Hermas
Also: Hermas of Rome
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
A freed slave at Rome who wrote The Shepherd, a book of visions and rules for life. Many early churches read it beside the Bible.
Wrote in Greek. A major author.
Places lived
- 100 to 150Roma (now Rome, Italy)writeryears not sure, place probableScholars date the book between about 100 and 150. Some parts may be older than others.
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- The ShepherdA book of visions, commands and parables that calls the church to repent.37,291 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- No ancient source gives a year.
- Place of birth not known
- No ancient source names a place.
- Died not known
- No ancient source gives a year.
- Place of death not known
- No ancient source names a place.
- Roma, years not sure
- Shepherd, Vision 1.1; Muratorian Fragment (written at Rome when his brother Pius was bishop, about 140 to 154)
- Roma, place probable
- Shepherd, Vision 1.1; Muratorian Fragment (written at Rome when his brother Pius was bishop, about 140 to 154)