Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: -- Part 1: Approaches to the Text as a Whole -- Identity in the Didache Community -- Authority and Perspective in the Didache -- The Distress Signals of Didache Research -- Children and Slaves in the Community -- Reflections on the Didache and Its Community -- Part 2: Leadership and Liturgy -- Baptism and Holiness -- The Lord's Prayer -- Pray "In This Way" -- The Ritual Meal in Didache 9-10 -- Response to Essays on Leadership and Liturgy -- Part 3: The Didache and Matthew -- Before and after Matthew -- The Sectio Evangelica -- The Didache and Oral Theory -- From the Sermon on the Mount to the Didache -- The Lord Jesus and His Coming in the Didache -- Matthew and the Didache -- Part 4: The Didache and Other Early Christian Texts -- Without Decree -- Another Gospel -- The First Century Two Ways Catechesis -- The Didache and Revelation -- The Didache as a Source for the Reconstruction of Early Christianity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Primary Texts -- Index of Modern Authors.