Additional bibliography for study
Castelli, Elizabeth A. Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004
Ehrman, Bart, After the New Testament, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
Lightfoot, J.B. and J. R. Harmer, Translators, The Apostolic Fathers. Ed. Michael Holmes. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1998
MacMullen, Ramsay and Eugene Lane, ed., Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E.Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 1992
Meeks, Wayne, The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul, Yale Univ. Press 2003
Wilken, Robert. The Christians as the Romans saw them. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984