The Didache, an early handbook of an anonymous Christian community, "is the most important book you've never heard of." It spells out a way of life for Jesus-followers, including how to show one another the love of God, how to practice the Eucharist, and how to take in wandering prophets.
Likely written before many of the New Testament books, this little-known text can enlighten the way that Christian are church, today.
Tony Jones's new book, The Teaching of the Twelve, unpacks this ancient document with insight and perspective, and traces the life of a small house church in Missouri that is trying to live according to its precepts.
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Mr. Swett makes this comment on the origin and dating of the Didache:
The long title of the Didache in the manuscript dated 1056 reads: “The Teaching of the Lord by the Twelve Apostles to the Gentiles” but I believe the original title was “The Teaching of the Apostles to the Gentiles” and the rest was inserted later.
Certainly Barnabas and Paul were “The Apostles to the Gentiles.” If the Didache is a sample of their teaching, as it certainly seems to be, then it must be dated no later than AD 49 because that was when they went their separate ways. The most probable date is either AD 44 or AD 47. In either case, those dates are earlier than anything in the New Testament. Therefore, I believe the Didache is the earliest Christian document we have. Although rightly regarded as a church handbook and not a Gospel or absolutely based on the teachings of Jesus, it provides valuable insights concerning the moral doctrines, theology, rituals, esoteric operations and congregational testing of apostles and prophets, and the basic organization of First Century Christianity.”
Thanks for posting! I had this in the form of a windows help file back in the last century on my first computer. When that conked out, the Didache was a file I missed! Between this and a couple of kind, blessed emails, signing on to FR turned my day into something a little brighter!
Good bless you!
. I wonder why you post a book with false and contradictory teachings. It is promoting falsehood.