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One of the oldest extracanonical Christian documents, the Didache’s origins can be traced to the first century. This ancient literature exhibits fascinating echoes of Jesus’ teaching in its Matthean form, along with rare glimpses into the life of an early Christian community—its values, its observance of the Eucharist, its leaders, and the character of its hope. This classic commentary is finally...

Introduction 1. Structure and Genre a. Structure This document, which is approximately the length of Paul’s letter to the Galatians,1 consists of four clearly separate sections. It begins (I) with a fairly long tractate that can be called the “Tractate on the Two Ways,” from its opening words (1.1–5.4). It concludes with an epilogue (6.1) and a short addition (6.2–3). In 7.1 the reader learns after the fact that the Sitz im Leben of this tractate is baptismal instruction. This part (which may
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