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Clement and the Early Church of Rome: On the Dating of Clement’s First Epistle to the Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Clement of Rome’s First Epistle to the Corinthians is a supremely valuable historical document. One of very few noncanonical Christian texts to reach us from the first century, it’s an early example of the exercise of hierarchical—and Roman—authority in the Church. Disciplinary in nature, Clement’s epistle speaks volumes about the life of the early church. The early Christians guarded the letter...

to the writing of the Gospels? Were there different written forms of the sayings of Jesus circulating, one used by the gospel writers and one by 1 Clement? Naturally these and other related questions cannot be settled here, but it is important to show that 1 Clement’s relationship to the entire question of the Synoptics would be completely revised if he were seen to have been written before them, or before some of them. He would be more readily able to be seen as a witness, though in written form,
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