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Author of the Didache

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Anonymous compiler of the 'Teaching of the Twelve Apostles' (Didache), an early church manual on ethics, baptism, eucharist, and ministry. Likely Syrian, late 1st or early 2nd century.

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Sources for biography

  • Didache (entire) primary
  • Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. 3.25 primary

documented connections(1)

  • cited Jesus of Nazareth
    The Didache cites the Lord's Prayer and dominical sayings 'as the Lord commanded in his Gospel'.
    Didache 8, 9, 11, 15

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