Messiah (literature)
Coin of Simon ben Kosiba, showing the Temple with the Messianic star on the roof and the Ark of the Covenant inside (British Museum)
- James Charlesworth (ed.), The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (1983 New York, two volumes)
- John J. Collins, The scepter and the star. The Messiahs of the Dead Sea scrolls and other ancient literature (1995 New York)
- Patricia Crone & Michael Cook, Hagarism. The making of the Islamic world, 1977 Cambridge
- Craig Evans, Jesus and his contemporaries. Comparative studies (1995 Leiden)
- Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman, The Bible Unearthed. Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (2001 New York)
- Israel Knohl, The Messiah before Jesus. The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000 Berkeley)
- A. Schalit, 'Die Erhebung Vespasians nach Josephus, Talmud und Midrasch: Zur Geschichte einer messianischen Prophetie' in Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt 2.2 (1975) 208-327
- Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi: the Mystical Messiah (1973 Princeton)
- Michael Wise, The first Messiah. Investigating the Savior before Jesus (1999 San Francisco)
- Ben Witherington, The Christology of Jesus (1990 Philadelphia)