Apostolic Fathers: General Reading List

  • Batovici, Dan. 2016. “The Apostolic Fathers in Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Alexandrinus.” Biblica 97, no. 4: 581-605.
  • Borchardt, Carl F. A. 1999. “The Spirituality of the Apostolic Fathers.” Studia historiae ecclesiasticae 25: 132-52.
  • Carleton Paget, James. 1997. “The Vision of the Church in the Apostolic Fathers.” In A Vision For the Church,  193-206. Ed. M. Bockmuehl and M. B. Thompson. Edinburgh: T & T Clark.
  • Danker, Frederick W. 1988. “Bridging St Paul and the Apostolic Fathers: A Study in Reciprocity.” Currents in Theology and Mission 15: 84-94.
  • Derrett, J. Duncan M. 1993. “Scripture and Norms in the Apostolic Fathers.” Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.27.1: 649-99.
  • Foster, Paul, ed. 2007. The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers. London/New York: T & T Clark.
  • Gregory, Andrew and Christopher M. Tuckett, eds. 2005. The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gregory, Andrew F. and C. M. Tuckett, eds. 2005. The reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Hill, Charles E. and Michael J. Kruger, eds. 2012. The Early Text of the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Jefford, Clayton N. 2005. The Apostolic Fathers: An Essential Guide. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
  • Jefford, Clayton N. 2006. The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament. Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers.
  • Koester, Helmut. 2006. “The Apostolic Fathers and the struggle for Christian identity.” Expository Times 117: 133-39.
  • Lincicum, David. 2015. “The Paratextual Invention of the Term ‘Apostolic Fathers’.” The Journal of Theological Studies 66: 139-48.
  • Lindemann, Andreas. 1990. “Paul in the Writings of the Apostolic Fathers.” In Paul and the Legacies of Paul,  25-45. Ed. W. S. Babcock. Dallas: Southern Methodist Univ Press.
  • Lindemann, Andreas. 2011. “The apostolic fathers and the synoptic problem.” In New studies in the Synoptic problem, 689-719. Leuven ; Paris ; Walpole, Mass: Peeters.
  • Macaskill, Grant. 2009. “Critiquing Rome’s Economy: Revelation and its Reception in the Apostolic Fathers.” In Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception, 243-59. Ed. B. W. Longenecker and K. Liebengood. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • McGuckin, John A. 2010. “Christ: the Apostolic Fathers to the third century.” In Routledge companion to early Christian thought, 256-70. London/New York: Routledge.
  • Norris, Richard A. 2004. “The Apostolic and Sub-Apostolic Writings: The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers.” In The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature,  11-19. Ed. F. M. Young et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pratscher, Wilhelm. 2010. The Apostolic Fathers: An Introduction. Waco: Baylor University Press.
  • Pratscher, Wilhelm. 2012. “Die Rezeption des Neuen Testaments bei den Apostolischen Vätern.” Theologische Literaturzeitung 137, no. 2: 139-52.
  • Rothschild, Clare K. 2017. “On the invention of Patres Apostolici.” In New essays on the Apostolic Fathers, 7-33. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 375. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
  • Still, Todd D. 2015. “Images of Peter in the Apostolic Fathers.” In Peter in early Christianity, 161-67. Ed. H. K. Bond and L. W. Hurtado. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  • Still, Todd D. and David E. Wilhite, eds. 2017. The Apostolic Fathers and Paul. Pauline and Patristic scholars in debate. London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Trevett, Christine. 2006. Christian women and the time of the Apostolic Fathers (AD c 80-160): Corinth, Rome and Asia Minor. Cardiff: Univ of Wales Press
  • Young, Stephen E. 2011. Jesus Tradition in the Apostolic Fathers: Their Explicit Appeals to the Words of Jesus in Light of Orality Studies. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2:311. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.