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The Epistle to Diognetus (with the Fragment of Quadratus) - Introduction, Text, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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The Epistle to Diognetus (with the Fragment of Quadratus) - Introduction, Text, and Commentary (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Apostolic Fathers
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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 and theological phrases throughout
chapters 1-10. These additions were inspired by Johannine tradition
and reflect the setting of a living faith community. The text of
Diognetus thus reflects an evolutionary process that moves from
oral performance to literary record, from moral teaching to
theological homily. The format of the volume is designed to welcome
the non-specialist to the text of Diognetus while exposing the
reader to the best of both earlier and more recent critical
comments on the writing and its tradition.
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