The Pursuit of the Millenium
by Norman Cohn | 
Asimov's Guide to the Bible
by Isaac Asimov | 
Born in Blood
by John J. Robinson | 
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity
by James C. Russell | 
Paul Was Not a Christian
by Pamela Eisenbaum | 
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
by Robert L. Wilken | 
Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture
by Arthur Evans | 
Bible and Sword
by Barbara W. Tuchman | 
The Popes Against the Jews
by David I. Kertzer | 
A History of the Wife
by Marilyn Yalom | 
The Bible in Translation
by Bruce M. Metzger | 
Rome and Jerusalem
by Martin Goodman | 
The Reluctant Parting
by Julie Galambush | 
The Medieval Manichee
by Steven Runciman | 
The Lost Apostle
by Rena Pederson | 
Caesar's Messiah
by Joseph Atwill | 
The Curse of Ham
by David M. Goldenberg | 
The History of Ancient Israel
by Michael Grant | 
A History of the Jews
by Paul Johnson | 
The Sikhs
by Patwant Singh |
Traces the varied history, legends, and myths of the Holy Grail, from the medieval Church's religious version of the secular ideal and Chrétien de Troyes's twelfth-century romances to popular best sellers of the late twentieth century.