“The Teaching of These Words”: Intertextuality, Social Identity, and Early Christianity

Jonathan A. Draper, Ph.D. (1984), Cambridge, is Professor Emeritus, University of Natal. He has published widely on topics in the New Testament and early Christianity as well as on subjects for the contemporary church. He is currently writing a new commentary on the Didache.Nancy D. Pardee, Ph.D. (2002), University of Chicago, is administrator for the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago. She has publications in biblical and early Christian studies, including The Genre and Development of the “Didache” (Mohr Siebeck, 2012).Shawn J. Wilhite, Ph.D. (2023), Durham University, is Associate Professor of New Testament at California Baptist University. He has published monographs and articles in the field of Early Christianity and Patristics, including The Didache: A Commentary (Cascade, 2019).

• Clayton N. Jefford: A Brief BiographySusan Sanders JeffordAbbreviationsIntroductionShawn J. Wilhite1 Diverse and Contrasting Values of Priesthood in Second-Century Christian TextsJoseph G. Mueller, S.J.2 The Social Identity of the Travelers between the Early Communities of Jesus-FollowersThomas O’Loughlin3 Ritual Practice and Identity Formation in Early ChristianityJonathan Schwiebert4 “An Image in Place of an Image”: The Search for Meaning and the Formation of IdentityStephen J. Patterson5 Paul’s Epistle to the Romans and the Catechesis of Gentiles in the DidacheJonathan A. Draper6 Salvation by One Step or Two? The Didache, Acts and the Background to GalatiansAlan Garrow7 The “Yoke of the Lord” and the Community of the Didache: The Debate ContinuesNancy D. Pardee8 “You Must Love Those Who Hate You”: Social Oppression and the Sectio evangelica in the Didache’s Two WaysShawn J. Wilhite9 Reading Community: Election, Salvation History, and Christian Identity in 1 ClementStephen O. Presley10 Abraham’s 318 Circumcised Men and the Figure of Eliezer (Lazarus) in Barnabas 9.8Clare K. Rothschild11 Ritual Practice and Social Formation in Mark and Ignatius of AntiochCharles A. Bobertz12 Christian Identity through a Threefold Declaration in the Martyrdom of PolycarpPaul Anthony Hartog13 Apocalyptic and Social Identity in the Second Century: Irenaeus’s Reading of John’s ApocalypseD. Jeffrey BinghamClayton N. Jefford’s Academic Publications and ContributionsIndex