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RE; The Didascalia Apostolorum

Some scholars believe that the ‘Didascalia Apostolorum’ is a latter re-worked rendition of ‘The Constitutions of the Apostolic Fathers’ where some alternative and similar descriptions are most striking.
Authors of this journal in my opinion have presented a time frame in accordance to a ‘civil calendar week’ being Sun - Sat with the Passion events leading up to a Friday (Nisan 14th) crucifixion. However, the narrative is noticeably contradictory in regards to the line reference; “because thereon they crucified Me, in the midst of their festival of unleavened bread”.
We know that the ‘feast of the Passover period’ was recognized and observed by Jews between Nisan 15th – Nisan 21st regardless of whatever week days the period fell on for each particular year. Therefore Nisan 14th the eve or opening day of Passover does not clearly equate to: “in the midst of their feast” being Nisan 15th – Nisan 21st.
It is my belief that the Authors / Translators of the ‘Didascalia Apostolorum’ are totally out of context to a time frame when Jews recognized “in the midst of their unleavened bread” for what it was. The reason is that the authors were rationalizing to a time frame of the Passion narrative in accordance to the seven days of creation as described in Genesis chapter one. This was where the misappropriation of the civil calendar week has been made to fit in the ‘Didascalia Apostolorum’ narrative. This is likely how the confusion over interpretations began.
All along I have emphasized a time frame showing that the Passover period at the time of our Lord’s Passion occurred in a year where Nisan 15th fell on a Friday as the first day, Saturday Nisan 16th the second day, Sunday Nisan 17th the third day, Monday Nisan 18th the fourth day, Tuesday Nisan 19th the fifth day, Wednesday Nisan 20th the sixth day, and Thursday Nisan 21st being the seventh final day of the feast.
Again I have taken the liberty to quote some sections within the Didascalia Apostolorum adding the sacred calendar dates in brackets to clarify the Passion Narrative as it would likely be understood through a Jewish reckoning of time around the Passover. This becomes difficult when the context struggles to justify the ‘Sign of Jonah’ making fit for a narrow gap between a Friday afternoon crucifixion and a Sunday morning resurrection.

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The following text is from R. Hugh Connolly, Didascalia Apostolorum. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929.

THAT IS TEACHING OF THE TWELVE HOLY APOSTLES AND DISCIPLES OF OUR SAVIOUR

CHAPTER XXI
“And Judas came with the scribes and with the priests of the people, and betrayed our Lord Jesus.Now this was done on the fourth day (Mon Nisan 18th) of the week (period). For when we had eaten the passover on the third day (Sun Nisan 17th) of the week (period) at even, we went forth to the Mount of Olives; and in the night they seized our Lord Jesus. And the next day, which was the fourth (Mon Nisan 18th) of the week, He remained in ward in the house of Caiaphas the high priest. And on the same day the chiefs of the people were assembled and took counsel against Him. And on the next day again, which was the fifth (Tues Nisan 19th) of the week (period), they brought Him to Pilate the governor. And He remained again in ward with Pilate the night (Wed Nisan 20th) after the fifth day (Tues Nisan 19th) of the week (period). But when it drew on (towards day) on the Friday (Wed Nisan 20th), [[182]] they accused him much [Mk 15.3] before Pilate; and they could show nothing that was true, but gave false witness against Him. And they asked Him of Pilate to be put to death; and they crucified Him on the same Friday (Wed Nisan 20th).
He suffered, then, at the sixth (12:00 PM.) hour on Friday (Wednesday). And these hours wherein our Lord was crucified were reckoned a day. And afterwards, again, there was darkness for three hours; and it was reckoned a night. And again, from the ninth hour (3:00 PM.) until evening, three hours,(reckoned) a day. And afterwards again, (there was) the night (Thurs Nisan 21st) of the (High) Sabbath of the Passion. — But in the Gospel of Matthew it is thus written: At even on the sabbath, when the first day of the week drew on (Late on the Sabbaths [Nisan 21st & Nisan 23rd ] lighting up on one of the Sabbaths = Sat Nisan 23rd), came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the tomb. And there was a great earthquake: for an angel of the Lord came down and rolled away the stone [Mt 28.1-2]. — And again (there was) the day of the (High) Sabbath (Thurs Nisan 21st); and then three hours of the night after the Sabbath, wherein our Lord slept. And that was fulfilled which He said: The Son of man must pass three days and three nights (Thurs Nisan 21st, Fri Nisan 22nd, Sat Nisan 23rd) in the heart of the earth [Mt 12.40], as it is written in the Gospel. And again it is written in David: Behold, thou hast set my days in measure [Ps 38.6 LXX]. Now because those days and nights came short, it was so written. [[183]]
In the night, therefore, when the first day of the week (on one of the Sabbaths = Sat Nisan 23rd) drew on, He appeared to Mary Magdalene and to Mary (p. 89) the daughter of James [Mt 28.1, 9 (cf. Jn 20.1, 14; Mk 16.1)]; and in the morning of the first day of the week (on one of the Sabbaths) He went in to (the house of) Levi [cf. Gosp. of Peter 14]; and then He appeared also to us ourselves….
…But (fast) not after the custom of the former People, but according to the new testament which I have appointed you: that you may be fasting for them on the fourth day of the week, because on the fourth (Mon Nisan 18th) of the week (period) they began to destroy their souls, and apprehended Me. — For the night (Mon Nisan 18th) after the third (Sun Nisan 17th) of the week (period) belongs to the fourth (Mon Nisan 18th) of the week (period), as it is written: There was evening and there was morning, one day [Gen 1.5]. The evening therefore belongs to the following day: for on the third (Sun Nisan 17th ) of the week (period) at even I ate My Pascha with you, and in the night (Mon Nisan 18th) they apprehended Me. -—But fast for them also on the Friday (Wednesday Nisan 20th), because thereon they crucified Me, in the midst of their festival of unleavened bread, as it is said of old in David: In the midst of their festivals they set their signs, and they knew not [Ps 74.4 (73.4 LXX)].”
[Quotes End] by R. Hugh Connolly, Didascalia Apostolorum. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929.

* Again for my interpretation of this transcript I have presented ‘the first day of the week’ as ‘one of the Sabbaths’ (mia twn Sabbatwn) as it appears in the Greek New Testament / Gospel’s resurrection verses.

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