Boissier, Gaston, Tacite. Paris: Hachette, etc., 1903.
Hadas, Moses. Editor. The Complete Works of Tacitus. Transl. by Alfred J. Church and William J. Brodribb. New York: Random House, 1942.
Mendell, Clarence W. Tacitus, the Man and His Work. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1957.
Sherwin-White, A.N. “The Early Persecutions and Roman Law Again.” Journal of Theological Studies 3 (1952), 199-213.
de Ste. Croix, G.E.M. “The Persecutions: Christianity’s Encounter with the Roman Imperial Government.” The Crucible of Christianity. Ed. by Arnold Toynbee. New York: World, 1969.
Syme, Sir Ronald. Tacitus. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1958.
B. Suetonius
Janne, H. “Impulsore Chresto.” Mélanges Bidez: Annuaire de l’Institute de Philologie et d’Histoire Orientales. II (1934), 531-553.
Ramsay, Sir William. The Church in the Roman Empire. New York: Putnam’s 1893.
Safrai, S. and M. Stern. Editors. The Jewish People of the First Century. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974.
Scramuzza, Vincent. The Emperor Claudius. Harvard Historical Studies, 44. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1974.
Suetonius, Gaius. The Twelve Caesars. Transl. by Robert Graves. Baltimore: Penguin, 1957.
Wiefel, W. “The Jewish Community in Ancient Rome and the Origins of Roman Christianity.” The Romans Debate. Ed. by K.P. Dornfried. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1977.
C. Josephus
Bentwich, Norman. Josephus. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1914.
Bienert, Walther. Der alteste nichtchristliche Jesusbericht: Josephus über Jesus. Halle: Akademischer Verlag, 1936. Bruce, F.F. Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974.
Goldstein, Morris. Jesus in the Jewish Tradition. New York: Macmillan Press, 1950.
Josephus, Flavius. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Transl. by William Whiston. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1974.
Klausner, Joseph. Jesus of Nazareth. London: Collier-Macmillan, 1929.
Lacqueur, Richard. Der jüdische Historiker Flavius Josephus. Damstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgessellschaft, 1970.
Montefiore, H.W. Josephus and the New Testament. London: Mowbrays, 1962.
von Schlatter, Adolf. Die Theologie des Judentums nach dem Bericht des Josephus. Gutersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1932.
Shutt, R.J.H. Studies in Josephus. London: SPCK, 1961.
Williamson, Geoffrey A. The World of Josephus. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964.
D. Thallus
Bruce, F.F. The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960.
Quasten, Johannes. Patrology. 3 vols. Utrecht-Antwerp: Spectrum, 1953, II: 137-138.
E. Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan
Pliny the Younger. Pliny: Letters. Transl. by William Melmoth. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1935.
Sherwin-White, A.N. The Letters of Pliny: A Historical and Social Commentary. Oxford: Clarendon, 1966.
————————. “Why Were the Early Christians Persecuted? An Amendment.” Past and Present 27 (1964), 23-27.
Vindman, L. Étude sur la correspondance de Pline le Jeune avec Trajan. Praha: Rozpravy Cheskoslovenské Akademie Ved, 70 (1960), 87-106.
F. Emperor Hadrian
Eusebius Pamphilus. Ecclesiastical History. Transl. by Christian F. Cruse. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1955.
G. Talmud
Epstein, I. Translator. The Babylonian Talmud. London: Soncino, 1935.
Goldstein, Morris. Jesus in the Jewish Tradition. New York: Macmillan, 1950.
Hereford, R.T. Christianity in Talmud and Midrash. London: Williams and Norgate, 1903.
Jocz, Jacob. The Jewish People and Jesus Christ. London: SPCK, 1954.
Pranaitus, Iustin B. The Talmud Unmasked: The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians. New York: E.N. Sanctuary, 1939.
Schechter, Soloman. Studies in Judaism. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1908, 1924.
Strack, Hermann L. Einleitung in Talmud und Midrasch. München: Beck, 1921.
Wright, Dudley. The Talmud. London: Williams and Norgate, 1932.
H. Toledoth Jesu
Klausner, Joseph. Jesus of Nazareth. London: Collier-Macmillan, 1929.
Maier, Paul L. First Easter. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
I. Lucian of Samosata
Aerts, F. Pereginus Proteus, een Kynieker uit de Ze eeuw na Kristus. Dissertation: Löwen, 1931-1932.
Bagnani, G. “Pereginus Proteus and the Christians.” Historia 4 (1955), 107-112.
Betz, E. “Lukian von Samosata und das Christentum.” Novum Testamentum 3 (1959), 226-237.
————————. Lukian von Samosata und das Neue Testament, religionsgeschichtliche und paränetische Parallelen. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1961, 124-130.
Bompaire, Jacques. Lucien écrivain; imitation et création. Paris: E. de Boccard, 1958.
Caster, Marcel. Lucien et la pensée religieuse de son temps. Paris: Societé d’edition “Les Belles lettres,” 1937.
Labriolle, P. De. “Lucien et les Chrétiens.” Les Humanitées 4 (1929), 148-153.
Lane, William L. “Unexpected Light on Hebrews 13:1-6 from a Second Century Source.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 9 (1982), 267-274.
Lucian of Samosata. The Works of Lucian of Samosata. Transl. by H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1905.
Schwartz, Jacques. Biographie de Lucien de Samosate. Bruxelles: Latomus, 1965.
Zeller, E. “Alexander und Peregrinus, ein Betrüger und ein Schwärmer.” Vortrage und Abhandlungen 2 (1877), 154-188.
J. Mara Bar-Serapion
Bruce, F.F. Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974.
K. Gnostic Sources (in general)
Baur, Walter. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. Ed. by Robert Kraft and Gerhard Krodel. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.
Evans, Craig. “Jesus and Gnostic Literature.” Biblica 62 (1981), 406-412.
Grant, Robert M. Gnosticism and Early Christianity. Revised edition. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
Jonas, Hans. The Gnostic Religion. Boston: Beacon, 1963.
Robinson, James M. Editor. The Nag Hammadi Library. New York: Harper and Row, 1981.
L. Gospel of Truth
Arai, S. Die Christologie des Evangelium Veritatis. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1964.
Grobel, Kendrick. The Gospel of Truth. London: Black, 1960.
Malinine, Michel, H.C. Peuch, and G. Quispel, Evangelium Veritatis. Zürich: Rascher, 1956.
Ringgren, Helmer. “The Gospel of Truth and Valentinian Gnosticism.” Studia Theologica 18 (1964), 51-65.
Schenke, H.M. Die Herkunft des sogenannten Evangelium Veritatis. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1959.