The authorities listed, ancient and modern, are those to which direct reference has been made. A very large number of others have been profitably studied or consulted in preparation for this work, and absence of mention must not be taken to imply any lack of familiarity with or appreciation of their varied contributions. Where translations have been employed consideration has sometimes been given to readiness of accessibility.
Acts of Barnabas, translated by Alexander Walker (Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. xvi), T. & T. Clark (Edinburgh, 1870).
Amulo, Archbiship of Lyons A.D. 841–52, Epistola, seu Liber contra Judaeos, ad Carolum Regem, quoted by A. Lukyn Williams in Adversos Judaeos, Cambridge University Press (1935).
Anderson, Hugh, Jesus and Christian Origins, Oxford University Press (New York, 1964).
Apocalypse of Baruch, translated by R. H. Charles, Adam & Charles Black (London, 1896).
Apocalypse of Ezra, translated by G. H. Box, S.P.C.K. (London, 1917).
Apollonius, Christian martyr late second century, quoted by Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Bk. V. ch. xviii, translated by C. F. Crusé, Geo. Bell & Sons (London, 1874).
Apuleius, Lucius, The Golden Ass, translated by Robert Graves, Penguin Books (1950).
Aron, Robert, Jesus of Nazareth: The Hidden Years, translated from the French by Frances Frenaye, Hamish Hamilton (London, 1962).
Assumption of Moses, translated by R. H. Charles, Adam & Charles Black (London, 1897).
Black, Matthew, The Scrolls and Christian Origins, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. (1961).
Brandon, S. G. F., The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church, S.P.C.K. (London, 1951).
Bultmann, Rudolf, Primitive Christianity in its Contemporary Setting, translated by R. H. Fuller, Collins, The Fontana Library (1960).
Burkitt, F. Crawford, The Gospel History and its Transmission, T. & T Clark (Edinburgh, 1925).
Cassius, Dio, Roman History, Tauchnitz Edition (Leipzig, 1890).
Clement of Rome, Epistle to the Corinthians, translated by J. B. Light-foot in The Apostolic Fathers, Macmillan & Co, (London and New York, 1891).
Clementine Homilies (Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. xvii), T. & T. Clark (Edinburgh, 1870).
Clementine Recognitions (Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. iii), T. & T. Clark (Edinburgh, 1871).
Dead Sea Scrolls, translations by Millar Burrows in The Dead Sea Scrolls, Secker & Warburg (London, 1956), and G. Vermes, Penguin Books (1962). Scrolls quoted or referred to: Community Rule (Manual of Discipline); Damascus Document; Genesis Apocryphon; Habakkuk Commentary; Hymns (Thanksgiving Psalms); Psalms Commentary.
Drower, E. S., Mandaean Polemic, Reprinted from the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. xxv, University of London (1962); The Secret Adam, Clarendon Press (Oxford 1960).
Eisler, Robert, The Messiah Jesus and John the Baptist, Methuen & Co. Ltd. (London, 1931).
Enoch, Similitudes of, translated by R. H. Charles, The Book of Enoch, Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1893).
Epiphanius, Against Heresies (Panarion), edited by Francis Oehler (1859).
Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, translated by C. F. Crusé, George Bell & Sons (London, 1874).
Gaster, Moses, Samaritan Eschatology; Samaritan Oral Law and Ancient Traditions, Search Publishing Co. (London, 1932).
Gospel of Peter, from The Apocryphal New Testament, translated by M. R. James, Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1926).
Graves, Robert, The Nazarene Gospel Restored, by Robert Graves and Joshua Podro, Cassell & Co. Ltd. (London, 1953).
Harris, J. Rendel, Testimonies, Vols. I–II, Cambridge University Press (1916 and 1920).
Herford, R. Travers, Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, Williams & Norgate (London, 1903).
Hoskyns, Sir Edward and Noel Davey, The Riddle of the New Testament, Faber & Faber Ltd. (London, 1931).
Hunt, B. W. P. Stather, Primitive Gospel Sources, James Clarke & Co. Ltd. (London, 1951).
Irenaeus, Against Heresies (Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vols. v and ix), T. & T. Clark (Edinburgh, 1868–9).
Isaiah, Ascension of, translated by R. H. Charles, S.P.C.K. (London, 1917).
James, M. R., Apocryphal New Testament, Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1926).
Jashar, Book of, Sepher Hajashar (Prague, 1840).
Josephus, Flavius, Works of, translations by William Whiston and in the Loeb Classical Library by H. St. J. Thackeray and Ralph Marcus, William Heinemann Ltd. (London) and Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass.). Antiquities of the Jews; Jewish War; Life.
