The Didache
A Commentary
Published on 4. September 2019
326 pages
978-1-4982-0511-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Apostolic Fathers Commentary Series aims to complement the study of early Christianity through historical, literary, and theological readings of the Apostolic Fathers. Writers of the AFCS volumes seek to be mindful of critical scholarship while commenting on a final-form text. Shawn J. Wilhite's commentary on the Didache includes a brief introduction to the Didache, the use of Scripture by the Didachist, and the theology of the Didache. The commentary proceeds section by section with a close ear to the text of the Didache, relevant early Christian literature, and current scholarship.
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Shawn J. Wilhite received a PhD in New Testament and a ThM in Patristics from Southern Seminary. He is Assistant Professor of Christian Studies at California Baptist University and PhD candidate in Patristics at Durham University. He is director and research fellow for the Center for Ancient Christian Studies.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Series Preface
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Tables
- Translation of Didache
- Part I: Introductory Articles
- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Didache
- MS Tradition of the Didache
- Uses of the Didache in Antiquity: Canon Lists and Quotations
- Date and Provenance of the Didache
- Structural Overview of the Didache
- Chapter 2: The Reception of Sacred Scripture in the Didache
- Reception History, Intertextuality, and Literary Identity
- Reception History of Biblical Tradition in the Didache
- Concluding Remarks: The Reception of Sacred Scripture in the Didache
- Chapter 3: The Theology of the Didache
- Theology and Trinitarianism
- Communal Liturgies: Baptismal, Fasting, Prayer, and Eucharist Liturgies
- Communal Preservation and Soteriology
- Ethics and Use of Torah
- Corporate Gathering and Ecclesial Structures
- The "Last Days" and the Didache's Eschatological Orientation
- Commentary on the Didache
- Title of the Didache
- I: Didache 1.1-6.2
- I.1. Introduction to the Two Ways (Did. 1.1)
- I.2. The Way of Life (Did. 1.2-4.14)
- I.3. The Way of Death (Did. 5.1-2)
- I.4. Conclusion to the Two Ways (Did. 6.1-2)
- II: Didache 6.3-10.7
- II.1. Concerning Food (Did. 6.3)
- II.2. Concerning Baptism, Fasts, and Prayer (Did. 7.1-8.3)
- II.3. Concerning the Eucharist (Did. 9.1-10.7)
- II.4. [Coptic Addition]: Concerning the Ointment (Did. 10.8)
- III: Didache 11.1-15.4
- III.1. Conduct for Reception of Outsiders: Teachers, Apostles, and Prophets (Did. 11.1-13.7)
- III.2. Conduct for Communal Order (Did. 14.1-15.4)
- IV: Didache 16.1-8
- IV.1. Eschatological Moral Conduct (Did. 16.1-2)
- IV.2. Motivation: Eschatological Descriptions and Apocalyptic Return of the Lord (Did. 16.3-8)
- IV.3. [Lost Ending] (Did. 16.9-12)
- Bibliography
