Scott Hahn Reading Order

13 books (1998–2013)

Start with Catholic for a Reason, the first of 13 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Catholic for a Reason 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Catholic for a Reason II 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Scripture & the Mystery of the Mother of God 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	Catholic for a Reason III 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Letter and Spirit 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Letter & Spirit Vol. II 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Scripture & the Mystery of the Mass 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	Catholic for a Reason IV 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Letter & Spirit, Volume 3 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Letter & Spirit, Volume 4 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	Letter & Spirit, Volume 5 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	Letter & Spirit, Vol. 7 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Letter & Spirit, Volume 8 2013Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2001–2002)

Start with A Biblical Defense of Catholicism(By: Dave Armstrong,John A. Hardon) and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Biblical Defense of Catholicism(By: Dave Armstrong,John A. Hardon) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	More Biblical Evidence for Catholicism: Companion to a Biblical Defense of Catholicism(With: Dave Armstrong) 2002Buy 🇺🇸

40 books (1998–2023)

Start with Four Views on the Book of Revelation(By: Robert L. Thomas,C. Marvin Pate,Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.,Sam Hamstra Jr.), the first of 40 books in the Counterpoints: Bible and Theology series.

#	Title
1	Four Views on the Book of Revelation(By: Robert L. Thomas,C. Marvin Pate,Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.,Sam Hamstra Jr.) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Five Views on Apologetics(By: Kelly James Clark,Gary R. Habermas,William Lane Craig,Steven B. Cowan,John M. Frame,Paul D. Feinberg) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	How Jewish Is Christianity?(By: Louis Goldberg) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Exploring the Worship Spectrum(By: Harold M. Best,Stanley N. Gundry,Paul Basden) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Two Views on Women in Ministry(By: Thomas R. Schreiner,Craig S. Keener,Craig L. Blomberg,Linda L. Belleville,Stanley N. Gundry,James R. Beck) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Four Views on Moving beyond the Bible to Theology(By: Kevin J. Vanhoozer,Zondervan ,Daniel M. Doriani,Mark L. Strauss,Stanley N. Gundry,Walter C. KaiserJr.,William J. Webb,Al Wolters,Christopher J. H. Wright,Gary T. Meadors) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament(By: Darrell L. Bock,Kenneth Berding) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	Five Views on Law and Gospel(By: Greg L. Bahnsen,DouglasJ. Moo) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World(By: R. Douglas Geivett) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	Show Them No Mercy(By: Tremper Longman III,Eugene H. Merrill) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	Three Views on Creation and Evolution(By: J.P. Moreland) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
12	Three Views on Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism(By: Michael Horton,J. I. Packer) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
13	Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond(By: Darrell L. Bock,Craig A. Blaising) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
14	Are Miraculous Gifts for Today?(By: Wayne A. Grudem) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
15	Five Views on Sanctification(By: John F. Walvoord) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	Four Views on Divine Providence(By: William Lane Craig,Dennis Jowers,Ron Highfield,Gregory A. Boyd,Paul Kjoss Helseth) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Four Views on Eternal Security(By: Norman Geisler) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
18	Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism(By: R. Albert Mohler Jr.,Andrew David Naselli,Collin Hansen,Roger E. Olson,Kevin T. Bauder,John G. Stackhouse Jr.) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	Four Views on Christian Spirituality 2012Buy 🇺🇸
20	Four Views on the Apostle Paul(By: Michael F. Bird,Thomas R. Schreiner,Luke Timothy Johnson,Mark D. Nanos) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
21	Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy(By: Michael F. Bird,Kevin J. Vanhoozer,R. Albert Mohler Jr.,Peter Enns,Stanley N. Gundry,John R. Franke,James R.A. Merrick,Stephen M. Garrett) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
22	Four Views on the Historical Adam(By: Matthew Barrett,C. John Collins,John H. Walton,Gregory A. Boyd,Ardel B. Caneday,Stanley N. Gundry) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
23	Four Views on the Role of Works at the Final Judgment(By: Thomas R. Schreiner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
24	Two Views on the Doctrine of the Trinity(By: Stephen R. Holmes) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
25	Counterpoints Theological Studies Collection One(By: Darrell L. Bock,Andrew David Naselli,Collin Hansen,J. Matthew Pinson,Stanley N. Gundry,Gary T. Meadors,Louis Goldberg,William V. Crockett,Alan Hultberg,Dennis Okholm,Timothy R. Phillips) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
26	Five Views on the Church and Politics(By: Robert Benne,Stanley N. Gundry,J. Brian Benestad) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
27	Genesis(By: James K. Hoffmeier,Gordon John Wenham) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
28	Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy(By: Paul M. Gould,K. Scott Oliphint) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	Four Views on Hell(By: Denny Burk,Preston M. Sprinkle) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church(By: Wesley Hill,Zondervan ,Stephen R. Holmes,Stanley N. Gundry,William Loader,Megan K. Defranza,Preston M. Sprinkle) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
31	Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design(By: Hugh Ross,Stephen C. Meyer,Ken Ham,J.B. Stump,Deborah Haarsma,Stanley N. Gundry) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
32	Four Views on the Church's Mission(By: Peter J. Leithart,Jonathan Leeman,John R. Franke,Christopher J. H. Wright) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
33	Three Views on the Rapture(By: Douglas J. Moo,Craig Blaising,Alan Hultberg) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
34	Do Christians, Muslims, and Jews Worship the Same God?(By: Francis J. Beckwith) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
35	Five Views on the Extent of the Atonement(By: Adam J. Johnson,Michael Horton,Fred Sanders,Tom Greggs,Matthew Levering) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
36	Five Views on the Exodus(By: James K. Hoffmeier,Ronald Hendel,Mark D. Janzen,Scott Stripling,Gary A. Rendsburg,Peter Feinman) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
37	Three Views on Christianity and Science(By: Zondervan) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
38	Five Views of Christ in the Old Testament(By: Jason S. DeRouchie,Tremper Longman III,Brian J. Tabb) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	Four Views on Heaven(By: Michael Allen) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
40	Five Views on the Gospel(By: Michael F. Bird,Scot McKnight,Michael Horton,Jason Maston,David A. deSilva,Julie C Ma,Shively T J Smith) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2009–2013)

