| The gnostic scriptures B Layton, D Brakke, J Collins Yale University Press, 2021 | 929 | 2021 |
| Constantine and the Bishops: the Politics of Intolerance HA Drake JHU Press, 2002 | 641 | 2002 |
| Demons and the making of the monk: spiritual combat in early Christianity D Brakke, D Brakke Harvard University Press, 2009 | 549 | 2009 |
| The Gnostics: Myth, ritual, and diversity in early Christianity D Brakke Harvard University Press, 2012 | 528 | 2012 |
| Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism D Brakke Clarendon Press, 1995 | 481 | 1995 |
| Athanasius and Asceticism D Brakke Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 | 187 | 1998 |
| Canon formation and social conflict in fourth-century Egypt: Athanasius of Alexandria's thirty-ninth Festal Letter D Brakke Harvard Theological Review 87 (4), 395-419, 1994 | 157 | 1994 |
| Ethiopian demons: Male sexuality, the black-skinned other, and the monastic self D Brakke Journal of the History of Sexuality 10 (3/4), 501-535, 2001 | 131 | 2001 |
| The problematization of nocturnal emissions in early Christian Syria, Egypt, and Gaul D Brakke Journal of Early Christian Studies 3 (4), 419-460, 1995 | 118 | 1995 |
| Religion and the Self in Antiquity D Brakke, ML Satlow, S Weitzman Indiana University Press, 2005 | 95 | 2005 |
| A new fragment of Athanasius's thirty-ninth Festal Letter: heresy, apocrypha, and the canon D Brakke Harvard Theological Review 103 (1), 47-66, 2010 | 83 | 2010 |
| Scriptural practices in early Christianity: towards a new history of the New Testament canon D Brakke Invention, rewriting, usurpation, 263-280, 2012 | 70 | 2012 |
| Jewish flesh and Christian spirit in Athanasius of Alexandria D Brakke Journal of Early Christian Studies 9 (4), 453-481, 2001 | 68 | 2001 |
| The making of monastic demonology: Three ascetic teachers on withdrawal and resistance D Brakke Church History 70 (1), 19-48, 2001 | 66 | 2001 |
| Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great: Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt D Brakke, A Crislip Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 55 | 2015 |
| The lady appears: Materializations of" woman" in early monastic literature D Brakke Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33 (3), 387-402, 2003 | 53 | 2003 |
| “Outside the Places, within the Truth”: Athanasius of Alexandria and the Localization of the Holy D Brakke Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt, 443-481, 1998 | 49 | 1998 |
| Introduction to Christianity MJ Weaver, D Brakke, J Bivins Wadsworth Pub., 1997 | 45 | 1997 |
| The Authenticity of the Ascetic Athanasiana D Brakke Orientalia 63 (2), 17-56, 1994 | 43 | 1994 |
| Self-differentiation among Christian groups: the Gnostics and their opponents D Brakke The Cambridge history of Christianity. Volume 1. Origins to Constantine, 245-260, 2008 | 42 | 2008 |
