BIBLIOGRAPHY PART IV
NPNF = The Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
Athenagoras (1956). Embassy for the Christians, The Resurrection of the Dead. Translated by Joseph H. Crehan. Ancient Christian Writers, 23. Westminster, Maryland and London: The Newman Press and Longmans, Green & Co.
Bainton, Roland H. (1960). Early Christianity. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. Contains a useful collection of textual excerpts illustrative of major themes in Christian history of the first four centuries.
Barnes, Timothy David (1971). Tertullian. A Historical and Literary Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
________ (1994). From Eusebius to Augustine. Selected papers 1982–1993. Collected Studies Series 438. Variorum.
Baron, Salo and Joseph Blau, eds. (1954). Judaism. Postbiblical and Talmudic Period. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company. A collection of texts in English translation.
Boethius (1973). The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy. Latin text with English translation on facing pages by H.F. Stewart, E.K.Rand, and S.J. Tester. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
________ (1978). Boethius’s De topicis differentiis. Ed. and trans. By Eleonore Stump. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
________ (1988). Boethius’s In Ciceronis topica. Trans. by Eleonore Stump. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Bowersock, G.W. (1990). Hellenism in Late Antiquity. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Bowersock, G.W., Peter Brown and Oleg Grabar (1999). Late Antiquity. A Guide to the Postclassical World. Harvard.
Boyce, Mary (1979). Zoroastrians. Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
________ (1984). "Persian religion in the Achaemenid Age." In The Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 1: Introduction: The Persian Period.
Brown, Peter (1978). The Making of Late Antiquity. Harvard University Press.
Brown, Peter (1997). The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity A.D. 200–1000. Blackwell.
Bultman, Rudolf (1963). History of the Synoptic Tradition. Basil Blackwell. Paperback Reprint, Harper & Row: 1976).
Cappelletti, A.J. (). Cuatro Filosofos de la Alta Edad Media.
Cassiodorus Senator (1946). An Introduction to Divine and Human Readings Translated with an introduction and notes by Leslie Webber Jones. Records of Civilization—Sources and Studies, 40. Columbia University Press. A very thorough biographical and scholarly introduction.
Chadwick, Henry (1966). Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition. Studies in Justin, Clement and Origen. Oxford University Press.
________ (1967). "Philo." In The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy, 137–157.
________ (1967). The Early Church. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books.
________ (1981). Boethius. The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology and Philosophy. Oxford University Press.
Chadwick, Owen. John Cassian.
Chuvin, P. (1990). Chronicle of the Last Pagans. Harvard.
Clement of Alexandria (1974). Ante-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 2: Clement of Alexandria. Reprint ed., Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B Eerdmans Publishing Company. This translation leaves material dealing with sex in Latin, so that only scholars can use it, in the quaint nineteenth-century manner. For books 3 and 7 of the Miscellanies, omitted here, see Oulton and Chadwick (1954).
________ (1919). Clement. Translated by G.W. Butterworth. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Cohen, Shaye J.D. (1987). From the Macabees to the Mishnah. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.
Copleston, Frederick J. (1950). A History of Philosophy. Vol. 2: Medieval Philosophy. Part 1: Augustine to Bonaventure. Westminster, Maryland: Newman Press. Paperback reprint, Garden City: Doubleday and Company, Inc. (Image Books) 1962.
________ (1972). A History of Medieval Philosophy. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
Coxe, A. Cleveland, ed. (1956). The Ante-Nicene Fathers. American Reprint of the Edinburgh Edition, originally edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
Croke, Brian and Jill Harries (1982). Religious Conflict in Fourth-Century Rome. Sydney University Press.
Dever, William G. (2003). Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.: Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, England.
Dodds, E.R. (1965). Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety. Cambridge University Press. Paperback Reprint, W.W. Norton & Co., 1970.
Drake, H.A. (2000). Constantine and the Bishops. John Hopkins University Press.
