The Didache The Original Greek Text with Four English Translations edition by Anonymous Religion Spirituality eBooks
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The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. An early Christian text from 50-120 C.E.
The Didache The Original Greek Text with Four English Translations edition by Anonymous Religion Spirituality eBooks
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The Didache The Original Greek Text with Four English Translations edition by Anonymous Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
I enjoy anything written before the year 150 on this subject. Christianity in its truest and earliest form was nothing like today. Good for foundational building blocks.
The Didache deserves more attention as a source document for the beliefs and practices of the Christian Church in Apostolic times. This version with four English translations and original Greek was useful for our Orthodox study group when questions came up about how to interpret particular passages.
I chose this edition for the price and was very happy with it. It was concise and clear, and it provides alternative translations when the most literal translation into English might still leave the author's intent obscure.
This served precisely the purpose for which I bought it. I was curious about the translation of one particular verse in the Didache and was interested to see if different translators might arrive at different views. This book allowed me to check that very quickly and the cost was well worth the time it might have taken to find the different versions individually.
I have really enjoyed getting back to basics of the early church. This is one of four or five Didache texts I have read over the course of a year. I wanted to get back to the original language to really look at what was available to the early church for education of new followers of Christ. Having the Greek available with four different English translations over a period of decades from different translators has been very helpful. The original text is only dated from the 11th century but it is the best we have to date of what the Apostles may have taught, and provides insight into how the church has changed over the centuries.
Anyone nostalgic for the alleged apostolic purity of the primitive Church might give these teachings a close reading. There were issues from day one. The didache counsel the path of personal holiness leading to ultimate salvation. Before telecommunications, traveling prophets, teachers and ordinary Christians apparently posed an ongoing dilemma for the churches--that of discerning true from false, orthodox from heretic, and sincere from rascals imposing on the faithful for hospitality and donations. The Didache urges caution over credulity. In worship the Eucharist is core, the rudiments of the liturgy already in place and the right disposition of the worshipers specified. With prophets and teachers coming and going, stability appears to depend on the bishop and deacons, who must not be greedy for money. These clergy should be honored as enabling the prophets' work. (It sounds as if these traveling prophets could be rather loose cannon, and this passage presages an ongoing struggle between alleged prophets and regular clergy.) This short practical work ends with an enthusiastic coda confidently expecting the turmoil of the End Times and Jesus' return and triumph. An ecumenical conference could profitably begin with close study of this text.
For readers, like me, who do not read Greek the four translations are useful in cross-checking apparently vague or questionable terms. Theology students will appreciate the Greek text plus four translations and will judge what is missing in translation.
This is a wonderful approach to delivering a text of this type. It begins with the original language text (Greek) and is followed by 4 different English translations. The original and translations are all organized into chapter/verse in order to quickly cross reference one to another. This makes it ideal for the Greek student wishing to see how various scholars have translated a given text. Thus making this a solid text for the scholar or the student of Greek and provides keen insights as a snapshot of the early Church. The Didache has been dated in the range of 50-120CE making it one of the earliest documents surviving from the early Church. Some believe The Didache stemmed from an earlier Jewish catechetical work with additions from the earliest Christian tradition, quite possibly originating with the Apostles. All of this makes this an ideal work for understanding the early Church as it really was from a primary source - a systematic teaching tool of the first century. A must have for anyone interested in the early Church or koine Greek.
Best comparative printing of this work I;ve seen. wondrful to use and compare for meaning.
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