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• opens new windowClement of Rome, c. 30-99
  • sample titles:
    • Clement of Rome and the Didache : a new translation and theological commentary
    • Ecclesiastical office and the primacy of Rome : an evaluation of recent theological discussion of Fi
    • Encounters with Hellenism studies on the First letter of Clement
    • I Clement's use of Isaiah
  • Letter to the Corinthians
• Ignatius of Antioch, d. c. 110
  • sample titles:
    • Four witnesses : the early church in her own words
    • The Gospel and Ignatius of Antioch
    • Ignatius and John a comparative study
• Polycarp of Smyrna, martyr, c. 69-160
  • sample titles:
    • Was Polycarp a pentecostal? an examination of the patristic evidence regarding tongue-speaking with
    • Ignatius of Antioch & Polycarp of Smyrna : a new translation and theological commentary
    • The Didache, The epistle of Barnabas, The epistles and The martyrdom of St. Polycarp, The fragments
  • disciple of John the Apostle according to Eusebius of Caesarea
  • wrote Epistle to the Philippians
• Papias, bishop of Hierapolis, c. 60-c. 130
  • sample title:
    • Two shipwrecked gospels the logoi of Jesus and Papias's exposition of logia about the Lord
  • companion of Polycarp according to Ignatius

• Didachē, or, The Teaching of the Apostles, early 2nd c.
  • sample titles:
    • The Didache : a commentary
    • The Didache : a missing piece of the puzzle in early Christianity
    • The Didache : a window on the earliest Christians
• Shepherd of Hermas, late 1st-early 2nd c.
  • sample titles:
    • The Shepherd of Hermas and the Pauline legacy
    • On Roman religion : lived religion and the individual in ancient Rome
    • The New Testament : a historical introduction to the early Christian writings
• Epistle of Barnabas, c. 130
  • sample titles:
    • The Apostolic Fathers : an introduction
    • The Didache, The epistle of Barnabas, The epistles and The martyrdom of St. Polycarp, The fragments
  • Alexandria
• Letter to Diognetus
  • sample titles:
    • Rediscovering the church fathers : who they were and how they shaped the church
    • Worship in the early church : an anthology of historical sources
    • The early Christians in their own words
• Second Clement (pseudo-Clement)