Authors: Aaron Milavec
ISBN-13: 9780814658314, ISBN-10: 0814658318
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Liturgical Press, The
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Aaron Milavec provides an overview of his pioneering efforts to surface the hidden unity governing the progression of topics in the Didache, a mid-first-century pastoral program for training converts. Milavec's commentary uses literary and sociological insights to reconstruct the faith and hope, the discipline and rituals, the anxieties and challenges facing gentiles being trained for full, active participation in the earliest Jewish-Christian communities, 50-70 C.E. His analytic, Greek-English side-by-side, gender-inclusive translation is included as well as a description of how the only surviving manuscript was discovered. Women's voices and women's issues surface throughout. His study questions, bibliography, and flowcharts enable even first-time users to grasp the functional and pastoral genius of the Didache.
Introduction | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Greek Text with Side-by-Side Gender-Inclusive Analytic Translation | 1 | |
A Brief Commentary | 39 | |
Bibliography | 95 | |
Flowchart A | Progression of Events Implied by the Internal Logic of the Didache | 107 |
Flowchart B | Progression of Events Experienced during Training in the Way of Life | 108 |
Flowchart C | Progression of Events Surrounding the Baptism of a Woman | 109 |
Flowchart D | How Prophets Came into Being and Disappeared | 110 |
Flowchart E | Progression of Events during the End-Times | 111 |