The Didache: Text Translation Analysis and Commentary
Language: English
Published by Liturgical Press, 2003
- Softcover
- Used
Condition: Used - Very good
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The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary — Aaron Milavec (2003) SIGNED In this important study of one of the earliest Christian documents, Aaron Milavec offers a complete English translation, detailed commentary, and historical analysis of the Didache —a first-century pastoral handbook that guided the formation of new believers in the earliest Jewish-Christian communities. Milavec reconstructs the faith, practices, and social world of these house churches, using literary and sociological insights to show how the Didache functioned as a step-by-step program for training converts, shaping their prayer life, ethics, and participation in communal worship. Moving carefully through the text, Milavec explores themes such as communal discipline, ritual practice, hospitality, leadership, and the challenges facing Gentiles who were being prepared for full participation in the Jesus-movement. The book includes a Greek–English, gender-inclusive translation, discussions of how the sole surviving manuscript was discovered and transmitted, and extended attention to women’s voices and roles within the tradition. Study questions, bibliographies, and visual flowcharts are provided to help readers and classroom users grasp the pastoral and theological coherence that binds the document together. Book Details Title: The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary Author: Aaron Milavec Year: 2003 Special Attributes: Inscribed and signed by Aaron Milavec on the title page Text Features: Greek–English side-by-side Didache text; gender-inclusive translation Subjects: Early Christianity, Church history, Patristics, Biblical studies, Theology Reconstructs the pastoral program by which early Christian communities trained new converts. Explores the social and religious setting of Jewish-Christian house churches ca. 50–70 C.E. Includes discussions of women’s roles and gendered experience within the world of the Didache. Provides study questions, bibliography, and flowcharts for classroom and group use. Written to be accessible to students, clergy, catechists, and interested lay readers as well as scholars. A significant and widely cited introduction to the Didache , this signed copy is an excellent addition for collections in early Christianity, patristics, and New Testament background studies, or for anyone interested in the lived faith and practice of the earliest churches. ).…
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- Title
- The Didache: Text Translation Analysis and Commentary
- Author
- Aaron Milavec
- Publisher
- Liturgical Press
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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