becomes as our most detailed insight into the life of those early churches. A second reason many people study the Didache is a special refinement of the notion of context. When we set aside the Gospels and Acts, most of the documents that we have from the first and early second centuries are letters: those of Paul; those attributed to Paul; then those linked with the names of James, Jude, John, Peter; then the letter to the Corinthians we call 1 Clement; and then the letters of Ignatius of Antioch.