Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- On the invention of patres apostolici -- Introduction -- History of research -- From book fair to catalog -- Frankfurt book fair -- From fair to bookseller -- From bookseller to library -- Thomas James -- Thomas Hyde -- Bookbinders and the bodleian catalog -- From library to papacy and beyond -- Roman catholics and patristic texts -- Protestants and patristic texts -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. -- Appendix B. -- Appendix C. the hyde-fysher catalog 1738 -- Reception of first corinthians in first clement -- Introduction -- History of scholarship -- Exegetical analysis -- Style : epistolary elements -- Content : literary allusions -- 1 Corinthians as rhetorical artifact -- Parallels -- Allusions to 1 corinthians in 1 clement -- Single allusions -- 1 Clement 13:1 -- 1 Clement 34:8 -- 1 Clement 42:4 -- Allusion clusters -- 1 Clement 37:3, 5 -- Two allusions to 1 corinthians 4 -- 1 Clement 3:3 -- 1 Clement 7:1 -- Three allusions to 1 corinthians 12 -- 1 Clement 38:1 -- 1 Clement 48:5 -- Two allusions to 1 corinthians 13 -- 1 Clement 55:2 -- 1 Clement 49:5 -- Three allusions to 1 corinthians 15 -- 1 Clem. 24:1,5 -- Conclusion -- 1 clement as pseudepigraphon -- Introduction -- Occasion -- Historical circumstances -- Form and function -- Conclusion -- ... as solution to ... in 1 clement -- Introduction -- Proof-texts and commentary -- Proof-texts -- Authorial commentary -- Conclusion -- Golden calf incident in 1 clement -- Introduction -- Background -- Exempla in the peroratio -- Exempla supporting recommended action -- Exhortation to repent -- Exhortation to accept voluntary exile -- Exhortation that reward is outcome of repentance -- Exempla in the probatio -- Comparison of exempla -- Conclusion -- "where their worm dieth not" : the phoenix legend in 1 clement 25 -- Introduction -- Greek text and english translation -- Parallel literature -- Evidence -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- "Belittling" or "undervaluing" in 2 clem . 1:1-2? -- Introduction -- Greek text -- History of interpretation -- Recent investigations -- Prologue in context -- Proposed translation -- Conclusion -- Two dispositiones in 2 clement 2 -- Introduction -- History of scholarship -- 2 Clement 2:1-7 -- Summation -- The "two dispositions" motif -- Marcion -- Justin Martyr -- Tertullian -- Conclusion -- Sailing past the competition : euergetism in 2 clement 7 -- Introduction -- History of research -- Running -- Sailing -- Analysis -- Aeneid 5 : introduction -- Aeneid 5 : overview -- Aeneid 5-2 clement 7 -- Prizes for liturgists -- Conclusion -- Evaluating masculinity : the quintus incident in light of the second sophistic -- Introduction -- History of scholarship -- Evidence -- Art of antithesis : polycarp versus quintus -- Creating the antitype -- Elitism -- Phrygia -- Public performance -- Conclusion -- Travelers and christ-mongers in didache 12:1-5 -- Introduction -- History of scholarship -- Structural analysis of didache 11-13 -- ... -- Conclusion -- Epistle of barnabas and secession through allegory -- Introduction -- History of research -- ... -- Typology -- Allegory versus typology -- Summation -- Barnabas and the allegorical method -- Knowledge -- Knowers or "gnostics" -- Epistemology -- Allegorical approach and the historical continuum controversy -- Barnabas 4:6b-8 -- Barnabas 14:4b-5 -- Conclusion -- Diognetus and the topos of the invisible god -- Introduction -- Ancient topos -- History of scholarship -- Exegetical analysis -- Cleanthes's Hymn to Zeus -- Pseudo-aristotle, de mundo -- Wisdom of solomon -- Romans 1:18-32 -- Acts 17:23-31 -- Summation -- Exegetical analysis -- Epistle to diognetus -- Comparative analysis -- Conclusion -- Somatic effects of irascibility in hermas, mandates 5.1.3 (33.3) -- Introduction -- Status quaestionis -- Ancient medical texts and mandates -- Anger -- Mandates of hermas -- Mandate 5 (33.1) -- Mandate 10 (41.2) : function of ... -- Mandate 10.3 (42) -- Summation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of references -- Index of modern authors -- Index of subjects.