As part of my new book, The Teaching of the Twelve: Believing & Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community, the editor, Jon Sweeney, and I wrote a new translation of the Didache. If you don’t know what the Didache is, um, well, buy the book! In short, it’s a little handbook of Christian life from a very early Christian community — I date it before the gospels.
We’re going to make our translation available for free, via a Creative Commons License, next week. Until then, I offer you my reading of our translation (17 minutes, mp3 file).
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Wow, thank you Tony !!!
Tony- When does your book come out? I haven’t been able to find it anywhere.
Ann,
It’s available now on amazon — click on the book cover in the right column. We hope it’ll ship this week, so it should be available everywhere by next week.
Makes a great Christmas gift!
T
I’m excited to read it! Listening to the translation was interesting – some of it sounded fairly bizzare (identifying “false prophets” by how long they stay in the town), hopefully the book will shed some light on those sections.
Thanks for sharing this. Very cool.
I hear its gonna be a great book!
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