|
|
The Ancient Messianic Documents Page
previously: The Shepherd of Hermas and Didache page
Webmaster's note: This used to just be my page for displaying my "readers eddition" of the Shepherd of Hermas and the Dideche, which I had edited, using J.B.Lightfoot's 1891 translation as a basis. They are still here. For a long time, I've been referring, ocassionally, to a set of translations by a Messianic scholar, William Carlson. They were posted on his website, on the Geocities server. When Yahoo.com anounced that they were closing down Geocities, I found that Mr. Carlson didn't intend to migrate. I thought his research was too valuable to let go so quickly, so I asked his permission to post them here. He graciously gave it. This is not the official Wiliam Carlson page, as permission to do disseminate his material is already implied in the documents posted here. However, I do feel my page has been enriched by the addition of Mr. Carlson's work.
Translated by J.B.Lightfoot, 1891
Edited by Robby Charters, 1993
An edifying first century work, probably written or compiled somewhere between the last part of the first century and probably the first part of the second century as a hand-book for early Christians. It contains probably what someone like Apostle Peter, or James would have taught had they started a church in some town far from Jerusalem.
Translated by J.B.Lightfoot, 1891
Edited by Robby Charters, 1993
The Shepherd of Hermas is a very interesting (if not odd) work that has some hard things to say. Never the less, it is probably more relevant than many of us today would care to admit. They were the visions of a slave named Hermas, in which he is visited by "the shepherd", the angel of repentance
Ancient Sayings Around the 1st Century AD/CE Eera
Translated by William Carlson
- Fragments of an Unknown Gospel
- The Oxyrhynchus Sayings Of Yeshua
- The Fregremts of Papias
- The Reliques of the Elders (from Irenaeus)
- Didache
- An Ancient Homily
- Apostolic Constitutions (excerpts)
- Sibyline Oracles
Compiled by William Carlson
Don't think of this as a replacement for any Yeshiva, Seminary, FFOZ,
or Leadership Training classes you may already be taking - rather,
think of it as a supplement. Many of these articles took hours to
research and compose - and it is designed to save you a great deal of
leg-work, and so it can be a resource database of research to assist
you in whatever Bible Study classes or schooling you may already be in;
or as a witnessing tool; or simply as a compilation of facts that are
very hard to come by in many cases. That having been said, much of the
material and position papers are written from a level that you won't
find in Church Seminary classes, (or else it is only briefly touched
on), as these deal primarily from a 1st Century Messianic Biblical
Judaic context, rather than from a Gentile Christian perspective.
So... if you read through all the materials, by the end, you will know
far more on this subject than most PhD's in Theology.
M'SHACHEEYM NATZRATIM
STUDY BIBLE
A New Testament translation by William Carlson from the Shem Tov, the Peshita and other Hebrew and Aramaic sources.
Because of its size, the file has been broken into three parts:
Return to Robby's Books
Other links where you can find Early Church writings
|
|---|
