1st Century
Authors
Barnabas
The name carried by an early letter that reads the law and the prophets throughout as a book about Christ.
Clement of Rome
An early bishop of Rome, whose letter to Corinth pleads for peace and order in a congregation torn by rivalry.
Didache
The church's earliest manual: two ways of life, prayers, baptism, the Lord's table, and the ordering of a young congregation.
Flavius Josephus
A Jewish historian of the first century whose narratives illuminate the world in which the New Testament was written.
Philo of Alexandria
A Jewish philosopher of Alexandria whose allegorical reading of Moses shaped later Christian exegesis.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
The unknown author whose writings on the divine names and the heavenly hierarchies shaped mystical theology East and West.