Background & General Information
- Bruce, F.F. Paul Apostle of the Heart Set Free. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1977.
- De Coulanges, Fustel. The Ancient City. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1956.
- Ferguson, Everett. Backgrounds of Early Christianity. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1987.
- Finegan, Jack. The Archaeology of the New Testament. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1979.
- Friesen, Steven. Ephesus-Key to a Vision in Revelation.² Biblical Archaeology Review, 19 (May/June 1993), 24-28.
- Gundry, Robert H. A Survey of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1970.
- Hadas-Lebel. Flavius Josephus. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993.
- Koester, Helmut. History and Literature of Early Christianity. Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1980.
- MacMullen, Ramsay. Roman Social Relations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.
- The Westminster Historical Atlas to the Bible. ed. George Ernest Wright and Floyd Vivian Filson. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1956.









