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- Title
Die Debatte über den Titel der 'Didache'.
- Authors
Koch, Dietrich-Alex
- Abstract
Abstract: According to many scholars the extant text of the 'Didache' has two different titles, and it is debated which title is the original one. But this is not in accordance with manuscript H 54, the only witness of the text of the Didache, and most modern editions misrepresent the beginning of the Didache in H 54. In this article it is argued that, just as it is in H 54, the so-called long title is the introduction to the 'Teaching of the Two Ways'. Together with 6,1-3 this introduction frames the traditional Jewish teaching which functions as Christian Baptism catechism for non-Jewish neophytes. They are encouraged, but not obliged to fulfil the Jewish law. It is only obligatory to abstain from food sacrificed to idols.
- Subjects
DIDACHE; JUDAISM; ABLUTION (Judaism); JEWISH law; BIBLE -- Examinations, questions, etc.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der Älteren Kirche, 2014, Vol 105, Issue 2, p264
- ISSN
0044-2615
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/znw-2014-0014