The "Shepherd" of Hermas and the Pauline legacy

Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 The Possibility of Encounter with the Pauline Legacy
	1 Introduction
	2 Dating the Composition of the Shepherd
		2.1 Manuscript Witnesses
		2.2 Ancient Translations
		2.3 Compositional History
			2.3.1 Early Independent Circulation of the Shepherd’s Sections
			2.3.2 Proposals for Multi-author Composition
			2.3.3 Return to Single-Author Scholarly Consensus
			2.3.4 Summary
		2.4 The Attestation of the Shepherd in Earliest Christian Sources
		2.5 Summary
	3 Dating the Collection(s) of Pauline Letters
	4 Imagining Hermas Encountering Pauline Letters
	5 Conclusion
Chapter 2 The Probability of Encounter with the Pauline Legacy
	1 Introduction
	2 Ancient and Early Modern Connections between the Shepherd and Pauline Letters
	3 Pauline Connections Discounted in the Modern Period
		3.1 Overview
		3.2 The Shepherd and Pauline Letters in Modern Research
		3.3 Summary
	4 Reading Strategy
	5 Conclusion
Chapter 3 The Mandates and the Pauline Legacy
	1 Introduction
	2 Living to God (ζῆν τῷ θεῷ, Mand. 1.2 et passim)
	3 Marital Sexual Ethics (Mand. 4.1 [29], 4.4 [32])
	4 Grieving the Deposited Holy Spirit (Mand. 3 [28], 5.1 [33], 10.1.1–3 [40.1–3])
	5 The (Im)Possibility of Second Repentance (Mand. 4.3.1–2 [31.1–2])
	6 Proper Prophecy in the Community (Mand. 11 [43])
	7 Clothing Metaphors (Mand. 1.2 [26.2] et passim)
	8 Arming Oneself for Resistance (Mand. 12.2.4–5 [45.4–5])
	9 Conclusion
Chapter 4 The Similitudes and the Pauline Legacy
	1 Introduction
	2 Residents in a Foreign City (Sim. 1 [50])
	3 The Salvific Activity of the Son of God (Sim. 5.2–7 [55–60])
	4 The Tower, the Constructed Church (Sim. 9 [78–110])
		4.1 Constructing the Tower
		4.2 Baptism
		4.3 Clothing and Unity Metaphors
	5 Conclusion
Chapter 5 The Visions and the Pauline Legacy
	1 Introduction
	2 Baptism and Saving, Protecting Faith in the Lord (Vis. 3.3.5 [11.5] et passim)
	3 Turning Away from the Living God (Vis. 2.3.2 [7.2], 3.7.2 [15.2])
	4 Hermas’s Unfaithful Family (Vis. 1.3 [3], 2.2–3 [6–7])
	5 A Community Divided (Vis. 3.9 [17])
	6 Conclusion
Conclusion Hermas, a Pauline Interpreter
Appendix The Conceptual Coherence of the Shepherd with Pauline Letters
	1 Overview
	2 God in the Shepherd and Pauline Letters
	3 The Christian Person in the Shepherd and Pauline Letters
	4 Christian Community in the Shepherd and Pauline Letters
	5 Summary
Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Subjects