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13. But in saying this Kloppenborg overlooks the

13. But in saying this Kloppenborg overlooks the

16.1-8 Table 13 Did. 16.4

Matt 24:12 nai 8ui to TcXr)dvvdr)vaL rpv avoptiav . . .

(4a) av^avovapq yap rf/q avopiaq Matt 24:10 aai Tore OKavdaXtodpoovTaL TtoXXoi puapoovoLV dXXpXovq Kai aXXriXovq napabdoovoiv Kai bud^ovat — Kai Trapabdoovoi,1 Kai puapoovotv dXXpXovq . . .

Matt 24:24

Mark 13:22

(4b) Kai Tore (pavr/aerat eyepdpoovrai yap eyepdr\oovrai yap 6 KooptonXavriq2 3 pevboxpiOTOL pevboyjKOTOL <iiq vibq deov Kai pevboTrpOiprjTaL Kai pevboTrpo<pfjTaL Kai ttoipoet Kai bdoovotv Kai bdoovoiv oppcela Kai reparap oppteZa pteyaXa Kai repara appeZa Kai repara . . .

(4c) Kai r) yrj ■Kapabodpoerai eiq xe~Lpaq avrov.

Matt 24:21

Mark 13:19

Dan 12:1 (Theodotion) (4d) Kai TroLr/aei carat yap Tore eoovrat yap Kai earat — — at rjptepat eKeZvat — adepura,4 dXZptq pteyaXp dXZpiq Kaipoq a ovdeirore yeyovev ota ov yeyovev ota ov yeyovev Totavrp ota ov yeyovev ci; aidvoq. cnr' apxpq Kooptov . . . air' apxijq KTLoeuq . . . oap' ov yeyevr\Tai edvoq . . .

1 4 Ezra 6:24; 2 Bar. 70.3.

2 2 John 7; 2 Thess 2:3-4, 8-9; Justin Dial. 110.2 (Goodspeed, 226); Sib. Or. 3.68; Apoc. Pet. 2 (Ethiopic; NTApoc, 2.669); Hippolytus De

Antichr. 6.2 (GCS 1.2, p. 8).

3 2 Thess 2:9; Rev 13:13; 19:20; Apoc. Pet. (see above); and elsewhere.

4Justin, Dial. 110.2 (Goodspeed, 226).

4. Most recently John S. Kloppenborg has minutely analyzed Did. 16.6-8 (and given a cursory analysis of served as a source for Mark 13; (c) 16.3, 4a, and 5 go back to "another piece of apocalyptic tradition" that would also have been used in Matt 24:10-12.39 Still, the whole would probably have been available to the Didachist in a Christian recension.40 "We have here a parallel process to the origins of the Christian apoca lypse in the Synoptics."41

16.35).42 His conclusion is that Didache 16 is dependent neither on Matthew nor on Mark 13 (or the source for Mark 13),43 but on a tradition on which the correspond ing special material in Matthew also depends. "Did

16.38 agree with Matthew only when Matthew is using fact that the conclusion of the Didache has been lost; moreover, the Georgian presumes precisely the phrase that Kloppenborg finds missing here. In contrast, it really is striking that "Did 16.8 agrees with Mt 24:30 at those points where Matthew disagrees with Mark" (p. 63; Kloppenborg apparently means em vs. ertavu and tov ovpavov). argumentation on pp. 62-63 (as far as it concerns the conclusion of v. 8) is problematic. If Did. 16.8 were dependent on Matthew, according to Kloppenborg one should expect the concluding phrase to be jtterd bwapeccq Kai 56£rjg iroXXrjq; the absence of this final phrase is said to show, how ever, that the Didache is also not dependent on Mark

13. But in saying this Kloppenborg overlooks the

Table 14 Did. 16.5-6 (5a) Tore p%e1 \ . r) KTLOiq tuv avtipuiruv eiq rqv mupaxnv rrjq boKipaoiaq, Matt 24:10

Kai Tore OKavbaXiadr)OOVTai ttoXXo'l Kai aAAriAovq irapabaaovaLV . . .

(5b) Kai OKavbaXiadpaovTai ttoXXoi Kai onroXovvTaL, Matt 24:15 (10:22b; Mark 13:13b) (5c) oi be v-iropeivavTeq 6 be vnopeivaq eiq reXoq ovToq oudrjcreTaL. ev rfj irioTei avTuv aadr\aovraO vn avTov tov KaradepaToq.

