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1. N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God<\/font>
2. B.F. Meyer, The Aims of Jesus<\/font> (long philosophical intro)
3. J. Jeremias, New Testament Theology. Vol. 1: The Proclamation of Jesus<\/font>
4. C.H. Dodd, The Founder of Christianity<\/font>
5. J.D.G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered<\/font>
6. G.B. Caird, New Testament Theology<\/font>, chp. 9.
7. G. Vermes, Jesus the Jew<\/font>
8. H.J. Cadbury, The Peril of Modernizing Jesus<\/font>
9. B. Wiebe, Messianic Ethics<\/font>
10. D. Kraybill, The Upside-Down Kingdom<\/font><\/p>\n

Sure, there are many more, especially if you want to look at this from seminal studies for the academic study of Jesus (Johannes Weiss, Albert Schweitzer, R. Bultmann, G. Bornkamm, W. Manson, T.W. Manson, H.J. Cadoux, M. Dibelius, R. Schnackenburg, L. Goppelt, E.P. Sanders, R.A. Horsley, J.P. Meier, M. Borg, J.P. Meier, B.D. Chilton, J.D. Crossan, E.S. Fiorenza, and on and on). But, this list is my list of the best books to read about Jesus, and they are not all that repetitive amongst themselves.<\/p>\n

By the way, Jimmy Dunn and I are co-editors of an anthology of Jesus studies<\/a> coming out this fall from Eisenbraun\u2019s. It collects seminal essays or chapters in the unfolding history of how scholars have understood Jesus.<\/p>\n

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