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Much of the work of James Rendel Harris (1852-1941), palaeographer and biblical scholar, focused on the translation and understanding of early Christian writing, and this collection of two volumes of essays examines two key texts. The first work in this reissue, published in 1896, discusses the book known as 'The Shepherd of Hermas'. This early work, thought to be written in Rome around the first or second century CE, is composed of three parts: visions, commandments and similitudes. Harris examines aspects of the work, such as how to interpret the ninth similitude - as allegory or literally - and discusses in detail questions about translation. Themes of other essays include the legendary library of Prester John in Abyssinia, the third-century writer Gaius the Presbyter and problems surrounding the fourth-century Codex Euthalianus. The second work, published in 1889, is concerned with the apocalyptic language in the book of Baruch.

Christian Literature, Early --- Religion

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Christian literature, Early. --- Martyrs. --- Church history

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Apocryphal books (New Testament) --- Christian literature, Early. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Jesus Christ --- Resch, Alfred, --- Jesus Christ --- Words --- Extra-canonical parallels. --- Biography --- Apocryphal and legendary literature.