Ancient Sources

• New Testament: Good News Translation/Saint Joseph Pocket Edition

• The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins, by Burton L. Mack

• The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts, by Marvin W. Meyer

• The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, by Jean-Yves Leloup

• The Gospel of Thomas: The Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus, by Jean-Yves Leloup

• The Gospel of Judas, by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurst

• The Syriac Clementine Recognitions and Homilies: The First Complete Translation of the Text, by Joseph Glen Gebhardt

• The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, by Michael O. Wise, Martin G. Abegg Jr., Edward M. Cook 

• Antiquities of the Jews - a history of the Jewish people, by Flavius Josephus

• Annals of Imperial Rome, by Tacitus

• The Damascus Covenant: An Interpretation of the "Damascus Document", by unknown 

• The Acts of Thomas, by Harold W. Attridge

• The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners, by Jack Hawley

• The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, by Swami Prabhavanada 

• Buddhist Scriptures, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

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Books by Biblical & Religious Scholars

Jesus - General

• The Court-Martial of Jesus: A Christian Defends the Jews Against the Charge of Deicide, by Weddig Fricke 

• Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus, By Robin R. Meyers

• And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning, by Joel M. Hoffman

• T  he Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity, by Keith Akers

• The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say?, by Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover, The Jesus Seminar

• Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography, by Bruce Chilton

•   The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth, by Ben Witherington III

• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan

• How Jesus Became Christian, by Barrie Wilson

• From Jesus to the Church: The First Christian Generation, by Craig A. Evans

• The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene, by Simcha Jacobovici

• The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation & the Evidence That Could Change History, by Simcha Jacobovici, Charles Pellegrino

• Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, by Bart D, Ehrman

• Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior, Bart D. Ehrman

• Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are, by Bart D. Ehrman

• Yehoshua Nazir: Jesus the Nazarite; Life of Christ, by Otoman Zar-Adusht Hanish

• Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians, by Tim Freke

• Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament, by Bart D, Ehrman

• Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire, by Douglas Boin

• Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity, by Jacob Neusner 

• Jesus: The Human Face of God, by Jay Parini

• Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus, by Jeffrey Furst

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Jesus in India

• The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, by Nicolas Notovitch

• The Fifth Gospel: New Evidence from the Tibetan, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian and Urdu Sources AB Out the Historical Life of Jesus Christ After the Crucifixion, by Fida Hassnain, Dahan Levi

• The Lost Years of Jesus: Documentary Evidence of Jesus' 17-Year Journey to the East, by Elizabeth Clare Prophet

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Jesus's Brother James and The Disciples

• James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Robert H. Eisenman

• The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity, by Jeffrey J. Bütz

• James the Just: Jesus's Brother, Paul's Superior, by Patrick Goggins

• The Brother of Jesus: James the Just and His Mission, by Bruce Chilton

• Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity, by James D. Tabor

• The Brother of Jesus: The Dramatic Story & Meaning of the First Archaeological Link to Jesus & His Family, by Hershel Shanks, Ben Witherington III 

• Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: The Usurpation of Jesus and the Original Disciples, by F.F. Powell

• The Twelve: The Lives of the Apostles After Calvary, by Bernard Ruffin

• Remembering The Poor: The History Of Paul's Collection For Jerusalem, by Dieter Georgi

• Paul: The Mind of the Apostle, by A.N. Wilson

• Paul: A Biography, by N.T. Wright

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Mary the Magdalen in France

• Mary Magdalene in France, by Jaap Rameijer

• Mary Magdalene: A Biography, by Bruce Chilton 

• The Black Madonna and Christ: What The Da Vinci Code Did Not Say, by Gert Muller

• Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor, by Susan Haskins

• The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail, by Margaret Starbird

• Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln

• Cathar Truth: Why These Pacifist Good Christians/Cathars Were Brutally Persecuted as Heretics by the Medieval Church of Rome, by Beverley E. Gould

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Other Sources

• Daily Life at the Time of Jesus, by Miriam Feinberg Vamosh

• Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings, by Richard Hopper

• A Course in Miracles, by Foundation for Inner Peace

• The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal, by Levi

• The Essential Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages: A Wisdom Treasury, by Richard Hooper

• The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels, by Paramahansa Yogananda

• Living Buddha, Living Christ, by Thich Nhat Hanh

• The Life of The Buddha: According to the Pali Canon, by Bhikkhu Nanamoli 

• Shadow of the Silk Road, by Colin Thubron

• Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda 

• The Everyday Torah: Weekly Reflections and Inspirations, by Bradley Artson

• The Children's Illustrated Jewish Bible, by Laaren Brown, Lenny Hort, Eric Thomas

• Celebrate: A Book of Jewish Holidays, by Judith Gross, Bart Weissman​

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Documentary Videos

• The Lost Years of Jesus, a film by Richard Bock

• Jesus in India, a film by Paul Davids

• Who Wrote the Bible?, a film by Dr. Robert Beckford 

• The Secret Family of Jesus, a film by Dr. Robert Beckford for Channel 4, UK  

• The Hidden Story of Jesus , a film by Dr. Robert Beckford for Channel 4, UK 

• The Secrets of the Twelve Disciples, a film by Dr. Robert Beckford for Channel 4, UK 

• The Nativity Decoded, film by Dr. Robert Beckford for Channel 4, UK 

• Who Wrote the Bible, film by Dr. Robert Beckford

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