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Kaufmann, Yehezkel, The Religion of Israel, From its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile (trans. and abridged by Moshe Greenberg, Chicago and London, 1961). An accessible version of a classic work of scholarship.

Nicholson, E. W., God and His People (London, 1986). Excellent.

Pederson, J., Israel: its Life and Culture (trans. H. Milford, Copenhagen and London, 1926). Another seminal work.

Smith, Mark S., The Early History of God; Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (San Francisco, 1990). A scholarly, detailed study.

Bornkamm, Gunther. Two major and influential works:

Jesus of Nazareth (London, 1960).

Paul (London, 1971).

Bowker, John , Jesus and the Pharisees (Cambridge, 1983). Excellent study by an inspiring scholar.

Bultmann, Rudolf, Jesus Christ and Mythology (London, 1960).

Davies, W. D., Paul and Rabbinic Judaism (London, 1948).

Hick, John (ed.), The Myth of God Incarnate (London, 1977).

A controversial but stimulating series of essays by major British scholars.

Kasemann, Ernst, Perspectives on Paul (London, 1971).

Moule, C. F. D., The Origin of Christology (Cambridge, 1977).

Sanders, E. P.Two scholarly and important books:

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).

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).

Murray, Robert, Symbols of Church and Kingdom, A Study in Early Syriac Tradition (Cambridge, 1975).

Pannikkar, Raimundo, The Trinity and the Religious Experience of Man. A brilliant book, which links Trinitarian theology with other religious traditions.

Pelikan, Jaroslav, The Christian Tradition, A History of the Development of Doctrine, 5 vols. An indispensable series. For this period:

I: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600) (Chicago and London, 1971).

II: The Spirit of the Eastern Tradition (600–1700) (Chicago and London, 1974). For Maximus the Confessor.

III: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600–1300) (Chicago and London, 1978). For Anselm of Canterbury and the Latin understanding of Trinity and Christology.