TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwiebert, Jonathan
AU  - Schwiebert,Jonathan
TI  - Knowledge and the Coming Kingdom:  The Didache`s Meal Ritual and Its Place in Early Christianity
SN  - 9780567045751
U1  - B70.1 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - T and T Clark
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 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   The Oral Tradition  The Structure of the Oral Tradition  The Mythical Location of the Supper Tradition   The Textual Fixing of the Supper Tradition  Matthew  Luke   The Supper Tradition in the Second Century  Ignatius of Antioch  John 6  Justin Ritual Sensibilities of the Tradition  3. THE LOGIC OF THE DID ACHE`S MEAL RITUAL   The Structure of the Prayers  The Concluding Eschatological Exclamations   The Logic of the Fixed Elements  The `Servant` as Revealer The Logic of the Variable Elements  The Role of the Prophets   Unknowns  4. THE DIDACHE-S MEAL RITUAL AND THE LAST SUPPER TRADITION    98  Two Ritual Paths	99  Prayer Conventions in Paul	104  Common Territory	107  Conclusions	110  PART II: THE DIDACHFS MEAL RITUAL IN HISTORY	111  5. THE ORIGINAL MILIEU OF DID ACHE 9-10	113  Preliminary: Traditional Jewish Elements in Didache 9-10	114  Instructions in the Didache	121  Sayings Collections	126  The `Synoptic Sayings Source` (Q)	126  The Gospel of Thomas	132  John: Affinity and Distance	137  Conclusions	145  6. RITUAL DYNAMICS IN THE DID ACHE`S TRADITIONS	148  The Meal Ritual and the Didache`s Redaction History	149  Stage One: Fasting, Baptism, Prayer and Meal	151  Stage Two: Concessions and Clarifications	162  Stage Three: The Confession of Sins	165  Stage Four: The Coptic Recension and the Stinoufi Prayer       169  The Ritual Process in a Developing Community	174  7. THE DIDACHFS MEAL RITUAL AND EARLY PRAYER TRADITIONS IN ROME AND ASIA MINOR	183  `Liturgical Compromises`	183  The Case of Luke-Acts	186  The Pais and the Doxology	190  Findings	200  Eucharistic Assemblies in Revelation	201  Prayer in Justin	204  Conclusions	207  8. THE INFLUENCE OF THE DIDACHFS RITUAL LOGIC IN EGYPT	208  Late Egyptian Evidence for the Influence of the Didache`s Eucharistic Tradition	208  Recycled Images	208  An Ascetic Meal Prayer	212  Early Egyptian Evidence	217  The Epistle of Barnabas	217  The Epistle to Diognetus	220  Valentinian Prayer	222  Clement of Alexandria The Case of Strasbourg Papyrus 254   Conclusions  9. THE END OF A TRAJECTORY   Ritual Rivalries   Apostolic Constitutions 7.25-26   Conclusions
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