Duckett, Eleanor Shipley (1938). The Gateway to the Middle Ages. Three volumes: Italy; France and Britain; and Monasticism. Ann Arbor Paperback edition, 1961. University of Michigan Press.
Ehrman, John (2003). Lost Christianities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ellegård, Alvar (1999). Jesus: One Hundred Years Before Christ. Overlook Press: Woodstock New York.
Enslin, Morton Scott (1938). Christian Beginnings. Harper & Brothers.
Eusebius (1890). NPNF I. Church History, Life of Constantine, and Oration in Praise of Constantine. Edited by P. Schaff and G. Wace.
________ (1965). The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine. Translated with introduction by G.A. Williamson. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Felix, Marcus Minucius (1954). The Octavius of Marcus Minucius Felix. Translated by G.W. Clarke. Ancient Christian Writers, no. 39.
Filoramo, Giovanni (1990). A History of Gnosticism. Translated by Anthony Alcock. Basil Blackwell.
Fox, Robin Lane (1986). Pagans and Christians: Religion and the Religious Life from the Second Century to the Fourth Century A.D., when the Gods of Olympus Lost their Dominion and Christianity, with the Conversion of Constantine, Triumphed in the Mediterranean World. San Francisco: Harper and Row.
________ (1992). The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Frend, W.H.C. (1987). A New Eusebius: Documents illustrative of the history of the Church to A.D. 337. London. Second edition.
Frye, Richard N. (1963). The Heritage of Persia. Paperback edition, Mentor Books, The New American Library.
Gilson, Etienne (1955). History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages. New York: Random House. Gilson’s work has to be used with caution, particularly when dealing with the later Middle Ages, but his interest in matters philosophical and his thorough, if sometimes flawed, scholarship, make his works well worth consulting.
Goldin, Judah (1957). The Living Talmud. The Wisdom of the Fathers and its classical commentaries, selected and translated with an essay by Judah Goldin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; paperback edition, New York: New American Library of World Literature Inc. A translation of the Pirke Abot, with selected later comments.
Goodenough, Erwin R. (1935). By Light, Light. The Mystic Gospel of Hellenistic Judaism. (Reissued 1969).
________ (1938). The Politics of Philo Judaeus, Practice and Theory. New Haven.
________ (1962). An Introduction to Philo Judaeus. 2d edition. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Grant, Michael (1977). Jesus. An Historian’s Review of the Gospels. New York: Charles Scribners’s Sons.
________ (1984). The History of Ancient Israel. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. An excellent political history, somewhat simplistic in intellectual history.
________ (1993). Constantine the Great. The Man and His Time. New York: Charles Scribners’s Sons.
Grant, Robert M. (1948; rev. ed. 1963). A Short History of the Interpretation of the Bible. New York: The Macmillan Co.
Gregory Nazianzus (1991). Faith Gives Fullness to Reasoning: The Five Theological Orations of Gregory Nazianzen. Trans. L. Wickham and F. Williams.
Gregory of Nyssa (1892). Select Writings and Letters of Gregory of Nyssa, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, volume 5. Christian Literature Publishing Company. Prolegomena by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson.
Hackett, Jeremiah (1992). Medieval Philosophers. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 115. Detroit and London: Gale Research Inc. A collection of scholarly entries with bibliography on major figures in the Middle Ages.
Harnack, Adolf (1961). History of Dogma. Translated about 1900 from the third German edition (1893) by Neil Buchanan. Reprint ed. New York: Dover Publications.
Hick, John (1966). Evil and the God of Love. Great Britain: Macmillan & Co. Ltd; paperback edition, 1968, Norfolk, Great Britain: Collins.
Hippolytus (1921). Philosophoumena. 2 vols. Translated by F. Legge. London.
Jonas, Hans (1958; 1963). The Gnostic Religion. 2d. ed. Beacon Press: Boston, Mass. A classic treatment of the topic, treating the Poimandres of Hermes Trismegistos, Marcion and Manichaeanism as well as strictly Gnostic movements.
