The Didache: A Commentary

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The Didache: A Commentary, by Kurt Niederwimmer. Translated by Linda M. Maloney. Hermeneia. Fortress, Minneapolis, 1998. 288 pp. $52.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8006-6027-7.

THIS EXCELLENT COMMENTARY on the Didache finally makes Niederwimmer's scholarly German work available to an English-speaking audience. Niederwimmer reveals extensive research and solid scholarship on a text that was only discovered in 1873 in the Bryennios parchment manuscript in Constantinople. Until that time the Didache was known only from quotations in early church literature. In this century, however, interest in this text ...

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