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The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations

Michael W. Holmes (Author & Translator)

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Third Edition

Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 832
Publisher: Baker
ISBN#: 9780801034688

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Description: Following the recent publication of his revised translations in The Apostolic Fathers in English, 3rd ed., Michael Holmes, 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 two hundred new notes have been added. This handsome and handy one-volume, thin-paper edition, with a ribbon marker and reader-friendly page layout, will be an essential resource for New Testament students and scholars.

"The term 'Apostolic Fathers' is traditionally used to designate the collection of the earliest extant Christian writings outside the New Testament. These documents are a primary resource for the study of early Christianity, especially the postapostolic period (ca. AD 70-150). They provide significant and often unparalleled glimpses of and insights into the life of Christians and the Christian movement during a critical transitional stage in its history.

It was a time, for example, when problems could no longer be solved by seeking an authoritative answer from an apostle. As a consequence, the church had to begin to deal with the question of sources of authority and authoritative tradition at a time when new challenges and pressures, both internal and external, were confronting the new religious movement in increasingly forceful terms. Moreover, key developments in the process leading to the formation of catholic Christianity, such as the emergence of the monepiscopal or 'single bishop' system of church governance and the regula fidei, or 'rule of faith,' have their roots in this period. Clearly this was a crucial time in the history of a movement that would in the not so distant future come to play a major role in the culture of Late Antiquity, and the Apostolic Fathers are crucial witnesses to it."
--From the Introduction

"A beautiful piece of bookmaking, so nice that the many on this blog who already own an earlier edition will want to get a copy of this one. . . . The book is a small, green hardback, and approximately the same size as the small NA27. The paper has good opacity yet is so thin that the 800 pages are only slightly thicker than the NA27's 800 pages. The paper is also whiter than the creamy NA27. Most pleasant of all for reading is the font and generous leading (whitespace between lines). One's impression while reading is that this is delightfully 'clean' and 'clear.'. . . A stitched, gold-ribbon place marker allows one to restrain the English side of the book and to comfortably read with one hand. . . . The textual apparatus in general has been 'significantly expanded.' At the same time, references in the text to the apparatus have been simplified so as not to distract from smooth reading."
--Randall Buth, evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com

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.

Contents

Introduction
First Clement
Second Clement
The Letters of Ignatius
  To the Ephesians
  To the Magnesians
  To the Trallians
  To the Romans
  To the Philadelphians
  To the Smyrnaeans
  To Polycarp
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
The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations

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