If
you would like to read more about the background, life, culture,
philosophy and history of this story I can recommend the following
reading as a first step. Most of these references contain further
pointers to mountains of additional material:
ABEGG,
MARTIN, w/FLINT, PETER & ULRICH, EUGENE, The Dead Sea Scrolls
Bible, Harper San Francisco, 1999: ISBN 0 06 060063 2
BAIGENT,
MICHAEL, w/LEIGH, RICHARD, The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, Corgi,
1992: 0 552 13878 9
BARNETT,
PAUL, Is the New Testament History?, Paternoster Press, 1998: ISBN 0
85364 867 0
BORG,
MARCUS, ed., The Lost Gospel Q, Seastone, 1999: ISBN 1 56975 189 7
COHN-SHERBOK,
LAVINIA, Jewish Civilisation, Chartwell Books, 1997: ISBN 0 78580
798 5
EISENMAN,
ROBERT, w/WISE, MICHAEL, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, Element
Books, 1992: ISBN 1 85230 368 9
GARDNER,
LAURENCE, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, Barnes & Noble, 1997:
ISBN 1 7607 0735 9
JENKINS,
SIMON, 3-D Bible Mapbook, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995: ISBN 0
8407 1964 7
JOYCE,
DONOVAN, The Jesus Scroll, Sphere Books, 1975: ISBN 0 7221 5103 9
MACCOBY,
HYAM, The Mythmaker, Barnes & Noble, 1998: ISBN 0 76070 787 1
MOTYER,
STEPHEN, Who's Who in the Bible, Dorling Kindersley, 1998: ISBN 0
7513 5778 2
ROBINSON,
THEODORE H. & OESTERLEY, W.O.E., A History of Israel Vol I &
II, Oxford Clarendon Press
SEYMOUR,
P.A.H., The Birth of Christ, Exploding the Myth, Virgin Publishing,
1998: ISBN 1 85227 796 3
THIEDE,
CARSTEN PETER, w/D'ANCONA, MATTHEW, The Jesus Papyrus, Phoenix,
1997: ISBN 1 85799 958 4
THIERING,
BARBARA, Jesus the Man, Corgi, 1993: ISBN 0 552 14120 8
TREHARNE,
R.F. & FULLARD, HAROLD, Muir's Historical Atlas, Book Club Associates
WARD,
KAARI, ed., Jesus and His Times, Readers Digest Association, 1987:
ISBN 0 89577 257 4
WILSON,
IAN, Jesus: The Evidence, Pan Books, London, 1985: ISBN 0 330 28708 7
WYLEN,
STEPHEN M., The Jews in the Time of Jesus, Paulist Press, Mahwah NJ,
1996: ISBN 0 8091 3610 4
YADIN,
YIGAEL, Masada, Herod's Fortress and the Zealot's Last Stand,
Phoenix Illustrated, 1997: ISBN 1 85799 949 5