{"product_id":"the-didache-faith-hope-life-of-the-earliest-christian-communities-5070-ce","title":"The Didache: Faith  Hope  \u0026 Life of the Earliest Christian Communities  50-70 C.E.","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost Christians believe that everything about Jesus and theearly church can be found in their New Testament. In recent years however  the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas and the reconstruction of the Q-Gospel have led scholars to recognize that some very earlymaterials were left out. Now  due to the pioneering efforts of Dr. Aaron Milavec  the most decisive document of them all  namely  the Didache  has come to light. Milavec has decoded the Didache and enabled it to reveal its hidden secrets regarding those years whenChristianity was little more than a faction within the restless Judaisms of the mid-first-century.  The Didache reveals a tantalizingly detailed description of the prophetic faith and day-to-day routines that shaped the Jesus movement some twenty yearsafter the death of Jesus. The focus of the movement then was not uponproclaiming the exalted titles and deeds of Jesus - aspects that come to the fore in the letters of Paul and in the Gospel narratives. Incontrast to these familiar forms of Christianity  the focus of the Didache was upon \"the life and the knowledge\" of Jesus himself. Thus  the Didache details the step-by-step process whereby non-Jews were empowered byassimilating the prophetic faith and the way of life associated withJesus of Nazareth.  Milavecs clear concise  and inspiring commentaries are not only of essential importance to scholars  pastors  and students but also very useful for ordinarypeople who wish to unlock the secrets of the Didache. Milavecsanalytic  Greek-English side-by-side  gender-inclusive translation isincluded as well as a description of how this document  after beingfashioned and used 50-70 C.E.  was mysteriously lost for over eighteenhundred years before being found in an obscure library in Istanbul. Thestudy questions  bibliography  and flowcharts enable even first-timeusers to grasp the functional and pastoral genius that characterized the earliest Christian communities.  Please note that Milavec has published two commentaries that carry the title  The Didache. The \"mouse\" is the shorter  hundred-page student edition published byLiturgical Press. The \"elephant\" is the thousand-page Paulist Presscommentary intended for those who want to examine  in full detail  howMilavec arrived at the conclusions in the \"mouse\" and how his pioneering studies find agreement and disagreement within the wide field of Didache scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946144002101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0809105373","price":206.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780809105373_3bff5dd2-8ec8-4bb8-bebf-09a5f7a3f171.jpg?v=1770152600","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-didache-faith-hope-life-of-the-earliest-christian-communities-5070-ce","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}