Didache

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διδαχή (didakhḗ, “teaching”).

Proper noun

Didache

1. (Christianity) An early Christian treatise, written in the first or second century AD. and published in the 19th century.
   • 2008, Jürgen Zangenberg, “Reconstructing the social and religious milieu of the Didache: observations and possible results”, in Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt, Jürgen Zangenberg, editors, Matthew, James, and Didache: Three Related Documents in their Jewish and Christian Settings, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 44:

     Ever since its first publication at the end of the nineteenth century, Didache has attracted scholars because of its—in many ways—unique form and content.