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The Didache is one of the earliest Christian writings. It provides practical instructions on how a Christian community can function, and offers unique insights into the way the earliest Christians lived and worshipped. In this highly readable introduction, Thomas O’Loughlin tells the intriguing story of the Didache, from its discovery in the late nineteenth century to the present. He then...

the Monastery of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem) on a manuscript written in AD 1056, found the Didache. However, rather than a burst of publicity, Bryennios took his time: he let the significance of what he had found sink in, then he carefully prepared an edition, and his discovery finally became public in Greek in 1883. Within months the work was being published in German, French and English (> Schaff, 1885). A facsimile of the manuscript’s text appeared in 1887 (> Harris, 1887), and, after that,
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