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Dating from the first century, the Didache offers a unique window
into early Jewish Christianity. Its Jewish-Christian author seeks
to mediate the Torah for the text's gentile recipients, steering
diplomatically between the Scylla and Charybdis of the
Law-observing church in Jerusalem and Paul's more open teaching.
The Didache is thus very clear that gentile believers do not need
to convert to Judaism, but at the same time its author argues that
the Torah - particularly the second table of the Decalogue - is
universal. The Deuteronomic paradigm of the 'Way of Life' against
the 'Way of Death' applies to all. In Torah for Gentiles? Daniel
Nessim explores this juxtaposition in depth. How is Jesus' 'easy
yoke' to be held alongside the strenuous commands of Mosaic Law?
What does it mean to attain perfection? The path the Didache offers
is not as straightforward as one might suppose, yet both Jews and
Christians would recognize its moral basis as largely the same as
that which underpins Judaeo-Christian values today. Moreover, the
Christian community it describes, from a time when that community
still looked very much to its Jewish forebears, makes it a
fascinating example of the origins of Christian life and worship.
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