The Didache Discoveries: Two Missing Books of the Bible
In 1873 Archbishop Philotheos Bryennios discovered the only surviving copy of a text called ‘The Didache’ or ‘The Teaching of the Lord, by the Twelve Apostles, to the Gentiles’. This book nearly achieved inclusion in the New Testament canon. After it was placed in the ‘second rank’, it disappeared for well over a thousand years. Since its rediscovery it has baffled scholars. No one has been able to work out who wrote it, when, where or why. In this lecture Alan Garrow presents a new solution to the puzzle. The Didache is not a single text. Instead, it is two that have been spliced together and overlaid with additional material. When t...