Search items for ancient authors and texts

Note: The Qumran texts are shown in bold to distinguish them from the page numbers.

1 Christian and/or Gnostic writings

Acts of John

Ambrose

Anti-Marcionite Prologue

Athanasius

Augustine

Chrysostom

Clement of Alexandria

Cyprian

Cyril of Alexandria

Didache

Dionysius the Great

Ephrem

Epiphanius

Eusebius

Gaius

Heracleon

Hippolytus

Ignatius

Irenaeus

Jerome

Justin Martyr

Muratorian Canon

Nag Hammadi texts; Dialogue of the Saviour; Gospel of Judas; Gospel of Mary; Gospel of Philip; Gospel of Thomas; Gospel of Truth; Trimorphic Protennoia

Nonnus

Odes of Solomon

Origen

Papias

Polycarp

Polycrates

Potamius

Proclus

Ptolemaeus

Romanus

Tatian

Tertullian

Theodore of Mopsuestia

Theophilus of Antioch

Valentinus

2 Greek and Roman authors

Apollonius Rhodius

Diodorus Siculus

Diogenes Laertius

Herodotus

Hesiod

Homer

Homeric Hymns (h. Hom.)

Livy

Lucian

Martial

Oppian

Ovid

Pausanias

Philostratus

Plato

Pliny

Plutarch

Polybius

Strabo

Suetonius

Thucydides

Xenophon

3 Jewish authors and writings

Babylonian Talmud; b. Ber.; Pesaḥim

Jerusalem Talmud: y. Ber.

Josephus

Mishnah; Pirqe Avot (m. Aboth); m. Sanh.; m. Sukkah

Philo

Pseudepigrapha; 2 Baruch; 1 Enoch; 4 Ezra (2 Esdras); Jubilees; Prayer of Joseph; Psalms of Solomon; Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; T. Benj.; T. Joseph; T. Jud.; T. Levi

Qumran texts (Dead Sea Scrolls) 1QSa; 4Q161; 4Q174 (4Q Flor.); 4Q175; 4Q285; 4Q339; 4Q400; 11Q13; Community Rule (1 QS); Damascus Document (CD); Hymns; New Jerusalem Scroll; see also Index of names and subjects

Rabbinic texts; Mekhilta on Ex.; Midrash on Dt.; Midr. Rabbah Eccles.; see also Mishnah; Targums

Targums; Fragment; Palestinian (Neofiti 1); Targum on Isaiah; Targum Onqelos

4 Other ancient writings

Hermetica (Corpus Hermeticum)

Mandaean texts

Nag Hammadi texts see sect. 1

Samaritan texts: Tibat Marqe (Memar Marqar)

Sibylline Oracles