General
L. Duchesne, Histoire ancienne de l’Eglise (3 vols., Paris, 1906–10; Eng. tr., 1909–24).
H. Chadwick, The Early Church (Pelican History of the Church, vol. 1; Harmondsworth, 1967).
Robin Lane Fox, Pagans and Christians (London, 1986; Harmondsworth, 1988).
P. Nautin, Lettres et Écrivains chrétiens des lle et llle siècles (Patristica, 2; Paris, 1961).
Origène. Sa vie et son oeuvre (Christianisme antique, 1; Paris, 1977).
(The two volumes by P. Nautin contain much stimulating critical discussion of the evidence, especially that provided by Eusebius, for the history of the Church in the second and third centuries. Much of it is, however, very speculative.)
On Eusebius
J. B. Lightfoot, ‘Eusebius (23) of Caesarea’, in Dictionary of Christian Biography, ed. W. Smith and H. Wace, vol. 2 (1880), pp. 308–48 (with separate article on the Chronicle by G. Salmon, pp. 348–55)
E. Schwartz, ‘Eusebios’ in Real-Encyclopädie der classischén Altertumswissenschaft, ed. A. Pauley and G. Wissowa, VI, part 1 (1907), cols. 1370–439.
H. J. Lawlor, Eusebiana (Oxford, 1912).
J. Stevenson, Studies in Eusebius (Cambridge, 1929).
D. S. Wallace-Hadrill, Eusebius of Caesarea (London, 1960).
T. D. Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1981).
G. F. Chesnut, The First Christian Histories (Théologie Historique, 46; Paris, 1977).
J. Sirinelli, Les vues historiques d’Eusèbe de Césarée durant la période prénicéenne (Dakar, 1961)
R. A. Markus, ‘Church history and the early church historians’ in The Materials, Sources and Methods of Ecclesiastical History, ed. D. Baker (Studies in Church History, 11; Oxford, 1975).
J. Quasten, S. J., Patrology, vol 3 (Utrecht, 1986), pp. 309–45.
Frances Young, From Nicaea to Chalcedon (London, 1983), pp. 1–23.
(The last two works both contain bibliographies.)
Principal references in the ‘Who’s Who’
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A New Eusebius |
J. Stevenson, A New Eusebius, (London, 1957) |
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Charlesworth |
The Old Testament Pseudepigraphia, ed. J. H. Charlesworth, 2 vols., (London, 1983–5). |
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Early Christian Writings |
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers, trans. Maxwell Staniforth, revised edn. Andrew Louth (Harmondsworth, 1987). |
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Foerster |
W. Foerster, Gnosis: A Selection of Gnostic Texts, English tr. ed. R. McL. Wilson, 2 vols., (Oxford, 1972–4). |
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Hennecke and Schneemelcher |
New Testament Apocrypha, ed. E. Hennecke and W. Schneemelcher, English tr. ed. R. McL. Wilson, 2 vols., (London 1963–5). |
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James |
M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament, (Oxford, 1924). |
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Jewish War |
Josephus, The Jewish War, trans. G. A. Williamson, revised edn. E. Mary Smallwood, (Harmondsworth, 1981). |
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Lane Fox |
Robin Lane Fox, Pagans and Christians, (Harmondsworth, 1988). |
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Musurillo |
The Acts of the Christian Martyrs, trans. and cd. H. Musurillo, (Oxford, 1972). |
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Schürer |
E. Schürer, A History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, new English version, rev. and ed. G. Vermes, F. Millar, and M. Goodman, 3 vols., (Edinburgh, 1973–87). |