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).
Раннее христианствоChadwick, 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).
Отцы церкви и Святая ТроицаBrown, 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).
Chesnut, R. C.,Three Monophysite Christologies (Oxford, 1976). Highly recommended.
Danielou, Jean,The Origins of Latin Christianity (Philadelphia, 1977).
Gregg, Robert C. and Groh, Dennis E.,Early Arianism – A View of Salvation (London, 1981).
Grillmeier, Aloys,Christ in Christian Tradition: Apostolic Age to Chalcedon (New York, 1965).
Lacugna, Catherine Mowry,God For Us, The Trinity and Christian Life (Chicago and San Francisco, 1973, 1991).
Louth, Andrew,The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition. From Plato to Denys (Oxford, 1981). A superb account which shows how the doctrines were rooted in religious experience.
Denys the Areopagite (London, 1989).
McGinn, Bernard and Meyendorff, John (eds.),Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century (London, 1985). Excellent essays by leading scholars on the whole period, but especially illuminating contributions on the Trinity.
Meyendorff, John,Byzantine Theology, Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes(New York and London, 1975). An excellent general account and particularly interesting on the Trinitarian and Christological issues.
Christ in Eastern Christian Thought (New York, 1975).