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The Apostolic Fathers is a critically important collection of texts for studying the first century of Christian history. Here a leading expert on the Apostolic Fathers offers an accessible, up-to-date introduction and companion to these diverse and fascinating writings. This work is easy to use and affordable, yet offers a thorough overview for students and others approaching these writings for...

Historians have assigned the phrase “apostolic fathers” to a narrow collection of early Christian texts that date from the first and second centuries AD. These texts, which were written by leaders of the early church over the course of nearly one hundred years, originally did not circulate as a single collection. Instead, they were assembled into one form or another over the centuries; ultimately they became a vaguely unified selection of materials. The
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