This is the first volume of the two-volume work The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers. It presents a comprehensive and rigorous discussion of the extent to which the writings later included in the New Testament were known to and used by each of the Apostolic Fathers.

I. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW ; II. THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS ; The textual traditions of the Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament: a comparative evaluation ; What the text of the Apostolic Fathers tells us about the text of the New Testament in the second century ; The critical apparatus to the Greek New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers ; III. THE TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF THE WRITINGS THAT BECAME THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS ; What constitutes the use of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers? Reflections on method ; Didache ; 1 Clement ; Ignatius ; Polycarp, Philippians ; Letter of Barnabas ; 2 Clement ; Shepherd of Hermas

Detailed, clearly focused, up-to-date and comprehensive surveys of the books of the New Testament that may have been used by each of the Apostolic Fathers Will become the standard work of reference on the subject

Andrew Gregory is Research Fellow, Keble College, Oxford, and Research Associate in the Faculty of Theology. Christopher Tuckett is Professor of New Testament Studies and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

Detailed, clearly focused, up-to-date and comprehensive surveys of the books of the New Testament that may have been used by each of the Apostolic Fathers Will become the standard work of reference on the subject