The Shepherd of Hermas

The Shepherd of Hermas (sometimes just called The Shepherd) is a Christian work of the second century, considered a valuable book by many Christians, and occasionally considered canonical by some of the early Church fathers.

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Christian - Canonical - Church fathers

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The Shepherd had great authority in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, was cited as Scripture by Irenaeus and Tertullian and was bound with the New Testament in the Codex Sinaiticus, and was listed between the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of Paul in the stichometrical list of the Codex Claromontanus. The book was originally written in Rome, in the Greek language, but a Latin translation was made very shortly afterwards; some say, by the original author as a sign of the authenticity of the translation, though others dispute this. Only the Latin version has been preserved in full, of the Greek the last fifth or so is missing.

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Irenaeus - Tertullian - Codex Sinaiticus - Acts of the Apostles - Acts of Paul - Stichometrical - Codex Claromontanus - Rome - Greek language

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