The Didache: Its Jewish Sources and Its Place in Early Judaism and Christianity (2002 Sandt, Flusser), book

The Didache: Its Jewish Sources and Its Place in Early Judaism and Christianity (2002) is a book by Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt and David Flusser.

Abstract

"This volume demonstrates that we should understand nascent Christianity and early Judaism as sharing to a large extent the same traditions. It throws fresh light on the Jewishness of the Two Ways teaching in Didache 1-6 as it presents a cautious reconstruction of the Jewish prototype of the Two Ways and traces the Jewish life situation in which the instruction could flourish."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Assen [Netherlands]: Royal Van Gorcum; and Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2002 (Compendia rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum).

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: History and text of the Didache : The prominence and decline of the Didache in early Christianity ; The text of the Didache : A translation of the corrected Jerusalem manuscript ; The direct textual sources : The manuscript of Jerusalem (H) : The quality of the manuscript ; The antiquity of the list of "Names of books used by the Hebrews" ; The antiquity of the central part of the Jerusalem Codex. The two Oxyrhynchus fragments (P) ; The Coptic fragment ; The version in the Ethiopian Church Order. The indirect textual sources : The apostolic constitutions ; The various forms of the Two Ways in Did 1-6. Composition and purpose of the Didache : Composition ; Purpose. The eschatological conclusion of the Didache (Did 16) ; The Evangelical section (Did 1:3b-2:1) ; Date and provenance.

Part I. The Two Ways tractate: Did 1-6 :

Chapter 2. The Jewish source of Didache 1-6: the Two Ways : The contents of the Two Ways section in Did 1-6 ; The Didache form of the Two Ways tradition and the tradition's ancestry ; Other forms of the Two Ways tradition in early Christian literature : The Letter of Barnabas ; The Doctrina Apostolorum ; The Apostolic church Order and the Epitome of the Canons of the Holy Apostles ; The Arabic life of Shenoute ; The Ps.-Athanasian Syntagma Doctrinae and the Fides CCCXVIII Patrum. Toward the earliest form of the Two Ways tradition in early Christian literature.

Chapter 3. The influence of the Two Ways in Christian literature : The early Christian period ; The Merovingian and Carolingian period : The rule of Benedict and the rule of the master ; The fifteenth sermon of Ps.-Boniface ; The second catechesis of the Ratio de Cathecizandis Rudibus.

Chapter 4. A reconstruction of Two Ways : The Doctrina Apostolorum : The text of the Doctrina Apostolorum ; Literary features of the Doctrina Apostolorum. A reconstruction of the Greek Two Ways : The text of the reconstructed Greek Two Ways ; The English translation of the reconstructed Greek Two Ways ; Textual commentary of the reconstructed Greek Two Ways.

Chapter 5. The Two Ways as a Jewish document : The dualistic setting of the Two Ways ; The Two Ways in its Essene and pre-Essene form ; The various traditional materials preserved in the Greek way of life : The essentials of the way of life (1:2) : The double love commandment (1:2ab) ; The golden rule (1:2c). The explanation of the essentials of the way of life in the Greek Two Ways 1:3a-3:6 : The term "explanation" (1:3a) ; The second half of the Decalogue (2:2-7) ; Light and weighty sins (3:1-6). Traditional Derekh Erets materials preserved in the whole the Greek Two Ways ; The tractate of the Greek Two Ways in its Jewish setting : The spiritual and ethical milieu of the Greek Two Ways ; The social milieu of the Greek Two Ways.

Part II. The Didache's place in early Judaism and nascent Christianity

Chapter 6. The Two Ways and the Sermon on the Mount : The preamble (Matt 5:3-16) and Conclusion (7:13-27) of the Sermon on the Mount ; The statements of principle (Matt 5:17-20) and the so-called antithesis (5:21-48) : Principles and antitheses (Matt 5:17-20, 21-48): Two conflicting literary units? ; Principles and antitheses: two complementary literary units ; Principles and primary antithesis: a reflection of an integral Jewish tradition (GTW 3:1-6) ; The rigorous formulation of the minor sins in the primary antitheses as a further radicalization of the underlying Jewish tradition. Conclusion.

Chapter 7. A Jewish-Christian addition to the Two Ways (Did 6:2-3) : Introduction ; Did 6:2-3 in a wider perspective : The apostolic decree in Acts and the Noachide Laws ; The forms of the apostolic decree in Rev 2:24, 20 and did 6:2-3 ; Two early interpretations of the apostolic degree: Did 6:2-3 and Paul. Conclusion: Did 6:2-3.

Chapter 8. The Didache's ritual: Jewish and early Christian tradition (Did 7-10) : Baptism (Did 7) : the Jewish origins of baptism ; Jewish features of baptism in Did 7:1-4 : Pre-baptismal fasting ; Pre-baptismal instruction ; Baptismal water ; The baptismal clause: "in the Name of ... ". Origin of the Trinitarian baptismal formula (Did 7:1,3). Fasting and the Lord's prayer (Did 8) : Fasting ; Prayer ; Eucharist (Did 9-10) : The character of the ritual meal in the extant text of the Didache: a Eucharist ; The character of the Didache Eucharist in the perspective of its diffusion ; The character of the Didache Eucharist in the perspective of its history : The Jewish sources of the Eucharistic prayers in Did 9-10 ; The reorganization of the Birkat Ha-Mazon in the prayers of Did 9-10 ; A postulated Hellenistic-Jewish stratum between the Birkat Ha-Mazon and the prayers in Did 9-10 ; A Gentile-Christian redaction of the prayers in Did 9-10.

Chapter 9. The Didache community and its Jewish roots (Did 11-15) : The literary composition of Didache 11-15 : Didache 11-13 ; Didache 11-15. Teachers, apostles, prophets and the milieu of the Didache community : Teachers, apostles and prophets : Teachers ; Apostles ; Prophets. The milieu of the Didache community. Didache 11-15 and its Jewish roots : Didache 14-15 ; Didache 11-13: the apostles, teachers, and prophets ; Did 13:3-67: The community's duty to support the prophets.

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