"Ancient Literature" resources

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John Fidel | Forum Activity | Replied: Thu, Dec 18 2014 7:37 AM

Hi Mary-Ellen,

Here is what I have done:

I tagged my library with all resources I deem to be "ancient texts" as "ancient"

I then used the list provided by Rick and tagged those resources "ancientlit"

I then created a collection with the following rule: mytag:ancient ANDNOT mytag:ancientlit

I had an ancient literature collection already so it wasn't hard to retag the ones included in the ancient literature section of the PG.

Here is Rick's list if it helps:

• Ancient Near-Eastern Literature: So, stuff like Ancient Near Eastern Texts (ANET), Context of Scripture (COS), Amarna Letters, titles in the Ugaritic collection, and some others. References here are primarily topical in nature.
• Apostolic Fathers: The subset of early Christian literature, including 1&2 Clement, Letters of Ignatius, Polycarp to the Philippians, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Epistle of Barnabas, Didache, Epistle to Diognetus, Shepherd of Hermas. (Don't think I forgot anything, but I am human).
• Church Fathers: Wider writings of Church Fathers, specifically material found in Schaff's Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers set (aka ECF) as well as material in the Fathers of the Church series (aka FOTC).
• Dead Sea Scrolls Sectarian Material: The sectarian portions of the DSS stuff, not the Biblical portions.
• Judaica: Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, Mishnah, Pesikta, Mekhilta. Maybe a few more.
• Nag Hammadi Codices: Writings found at Nag Hammadi
• New Testament Apocrypha: James' NT Apocrypha, also Greek Apocryphal Gospels, Fragments, and Agrapha
• Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Charles' edition as well as Charlesworth's edition
• Works of Josephus
• Works of Philo

I hope this gets you started.

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John Fidel | Forum Activity | Replied: Thu, Dec 18 2014 9:49 AM

Mary-Ellen:

 wishing the riches of Advent to you and yours!

You too!