Deissmann, Α., Light from the Ancient East. The New Testament Illustrated by Recently Discovered Texts of the Graeco‑Roman World (4th ed.; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1978; reprint of 1927 ed.). Классика.
Funk, R. W., ed., New Gospel Parallels (rev. ed.; Sonoma, CA: Polebridge, 1990).
Murphy, F. J., The Religious World of Jesus (Nashville: Abingdon, 1991).
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity (ежегодное издание с переводами греческих документов).
Winter, B. W., and A. D. Clarke, Ancient Literary Setting vol. I of TBAFC.
Иудейский религиозный мир
Beall, T. S., Josephus' Description of the Essenes Illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls (SNTSMS 58; Cambridge Univ., 1988).
Holladay, C. R., Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish Authors (4 vols.; Chico, CA, and Atlanta: Scholars, 1983–1996).
Mason, S., Flavius Josephus and the Pharisees (Leiden: Brill, 1991).
Neusner, J., Judaism in the Beginnings of Christianity (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984).
Saldarini, A. J., Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society (Wilmington: Glazier, 1988).
Sanders, E. P., Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah (London: SCM, 1990).
—, Judaism: Practice and Belief 63BCE-66CE (Philadelphia: Trinity, 1992).
—, et al., eds., Jewish and Christian Self‑Definition: Vol. Two: Aspects of Judaism in the Greco‑Roman Period (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981).
Schüssler Fiorenza, E., ed., Aspects of Religious Propaganda in Judaism and Early Christianity (Notre Dame Univ., 1976).
Stemberger, G., Jewish Contemporaries of Jesus: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes (Minneapolis: A/F, 1995).
Stone, Μ. Ε., ed., Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period (Compendium Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, 2.2; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984).
Urbach, Ε. Ε., The Sages: Their Concepts and Beliefs (2 vols.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ., 1979).
Кумранские тексты
Cross, F. M., Jr., The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modem Biblical Studies (rev. ed.; Minneapolis: A/F, 1995).
Fitzmyer, J. Α., The Dead Sea Scrolls: Major Publications and Tools for Study (SBLRBS 20, Atlanta: Scholars, 1990).
—, Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York: Paulist, 1992). Очень полезное издание, в противовес сенсационной ерунде.
-,"The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity,"TD 42 (1995), 303–319.
Garcia Martinez, E, The Dead Sea Scrolh Translated (Leiden: Brill, 1994).
—, and J. Trebolle Barrera, Tile People of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Writings, Beliefs, and
Practices (Leiden: Brill, 1995).
—, and D. W. Parry, A Bibliography of the Finds in the Desert of Judah, 1970–1995 (Leiden:
Brill, 1996).
Jongeling, В., Λ Classified Bibliography of the Finds in the Desert of Judah, 1958–1969 (Leiden: Brill, 1971).
VanderKam, J. C., The Dead Sea Scrolls Today (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).
Vermes, G., The Dead Sea Scrolls in English (4th ed.; London: Penguin, 1995). Удобный справочник, хотя нумеруется только каждая пятая строка, так что иногда трудно найти нужную сноску.
—, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (New York: Allen Lane/Penguin, 1997).
Греко–римские религии и философии
Bell, LH., Cults and Creeds in Graeco‑Roman Egypt (Liverpool Univ., 1953).
Benko, S., Pagan Rome and the Early Christians (Bloomington: Indiana Univ., 1984).
Burkert, W., Greek Religion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1985).
Downing, EG., Cynics and Christian Crigins (Edinburgh: Clark, 1992).