Ignatius of Antioch
Home > Church Fathers > Ignatius of Antioch Ignatius of Antioch At a Glance Gospel Genre: (3/5) *** Reliability of Dating: (3/5) *** Length of Text: Greek Original Language: Ancient Translations: Modern Translations: English Estimated Range of Dating: 105-115 A.D. Chronological List of Early Christian Writings Discuss this text on the Early Writings forum. Text To Polycarp - English Translation by J.B. Lightfoot To Polycarp - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation To Polycarp - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation (Shorter and Longer Recensions) Smyrnaeans - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation (Shorter and Longer Recensions) Smyrnaeans - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation Smyrnaeans - English Translation by J.B. Lightfoot Smyrnaeans - English Translation by C.H. Hoole Philadelphians - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation (Shorter and Longer Recensions) Philadelphians - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation Philadelphians - English Translation by J.B. Lightfoot Philadelphians - English Translation by C.H. Hoole Romans - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation (Shorter and Longer Recensions) Romans - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation Romans - English Translation by J.B. Lightfoot Trallians - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation (Shorter and Longer Recensions) Trallians - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation Trallians - English Translation by J.B. Lightfoot Trallians - English Translation by C.H. Hoole Magnesians - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation (Shorter and Longer Recensions) Magnesians - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation Magnesians - English Translation by J.B. Lightfoot Magnesians - English Translation by C.H. Hoole Ephesians - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation (Shorter and Longer Recensions) Ephesians - Roberts-Donaldson English Translation Ephesians - English Translation by J.B. Lightfoot Resources Roberts-Donaldson Introduction Kirsopp Lake's Introduction to the Epistles of Ignatius Handbook of Patrology: St. Ignatius Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Ignatius of Antioch Offsite Links The Epistles of Ignatius: Are They All Forgeries? 1 Clement and the Ignatiana in Dutch Radical Criticism Ignatius, John, and Paul Ignatius and the Rise of Christianity Glenn Davis: Ignatius of Antioch Books Charles Thomas Brown, The Gospel and Ignatius of Antioch (Peter Lang Publishing 2000) Johannes Quasten, Epistles of St. Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of Antioch (Paulist Press 1946) Christine Trevett, A Study of Ignatius of Antioch in Syria and Asia (Edwin Mellen Press 1992) Cyr Richardson, Christianity of Ignatius of Antioch (AMS Press 1980) William R. Schoedel, Ignatius of Antioch : A Commentary on the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch (Fortress Pr 1985) Recommended Books for the Study of Early Christian Writings Information on Ignatius of Antioch William R. Schoedel comments on the recensions of Ignatius (The Anchor Bible Dictionary, v. 3, p. 384-385): Eusebius (Hist. Eccl. 3.36) places Ignatius' martyrdom in the reign of Trajan (A.D. 98-117), and a date in the second half of Trajan's reign or somewhat later seems to fit the picture of the conditions reflected in the letters. Arguments are still advanced (notably by Joly 1979) that call into question the authenticity of these documents, but the researches of Zahn (1873) and Lightfoot (1885, 1889) and their followers continue to dominate the scholarship. Thus the authenticity of (a) what is not often, though misleadingly, called the "middle recension" is generally accepted. By the same token, (b) the so-called "long recension" is usually regarded as a 4th-century (perhaps Neo-Arrian) revision (Hagerdorn 1973: xxxvii-lii) consisting of interpolations into the original letters and the addition of 6 spurious letters. This recension is found in numerous Greek and Latin manuscripts and came to be the form in which Ignatius was most often known until Archbishop Ussher, in his Polycarpi et Ignatii Epistolae of 1644, brilliantly unearthed an earlier (Latin) form of the text akin to that quoted by Eusebius. Ussher had rediscovered the middle recension. The Greek of that recension (except for the letter to the Romans) became available with the publication of Igantius' letters from Codex Mediceo-Laurentianus 57,7 by Isaak Voss in 1646. The Greek text of Ignatius' letter to the Romans had a separate history as part of an account of Ignatius' martyrdom (Codex Parisiensis-Colbertinus 1451), and this too was soon published by Th. Ruinart (1689). Our knowledge of the middle recension has been increased somewhat by the discovery of several important oriental versions: Coptic (fragments), Syriac (fragments), Armenian, Arabic. It should be noted that almost all of the collections of letters of the middle recension in the manuscripts also include some or all of the spurious letters. Since the interplations and the spurious letters are in all likelihood the work of one person, these collections represent a curious mixture of textual traditions. Finally, (c) what some have called the "short recension" proves to be no recension at all but merely an abridgment of a Syriac version of the middle recension. The term short recension, then, would serve most accurately to describe the so-called middle recension and is often so used. Some Contemporary Texts Odes of Solomon (100-200 A.D.) Gospel of Eve (100-200 A.D.) Thunder, Perfect Mind (100-230 A.D.) Book of Elchasai (101-220 A.D.) Ignatius of Antioch (105-115 A.D.) Polycarp to the Philippians (110-140 A.D.) Papias (110-140 A.D.) Oxyrhynchus 840 Gospel (110-160 A.D.) Traditions of Matthias (110-160 A.D.) 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