jan 1, 300 - Earliest Fragments of the Didache

Description:

Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1782
Late 4th century (around AD 300s)
Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Contains portions of Didache 1–3

About the Didache, informed by complete manuscript from Codex Hierosolymitanus, written June 11, AD1056, copied by Leo the Notary (Leon the Sinner), discovered in 1883:

- "The Teaching of the Lord Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations"
- Didache (“Teaching” in Greek)
- Church manual / instruction document
Date: Usually dated CIRCA. between AD 70–120, but many scholars favor AD 80–100
-Origin of Syria or nearby eastern Mediterranean regions
-Often associated with Antioch-area Christianity

The Didache gives us one of the earliest surviving descriptions of:
- baptism
- communion/Eucharist
- fasting practices
- prayer routines
- church leadership
- itinerant prophets and apostles
- moral teaching
- expectations about the end times
- One of the closest things we have to a “church handbook” from primitive Christianity.

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