Early Christian
General
Barrett, C. K. The New Testament Background: Writings from Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire That Illuminate Christian Origins. Rev. ed. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1987. Cartlidge, David R., and David L. Dungan, eds. Documents for the Study of the Gospels. Rev. ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994. Elliott, J. K. The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation. Rev ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Richardson, Cyril D., ed. Early Christian Fathers. New York: Macmillan, 1970. Staniforth, Maxwell, trans. Early Christian Writings. New York: Penguin, 1987.
Nag Hammadi
Barnstone, Willis, and Marvin Meyer, eds. The Gnostic Bible. Boston: Shambhala, 2003. Layton, Bentley. The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987. Robinson, J. M., ed. The Nag Hammadi Library in English. 4th rev. ed. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.