The Apostolic Fathers in English

The revised design and typography of the third edition are perhaps the most obvious improvements. The new running page headers contain chapter and verse numbers, which assist in navigation. Also descriptive subheadings within the translation help summarize the content of sections.

This third edition of The Apostolic Fathers is sure to become the preferred edition for personal and classroom use by English-speaking academics and pastors as well as interested students of the early church. Book reviews are published online and in print every quarter in Bibliotheca Sacra.

Holmes, editor Grand Rapids Department Chair and Professor of Theology and Church History, patristic scholar, writer, husband and father, accordion player.

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The resulting translation, published in , was widely recognised as an excellent introduction to the Apostolic Fathers. In this third English-only edition, Holmes makes more substantial changes than he did in The most significant change is in the translation, which Holmes now renders in contemporary and inclusive English. This is his own work, not merely an updating of Lightfoot and Harmer. Footnotes included in the translation include more cross-references to Scripture than did those in previous editions.

There are also changes in format and in Holmes's editorial content.

Running heads and subheadings make it easier for readers to navigate their way through the translations, and judiciously constructed bibliographies. Two clear maps and an index of ancient sources are also included. Holmes's bibliographies, his incisive and authoritative introductory essays and his fluent, accurate translation make this an extremely useful way into the study of the Apostolic Fathers. Further, Holmes, who is a respected expert in biblical scholarship and early Christianity, is especially sensitive to translation issues respecting gender.

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The result is a very accessible and readable text of these ancient writers that manages to be contemporary without being idiosyncratic or colloquial. It seems clear that this edition has been produced specifically for the purpose of accessibility for the student and general reader, both lay and clerical. This of course is not to say that this book will not be of use to the scholar; but it is rather to point out just how useful this book will be in undergraduate, seminary, and Christian education contexts. Holmes gives us an excellent resource for entry into study of that first generation of thinkers who began that great tradition that we have come to know as Christian theology.

This volume should be gratefully received as a superb point of departure in coming to know their voices. Ables, Reviews in Religion and Theology "In this latest edition, the [English] translation is again thoroughly revised. The design and typography of the volume is also improved and made more 'user-friendly. The number of cross-references to Scripture has been increased, and notes indicating points of textual variation have been simplified.

The introductions to each of the writings in the corpus have been revised, and the bibliographies have also been updated. There is a very good general introduction to the apostolic fathers.

I am sure the section on the historical setting of the apostolic fathers will be especially helpful for the English reader of the translations. The translation of the Greek text is sound.

The notes do help the English reader who has no knowledge of the Greek to gain insight into the Greek text. Holmes's new translation will become the standard reference source for both students and scholars who work on the apostolic fathers in the twenty-first century. A general introduction introduces the reader to the main questions surrounding the literature as a whole, while each writing in turn is provided with its own specialized preliminary remarks.

Students will appreciate the many insights into early Christianity that are provided by these introductions. The style is formal without being pedantic; idiomatic without being excessively free. Amid the many one-volume editions of the Apostolic Fathers available today, this handy, readable version of the texts deserves to be considered by students and merely curious readers alike.