, 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.
Prestige, G. L.,God in Patristic Thought (London, 1952). Particularly helpful on the technical Greek terms.
Williams, Rowan,Arius, Heresy and Tradition (London, 1987).
Andrae, Tor,Mohammed, the Man and his Faith (trans. Theophil Menzel, London, 1936). Some of this is outdated, but there are useful insights.
Armstrong, Karen,Muhammad, a Biography of the Prophet (London, 1991, and San Francisco, 1992).
Gimaret, Daniel,Les Noms Divins en Islam: Exégèse Lexicographique et Thé ologique (Paris, 1988).
Hodgson, Marshall G. S.,The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilisation, 3 vols. (Chicago and London, 1974).
Far more than a history of Islam: Hodgson sets the development of the tradition in a universal context. Essential reading.
Jafri, H. M.,Origins and Early Development of Shia Islam (London, 1981).
Lings, Martin,Muhammad, His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (London, 1983).
Khan, Muhammad Zafrulla,Islam, Its Meaning for Modern Man (London, 1962).
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. An inspiring Iranian scholar. Highly recommended.
Ideals and Realities of Islam (London, 1971).
Islamic Spirituality, 2 vols. I: Foundation (London and New York, 1987).
II: Manifestations(London and New York, 1991).
Rahman, Fazlur,Islam (Chicago, 1979). Perhaps the best one-volume study.
Rodinson, Maxime,Mohammad (trans. Anne Carter, London, 1971). A secularist interpretation by a Marxist scholar.
Ruthven, Malise,Islam and the World (London, 1984).
Von Grunebaum, G. E.,Classical Islam, A History (600–1258) (trans. Katherine Watson, London, 1970).
Watt, W. Montgomery. Useful books by a prolific author:
Muhammad at Mecca (Oxford, 1953).
Muhammad at Medina (Oxford, 1956).
Islam and the Integration of Society (London, 1961).
Muhammad’s Mecca: History and the Quran (Edinburgh, 1988).
Wensinck, A. J.,The Muslim Creed, Its Genesis and Historical Development (Cambridge, 1932). A fascinating work of scholarship.
Al-Farabi,Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (trans. and introduced by Muhsin Mahdi, Glencoe, III., 1962). An excellent presentation of the Faylasufs’ position.
Corbin, Henri,Histoire de la philosophie islamique(Paris, 1964).
Fakhry, Majid,A History of Islamic Philosophy (New York and London, 1970). A scholarly and readable account to the present day which includes theological developments.
Gilson, Etienne,The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy (London, 1936).
Guttmann, Julius,Philosophies of Judaism; The History of Jewish Philosophy from Biblical Times to Franz Rosenzweig (London and New York, 1964). Essential reading.
Husik, I.,A History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Philadelphia, 1940).
Leaman, Oliver,An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy (Cambridge, 1985).
McCarthie, Richard,The Theology of al-Ashari