Early Christianity: General Resources

TEXTS AND OTHER PRIMARY SOURCES

EarlyChristianWritings.com

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

On-Line Bible

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (database of primary texts in Greek, including Christian sources; Claremont Colleges subscription only)

Patrologia Latina (database of ancient and medieval Latin Christian texts; Claremont Colleges subscription only)

Byzantine Art

Early Church Fathers

Christian Latin Texts (from The Latin Library)

The Gnostic Society Library

The Fathers of the Church

The Christian Catacombs of Rome

 

WEBSITES

World of Late Antiquity

Frontline: From Jesus to Christ, the First Christians

North American Patristics Society On-Line Resources

Late Antiquity at the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

The Tertullian Project

Gregory of Nyssa Homepage

EarlyChurch.org.uk

Diotima: Women in the Ancient World

 

JOURNALS

Journal of Early Christian Studies (Claremont Colleges subscription only)

Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum/Journal of Ancient Christianity (Claremont College subscription only)

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism

  

REFERENCE SITES

The Catholic Encyclopedia

ECOLE Initiative (Archive)

Wikipedia

OrthodoxWiki

  

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING

Bibliography: General Works on the Early Church

Bibliography of Women in the Early Church

Persecution and Martyrdom Bibliography

Topic Bibliographies on Gender & Early Christianity

Walter Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity

Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity

Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

Bart Ehrman, Lost Christianities (e-book available through Claremont Libraries)

W. H. C. Frend, The Early Church

Rodney Stark, The Rise of Early Christianity

Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen, Companion to Second-Century 'Heretics' (e-book available through Claremont Libraries)

 

 

 

Research Tools

CLAREMONT LIBRARIES DATABASES:

Religion Databases, especially: ATLA database (Religious Studies serials)

JSTOR (archives of journal articles in many disciplines)

Lexis-Nexis (archives of newspapers, magazines, and legal materials)

Academic Search Premier (more scholarly articles and essays)

Web of Science (a citation index)

Guide to citation and bibliography in Chicago Style