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Didache
Also known as Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
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- founded or start. 1th centurylow · Wikidata P571
- published. 1873high · Wikidata P577
Short church manual (late 1st or early 2nd c.) on the 'two ways', baptism, fasting, the eucharist and itinerant prophets; rediscovered in 1873 in a Constantinople codex.
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The Didache, also known as The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations, is a brief, anonymous early Christian treatise written in Koine Greek, dated by modern scholars to the first or second century AD.
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