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Early Church writings

1 Clement (Epistle to the Corinthians)

Ἑλληνική · Greek (Koine) · 400 verses

Print edition: Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library / Open Greek and Latin

Original language

2 Clement

Ἑλληνική · Greek (Koine) · 118 verses

Print edition: Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library / Open Greek and Latin

Original language

Didache (The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles)

Ἑλληνική · Greek (Koine) · 100 verses

Print edition: Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library / Open Greek and Latin

Original language

Epistle of Barnabas

Ἑλληνική · Greek (Koine) · 194 verses

Print edition: Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library / Open Greek and Latin

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Letters of Ignatius of Antioch (the seven genuine letters)

Ἑλληνική · Greek (Koine) · 205 verses

Print edition: Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library / Open Greek and Latin

Original language

Letters of Ignatius: longer recension (interpolated and spurious letters)

Ἑλληνική · Greek (Koine) · 458 verses

Print edition: Francis Xavier Funk and Francis Diekamp, longer (interpolated) recension including spurious letters (Tübingen: H. Laupp, 1913), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library / Open Greek and Latin

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Polycarp, Letter to the Philippians

Ἑλληνική · Greek (Koine) · 38 verses

Print edition: Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library / Open Greek and Latin

Original language

Shepherd of Hermas

Ἑλληνική · Greek (Koine) · 727 verses

Print edition: Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2 (Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library / Open Greek and Latin

Original language

Canon: Old and New Testament

Septuagint: Greek Old Testament with Apocrypha

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Planned collections

Each is added only once its source and license are verified.

Planned

Deuterocanon and Apocrypha

Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1–2 Maccabees in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek where they survive

Planned

Pseudepigrapha

1 Enoch, Jubilees, 2 Baruch, Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and more

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Dead Sea Scrolls

Biblical and sectarian scrolls, with manuscript identifiers

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Early Church writings

Didache, 1 Clement, Epistles of Ignatius, Shepherd of Hermas and more