Christian Texts and History • Re: Making sense of the Pauline Epistles

Polycarp, Ignatius, and Papias are done, but there's a long way to go.

Maybe put them up as you go along: I'd like to see them, and you may get some good feedback.

I'd love ti see the Polycarp, Ignatius, and Papias entries; maybe break them into individual posts.

At the moment, the way I've got them written down is something like this:

Ignatius:
Epistle to the Philippians:
Matthew (1:1)
Mark (1:1)
Luke (1:1)
John N/A
Romans (1:1)
and so on...

So they likely wouldn't make super interesting individual posts. I mostly wanted to make it as a shorthand resource to check whether any given book was extant and known at the time of the author writing, but as a deeper analysis I suppose I could expand the above with possible references (since so far I'm only writing down unmistakable quotes/allusions) and some interesting info I've found, such as quotes from apocryphal/deuterocanonical works or quotes from seemingly lost scriptures.

IMO, keep working on it.

If you post midway, the temptation will be to spend time engaging with all the responses, instead of continuing.

I think I'll wrap up with adding Clement's references, then move from there. After all, all of the canonical books were written before or within the lifetime of the Apostolic Fathers, even with late estimates, so that's all I should need for my purposes. I might return later and document references for other reasons.

Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:39 am