Josephus, Slavonic, Appendix to Josephus, Vol. iii, Loeb Classical Library.
Jubilees, Book of, translated by R. H. Charles, S.P.C.K. (London, 1917).
Julius Africanus, Letter to Aristides, quoted by Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Bk, I. ch. vii.
Justin Martyr, First Apology and Dialogue with Trypho (Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. ii), T. & T. Clark (Edinburgh, 1867).
Kennard, J. Spencer, Jr., ‘The Burial of Jesus’ in Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. lxxiv (Philadelphia, 1955).
Lake, Kirsopp, in The Expositor, Vol. VII, vii.
Letter of Claudius to the Alexandrians, translated by H. Idris Bell, Jews and Christians in Egypt, published by the British Museum.
Maase Abraham, quoted by M. Gaster in The Chronicles of Jerahmeel (London, 1899).
Mead, G. R. S., The Gnostic John the Baptiser, John M. Watkins (London, 1924).
Memoirs of Hegesippus, quoted by Eusebius in Ecclesiastical History, Bk. II. ch. xxiii, Bk. III. ch. xx.
Midrash Tehillim, edition Buber (Vilna, 1891).
Papias, translated by J. B. Lightfoot in The Apostolic Fathers, Macmillan & Co. (London and New York, 1891).
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, in Loeb Classical Library.
Pirke Aboth (Sayings of the Fathers) in the Authorised Jewish Prayer Book, Eyre & Spottiswoode (London, 1916).
Pliny the Elder, Natural History, in the Loeh Classical Library, Heinemann and Harvard University Press.
Pliny the Younger, Letter to the Emperor Trajan concerning the Christians, in the Loeb Classical Library, Heinemann and Harvard University Press.
Plutarch, Lives of Great Men, in the Loeb Classical Library.
Prayer Book, Authorised Jewish, Eyre & Spottiswoode (London, 1916).
Preaching of Peter, in M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament, Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1926).
Psalms of Solomon, H. E. Ryle and M. R. James, Cambridge University Press (1891).
Resurrection, Book of the, translated by E. A. Wallis Budge from British Museum, Oriental MSS. No. 6804.
Rhythm Against the Jews, Sermon delivered on Palm Sunday by Ephraim the Syrian, fourth century, quoted by Stather Hunt in Primitive Gospel Sources, James Clarke & Co. Ltd. (London, 1951).
Robinson, John A. T., Bishop of Woolwich, Honest to God, S.C.M. Press (London, 1963).
Schoeps, H.J., Theologie und Geschichte des Judenchristentums (Tübingen, 1949).
Schonfield, Hugh J., The Authentic New Testament (a modern translation), Dobson Books (London, 1956); The Jew of Tarsus, Macdonald & Co. Ltd. (London, 1946); The Lost Book of the Nativity of John. T. & T. Clark (Edinburgh, 1929); Saints Against Caesar, Macdonald & Co, Ltd. (London, 1948); Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Valentine, Mitchell (London, 1957); According to the Hebrews, Duckworth (London, 1937).
Sidra d’ Yahya (Book of John), quoted from G. R. S. Mead, The Gnostic John the Baptiser, John M. Watkins (London, 1924).
Suetonius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, translated by Alexander Thomson and revised by T. Forester, G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. (London, 1911).
Tacitus, Cornelius, The Annals and History, translated by Arthur Murphy, Jones & Co. (London, 1830).
Talmud (Jerusalem and Babylonian), standard editions and A Rabbinic Anthology by C. G. Montefiore and H. Loewe, Macmillan & Co, Ltd. (London, 1938).
Targums, The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch; with the Fragments of the Jerusalem Targum (Targum of Palestine), translated by J. W. Etheridge, Longmans Green (London, 1865).
Tertullian, De Spectaculis, translated by T. R. Glover, Loeb Classical Library, Heinemann and Harvard University Press (1953).
Testaments of the XII Patriarchs, translated by R. H. Charles, Adam and Charles Black (London, 1908).
Thomas, the so-called Gospel of, translated by William R. Schoedel, in Grant and Freedman, The Secret Sayings of Jesus, Collins (Fontana Books) (London, 1960).
Vermes, G., The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Penguin Books (1962).
Williams, A. Lukyn, Adversos Judaeos, Cambridge University Press (1935).
Wisdom of Solomon, in The Apocrypha of the Old Testament (Revised Standard Version), Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. (1957).