The Apostolic Fathers

Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies is a multivolume series that seeks to introduce key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, and literary context for the study of the New Testament.

Each volume will feature introductory essays to the corpus, followed by articles on the relevant texts. Each article will address introductory matters, provenance, summary of content, interpretive issues, key passages for New Testament studies and their significance.

Neither too technical to be used by students nor too thin on interpretive information to be useful for serious study of the New Testament, this series provides a much-needed resource for understanding the New Testament in its first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman context. Produced by an international team of leading experts in each corpus, Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies stands to become the standard resource for both scholars and students. Volumes include:

The Apocrypha and Septuagint – Bruce W. Longenecker, Marieke Dhont, and James K. Aitken†
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha – Loren T. Stuckenbruck
The Dead Sea Scrolls – Cecilia Wassén
The Apostolic Fathers – Paul Foster
Philo and Josephus – Honora Howell Chapman, Zuleika Rodgers, and Justin M. Rogers
Greco-Roman Literature – Joseph Emanuel Sanzo and Michael C. Sloan
Targums and Rabbinic Literature – Bruce Chilton, Alan J. Avery-Peck
Gnostic Literature – Christian Askeland
Early New Testament Apocrypha – J. Christopher Edwards
Inscriptions, Papyri, and Other Artifacts – James R. Harrison, E. Randolph Richards

Author Biography

Craig A. Evans (PhD, Claremont; DHabil, Károli Gáspár) is Distinguished Research Professor at The Bible Seminary in Katy, Texas.

Cecilia Wassén (PhD, McMaster University) is professor of New Testament at Uppsala University, Sweden. Adela Yarbro Collins (PhD, Harvard) is Buckingham Professor Emerita of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of Mark in the Hermeneia Commentary series, The Beginning of the Gospel: Probings of Mark in Context. John J. Collins (PhD, Harvard) is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. He has authored or edited numerous books, including The Scepter and the Star: Messianism in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview, coedited with Daniel C. Harlow. Grant Macaskill (PhD, University of St. Andrews) holds the Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He was previously Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of St. Andrews, where he had completed both his doctoral and postdoctoral projects. His research engages with the New Testament as a coherent body of theological literature emerging from the diverse contexts of late Second Temple Judaism. He is author of Union with Christ in the New Testament (Oxford, 2014).  Nathan C. Johnson (PhD, Princeton) is assistant professor of religion at the University of Indianapolis. He is the author of The Suffering Son of David in Matthew’s Passion Narrative.