Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Abbreviations of Ancient Sources -- Preface -- 1. RITUAL AND HISTORY OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC TRADITION -- Accounting for the Didache -- Ritual and History: A Marriage Proposal -- PART I: DIDACHE 9-10 AS RITUAL -- 2. THE LAST SUPPER TRADITION -- The Oral Tradition -- The Textual Fixing of the Supper Tradition -- The Supper Tradition in the Second Century -- Ritual Sensibilities of the Tradition -- 3. THE LOGIC OF THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL -- The Structure of the Prayers -- The Logic of the Fixed Elements -- The Logic of the Variable Elements -- Unknowns -- 4. THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL AND THE LAST SUPPER TRADITION -- Two Ritual Paths -- Common Territory -- Conclusions -- PART II: THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL IN HISTORY -- 5. THE ORIGINAL MILIEU OF DIDACHE 9-10 -- Preliminary: Traditional Jewish Elements in Didache 9-10 -- Instructions in the Didache -- Sayings Collections -- Conclusions -- 6. RITUAL DYNAMICS IN THE DIDACHE'S TRADITIONS -- The Meal Ritual and the Didache's Redaction History -- The Ritual Process in a Developing Community -- 7. THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL AND EARLY PRAYER TRADITIONS IN ROME AND ASIA MINOR -- 'Liturgical Compromises' -- Conclusions -- 8. THE INFLUENCE OF THE DIDACHE'S RITUAL LOGIC IN EGYPT -- Late Egyptian Evidence for the Influence of the Didache's Eucharistic Tradition -- Early Egyptian Evidence -- The Case of Strasbourg Papyrus 254 -- Conclusions -- 9. THE END OF A TRAJECTORY -- Ritual Rivalries -- Apostolic Constitutions 7.25-26 -- Conclusions -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.