Bibliography for Pagan And Christian Studies

Recommended by Prof. Nicholson, Queen's University:
The Golden Ass. Apuleius. Penguin
Pagan and Christian in the Age of Anxiety. E.R.Dodds. Cambridge
Three Greek Romances. M.Hadas. Bobbs Merrill
The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook. M.W.Meyer. Harper Collins
Christianity in the Roman Empire. H.Mattingly
Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism. F.Cumont
Confessions. St.Augustine. Penguin
Early Christianity. R.H.Bainton. Anvil
Early Christian Fathers. H.Bettenson. Oxford
Select Satires of Lucian. L.Casson. Norton
The Jewish Wars. Josephus. Penguin
Pagans and Christians. Robin Lane Fox. Penguin; Harper Collins, 1986
Greek Philosophy After Aristotle. J.L.Saunders. Macmillan, 1966

Origin Contra Celsum. Henry Chadwick. Cambridge U.Pr., 1953
Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World. G.Majino
As the Romans Did. Jo-Ann Shelton. Oxford U.Pr.
Roman Literature and Society. R.M.Ogilvie. Penguin
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. Robert Wilken. Yale U.Pr., 1984
Pagan Rome and the Early Christians. Stephen Benko. Indiana U.Pr., 1984
The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. D.Ulansey. Oxford U.Pr., 1989
Jewish Wars & Antiquities. Josephus

Also various books by Franz Cumont on early astrology and eastern religions
Senaca also a good source for the period
Oxford Study Bible is recommended
Note: Augutine's Confession (esp. Bk.9 ch.10 which is much derived from Plotinus' Ennieds Bk.5 ch 1&2).

Recommended in The Role of Religion in History by George Walsh
Primitive Culture. E.D.Taylor
The Golden Bough. Sir James Frazer (Taylor and Frazer are Humeans according to Walsh)
Theories of Primitive Religion. E.E.Evans-Pritchard

Other Recommended Texts:
Phaedo (esp. 69c-e). Plato.
Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth. John G. Jackson. 1941
Smith, Homer. Man and His Gods. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1952.
Albright, William Powell. Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1968.
Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. 2 vols. New York: Penguin Books Inc., 1955.
Rose, H.J. Religion in Greece and Rome. New York: Harper & Bros., 1959.
Knight, Richard Payne. A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus. New York: University Books Inc., 1974.
Cumont, Franz. Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism. New York: Dover Publications, 1956.
Enslin, Morton Scott. The Literature of the Christian Movement. New York: Harper & Bros., 1938.
Briffault, Robert. The Mothers. 3 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1927.
Guignebert, Charles. Ancient, Medieval and Modern Christianity. New York: University Books, 1961.
de Camp, L. Sprague. The Ancient Engineers. New York: Ballantine Books, 1960.
Gifford, Edward S. Jr. The Evil Eye. New York: Macmillan, 1958.
Doane, T.W. Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions. New York: University Books Inc., 1971.
Bardo Thodol. W.Y. The Magic Papyri. Evans.Wentz trans. London: Oxford University Press, 1927.
Tatz, Mark and Kent, Jody. Rebirth. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.
Angus, S. The Mystery Religions. New York: Dover Publications, 1975.
Robertson, J.M. Pagan Christs. New York: University Books Inc., 1967.
Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Random House, 1979.
Reinach, Salomon. Orpheus. New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1930.
Ashe, Geoffrey. The Virgin. London.

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