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The Shepherd of Hermas (Greek: Ποιμὴν τοῦ Ἑρμᾶ, romanized: Poimēn tou Herma; Latin: Pastor Hermae), sometimes just called The Shepherd, is a Christian literary work of the late first half of the second century, considered a valuable book by many Christians, and considered canonical scripture by some of the early Church fathers such as Irenaeus. [1]
♦ The Shepherd of Hermas (Visions, Commands, and Similitudes) Letter of Herod To Pilate the Governor; Letter of Pilate to Herod; The Lost Gospel of Peter; ♦ The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians; The History of Susana
The Shepherd of Hermas, visions 1-3, in Greek. A missing 4th vision has been conjectured, but is not extant in the codex. [13] Carlini, Antonio; Giaccone, Luigi, eds. (1991). Papyrus Bodmer XXXVIII. Erma: Il Pastore (Ia –IIIa visione). Cologny-Genève: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana. ISBN 978-3-598-22554-3. OCLC 955576831. The Bodmer Codex of Visions
His Poimandres: Studien zur Griechisch-Ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur of 1904 was a pioneer scholarly study of the Poimandres, which he compared to the Shepherd of Hermas. [ 3 ] In collaboration with the German Egyptologist Wilhelm Spiegelberg , Richard August Reitzenstein founded a famous collection of Greek and Egyptian papyri ...
Shepherd Visions 3–4; Commandments 2; 4–9 Ashmolean Museum: Oxford: UK: L 3526 350 Shepherd, Commandments 5–6 [same codex as 1172] Ashmolean Museum: Oxford: UK: XV 1783 325 Shepherd, Commandments 9 IX 1172 350 Shepherd, Parables 2:4–10 [same codex as 3526] British Library; Inv. 224 London: UK: LXIX 4707 250 Shepherd, Parables 6:3–7:2 ...
In any case, in The Shepherd, as in other Ancient Greek novels, [1] this female character is central. [4] In the story, the wandering Hermas encounters her, naked, bathing, and desires her. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] This initial sin is the catalyst for the novel, with Hermas subsequently receiving visions, including from Rhode, never named as such, [ 1 ...
The 2nd-century The Shepherd of Hermas was popular in the early church and was even considered scriptural by some of the Church Fathers such as Irenaeus [37] and Tertullian. It was written in Rome in Koine Greek. The Shepherd had great authority in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The work comprises five visions, 12 mandates, and 10 parables.
The Vision of Dorotheus (P. Bodmer 29) is contained on folios 14r-18v (9 pages) of a 22 folio single-quire papyrus codex, known as the Codex of Visions, containing several other Greek texts. In the Codex, the Vision follows The Shepherd of Hermas (P. Bodmer 38) and is followed by several minor Greek Christian poems (P. Bodmer 30-37). [28]