as anachronistic or invaluable. The Didache, which many scholars date between the mid-sixties to the second century A.D., is a good example of “evolved literature” that details liturgical practices and church structure in Syria and thus may have some affinity with the Christian communities addressed in the Gospel of Matthew and the letter of James.5 A similar observation can be made for Hippolytus’s Apostolic Tradition, which documents liturgical life and activity of some churches in Rome in the