Saturday, May 19, 2007

Excellent news from Michael Bird (Euangelion).

A series of essays on the Apostolic Fathers that originally appeared in the Expository Times has been collected and is being published by Continuum under their T&T Clark imprint. The book is titled The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers (amazon.com), edited by Paul Foster (who wrote several of the articles, along with other folks like Michael Holmes and Charles Hill). Each article in the series is an overview of one of the works with the corpus popularly known as the "Apostolic Fathers".

This is excellent. I have no journal access and have snagged articles in the series when I've been in libraries, or when the SBL has a free month of access (usually in December) to a select group of journals as a promo for Sage Journals. These promos typically include Expository Times. To have the whole collection, with introduction, edited in one volume is awesome news! It's on my Amazon wishlist and I hope to get it at some point in the future.

I'd recommend The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers (amazon.com) though I've not read all of the essays. The essays I have read have been top-notch. If you're teaching a class on the Apostolic Fathers, it may even serve as a great introductory text.

Post Author: rico
Saturday, May 19, 2007 8:56:34 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) 

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