The Didache
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This latest addition to the monumental Compendia series offers original thinking and impressive erudition about the Didache. The early Christian manual for baptismal catechesis focuses a valuable lens on the nascent Christian community and early Judaism. In the document's rules for church morals, ritual, and discipline, Huub van de Sandt and the late, great scholar David Flusser find clues to the evolution of Christianity and Judaism from a shared heritage in Jewish sources. The authors hypothesize that an initial Jewish tractate (the so-called Two Ways tractate) evolved into a composite Judaeo-Christian text (independently circulating until Medieval times) and then into its final form as the Didache in an anti-Jewish, gentile church. Author Biography:s Huub van de Sandt teaches in the theological faculty of the Catholic University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. He closely collaborated for five years on the project with David Flusser, late Professor of Comparative Religion at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. The late David Flusser was Professor of Comparative Religion at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He closely collaborated for five years on the project with Huub van de Sandt who teaches in the theological faculty of the Catholic University of Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Editors' ForewordPrefaceCh. 1Introduction: History and Text of the Didache1Ch. 2The Jewish Source of Didache 1-6: The Two Ways55Ch. 3The Influence of the Two Ways in Christian Literature81Ch. 4A Reconstruction of the Two Ways112Ch. 5The Two Ways as a Jewish Document140Ch. 6The Two Ways and the Sermon on the Mount193Ch. 7A Jewish-Christian Addition to the Two Ways (Did 6:2-3)238Ch. 8The Didache's Ritual: Jewish and Early Christian Tradition (Did 7-10)271Ch. 9The Didache Community and its Jewish Roots (Did 11-15)330Abbreviations365Bibliography374Indices405
