Ignatius of Antioch: A Commentary on the Seven Letters of Ignatius

338 Pages·1985·112.46 MB·English

by  William R Schoedel

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Hermeneia
-A Critical
and Historical
Commentary
on the Bible
Old Testament Editorial Board
Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University, chairman
Klaus Baltzer, University of Munich
Paul D. Hanson, Harvard University
S. Dean McBride, Jr., Union Theological Seminary, VA
Roland E. Murphy, 0. Carm., Duke University
New Testament Editorial Board
Helmut Koester, Harvard University, chairman
Harold W. Attridge, University of Notre Dame
Eldon jay Epp, Case Western Reserve University
Robert W. Funk, UniversityofMontana
George W. MacRae, S.J., Harvard University
James M. Robinson, Claremont Graduate School
Ignatius of Antioch
A Commentary on the
Letters of Ignatius of Antioch
by William R. Schoedel
Edited by
Helmut Koester
Fortress
Press Philadelphia
© 1985 by Fortress Press
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The Author
William R. Schoedel, born 1930 in Stratford, Ontario,
Canada, received his theological training at Concordia
Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, and at the Divinity School
of the University of Chicago. He taught at Valparaiso
University, Valparaiso, Indiana, from 1955 to 1957, and
at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, from
1960 to 1970. Since 1970 he has been a member of the
Program in Religious Studies at the University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois. He has contributed to the study of the
literature of the early church-the Apostolic Fathers,
the Gnostics, the Apologists, the anti-Gnostic Fathers,
and others-and has given special attention to the
relation between aspects of early Christianity and the
Graeco-Roman world.