The Didache in Context: Essays on Its Text, History, and Transmission
The Didache in Context contains an intriguing look into the background of the Didache, exploring the influence of the text upon the development of early Christianity. It offers an insightful collection of essays that have been gathered from the research efforts of numerous biblical and patristic scholars from around the world.\ The book seeks to explore questions that relate to the composition of the text itself, the history of the role and function of the Didache within early Christian...
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Assembled through the research efforts of an international team of biblical and patristic scholars, this fascinating volume offers recent insights into the manuscript tradition, social history, and textual transmission of the ancient Christian document known as the Didache.
IntroductionAbbreviationsThe Didache: An English Translation3Der Didachist und seine Quellen15The Text of the Didache: Some Comments on the Edition of Klaus Wengst37Considerations on the Coptic Papyrus of the Didache47The Transformation of Moral Exhortation in Didache 1-588La Didache et le probleme synoptique110The Saving Efficacy of the Burning Process in Didache 16.5131The Curse that Saves (Didache 16.5)156Style-Switching in the Didache: Fingerprint or Argument?177The Hebrew Epic and the Didache213Baptism in the Didache226The Sacred Food of Didache 9-10 and Second-Century Ecclesiologies256Social Ambiguity and the Production of Text: Prophets, Teachers, Bishops, and Deacons and the Development of the Jesus Tradition in the Community of the Didache284Didache 11-13: The Legacy of Radical Itinerancy in Early Christianity313Did Ignatius of Antioch Know the Didache?330The Didache and Early Monasticism in the East and West352A Bibliography of Literature on the Didache368Works Cited383Indices401Plates000
