jan 1, 100 - Didache

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c. 100; the first known church order; also called the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. Dated early in part because of contested relationship to the Gospel of Matthew.

"Fragments of the Didache were found at Oxyrhyncus (P. Oxy 1782) from the 4th century and in coptic translation (P. Lond. Or. 9271) from 3rd/4th century. Traces of the use of this text, and the high regard it enjoyed, are widespread in the literature of the 2nd and 3rd centuries especially in Syria and Egypt. It was used by the compiler of the Didascalia (2nd/3rd cent CE) and the Liber Graduun (3rd/4th cent CE), as well as being absorbed in toto by the Apostolic Constitutions (c. 3rd/4th cent.) and partially by various Egyptian and Ethiopian church orders, after which it ceased to circulate independently." (modified from J. Draper, Gospel Perspectives, 5.269)

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