The Shepherd of Hermas: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Shepherd of Hermas, credited to Hermas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Shepherd of Hermas by Hermas. (Translated by Charles Taylor.) Read in English by ancientchristian The Shepherd of Hermas is a Christian work likely from the late first half of the second century. It was considered inspired scripture by some of the early Church fathers such as Irenaeus and Origen, but not Tertullian. The Shepherd was very popular amongst Christians in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, and is found in some Bibles after the Acts of the Apostles. The book is made up of five allegorical visions granted to Hermas, a former slave. This is followed by twelve mandates or commandments, and ten similitudes, or parables. (Summary by ancientchristian)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Shepherd of Hermas
• Author credits: Hermas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 3:56:01

Catalogue topics

• New Testament
• Christian
• early church
• apocryphal

Track guide

1. 01 - Visions 1 & 2 — 14:55
2. 02 - Vision 3 — 26:32
3. 03 - Visions 4 & 5 — 8:54
4. 04 - The Mandates — 53:38
5. 05 - Similitudes 1 - 5 — 26:36
6. 06 - Similitudes 6 - 8 — 36:00
7. 07 - Similitudes 9 & 10 — 1:09:26

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