Studies in the apostolic fathers and their background - Barnard, L.W., (Leslie William) (Oxford, UK ; Basil Blackwell, 1966)
Introduction -- St Clement of Rome and the persecution of Domitian -- The background of St Ignatius of Antioch -- The problem of St Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians -- Judaism in Egypt, A.D. 70-135 -- St Stephen and the early Alexandrian Christianity -- Is the Epistle of St Barnabas a Paschal Homily? -- The Dead Sea Scrolls, Barnabas, the Didache and the later history of the "Two Ways" -- The use of testimonies in the early church and in the Epistle of Barnabas -- Hadrian and Christianity -- Hermas, the Church and Judaism -- The enigma of the Epistle to Diognetus.
Inlcudes bibliographicla references and index.
Keywords: Apostolic fathers -- biographies; Church history -- primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.