Companion to the Patristic Shelf · Ben Sira to Julian · the library the Fathers read, quoted and refuted

The Background Shelf

Everything the Fathers argued with and could not have written without: the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the Qumran library, the Gnostic codices, the New Testament apocrypha, the heterodox teachers and the pagan critics. Because this literature reaches English through nine overlapping anthologies rather than one numbered set, every text here carries the collections that print it.

The shelf — one spine per corpus, height by number of texts, dotted where no standard anthology prints it

The nine collections
Reference shelf
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