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Bauer W., Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity (Fortress Press, 1971)
van den Broek R., Gnostic Religion in Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Buckley J., Female Fault and Fulfilment in Gnosticism (University of North Carolina, 1986)
Ehrman B., Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Dunderberg I., The Beloved Disciple in Conflict?: Revisiting the Gospels of John and Thomas (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Gathercole S., The Gospel of Thomas: Introduction and Commentary (Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 11 - Brill Academic, 2014))
Gathercole S., The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas: Original Language and Influences (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 151 - Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Grant R. M., Gnosticism and Early Christianity (Columbia University Press, Revised Edition, 1967)
Hoffmann R . J., Marcion, on the Restitution of Christianity (American Academy of Religion Academy Series - Scholars Press, 1984)
King K. L., The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (Polebridge Press, 2003)
King K. L. (ed.), Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism (Studies in Antiquity & Christianity - Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2000)
King K. L., What Is Gnosticism? (Harvard University Press, 2003)
Lüdemann G., Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity (SCM, 1996)
Pagels E., The Gnostic Gospels (Random House, 1979)
Pagels E., Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (Random House, 2003)
Pagels E. and King K. L., Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (Penguin Books, 2007)  
Pelikan J., Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures (Penguin Books, 2005)
Perkins P., Gnostic Dialogue: Early Church and the Crisis of Gnosticism (Paulist Press International, 1980)
Rufolph K., Gnosis: The Nature & History of Gnosticism (Koehler & Amelang, 1977)
Turner H. E. W., The Pattern of Christian Truth: A Study of the Relations between Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Early Church (1954 Bampton Lectures - Wipf & Stock, 2004)
Vuong, L. C., Gender and Purity in the Protevangelium of James (WUNT 2/358; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013)
Wagner W. H., After the Apostles (Augsburg Fortress, 1994)
Williams M. A., Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category (Princeton University Press, 1996)