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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...

differing rates. In sum, the date of the Didache is a matter of judgment. An origin around 110 or 120 C.E. remains hypothetical,71 but there are as yet no compelling reasons to dismiss this hypothesis. Regarding provenance, we are completely in the dark.72 The strongly Jewish-Christian character of the Didache does not function as an argument. From that character — whether of the sources or of the redactor — one cannot deduce anything about location. On the one hand, it has occasionally been said
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