Jones, Charles W. (1950). Medieval Literature in Translation. New York: David McKay Co., Inc. An extensive collection of literary texts.
Klimkeit, Hans Joachim (1993). Gnosis on the Silk Road: Gnostic Texts from Central Asia. Harper Collins. Despite its title, the texts and discussion are restricted to Manichaeanism.
Laistner, M.L.W. (1957). Thought and Letters in Western Europe: A.D. 500 to 900. 2d edition. Methuen & Co. Ltd and Cornell University Press.
Lebreton, Jules, and Jacques Zeiller (1962). A History of the Early Church. Book II: The Emergence of the Church in the Roman World. New York: Collier Books. A paperback reprint of The History of the Primitive Church, Book II, Volume I: From the Death of St. John to the End of the Second Century, Macmillan Company, 1942, 1944.
McLynn, Neil B. (1994). Ambrose of Milan. Church and Court in a Christian Capital. University of California Press.
Macrobius (1952). Commentary on the dream of Scipio. Translated by William Harris Stahl, with introduction and notes. Columbia University Press.
Malandra, William W. (1983). An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion. Readings from the Avesta and the Achaemenid Inscriptions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Markus, Robert A. (1990). The End of Ancient Christianity. Cambridge University Press.
________ (1997). Gregory the Great and his World. Cambridge University Press.
Meeks, Wayne A. (1986). The Moral World of the First Christians. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.
_______ (1993). The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Menzies, ed. The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 10. Supplement to Coxe (1956). Grand Rapids, Michigan: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company).
Montefiore, C.G., and H. Loewe (1974). A Rabbinic Anthology. Foreward by Raphael Lowe. New York: Schocken Books, Inc. A reprint of the original edition, ca. 1940. An extensive selection of passages from the Talmudim, translated with commentary, and topically arranged.
Nielsen, J.T. (1968). Adam and Christ in the Theology of Irenaeus of Lyons. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum & Co.
Ochagavia, Juan (1964). Visibile Patris Filius. A Study of Irenaeus’s Teaching on Revelation and Tradition. Orientalia Christiana Analecta 171. Rome: Pontifical Institute of Oriental Studies.
Origen (1953). Contra Celsum. Translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Chadwick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
________ (1936). Origen on First Principles. Translated with introduction and notes by G.W.Butterworth. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London. Reprinted 1966 in Torchbook edition with additional introduction by Henri de Lubac. Reprinted Peter Smith (Gloucester, Mass.) 1973.
________ (1974). Origen. Ante-Nicene Fathers, 10. Original Supplement to the American Edition. Reprint ed. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Contains Books 1, 2 4, 5, 6 and 10 of the Commentary on John, and parts of Books 1, 2, 10-14 of the Commentary on Matthew,
________ (1979). An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, and Selected Works. New York: Paulist Press. In addition to the two works mentioned in the title, includes Homily 27 on Numbers, and the prologue to the Commentary on the Song of Songs.
Osborne, Catherine (1987). Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Rome and the Presocratics. Cornell University Press.
Oulton, J.E.L. and Henry Chadwick, eds. Alexandrine Christianity. Library of Christian Classics, 2. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. A collection of translations from Clement and Origen, including Books 3 and 7 of Clement’s Miscellanies, and Origen’s Dialogue with Heraclides, Exhortation to Martyrdom, and On Prayer.
Pagels, Elaine (1973). The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis. Nashville.
________ (1979). The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Random House.
________ (1988). Adam, Eve and the Serpent. New York: Random House.
________ (1995). The Origin of Satan. New York: Random House.
Pelikan, Jaroslav (1971). The Christian Tradition. A History of the Development of Doctrine. Volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
________ (1993). Christianity and Classical Culture. The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. Focuses on the fourth century and the Cappadocians as the turning point in the adaptation of Christian thought to Classical norms.
Philo (1929-1962). Philo. Edited and translated by F.H. Colson, G.H. Whittaker, and R. Marcus. Loeb Classical Library. 10 volumes, plus 2 supplementary volumes. Harvard University Press.
