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| Title: Ignatius and the archives Pages: 97-106 Type: Generic Year: 1978 Abstract: "Ignatius, in his letter to the Philadelphians, refers to the Scriptures as archives (en tois archeiois). A parallel is available in Josephus, Contra Apion. I,29, which shows a Hellenistic-Jewish background to the term. Ignatius opposed the gospel to the archives because of a presumed threat to the bishop's authority from Christians influenced b< Hellenistic Judaism in their view of Scripture." Keywords: New Testament / Early Christianity |