Hermas, active 2nd century

LC control no.	n 81012032
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Hermas, active 2nd century *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Erm, active 2nd century Erma, active 2nd century Hermas, 2nd cent. Hermas (Apostolic Father)
Other standard no.	0000000383341769
Beginning date	01
Found in	Enc. Brit., 15th ed.: art. Apostolic Fathers (Hermas) Macroped., v. 13, p. 1078 (the 'Shepherd of Hermas') Oxford dict. of the Christ. church, 1957 (Hermas, 2nd cent., author of 'Shepherd'; Greek title of his only known work: Poimēn; concerning dates, the work itself claims end of 1st cent. but today generally accepted is mid-2nd cent. of our era) Pauly-Wissowa (Hermas; probably ca. 150 A.D.) Pastyrʹ Erma, 1961. Jeffers, J.S. Conflict at Rome : social order and hierarchy in early Christianity, c1991: p. 21, etc. (Hermas: The Shepherd of Hermas was written between AD 90 and 135 by Hermas, a Roman Christian) p. 106, etc. (most important external testimony to the date of the Shepherd of Hermas is the Muratorian fragment, probably written in last decades of the 2nd cent. which says it had been written recently by a brother of Pope Pius I (140-155); author goes on to discuss recent doubts on the date of the Muratorian fragment and the reliability of its entry)