The Apostolic Fathers

by Holmes, Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9780801034688
• ISBN10: 080103468X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Baker Academic

Summary

Following last year's publication of his thoroughly revised translations in The Apostolic Fathers in English, 3rd ed., a leading expert on these texts offers a thoroughly revised and redesigned bilingual edition, featuring Greek (or Latin) and English on facing pages. Introductions and bibliographies are generous and up to date. In the textual apparatus, existing notes have been revised and expanded, and well over 200 new notes have been added. This handsome and handy one-volume, thin-paper edition, with ribbon marker, will be an essential resource for students and scholars and a joy to book lovers.

Author Biography

Michael W. Holmes (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is professor of biblical studies and early Christianity at Bethel University and the author or editor of several books, including a commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians. A leading scholar of the Apostolic Fathers, he is currently writing a major critical commentary on Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians and The Martyrdom of Polycarp.

Table of Contents

First Clement
Second Clement
The Letters of Ignatius
To the Ephesians	p. 182
To the Magnesians	p. 202
To the Trallians	p. 214
To the Romans	p. 224
To the Philadelphians	p. 236
To the Smyrnaeans	p. 248
To Polycarp	p. 262
The Letter of Polycarp to the Philippians
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
The Didache
The Epistle of Barnabas
The Shepherd of Hermas
The Epistle to Diognetus and the Fragment of Quadratus
Fragments of Papias
Thematic Analysis of the Apostolic Fathers	p. 775
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