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Preserves early witness to oral apostolic tradition and transmission of Jesus traditions before later canonical consolidation.
Papias of Hierapolisearly 2nd century2nd century
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Metadata
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- Category
- Apostolic Fathers
- Genre
- Treatise
- Tradition
- Eastern
- Region
- Asia Minor
- Original language
- Greek
- Date certainty
- Range
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Manuscript context
This text is represented here through proxy Greek witnesses and later transmission evidence linked with Papias of Hierapolis and Asia Minor. Approved translation support is available in English, Spanish, and Indonesian.
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Controversies
- Millenarian debates
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www.newadvent.org · Source quality: Primary · Last checked: 2026-03-01
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Original language witnesses
Witness status: Proxy witness
Indirect witness: Papias material extracted from Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3.39. This preserves extant quotations and testimonia, not an autograph text.
Open normalized witness textEusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica 3.39 (Papias testimonia)
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