a. The Bryennios Manuscript (H) 19
x Excursuses Foreword to Hermeneia xi Preface xiii Preface to the Second Edition xv Reference Codes xvii
Contents The Didache 1. Abbreviations xvii 2. Short Titles xx 3. Sigla in the Translation xxvi Editor's Note xxvii Introduction 1 1. Structure and Genre a. Structure 1 b. Genre 1 2. Attestation of the Didache a. Reference in Ancient Canonical Lists 4 b. Quotations in Early Church Literature 6 c. Use of the Didache in Later Church Orders 13 d. The Didache in Byzantine Authors of the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries 17 3. The Direct Tradition a. The Bryennios Manuscript (H) 19 b. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1782 (P) 21 4. The Versions a. The Coptic Fragment: Br. Mus. Or. 9271 (Copt.) 24 b. The Ethiopic Version (Eth.) 26 c. Appendix: The Georgian Version (Georg.) 27
5. The Indirect Tradition:
/ Apostolic Constitutions 7.1.2-32.4 28 a. The Findings 30 b. Further Details on the Hypothesis 6. The Relationship of the Didache to the "Two Ways" Tractate of an Independent "Ways" Tractate 35 by the Didachist 42 b. Time and Place of Writing 52 Commentary _The Title 56 7. Reconstruction of the Origin of the Didache a. The Sources and Their Redaction 1.1 1. Statement of the Theme 59 2. The Way of Life 59 1.2-3a a. The Fundamental Commandment and Introduction to Its Performance 64 b. The sectio evangelica 68 1.3b-4a The Commandment of Love of Enemies 73
1.4b-5a The Renunciation of Violence 78 1.5b—2.1 Almsgiving and Transition 81 ■ 1.1-6.3
I. Baptismal Catechesis:
The Tractate on the Two Ways vii