Apoc. Pet. 1 (Ethiopic; NTApoc, 2.668) so shall I come . . .

Matt 24:30a Kai Tore (pavpaeral to appeiov tov viov tov avdpunrov (6a) Kai Tore (pavpaerat tcl oppeia rrjq aXrjdeiaq-1 2 npaTov oppeiov eKireraoeoiq ev ovpavti, with my cross going before my face. . . .3 4 Mark 13:27 lThess4:16

Kai TOTe dmoTeXei Tovq — ayyeAovq Kat . . . Kai ev adAiriyyi deov, ev ovpavui . . .

4 KaTafipoeTai air' ovpavov . . .

Matt 24:31

Kai anooTeXel Toijq ayyeAovq avrov pera odXinyyoq peyaArjq 1 Cor 15:52

(6b) elra appelov <puvr\q aaXmyyoq, Kai to Tpirov dvdoracnq veKpoiv . . . ev Trj eaydri] adXmyyi oaXitioeL yap . . .

1 Dan 12:12 (Theodotion); 4 Ezra 6:25, etc.

2 For the three signs, cf. Sib. Or. 2.188.

3 Further parallels in the commentary at 15.6.

4 8 etc.; adXnLyyoi; (pavrjq peyaArjqB etc.; oaXTnyyoq Kai (puvrjq peydXrjq D etc. his special source. Agreements with Mark are registered only when Mark was quoting common and widely known apocalyptic sayings (e.g., Dan 7:13; 12:12)."44 It follows that Did. 16.3-8 most probably rests on a "free-floating apocalyptic tradition"45 that was also known to Matthew

(as special material). Matthew and the Didache used this tradition independently of one another.46 Matthew incorporated it in his Markan source while the Didache placed it (probably with redactional alterations)47 at the end of the book.

44 Kloppenborg, "Matthaean Tradition," 66. table at this point.

45 Kloppenborg, "Matthaean Tradition," 67.

46 Kloppenborg, "Matthaean Tradition," 67; cf. earlier, at p. 65.

47 Kloppenborg, "Matthaean Tradition," 65.

16.1-8 Table 15 Matt 25:31

16:7-8 oil naPTUP be, aAA' uq eppedr] ■ Zech 14:5b ...Kai "H^et 6 Kvptoq Kai ndpreq oi <27101 per ai)Tov. rjl;6L Kvpvoq 6 deoq pov Kai naPTeq oi <27101 pef aiiTOv.

Kai naPTeq oi ayyeXoi pef avTov ...

Matt 26:30b Mark 13:26

Luke 21:27

Dan 7:13

Tore 6\peTai Kai oipoPTai Kai Tore dipoPTat Kai Tore opoPTac 6 Koopoq — - — TOP KVpiOP top viop tov avdpunov top viop tov d.P'dpunov TOP viop TOV apdpunov epxopepop enavu epxopevop eni epxopepop ep epxopepop ep 67T i tup pe<peAup tup peipeXup pe<pe\acq petpeXrj tup peipeXup tov ovpapov ...' tov ovpapov - — tov ovpapov (with power and pera bvpapeuq peTa bvpapeuq pera bvpapeuq uq vioq apfipunov great glory . . .

Georgian) Kai bo%r]q noXXfjqnoXXrjq Kai bo^rjq.

Kai bo^pq TroXXrjq.

VPXCTO ■ ■ ■

(pera ... epxopepoq ... Theodotion) Mark 14:62

... Kai o\peode top viop tov apfipuirov Luke 22:69 and tov pvp be earat 6 vioq tov apfipunov Kadppepoq 6k be^vup rfjq bvpapeuq tov deov.

Matt 26:64

.. . dn ocpTL o\peode top viop tov apdpunov Kadr\pevop ck bei-LUP rfjq bvpapeuq Kai epxopepop eni tup pe<peXup 6K bel-tup Kadripepop rrjq bvpapeuq Kai epxopepop pepa tup petpeXup tov ovpapov. tov ovpapov.

/ 1 Cf. 4 Ezra 13:3; Rev 1:7; Justin, 1 Apol. 51.9 (Goodspeed 62); Dial. 14.8 (107).

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