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Trajectories through the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers

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The book under review here (first released clothed in 2005) is the second of the two centenary volumes celebrating the volume The New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers, published by "A Committee of the Oxford Society of Historical Theology" at Clarendon Press in 1905. Of the two, the first one is A.F. Gregory and C.M. Tuckett, eds., The Reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 and pbk. 2007). Most of the articles included in these volumes were presented at "a conference held at Lincoln College, Oxford, in April 2004" (v).
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All in all, notwithstanding that the structuring of the book and, generally, the diversity of opinions and methodological starting points might render it to a certain point less affable for the less specialized reader, this is a volume that no serious scholar interested in the presence of the New Testament in the second century will avoid. The impressive display of scholarly knowledge makes this work, along with its companion volume, a valuable reference tool for both New Testament and Early Patristics.
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