Download or read book The Gospel of Matthew's Dependence on the Didache written by Alan Garrow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps the relationship between Matthew's Gospel and the Didache. No consensus regarding the nature of this relationship has yet been achieved, neither has serious consideration been given to the possibility that Matthew depended directly on the Didache. If it may be shown that such was the case, then this infamously enigmatic text may finally be used to answer a series of tantalizing questions: what is the pattern of the Synoptic relationships? How did the earliest Jewish Christians incorporate Gentiles? What was the shape of Eucharistic worship in the first century?