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Author Schwiebert, Jonathan.

Title Knowledge and the coming kingdom : the Didache's meal ritual and its place in early Christianity / by Jonathan Schwiebert.

Publication Info. London : T & T Clark, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 278 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Library of New Testament studies ; 373
Library of New Testament studies ; 373.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.
Contents Acknowledgements; Bibliographical Abbreviations; Abbreviations of Ancient Sources; Preface; 1. RITUAL AND HISTORY OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC TRADITION; Accounting for the Didache; Ritual and History: A Marriage Proposal; PART I: DIDACHE 9-10 AS RITUAL; 2. THE LAST SUPPER TRADITION; 3. THE LOGIC OF THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL; 4. THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL AND THE LAST SUPPER TRADITION; PART II: THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL IN HISTORY; 5. THE ORIGINAL MILIEU OF DIDACHE 9-10; 6. RITUAL DYNAMICS IN THE DIDACHE'S TRADITIONS.
Summary Knowledge and the Coming Kingdom is a study of the meal prayers of Didache 9-10. The opening chapters pursue a sustained argument regarding the relationship between the Didache's meal ritual and the well-known tradition of Jesus' final meal. The central goal of this argument is to clarify that the silence of the Didache's prayers regarding Jesus' sacrificial death is neither trivial nor the result of textual accident, but is instead tied up with how this ritual works as a ritual. Schwiebert aims to counter a weighty tradition of reading the Didache's testimony in light of the New Testament acc.
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Subject Didache.
Didache.
Didache.
Didache.
Sacred meals.
Sacred meals.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Chronological Term 30-600
Geschichte 100-350
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Schwiebert, Jonathan. Knowledge and the coming kingdom. London : T & T Clark, ©2008 9780567045751 (DLC) 2008277262 (OCoLC)182732035
ISBN 9780567130891 (electronic book)
0567130894 (electronic book)
9780567045751
0567045757