Start with Faith and Revelation and read in order.

#	Title
1	Faith and Revelation 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Understanding the Scriptures 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church(With: Mike Aquilina) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (1991–2017)

Start with The Acts of the Apostles, the first of 22 books in the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible series.

#	Title
1	The Acts of the Apostles 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Gospel of John 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Gospel of Matthew 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Gospel of Luke 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Gospel of Mark 2001Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Letter of St. Paul to the Romans 2003Buy 🇺🇸
7	The First and Second Letters of Saint Paul to the Corinthians 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Letters of St. Paul to the Galatians & Ephesians 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Letters of St. Paul to the Philippians, Colossians and Philemon 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Letter to the Hebrews 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Letters of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Timothy, and Titus 2007Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Letters of St. James, St. Peter & St. Jude 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	The First, Second, and Third Letters of St. John, and the Revelation to John 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	New Testament 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Book of Genesis 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Exodus 2012Buy 🇺🇸
17	Daniel 2013Buy 🇺🇸
18	Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon 2013Buy 🇺🇸
19	Joshua 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	Judges and Ruth 2014Buy 🇺🇸
21	1 & 2 Samuel 2016Buy 🇺🇸
22	1 & 2 Kings 2017Buy 🇺🇸

53 books (1993–2024)

Start with Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism(With: Kimberly Hahn), the first of 53 books in the Scott Hahn Religion series.

#	Title
1	Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism(With: Kimberly Hahn) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Answering Common Objections 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	The End:A Study Of The Book Of Revelation 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Our Father's Plan: Salvation History from Genesis to the Catholic Church(With: Jeff Cavins) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Lamb's Supper 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	Why the Hell? 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	Hail, Holy Queen 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Kingdom Divided(With: Kimberly Hahn) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
9	Can You Trust the Bible? 2002Buy 🇺🇸
10	Salvation History 2002Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Most Holy Rosary 2002Buy 🇺🇸
12	Understanding "Our Father": Biblical Reflections on the Lord's Prayer 2002Buy 🇺🇸
13	Living the Mysteries(With: Mike Aquilina) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
14	Lord, Have Mercy 2003Buy 🇺🇸
15	Scripture Matters 2003Buy 🇺🇸
16	Stand Up for Your Faith 2004Buy 🇺🇸
17	Swear to God 2004Buy 🇺🇸
18	Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Grace 2005Buy 🇺🇸
19	Reading Salvation 2005Buy 🇺🇸
20	First Comes Love 2006Buy 🇺🇸
21	Genesis to Jesus: Journey Through Scripture(With: Kimberly Hahn,MichaelBarber) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
22	Reasons to Believe 2007Buy 🇺🇸
23	A Pocket Guide to St. Paul 2008Buy 🇺🇸
24	Answering the New Atheism(With: Benjamin Wiker) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	St. Paul at a Glance 2008Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Bible at a Glance 2008Buy 🇺🇸
27	Catholic Bible Dictionary 2009Buy 🇺🇸
28	Covenant and Communion 2009Buy 🇺🇸
29	Signs of Life 2009Buy 🇺🇸
30	Spirit & Life 2009Buy 🇺🇸
31	Hope for Hard Times 2010Buy 🇺🇸
32	For the Sake of Our Salvation(With: David Scott) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
33	Lenten Reflections From A Father Who Keeps His Promises 2012Buy 🇺🇸
34	Politicizing the Bible(With: Benjamin Wiker) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Kingdom of God as Liturgical Empire 2012Buy 🇺🇸
36	Consuming the Word 2013Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Church, Sacrament of Salvation 2013Buy 🇺🇸
38	Angels and Saints 2014Buy 🇺🇸
39	Evangelizing Catholics 2014Buy 🇺🇸
40	Joy to the World(With: Mike Aquilina) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Creed 2016Buy 🇺🇸
42	The First Society 2018Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Fourth Cup 2018Buy 🇺🇸
44	Isaiah(With: Curtis Mitch) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
45	Hope to Die(With: Emily Stimpson Chapman) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
46	It Is Right and Just(With: Brandon McGinley) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
47	Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft(With: Jeffrey Lawrence Morrow) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
48	The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture(With: Benjamin Wiker) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
49	Holy Is His Name 2022Buy 🇺🇸
50	Seven Clues(With: Maura Roan McKeegan) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
51	The Book of Psalms(With: Curtis Mitch,Dennis Walters) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
52	A Father Who Keeps His Promises 2023Buy 🇺🇸
53	Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Old and New Testaments(With: Curtis Mitch) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1994–2002)

