The Didache and the Parting of the Ways
Doering, Lutz
Research article (book contribution) | Peer reviewedAbstract
The article briefly reviews some aspects of the literary structure and source-critical questions of the Didache, comments on its genre, and discusses in detail the two selected topics of fasting and prayer in Did. 8.1–3, with a view to what the Didache might contribute to the issue of the so-called “Parting of the Ways”. It is argued that the Didache, directed at a Christ-believing group composed of both Jews and gentiles, attempts to establish boundaries vis-à-vis a specific group of Jews polemically called “hypocrites” which bears some relation with pre-70 CE Pharisees, and that this conversely shows that “the ways” between the Didache group “and Judaism” have not fully parted.
Details about the publication
Publisher: Tiwald, Markus; Öhler, Markus
Book title: Parting of the Ways: The Variegated Ways of Separations between Jews and Christians
Page range: 219-239
Publishing company: Brill | Schöningh
Place of publication: Paderborn
Title of series: J-RaT Supplementa
Volume of series: 4
Status: Published
Release year: 2024
Language in which the publication is written: English
Keywords: Didache; Fasting; Prayer; Parting of the Ways; Jewish Christianity; Pharisees; Early Rabbinic Judaism; Eighteen Benedictions
Authors from the University of Münster
| Doering, Lutz | Professorship of New Testament and Ancient Judaism (Prof. Doering) Centre for Eastern Mediterranean History and Culture (GKM) Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" |