Didache, The

Shawn J. Wilhite is Assistant Professor of Christian Studies at California Baptist University (OPS). He is director of the Center for Ancient Christian Studies.

Series Preface | ix
Foreword by Clayton N. Jefford | xvii
Preface | xxi
List of Abbreviations | xxv
List of Tables | xxxi
Translation of the Didache | xxxiii
Part I: Introductory Articles
1. An Introduction to the Didache | 3
MS Tradition of the Didache | 6
Use of Didache in Antiquity: Canon Lists and Possible
Quotations | 10
Date and Provenance of the Didache | 18
Structural Overview of the Didache | 22
2. The Reception of Sacred Scripture in the Didache | 30
Reception History, Intertextuality, and Literary Identity | 33
Reception History of Biblical Tradition in the Didache | 36
Concluding Remarks: The Reception of Sacred Scripture
in the Didache | 57
3. The Theology of the Didache | 60
Theology and Trinitarianism | 61
Communal Liturgies: Baptismal, Fasting, Prayer, and
Eucharist Liturgies | 66
Communal Preservation and Soteriology | 70
Corporate Gathering and Ecclesial Structures | 78
The "Last Days" and the Didache's Eschatological Orientation | 86
Part II: Commentary on the Didache
Didache 1.1-6.2: Ethical Instruction of the Two-Ways Ethic | 99
Didache 6.3-10.7: Liturgical Rituals | 163
Additional Commentary: [Coptic Addition]
Concerning the Ointment (Didache 10.8) | 192
Didache 11.1-15.4: Ecclesial and Communal Order | 196
Didache 16.1-8: Eschatological Ethics and Teaching | 217
Additional Commentary: Lost Ending (Didache 16.9-12) | 232
Bibliography | 237
Commentary Index | 25