The Didache

Aaron Milavec has written a study of the The Didache, one of the first major texts describing the way of life lived within a set of first-century Christian communities. It enumerates the step-by-step training of gentile converts for full active participation in the church communities of the mid-first century. In this new and landmark study, Aaron Milavec comprehensively examines how the first-century pastoral manual known as the Didache enumerated the step-by-step training of converts for the full, active participation in the earliest Jewish-Christian communities. Milavec shows how the Didache can, in turn, illuminate our understanding of how these first Christian men and women organized their community life socially, religiously, and politically in order to safeguard its members from the challenges of the surrounding Roman, pagan society of the first-century Mediterranean basin. He argues not only that the Didache's textual and contextual clues demonstrate the document's organic unity from beginning to end, but also that it dates from a period before the gospels were written and had gained acceptance. †

Pagina's: 1024, Hardcover, Newman Press