The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary

From: Interpretation | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary by Paul F. Bradshaw, Maxwell E. Johnson, and L. Edward Phillips Fortress, Minneapolis, 2002. 247 pp. $47.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8006-6046-3.

THE HERMENEIA COMMENTARIES include selected extra-canonical writings. The Apostolic Tradition, usually ascribed to Hippolytus of Rome in the early third century, finds its place in the series as an important manual of early church order that was influential in the modern liturgical revival.

Since the Apostolic Tradition is a reconstructed document (the original Greek manuscript is lost), the authors present literal ...

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