Much of the work of James Rendel Harris (1852 1941), palaeographer and biblical scholar, focused on the translation and understanding of early Christian writing, and this collection of two volumes of essays examines two key texts. The first work in this reissue, published in 1896, discusses the book known as 'The Shepherd of Hermas'. This early work, thought to be written in Rome around the first or second century CE, is composed of three parts: visions, commandments and similitudes. Harris examines aspects of the work, such as how to interpret the ninth similitude as allegory or literally...
Much of the work of James Rendel Harris (1852 1941), palaeographer and biblical scholar, focused on the translation and understanding of early Christi...
