RBL review of The Didache: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle

[DCHindley]

There is a new RBL review of the most recent critical book about the Didache by Jonathan Draper and Clayton Jefford, eds. The Didache: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle in Early Christianity (Early Christianity and Its Literature 14 Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015, a mere $76 paperback & $100 hardbound), by H. H. Drake Williams III in RBL 9/2016:

https://www.academia.edu/28672588/The_D ... ristianity

Looks like MrMacson had already posted this link to the TOC & Jefford's introduction:

https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pu ... -front.pdf

DCH

[DCHindley]

According to the review article of Sept 2016 RBL, "[a]ll of these articles [in the 2015 book] emerged from the Didache in Context seminar held at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings during the early 2000s."

Previous to that a series of SBL seminars on the Didache in the 1990s produces a couple of other similar volumes: The Didache in Context (1995), and The Didache in Modern Research (1996). A table of the authors who presented and their articles are as follows:

Author	Article	Book or Journal	Date	Original	Language
Audet, Jean-Paul	Literary and Doctrinal Relationships of the "Manual of Discipline"	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1952	French
Alon, Gedaliah	Halakah in the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (Didache)	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1958	Hebrew
Bammel, Ernst	Pattern and Prototype of Didache 16	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1961	German
Betz, Johannes	The Eucharist in the Didache	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1969	German
Rordorf, Willy	An Aspect of the Judeo-Christian Ethic: the Two Ways	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1972	French
Rordorf, Willy	Baptism according to the Didache	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1972	French
Theissen, Gerd	Itinerant Radicalism: The Tradition of Jesus Sayings from the Perspective of the Sociology of Literature	Radical Religion 2	1976	1973	German
Theissen, Gerd	Soteriological Symbolism in the Pauline Writings: A Structuralist Contribution	_Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament_	1992	1974	German
Theissen, Gerd	Legitimation and Subsistance: An Essay on the Sociology of Early Christian Missionaries	_The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity: Essays on Corinth_	1982	1974	German
Niederwimmer, Kurt	An Examination of the Development of Itinerant Radicalism in the Environment and Tradition of the Didache	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1977	German
Theissen, Gerd		_The First Followers of Jesus: a Sociological Analysis of Earliest Christianity_	1978	1977	German
Theissen, Gerd		_The Sociology of Early Palestinian Christianity_ aka _The First Followers of Jesus_	1978	1977	German
Mazza, Enrico	Didache 9-10: Elements of an Eucharistic Interpretation	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1979	Italian
Theissen, Gerd	"We Have Left Everything..." (Mark 10:28): Discipleship and Social Uprooting in the Jewish-Palestinian Society of the First Century	_Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament_	1992	1979	German
Theissen, Gerd	Christology and Social Experience: Aspects of Pauline Christology in the Light of the Sociology of Knowledge	_Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament_	1992	1979	German
Theissen, Gerd	Jesus' Temple Prophesy: Prophesy in the Tension between Town and Country	_Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament_	1992	1979	German
Theissen, Gerd	Nonviolence and Love of Our Enemies (Matthew 5:38-48; Luke 6:27-38): The Social Background	_Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament_	1992	1979	German
Theissen, Gerd	Sociological Theories of Religion and the Analysis of Early Christianity: Some Reflections	_Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament_	1992	1979	German
Theissen, Gerd	The Wandering Radicals: Light Shed by the Sociology of Literature on the early Transmission of Jesus Sayings	_Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament_	1992	1979	German
Halleux, Andre de	Ministers in the Dicache	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1980	French
Theissen, Gerd		_Psychological Aspects of Pauline Theology_	1987	1983	German
Draper, Jonathan A.	The Jesus Tradition in the Didache	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1985	English
Schoellgen, Georg	The Didache as a Church Order: An Examination of the Purpose for Composition of the Didache and its Consequences for its Interpretation	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1986	German
Flusser, David	Paul's Jewish-Christian Opponents in the Didache	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1987	English
Seeliger, Hans Reinhard	Considerations on the Background and Purpose of the Apocalyptic Final Chapter of the Didache	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1989	German
Tuckett, Christopher	Synoptic Tradition in the Didache	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1989	English
Draper, Jonathan A.	Torah and Troublesome Apostles in the Didache Community	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1991	English
Draper, Jonathan A.	Christian Self-Definition against the "Hypocrites" in Didache 8	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1992	English
Theissen, Gerd	Judaism and Christianity in Paul: The Beginning of a Schism and its Social History	_Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament_	1992	1992	English
Theissen, Gerd	Some Ideas about a Sociological Theory of Early Christianity	_Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament_	1992	1992	English
Cody, Aelred	The Didache: An English Translation	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Davis, Cyprian, O.S.B.	The Didache and Early Monasticism in the East and West	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Dehandschutter, Boudewjin	The Text of the Didache: Some Comments on the Edition of Klaus Wengst	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Draper, Jonathan A.	Social Ambiguity and the Production of Text: Prophets, Teachers, Bishops, and Deacons and the Development of the Jesus Tradition in the Community of the Didache	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Harder, Kenneth J., and Jefford, Clayton N.	A Bibliography of Literature on the Didache	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Henderson, Ian H.	Style-Switching in the Didache: Fingerprint or Argument?	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Jefford, Clayton N.	Did Ignatius of Antioch Know the Didache?	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Jones, F. Stanley, and Mirecki, Paul A.	Considerations on the Coptic Papyrus of the Didache (British Library Oriental Manuscript 9271)	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Kloppenborg, John S.	The Transformation of Moral Exhortation in Didache 1-5	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Milavec, Aaron	The saving Efficacy of the Burning Process in Didache 16.5	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Mitchell, Nathan	Baptism in the Didache	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Pardee, Nancy	The Curse that Saves (Didache 16.5)	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Patterson, Stephen J.	Didache 11-13: The Legacy of Radical Itineracy in Early Christianity	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Reed, Jonathan	The Hebrew Epic and the Didache	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Riggs, John W.	The Sacred Food of Didache 9-10 and Second-Century Ecclesiologies	_The Didache in Context_	1995	1995	English
Draper, Jonathan A.	The Didache in Modern Research: An Overview	_The Didache in Modern Research_	1996	1996	English

The articles above (at least the English ones) provided a great deal of food for thought, but I had trouble swallowing the Sociological model assumed by the majority of the critics. I'm still digesting Max Weber

That being the case, I just might have to order this later one from the local university's inter-library loan department, and bring myself up to date.

DCH

[FransJVermeiren]

DCH, thank you for your reading suggestions. They stimulated me to study the apocalyptic final chapter of this early Christian writing again. I will shortly start a new topic on Didache XVI.