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The Didache Koine Greek: Διδαχή, Didachē, meaning "Teaching"... is the common name of a brief early Christian treatise (dated to any point in the first three Christian centuries), containing instructions for Christian communities. The text is possibly the first written catechism, with three main sections dealing with Christian lessons, rituals such as baptism and eucharist, and Church organization. It was considered by some of the Church Fathers as part of the New Testament but rejected as spurious by others, eventually not accepted into the New Testament canon with the exception of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church "broader canon". The Roman Catholic Church has accepted it as part of the collection of Apostolic Fathers.

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Translations

Didache (Lightfoot translation), translated by Joseph Barber Lightfoot, 1891
Didache (Riddle translation), translated by Matthew Brown Riddle in Ante-Nicene Fathers, 1886
Didache (Hoole translation), translated by Charles H. Hoole, 1894
Didache (Lake translation), translated by Kirsopp Lake, 1912
Didache (Schaff translation), translated by Philip Schaff, 1885

Works about this text

Introductory Notice To The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles by Arthur Cleveland Coxe, from Ante-Nicene Fathers
Introductory Notice by Matthew Brown Riddle, ibid.
Excursus on the Word Προσφέρειν by Adolph von Harnack from History of Dogma, 1894; reproduced in Ante-Nicene Fathers
"Didache," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
"Teaching of the Twelve Apostles," in Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century, (ed.) by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy, London: John Murray (1911)
The "Didache" article in the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1905
The "Notes on the Didache" section from Journal of Theological Studies, 1905

External links

Early Christian Writings: Didache -->

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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