The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations, 3rd ed.
Publisher:
, 2007
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Overview
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.
- Features a thoroughly revised and redesigned edition
- Provides an essential resource for New Testament students and scholars
- Includes revised and expanded notes, as well as over two hundred new notes
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Updated Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- First Clement
- Second Clement
- The Letters oflgnatius
- The Letter of Polycarp to the Philippians
- The Martyrdom of Polycarp
- TheDidache
- The Epistle of Barnabas
- The Shepherd of Hermas
- The Epistle to Diognetus and the Fragment of O!iadratus
- Fragments of Papias
- Thematic Analysis of the Apostolic Fathers
- Subject Index to the Introductions and Notes
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Maps
The presentation is magnificent, the attention to detail first class, and the actual contents repay close study. This book is an essential addition to the libraries of all interested in the history of early Christianity, and even if one owns an earlier edition it is now time to update one’s library with this highly significant volume.
—Paul Foster, Expository Times
I’m intrigued at what appear to be signs of a (re)discovery of extra-canonical Christian texts of the first two/three centuries, particularly among Protestant-Evangelical circles. . . . The third edition [of The Apostolic Fathers] . . . further signals a striking interest in these texts. . . . The publisher . . . invited Holmes to prepare a more thorough-going revision of the Lightfoot textual notes and decisions and the English translation as well. But it is also very interesting to note the new format chosen. Instead of the previous, somewhat larger-page format of previous editions, this third edition happens to be almost exactly the size of the standard Nestle-Aland edition of the Greek NT, with similar paper. . . . As a physical artifact, this third edition seems to format The Apostolic Fathers as deutero-canonical texts! We wouldn’t be so surprised to find a Roman Catholic publishing house doing this, but it’s very interesting semiotically that we have this project from a publishing house long associated with a conservative Evangelical constituency. I take this as a particularly physical signal that today’s Christians, even Protestant Evangelicals who prize the Bible above all, are re-discovering texts such as those included in The Apostolic Fathers. Perhaps there is a growing recognition that these and other texts of the second and third centuries are invaluable remnants of the earliest expansion and consolidation of the Christian movement in the ‘post-apostolic’ period, and are also very fruitful case-studies for modern Christians seeking to work out life in a ‘post-Christendom’ world.
—Larry Hurtado, larryhurtado.wordpress.com