As the earliest exact Christian writings outside the New Testament, the Apostolic Fathers are a primary resource for the study of early Christianity. These writing provide significant and unparalleled insight into the Christian movement during a critical transitional stage in its history. This updated edition of Holmes's 1992 Greek-English diglot edition of the Apostolic Fathers is arguably the best collection of these writings available.
The introductions to each ancient document, the bibliographies, and the textual notes make this volume essential for the serious study of early Christianity. Scholars, research libraries, and students of the Apostolic Fathers will welcome this updated edition. 'The text, translation and notes which Holmes has provided manage to transform the work of a previous generation of scholarship into a useful resource for the modern study of the Apostolic Father. I gladly welcome his second edition and believe it represents a worthy and contemporary revision of the old Lightfoot and Harmer vollume.' Clayton J. Jefford.
