Hermas in Arcadia and the Rest of the Words of Baruch

Essays published in 1889 and 1896 by a leading English biblical scholar that examine important early Christian texts.

J. Rendel Harris (Author)

9781108039734, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 January 2012

166 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 1 cm, 0.22 kg

Much of the work of James Rendel Harris (1852–1941), palaeographer and biblical scholar, focused on the translation and understanding of early Christian writing, and this collection of two volumes of essays examines two key texts. The first work in this reissue, published in 1896, discusses the book known as 'The Shepherd of Hermas'. This early work, thought to be written in Rome around the first or second century CE, is composed of three parts: visions, commandments and similitudes. Harris examines aspects of the work, such as how to interpret the ninth similitude - as allegory or literally - and discusses in detail questions about translation. Themes of other essays include the legendary library of Prester John in Abyssinia, the third-century writer Gaius the Presbyter and problems surrounding the fourth-century Codex Euthalianus. The second work, published in 1889, is concerned with the apocalyptic language in the book of Baruch.

Preface
Hermas in Arcadia
On the angelology of Hermas
Prester John's library
Presbyter Gaius and the fourth gospel
Euthalius and Eusebius
The rest of the words of Baruch
Introduction
Text.

Subject Areas: Theology [HRLB]