The Didache

Excursuses
Foreword to Hermeneia
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Reference Codes
1. Abbreviations
2. Short Titles
3. Sigla in the Translation
Editor's Note
Introduction
1. Structure and Genre
a. Structure
b. Genre
2. Attestation of the Didache
a. Reference in Ancient Canonical Lists
b. Quotations in Early Church Literature
c. Use of the Didache in Later Church Orders
d. The Didache in Byzantine Authors
of the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries
3. The Direct Tradition
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a. The Bryennios Manuscript (H) 19
b. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1782 (P) 21
4. The Versions
a. The Coptic Fragment: Br. Mus. Or. 9271 (Copt.) 24
b. The Ethiopic Version (Eth.) 26
c. Appendix: The Georgian Version (Georg.) 27
5. The Indirect Tradition:
Apostolic Constitutions 7 .1.2- 32.4 28
6. The Relationship of the Didache to the "Two Ways" Tractate
a. The Findings 30
b. Further Details on the Hypothesis
of an Independent "Ways" Tractate 35
7. Reconstruction of the Origin of the Didache
a. The Sources and Their Redaction
by the Didachist 42
b. Time and Place of Writing 52
The Title 56
I. Baptismal Catechesis:
The Tractate on the Two Ways
1.1
1.2-3a
1.3b-4a
1.4b-5a
1.5b-2.1
1. Statement of the Theme
2. The Way of Life
a. The Fundamental Commandment and
Introduction to Its Performance
b. The sectio evangelica
The Commandment of Love of Enemies
The Renunciation of Violence
Almsgiving and Transition
 2.2-7
3.1-6
3.7-10
4.1-11
4.12-14
5.1a
5.1b-2
5.2 [end]
6.1-3
7.1-4
8.1
8.2-3
9.1-5
10.1-7
Ill. The Church Order
• 16.1-8
11.1-2
11.3-12
11.3
11.4-6
11.7-12
12.1-5
12.1
12.2
12.3-5
13.1-7
13.1-2
13.3-7
14.1-3
15.1-2
15.3-4
IV. Eschatological Conclusion
16.1-2
16.3-8
16.3-4a
c. A List of Prohibitions
d. The "Teknon" Sayings
e. The "Anawim" Sayings
f. Rules for Life in Society
g. Epilogue on the "Way of Life"
3. The Way of Death
a. Introduction
b. Catalog of Vices
c. Final Admonition
4. Epilogue and Appendix
1. On Baptism
1a. Addition: On Fasting and Prayer
a. How to Fat
b. How to Pray
2. On the Eucharist
a. Prayers for the Full Meal
b. Prayer of Thanksgiving (Eucharist)
1. Transition
2. On the Reception of Itinerant Apostles and Prophets
a. Introduction
b. On Itinerant Apostles
c. On Itinerant Prophets
3. First Appendix: On the Reception of Other
Traveling Brothers and Sisters
a. Reception and Testing of New Arrivals
b. Traveler Passing Through
c. Persons Newly Arrived Who Desire to Remain
4. Second Appendix: On the Duty to Support Prophets
Who Desire to Remain in the Community, and Dutie
toward Teachers
a. Fundamental Principles
b. Directions for the Distribution
5. On Confession and Reconciliation
6. On the Election of Bishops and Deacons
7. On Church Discipline
1. Eschatological Parene is
2. The Apocalypse
a. The Appearance of False Prophets and the
Collap e of the Christian Community
 16.4b-d b. The Appearance of the Antichrist 219
16.5 c. The Great Apostasy and the Preservation
of the Faithful 221
16.6-7 d. The Revelation of the Three Signs of Truth 223
16.8 e. The Arrival of the Kyrios 226
Afterword 228
Bibliography
1. Editions and Commentaries 233
2. Editions of Writings Related to the Didache 234
3. Jewish Literature 235
4. Other Christian Literature 236
5. Gnostic Literature 236
6. Greco-Roman Literature 236
7. Secondary Literature 238
Select Bibliography from the Second Edition 252
Indices
1. Passages 255
2. Authors 280
3. Subjects 287
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