Start with Surprised By Truth: 11 Converts Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic(With: Paul Thigpen,Patrick Madrid,Jimmy Akin,Al Kresta,Steve Wood,Marcus Grodi,Robert A. Sungenis,Julie Swenson,Rick Conason,T.L. Frazier,Tim Staples,Dave Armstrong) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Surprised By Truth: 11 Converts Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic(With: Paul Thigpen,Patrick Madrid,Jimmy Akin,Al Kresta,Steve Wood,Marcus Grodi,Robert A. Sungenis,Julie Swenson,Rick Conason,T.L. Frazier,Tim Staples,Dave Armstrong) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Surprised by Truth 2: 15 Men and Women Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons For Becoming Catholic(By: Patrick Madrid) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Surprised by Truth 3: 10 More Converts Explain the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic(By: Patrick Madrid) 2002Buy 🇺🇸

54 books

Start with The Birth of the Messiah(By: Raymond E. Brown), the first of 54 books in the The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library series.

#	Title
1	The Gnostic Scriptures(By: Porphyry,Bentley Layton,Irenaeus of Lyons,Basilides,David Brakke,Hermes Trismegistus,Clement of Alexandria,Epiphanius of Salamis,Valentinus,Ptolemy the Gnostic) Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Birth of the Messiah(By: Raymond E. Brown) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volume 2: Expansions of the Old Testament and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works(By: James H. Charlesworth) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume 1: 10,000-586 B.C.E.(By: Amihai Mazar) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume I: The Roots of the Problem and the Person(By: John P. Meier) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls(By: James H. Charlesworth) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible(By: Joseph Blenkinsopp) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	History and Prophecy: The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions(By: Brian Peckham) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II: Mentor, Message, and Miracles(By: John P. Meier) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	Introduction to Rabbinic Literature(By: Jacob Neusner) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	An Introduction to the New Testament(By: Raymond E. Brown) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
12	Education in Ancient Israel: Across the Deadening Silence(By: James L. Crenshaw) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Death of the Messiah, Volume 1(By: Raymond E. Brown) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Death of the Messiah, Volume 2(By: Raymond E. Brown) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel(By: Susan Ackerman) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
16	A History of the Synoptic Problem: The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels(By: David Laird Dungan) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
17	A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume III - Companions and Competitors(By: John P. Meier) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
18	Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume 2: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods(By: Ephraim Stern) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Peoples of an Almighty God: Competing Religions in the Ancient World(By: Jonathan Goldstein) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
20	An Introduction to the Gospel of John(By: Raymond E. Brown,Francis J. Moloney) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel(By: Gregory Mobley) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus(By: Susan R. Garrett) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4: Law and Love(By: John P. Meier) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
24	Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity(By: Luke Timothy Johnson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
25	Kinship by Covenant: A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises 2009Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized(By: James H. Charlesworth) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
27	Alexander to Constantine - Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume III(By: Mark A. Chancey,Eric M. Meyers) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
28	Ancient Christian Martyrdom(By: Candida R. Moss) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis(By: Joel S. Baden) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Formation of the Jewish Canon(By: Timothy H. Lim) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
31	A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period(By: William M. Schniedewind) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
32	A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume V: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables(By: John P. Meier) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
33	Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea: A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents(By: Michael Owen Wise) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
34	Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition(By: Benjamin D. Sommer) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods(By: Susan Niditch) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
36	Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge(By: Esther J. Hamori) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
37	The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry(By: Cynthia R. Chapman) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
38	Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World(By: Mark S. Smith) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
39	Friendship in the Hebrew Bible(By: Saul M. Olyan) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Birth of Christian History: Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts(By: Eve-Marie Becker) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
41	Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul(By: Emma Wasserman) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
42	How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?: A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study(By: Ronald Hendel,Jan Joosten) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
43	Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography(By: Maren R. Niehoff) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
44	Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine(By: Karel van der Toorn) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
45	Literary Theory and the New Testament(By: Michal Beth Dinkler) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
46	Matthew within Sectarian Judaism(By: John Kampen) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred(By: Eyal Regev) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
48	Jewish Christianity: The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide(By: Matt Jackson-McCabe) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
49	Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature(By: Meghan R. Henning) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism(By: Carol A. Newsom) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
51	Deuteronomy and the Pentateuch(By: Jeffrey Stackert) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
52	Paul Transformed: Reception of the Person and Letters of Paul in Antiquity(By: Adela Yarbro Collins) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
53	The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal(By: Yonatan Adler) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
54	Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel(By: Susan Ackerman) 2022Buy 🇺🇸