978.

o   Grayzel, Solomon. A history of the Jews: From the Babylonian exile to the end of World War II. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1947.

o   Greenberg, Irving. For the sake of heaven and earth: The new encounter between Judaism and Christianity. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2004.

o   Hahn, Scott. Kinship by covenant: A canonical approach to the fulfillment of God’s saving promises. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

o   Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A brief history of humankind. New York: Harper Perennial, 2015.

o   Heschel, Abraham Joshua. God in search of man: A philosophy of Judaism. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1955.

o   Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Prophets. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

o   Heschel, Susannah. The Aryan Jesus: Christian theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

o   Hilberg, Raul. The destruction of the European Jews,. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

o   Isaac, Jules. The teaching of contempt: Christian roots of Anti-Semitism. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

o   Jewish Publication Society. Tanakh. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1985.

o   Kant, Immanuel. An answer to the question: What is enlightenment? 1784.

o   Kaplan, Edward. Holiness in words: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s poetics of piety. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.

o   Kellner, Menachem. Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish people, Albany: SUNY Press, 1991.

o   Klein, William, et al. Introduction to biblical interpretation, 3rd Edition, Zondervan Academic, 2017.

o   Klenicki, Leon. Toward a theological encounter of Judaism and Christianity. New York: Paulist Press, 1974.

o   Korn, Eugene, and John T. Pawlikowski, eds. Covenant and hope: Christian and Jewish reflections. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012.

o   Langmuir, Gavin I. Toward a definition of Antisemitism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

o   Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.

o   Lebrecht, Norman. Genius and anxiety: How Jews changed the world, 1847–1947. New York: Scribner, 2019.

o   Levenson, Jon D. Sinai and Zion: An entry into the Jewish Bible. Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1985.

o   Levine, Amy-Jill. Brettler, Mark Zvi. The Bible with and without Jesus: How Jews and Christians read the same stories differently, San Francisco: HarperOne, 2020.

o   Levine, Amy-Jill. The misunderstood Jew: The Church and the scandal of the Jewish Jesus.  San Francisco: HarperOne, 2006.

o   Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2001.

o   Lewis, C.S. The Abolition of Man. New York: HarperOne, 2001.

o   Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. London: Awnsham Churchill, 1689.

o   Lodahl, Michael. Claiming Abraham: Reading the Bible and the Qur’an side by side. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2010.

o   Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem, or on religious power and Judaism. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 1983.

o   Metaxas, Eric. Bonhoeffer: pastor, martyr, prophet, spy. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010.

o   Mikva, Rachel S. Dangerous religious ideas: The deep roots of self-critical faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Boston: Beacon Press, 2020.

o   Niebuhr, Reinhold. Moral Man and immoral society: A study in ethics and politics. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932.

o   Nirenberg, David. Anti-Judaism: The Western tradition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013.

o   Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus spoke Zarathustra. Translated by Thomas Cameron. Wordsworth Classics of World Literature, 1999.

o   Nietzsche, Friedrich. The gay science. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Vintage, 1974.

o   Neusner, Jacob. A short history of Judaism. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.

o   Novak, David. Covenantal Rights: A Study in Jewish Political Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

o   Novak, Michael. On two wings: Humble faith and common sense at the American founding. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002.

o   Parker, James. The conflict of the Church and the Synagogue: A study in the origins of Antisemitism. New York: Meridian Books, 1954.

o   Pawlikowski, John T. Jesus and the theology of Israel. Liturgical Press, 1989

o   Pawlikowski, John T. Christ in the light of the Christian-Jewish dialogue. Liturgical Press, 2001

o   Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition: A history of the development of doctrine, volume 1: The emergence of the Catholic tradition (100–600). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.

o   Radford, Rosemary. Faith and fratricide?. New York: Seabury, 1974.

o   Reinhartz, Adele. Befriending the beloved disciple. New York: Continuum, 2001.

o   Rosen, David. Jewish-Christian Relations: A Jewish Perspective. Jerusalem: ICCJ, 2008.

o   Sacks, Jonathan. Morality: Restoring the common good in divided times. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2020.

o   Sacks, Jonathan. Not in God’s name: Confronting religious violence. New York: Schocken, 2015.

o   Sacks, Jonathan. The dignity of difference: How to avoid the clash of civilizations. London: Continuum, 2002.

o   Sanders, E.P. Judaism: Practice and belief 63 BCE–66 CE. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992.

o   Schaeffer, Francis A. How should we then live? The rise and decline of Western thought and culture. Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1976.

o   Schäfer, Peter. The Bar Kokhba war reconsidered: New perspectives on the second Jewish revolt against Rome. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.

o   Segal, Alan F. Rebecca’s children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman world. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.

o   Second Vatican Council. Nostra Aetate. 1965.

o   Simon & Garfunkel. ”The sound of silence". Columbia Records, 1965.

o   Soulen, R. Kendall. The God of Israel and Christian theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996.

o   Sorkin, David. The religious enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

o   Sproul, R.C. The unexpected Jesus: The truth behind his biblical names

Chicago: Moody Publishers, 1992.

o   Taylor, Charles. A secular age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

o   Ten Points of Seelisberg. International Council of Christians and Jews, 1947.

o   The Bible: New Revised Standard Version. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989.

o   Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity. Baltimore: Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, 2000.

o   To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven: Toward a Partnership between Jews and Christians. Israel: Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation, 2015.

o   Volf, Miroslav. Allah: A Christian response. New York: HarperOne, 2011.

o   Voltaire. Philosophical Dictionary. Translated by Theodore Besterman. London: Penguin, 1972..

o   Wiesel, Elie. Night. trans. Marion Wiesel. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.

o   Yancey, Philip. What's so amazing about grace?. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997.

o   Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. From Spanish court to Italian ghetto. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.