Women in the Apostolic Fathers: Bibliography

This post is the final in our series on Women in the Apostolic Fathers. For a complete copy of this paper, please email me at prahlowjj [at] slu.edu.

Ancient Sources

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Apostolic Constitutions. Edited and translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Cox. Ante-Nicene Fathers: Volume 7: Fathers of the third and Fourth Centuries. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1951.

The Apostolic Fathers: Volume I: I Clement, II Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Didache. Edited and translated by Bart D. Ehrman. Leob Classical Library 24. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

The Apostolic Fathers: Volume II: Epistle of Barnabas, Papias and Quadratus, Epistle to Diognetus, The Shepherd of Hermas. Edited and translated by Bart D. Ehrman. Leob Classical Library 25. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Clement of Alexandria. Paedagogus. Edited and translated by Simon P. Wood. Clement of Alexandria: Christ the Educator. Fathers of the Church 23. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1954.

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Cyprian of Carthage. On the Dress of Virgins. Translated by Roy J. Deferrari, Angela E. Keenan, Mary H. Mahoney, and George E. Conway. St. Cyprian: Treatises. Fathers of the Church. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of American Press, 2007.

Epiphanius of Cyprus. Ancoratus. Edited and translated by Young Richard Kim. Fathers of the Church 128. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2014.

Eusebius of Caesarea. Ecclesiastical History. Translated by G.A. Williamson. Edited by Andrew Louth. London: Penguin Books, 1989.

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Juvenal. Satires. Edited and translated by Susanna Morton Braund. Juvenal and Persius. Loeb Classical Library 91. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Justin Martyr. First Apology. Edited and translated by Thomas B. Falls. Saint Justin Martyr: The First Apology, the Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Exhortation to the Greeks, Discourse to the Greeks, the Monarchy. Fathers of the Church 6. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008.

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Origen of Alexandria. Commentary on the Gospel According to John, Books 1-10. Edited and translated by Ronald E. Heine. Fathers of the Church 80. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of American Press, 1989.

Pliny the Younger. Epistolae. Edited and translated by B. Radice. Letters, Volume II: Books 8-10.  Loeb Classical Library 59. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.

Tertullian of Carthage. On Marrying Only Once. Edited and translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Cox. Ante-Nicene Fathers: Volume 3: Latin Christianity: Tertullian. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1951.

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Modern Sources

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Bakke, Odd Magne. Concord and Peace: A Rhetorical Analysis of the First Letter of Clement with an Emphasis on the Language of Sedition and Unity. Edited by Jorg Frey, Martin Hengel, Otfried Hofius. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungenzum Neuen Testament: 2.141. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001.

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Bauer, Walter. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. Edited by Robert A. Kraft and Gerhard Krodel. Translated by the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971.

Brown, Milton P. The Authentic Writings of Ignatius: A Study of Linguistic Criteria. Durham: Duke University Press, 1963.

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Cox Miller, Patricia (ed). Women in Early Christianity: Translations from Greek Texts. Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 2005.

de Jonge, H.J. “On the Origin of the Term ‘Apostolic Fathers’.” Journal of Theological Studies 29 (1978): 503-505.

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Lindemann, Andreas. “Paul’s Influence on ‘Clement’ and Ignatius.” 9-24 in Trajectories Through the New Testament and Apostolic Fathers. Edited by C.M. Tuckett and Andrew F. Gregory. Oxford: OUP, 2005.

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