and could stand alone.3 Indeed, this writing was composed by a compiler or redactor using very diverse extant materials. (We must inquire later about the particular parts possibly attributable to the redactor himself.) The resultant whole cannot be easily classified. Ordinarily, scholars refer to it as a “church order,”4 “community order,” “church manual,” or something similar.5 Karl Bihlmeyer, for instance, speaks of a “handbook of religion”; Alfred Adam of a “church book.”6 In this book,