Eldad and Modad (Fragment)

Current State of the OCP Text

The one surviving Greek fragment of Eldad and Modad is a quotation found in Shepherd of Hermas, Visions 2.3.4. The text of the quotation is presented here based on the standard critical editions of Hermas.

Bibliography

Print Editions

• A.-M. Denis, Concordance, 901-2.
• A.-M. Denis, Fragmenta, 68.
• ** Denis re-prints this brief quotation from Whittaker's edition of Hermas.

Sources for Shepherd of Hermas

In both of the following editions the text of the extract from Eldad and Modad is identical to that published here:

• Molly Whittaker, Der Hirt des Hermas (2d ed.; vol 1 of Die Apostolischen Väter; GCS 48; Berlin: Akademie, 1967 [1st ed. 1956]), 7, line 3.
• Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (2 vols.; LCL; Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press/Heinemann, 1913 [repr. 1965]), 2:22-23.
• See also R. Joly, Hermes, le Pasteur (2d ed.; SC 53; Paris: 1968 [1st ed. 1958]), 94.

For further bibliography, see DiTommaso, Bibliography, 337-9.

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