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The ultimate aim of these lectures is to reach a point of view from which the literary character and the historical value of the Didache, or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, can be justly estimated. Some theories have suggested that it was a Jewish manual of instructions for proselytes which had later been modified, with references to the Sermon on the Mount and to the Shepherd of Hermas...

THE Didache, or Teaching of the Apostles, was first published by its discoverer, the Greek bishop Bryennius, at the end of the year 1883. With remarkable rapidity Dr Harnack produced in 1884 an edition with a learned commentary and full prolegomena. The Didache has been edited again and again, and critically investigated by scholars of all lands; but no agreement has been reached as to its date, or the sources of its composition, or its historical value as a witness to the early
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