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Athanassiadi, P., Julian: An Intellectual Biography (Classical Lives, Routledge, 1992)

Bowerstock, G. W., Hellenism in Late Antiquity (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures, University of Michigan Press, 1996)

Bowerstock, G. W., Julian the Apostate (Harvard University Press, 1997)

Chuvin, P., A Chronicle of the Last Pagans (Revealing Antiquity, Harvard University Press, 1990)

Clark, G., Christianity and Roman Society (Key Themes in Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Conzelmann, H., Gentiles, Jews, Christians: Polemics and Apologetics in the Greco-Roman Era (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1932)

Dodds, E. R., Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety (Wiles Lectures 1963, Cambridge University Press reprint, 1991)

Doran, R. Birth of a Worldview: Early Christianity in its Jewish and Pagan Context (Rowman & Littlefield, 2nd edition, 1999)

Fowden, G., Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 1993)

Frankfurter, D., Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance (Princeton University Press, 2000)

Goodman, M., Mission and Conversion: Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire (Wilde Lectures (1922), Clarendon Press, reprint, 1996)

Hinson, E. G., The Evangelization of the Roman Empire (Mercer University Press, 1981)

Klauck H-J., The Religious Context of Early Christianity: A Guide to Graeco-Roman Religions (Studies of the New Testament and Its World, T&T Clark, 2000)

Kreider, A., The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom (Wipf & Stock (reprint edition) 2007)

Lane Fox, R. Pagans and Christians (Penguin UK, 2006)

Lee, A. D., Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (Routledge (2nd edition), 2015)

MacMullen, R., Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries (Yale University Press, new edition, 2000)

MacMullen, R. Christianizing the Roman Empire: A.D. 100-400 (Yale University Press, 1984)

MacMullen, R. and Lane, E. (eds.) Paganism and Christianity 100-425 C.E.: A Sourcebook (Fortress Press, 1992)

MacMullen, R., Paganism in the Roman Empire (Yale University Press, 1983)

McLynn, N. B., Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital (University of California Press, 1994)

Momigliano, A., (ed.) Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (Oxford-Warburg Studies, Oxford University Press, 1963)

Pelikan, J., Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism (Gifford Lectures Series, Yale University Press, 1995)

Simmons, M. B., Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity: Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, 2015)

Trombley, F., Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529, Volume 1 (Brill Academic Publishers 1993/2014)

Trombley, F., Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529, Volume 2 (Brill Academic Publishers 1994/2014)

Watts, E. J., The Final Pagan Generation (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015)