The Epistle of the Apostles

The first English translation directly from the original languages. Together with an extensive introduction that summarizes the document's contents, locates the writing within the early battle between "Catholic" and "Gnostic" Christians, and examines the Epistle's potential contribution to our understanding of the early church; a side-by-side presentation of the Ethiopic and Coptic versions that allows easy comparison of the two; detailed notes to the translation that bring out verbal and thematic connections between the Epistle and other religious and secular writings; and textual notes that explore possible reconstructions where the single Coptic manuscript is fragmentary and identify significant differences among the Ethiopic manuscripts
Also included is an up-to-date bibliography for further study and a comprehensive index of canonical, apocryphal, pseudepigraphical, classical, gnostic, and early church texts quoted and discussed.

Julian V. Hills is Associate Professor of Theology at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.