Hermas, active 2nd century

found: Enc. Brit., 15th ed.:art. Apostolic Fathers (Hermas) Macroped., v. 13, p. 1078 (the 'Shepherd of Hermas')

found: Oxford dict. of the Christ. church, 1957(Hermas, 2nd cent., author of 'Shepherd'; Greek title of his only known work: Poimēn; concerning dates, the work itself claims end of 1st cent. but today generally accepted is mid-2nd cent. of our era)

found: Jeffers, J.S. Conflict at Rome : social order and hierarchy in early Christianity, c1991:p. 21, etc. (Hermas: The Shepherd of Hermas was written between AD 90 and 135 by Hermas, a Roman Christian) p. 106, etc. (most important external testimony to the date of the Shepherd of Hermas is the Muratorian fragment, probably written in last decades of the 2nd cent. which says it had been written recently by a brother of Pope Pius I (140-155); author goes on to discuss recent doubts on the date of the Muratorian fragment and the reliability of its entry)