The Ancient Church Order Literature: Genre or Tradition?

Joseph G. Mueller

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The ancient Christian texts frequently called "church orders" do not fit this label well, and attempts to define a single literary genre for these texts have proven problematic. One can consider them as witnesses to a tradition of ecclesiological Old Testament exegesis that conceives itself as apostolic. This becomes clear by an extension to all these texts of insights from recent studies on the Didascalia apostolorum and the Apostolic Constitutions. This move makes it possible to group these texts with many others that witness to this same tradition, which maintains a dynamic contact with ancient Jewish exegesis.

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1993The Anchor Bible Dictionary 1994The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English 2001The Didascalia Apostolorum: A Mishnah for the Disciples of Jesus 1995The Didache in context : essays on its text, history and transmission 1990Tradition and Composition in the Epistula Apostolorum 1997The Didache in Modern Research 1996Dictionary of Judaism in the biblical period: 450 B.C.E. to 600 C.E

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