The Epistle to Diognetus (with the Fragment of Quadratus): Introduction, Text, and Commentary (Oxford Apostolic Fathers) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199212740 ISBN 13: 9780199212743

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This volume is the first major English-language commentary on the Epistle to Diognetus since that of Henry G. Meecham in 1949. Its purpose is twofold: to provide careful consideration to the essential introductory issues of authorship and setting, structure and integrity, theology, relationship to scripture, and historical trajectory as they apply to the transmission of the text; and to offer commentary focused on the movement of the author's argument and objectives in construction of the narrative, taking advantage of critical considerations of the apology within recent scholarship. In the final analysis the volume arrives at the premise that the core materials of Diognetus were likely delivered first in an oral context whose setting remains unknown and were thereafter recorded by a later hand as the framework of chapters 1-10. A subsequent editor (perhaps Clement of Alexandria) added the concluding materials of chapters 11-12 together with the insertion of numerous hymnic segments an

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About the Author

Clayton N. Jefford is Professor of Scripture at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology.

Review

"It has been over 60 years since a critical edition of the Epistle to Diognetus was published in English. That edition, by Henry Meecham, stood the tests of time well. But with the advent of Oxford University Press' Oxford Apostolic Fathers series, Clayton N. Jefford has produced a worthy successor... In sum, Jefford's edition has become the essential reference on all things having to do with the Epistle to Diognetus. Scholars working with it or with texts that may share some intertextual relation with it should take the time to consult and benefit from Jefford's work." --FIDES et HUMILITAS

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199212740
• ISBN 13: 9780199212743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Jefford Clayton N.