Introductory and General

• Huck: Synopsis of the First Three Gospels.

• Hastings or Standard: Dictionary of the Bible, one volume.

• Angus: Environment of the Early Church.

• Fairweather: The Background of the Gospels.

• Wade: New Testament History.

• Mathews: History of New Testament Times.

• Wood and Grant: The Bible as Literature: An Introduction.

• Introduction to the New Testament; briefer, by Peake, Bacon, McClymont; larger, by Moffatt or Jülicher.

Jesus

• Life of Jesus, Rhees, Gilbert, Holtzmann.

• Kent: Life and Teaching of Jesus.

• Stevens: Teaching of Jesus.

• Headlam: Life and Teachings of Jesus.

• Smith: The Days of His Flesh.

Paul and the Apostolic Age

• Histories of the Apostolic Age; briefer, by Ropes and Purves; larger, by McGiffert and Weizsäcker.

• Dobschütz: Christian Life in the Primitive Church.

• Smith: The Life and Letters of St. Paul.

• Rhees: Life of Paul.

• Weinel: Saint Paul, the Man and His Work.

• Ramsay: The Church in the Roman Empire, and Saint Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen.

• Deissmann: Saint Paul.

Huck's Synopsis is of special value in the study of the Gospels. The student who can buy but one book should have the Dictionary of the Bible.