Peter Kirby

Hello,

I did some digging and was surprised to find that there are actually forty-two documents that possibly date to the second century that were not included on my "Early Christian Writings" web site. So I have added these forty-two writings in a major update to my web site. Here they are.

50-200 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/sophia.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/sophia.html</a>
Sophia of Jesus Christ
70-200 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fayyum.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fayyum.html</a>
Fayyum Fragment
80-250 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/sibylline.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/sibylline.html</a>
Christian Sibyllines
101-220 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/elchasai.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/elchasai.html</a>
Book of Elchasai
120-160 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/valentinus.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/valentinus.html</a>
Valentinus
120-180 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apocryphonjohn.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apocryphonjohn.html</a>
Apocryphon of John
120-180 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apocalypsejames2.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apocalypsejames2.html</a>
2nd Apocalypse of James
120-180 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/trimorphic.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/trimorphic.html</a>
Trimorphic Protennoia
130-170 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gospeljudas.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gospeljudas.html</a>
Gospel of Judas
140-160 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/isidore.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/isidore.html</a>
Isidore
140-170 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fronto.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fronto.html</a>
Fronto
150-200 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ascension.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ascension.html</a>
Ascension of Isaiah
150-250 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/esra.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/esra.html</a>
Fifth and Sixth Books of Esra
150-300 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/authoritative.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/authoritative.html</a>
Authoritative Teaching
150-300 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/nhlapocalypsepaul.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/nhlapocalypsepaul.html</a>
Coptic Apocalypse of Paul
150-300 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/eighthninth.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/eighthninth.html</a>
Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
150-300 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/melchizedek.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/melchizedek.html</a>
Melchizedek
150-400 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/actspilate.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/actspilate.html</a>
Acts of Pilate
150-400 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/antimarcion.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/antimarcion.html</a>
Anti-Marcionite Prologues
160-180 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apelles.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apelles.html</a>
Apelles
160-180 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/cassianus.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/cassianus.html</a>
Julius Cassianus
161-180 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/carpus.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/carpus.html</a>
Acts of Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice
167 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/aurelius.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/aurelius.html</a>
Marcus Aurelius
170-200 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/treatiseres.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/treatiseres.html</a>
Treatise on the Resurrection
170-220 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/petertophilip.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/petertophilip.html</a>
Letter of Peter to Philip
178 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/celsus.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/celsus.html</a>
Celsus
178 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/viennalyons.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/viennalyons.html</a>
Letter from Vienna and Lyons
180-185 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/actsapollonius.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/actsapollonius.html</a>
Acts of Apollonius
180-220 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/bardesanes.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/bardesanes.html</a>
Bardesanes
180-220 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/kerygmatapetrou.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/kerygmatapetrou.html</a>
Kerygmata Petrou
180-250 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apocalypsejames1.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apocalypsejames1.html</a>
1st Apocalypse of James
180-250 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gospelphilip.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gospelphilip.html</a>
Gospel of Philip
188-217 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/talmud.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/talmud.html</a>
Talmud
189-199 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/victor.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/victor.html</a>
Victor I
193 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/antimontanist.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/antimontanist.html</a>
Anonymous Anti-Montanist
193-216 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/abercius.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/abercius.html</a>
Inscription of Abercius
200-220 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/philostratus.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/philostratus.html</a>
Philostratus
200-250 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didascalia.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didascalia.html</a>
Didascalia
200-250 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/jeu.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/jeu.html</a>
Books of Jeu
200-300 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/pistis.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/pistis.html</a>
Pistis Sophia
200-300 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/nhlapocalypsepeter.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/nhlapocalypsepeter.html</a>
Coptic Apocalypse of Peter
203 <a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/actsperpetua.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/actsperpetua.html</a>
Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas

I have also begun to host some early Church Fathers not available in the ANF-NPNF series.

<a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/</a>

I hope that you enjoy all the new information!

Plus, due to requests from several visitors, I am now offering a CD-R with the contents of the Early Christian Writings web site, so that you can view the site off-line. See this page:

<a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/buy.html" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/buy.html</a>

Any comments on any of these new developments are welcome.

best,
Peter Kirby

Early Christian Writings - 30 to 200
<a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/</a>

not a theist

Thank You!

Vinnie

Am I missing something or is there a reason the Diatesseron is not there? Isn't that second century?

Vinnie

[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: Vinnie ]</p>

Peter Kirby

Hi Vinnie,

The list you see above consists of forty-two documents that were added in the past few days. The Diatessaron has been part of the web site for quite a long time. There is currently a total of 156 documents on the web site (114 of which have been up there for over a year), all of which can be seen here:

<a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/</a>

The Diatessaron is dated ca. 170-175 as I recall.

best,
Peter Kirby

Vinnie

Sorry, I looked and didn't see it. I must have missed it.

Vinnie

Vinnie

Searching works good

Found it.

I forgot where (I think it was Brown's Intro to the NT) but i heard there was evidence of an earlier reconstruction than Tatian's Diatessaron. Do you know anything about this or have something like this included in the list?

Vinnie

Peter Kirby

Vinnie,

There have been suggestions that 2 Clement and Justin Martyr were dependent on gospel harmonies made before the Diatessaron. I haven't included these as separate documents, although I might write something about the sources of 2 Clement or Justin in their own files. I have included the "Dura-Europos Gospel Harmony" discussed by Goodacre et al. The date is given as 170-200, but that is actually the date of the papyrus itself, so the document may have come from some decades before.

best,
Peter Kirby

<a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/" target="_blank">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/</a>