Paul and Palestinian Judaism (London, 1977).

Jesus and Judaism (London, 1989).

Theissen, Gerd,The First Followers of Jesus, A Sociological Analysis of the Earliest Christianity (trans. John Bowden, London, 1978).

Vermes, Geza, Jesus the Jew (London, 1973). A very valuable study.

Wilson, R. Mc L.,Gnosis and the New Testament (Oxford, 1968).

Abelson, J.,The Immanence of God in Rabbinical Literature (London, 1912). A work that brings the Talmud to life.

Belkin, Samuel,In His Image, the Jewish Philosophy of Man as Expressed in Rabbinic Tradition (London, 1961). An excellent book that shows the relevance of the Rabbis to today’s world.

Finkelstein, L.,Akiba, Scholar, Saint and Martyr (Cleveland, 1962).

Kaddushin, Max,The Rabbinic Mind (2nd ed., New York, 1962).

Marmorstein, A.,The Old Rabbinic Doctrine of God; I: The Names and Attributes of God (London, 1927).

Studies in Jewish Theology (eds. J. Rabinowits and M. S. Law, Oxford, 1950).

Montefiore, C. G., and Loewe, H. (eds.),A Rabbinic Anthology (New York, 1974).

Moore, George F.,Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1927–30).

Neusner, Jacob,Life of Yohannan ben Zakkai (Leiden, 1962).

Schechter, Solomon,Aspects of Rabbinic Theology (New York, 1909).

Chadwick, Henry,The Early Church (London, 1967).

Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition (Oxford, 1966).

Geffcken, J.,The Last Days of Greco-Roman Paganism (London, 1978).

Excellent.

Grant, R. M.,Gnosticism and Early Christianity (Oxford and New York, 1959).

Fox, Robin Lane,Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine (London, 1986). Indispensable.

Frend, W. H. C.,Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church, A Study of the Conflict from the Maccabees to Donatus (Oxford, 1965). A fascinating study of the Persecutions, which also contains much useful information about general matters.

Kelly, J. N. D.,Early Christian Creeds (London, 1950).

Early Christian Doctrines (London, 1958).

Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G.,Continuity and Change in Roman Religion (Oxford, 1979). Probably the best account of the subject.

Lilla, Salvatore, R. C.,Clement of Alexandria: A Study in Christian Platonism and Gnosticism (Oxford, 1971).

Nock, A. D.,Early Christianity and Its Hellenistic Background (Oxford, 1904).

Conversion, The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo(Oxford, 1933). A classic and illuminating work.

Pagels,The Gnostic Gospels (London, 1970).

Adam, Eve and the Serpent (London, 1988).

Payne, Robert,The Holy Fire: The Story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church (New York, 1957).

Brown, Peter. Erudite, eloquent books by one of the most inspiring scholars of the period: essential reading.

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (London, 1967).

Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine (Chicago and London, 1972).

The Making of Late Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1978).

Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (London, 1982).