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Early Christian Reader: Christian Texts from the First and Second Centuries
in Contemporary English Translation Including the New Revised Standard Version
of the New Testament With
introduction and annotations by Steve Mason and Tom Robinso
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The Early Christian Reader prepares the earliest Christian writings in a historically meaningful order and includes writings similar in age and historical importance to the books of the New Testament. Each book of the New Testament is presented in the NRSV, the most widely accepted version in university classroom today. The Reader also supplies up-to-date translation of the Gospel of Thomas, the Didache, the Letter of Barnabas, 1 Clement and the letters of Igantius. Broader
issues affecting the treatment of these texts open the six sections of
literature. Lead articles discuss pseu |
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Introductions to each individual work discuss the date and place of composition, authorship, audience, basic themes, literary features, and the Jewish and Hellenistic contexts, and they suggest further readings in the secondary literature. Generous notes illumine specific historical, lexical, and interpretive issues. The
Early Christian Reader thus offers an objective, informed
entrée into the complex world of the earliest Christian literature.
Useful appendixes, maps, and charts make this an ideal text for the
university or college classroom. |