Further reading
Facsimile of the manuscript
Harris, J. Rendel (1887), The Teaching of the Apostles (Didache tōn Apostolōn): Newly Edited, with Facsimile Text and a Commentary, London: Clay & Sons.
Editions of the Didache in Greek
The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, ed. and trans. Bart D. Ehrman, Loeb Classical Library 24, Cambridge, Mass.; London, Harvard University Press, 2003, 403–43.
Holmes, Michael William, ed. (1992), The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations of Their Writings, trans. and ed. J. B. Lightfoot and J. R. Harmer, 2nd edn, Grand Rapids, Mich., Baker Book House, 246–69.
Milavec, Aaron (2004), The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary, Collegeville, Minn., Liturgical Press.
Commentaries
There are two full-length, recent commentaries on the Didache:
Milavec, Aaron (2003), The Didache: Faith, Hope, and Life of the Earliest Christian Communities, 50–70 C.E., New York, Newman Press.
Niederwimmer, Kurt (1998), The Didache: A Commentary, trans. Linda M. Maloney, ed. Harold W. Attridge, Minneapolis, Fortress Press.
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