You might want to consider the Didache in this light, as well, then. You wrote:Kapyong wrote:I don't agree there. He says the reader may 'read there-in', refering to the Gospel. Seems like a fairly clear reference to a single written un-named Gospel, with some details we recognise e.g. a virgin.GakuseiDon wrote:I suspect that by 'gospel' he means the good news of the story of Christ, rather than a particular written document.
Yet the wording of Didache 15.3-4 seems to me to imply knowledge of a gospel text:Didakhe et al 70-150 mention some Gospel details, but show no clear access to Gospels.
"As you have it in the gospel" sounds like the readers are able to consult something. Also, as Alan Garrow points out, all four mentions of the gospel in the Didache refer to material that can be found in the gospel of Matthew (the Lord's Prayer, receiving apostles and prophets, reproving others, and praying and giving alms). This is certainly no lock, but it may be something to bear in mind as a distinct possibility.
That said, I am not sure how much this would affect the dating of anything, since the Didache is also widely acknowledged as chronologically layered text, and the "refer to the gospel" layer may be late.
Ben.