The Didache: Its Jewish Sources and Its Place in Early Judaism and Christianity

From: Journal of Biblical Literature | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Didache: Its Jewish Sources and Its Place in Early Judaism and Christianity, by Huub van de Sandt and David Flussser. CRINT sect. 3: Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature 5. Assen: Royal Van Gorcum; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002. Pp. 431. $58.00 (cloth).

In this book, the Didache is examined and found to be a nexus between Judaism, Jewish-Christianity, and Gentile-Christianity. It is mapped to late-first-century Syria (in "a network of villages and small towns . . . a rural Christian congregation in some Greek speaking part of [Western] Syria or, possibly, in the borderland ...

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