Procter, Everett (1995). Christian Controversy in Alexandria. Clement’s Polemic against the Basilideans and Valentinians. New York: Peter Lang. A good account of the evidence for Christian Gnosticism in Clement of Alexandria, and his response to the movement.
Pseudo-Dionysius (1920). The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology. Translated by C.E. Rolt. New edition, 1940. Great Britain: Society for the Preservation of Christian Knowledge.
Rand, Edward Kennard (1928). Founders of the Middle Ages. Harvard University Press. Republication by Dover Publications in 1957.
Richardson, Cyril C. (1970). Early Christian Fathers. Volume 1 in The Library of Christian Classics. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. This is the paperback edition. The hardback edition is published by Westminster Press.
Robinson, James M. (1997; 1988). The Nag Hammadi Library. Third, revised edition. E.J. Brill: The Netherlands. A translation of the entire contents of the library by various hands, with useful introductions.
Rubenstein, Richard E. (1999). When Jesus Became God. The Epic Fight Over Christ’s Divinity in the Last Days of Rome. Harcourt and Brace.
Russell, Jeffrey Burton (1977). The Devil. Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. Cornell University Press.
Sandmel, Samuel (1956). Philo’s Place in Judaism.
Schweitzer, Albert (1901). The Mystery of the Kingdom of God The Secret of Jesus’s Messiahship and Passion. Translated byWalter Lowrie from the original work written in 1901. New York: Dodd, Mead,1914.
________ (1903). The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarius to Wrede Translated by W. Montgoemery from the original work written in 1906. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1910.
Staniforth, Maxwell, translator (1968). Early Christian Writings. The Apostolic Fathers. Baltimore: Penguin Books.
Stump, Eleonore, and Thomas Flint, eds. (1993). Hermes and Athena: Biblical Exegesis and Philosophical Theology. University of Notre Dame Press. Papers by biblical scholars and Christian philosophers on the outcome of historical criticism of New Testament texts. The exchanges between the two groups are often quite sharp, but a great deal can be learned here.
Tatian (1982). Oratio ad Graecos and Fragments. Edited and translated, with introduction and bibliography by Molly Whittaker. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
Taylor, Henry Osborn (1925). The Medieval Mind. A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages. 4th edition. 2 vols. Harvard University Press.
Tertullian, (1956). The Treatise Against Hermogenes. Translated and annotated by J.H. Waszink. Ancient Christian Writers, 24. Westminster, Maryland and London: The Newman Press and Longmans, Green & Co.
Tierney, Brian (1964). The Crisis of Church and State 1050–1300. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Trigg, Joseph Wilson (1983). Origen: The Bible and Philosophy in the Third-Century Church. Atlanta, Georgia: John Knox Press.
Turcan, Robert (1989; 1992). Les Cultes Orientaux dans le monde Romain. Translated by Antonia Nevill as The Cults of the Roman Empire, Blackwell:1996.
Vallée, Gérard (1981). A Study in Anti-Gnostic Polemics. Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 1. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.
Vermes, Geza (1987). The Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Sheffield.
Walzer, Richard (1949). Galen on Jews and Christians. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press.
Weaver, Walter (1999). The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1999.
Wilken, Robert L. (1971). The Myth of Christian Beginnings. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company. Paperback edition, Anchor Books, 1972.
________ (1984). The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Wingren, Gustav (1959). Man and the Incarnation. A Study in the Biblical Theology of Irenaeus. Translated by R. MacKenzie. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.
Winston, David (1985). Logos and Mystical Theology in Philo of Alexandria. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press.
Wiseman, T.P. (1993). “Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity.” Chapter 4 in Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World. Edited Christopher Gill and T.P. Wiseman. University of Texas Press.
Wolfson, Harry A. (1947). Philo. 2 vols.
________ (1961). "The Philonic God of revelation and his latter day deniers." In Religious Philosophy. A Group of Essays. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 6–10.