The Didascalia Apostolorum: An English Version with Introduction and Annotation. By Alistair Stewart-Sykes
Late ancient church order literature has enjoyed a cautious revival of scholarly interest in recent years—a trend that has been encouraged by the availability of user-friendly editions and translations of the texts in question. Alistair Stewart-Sykes’s annotated English version of the Didascalia Apo...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 788-790 |
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Book review
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| Summary: | Late ancient church order literature has enjoyed a cautious revival of scholarly interest in recent years—a trend that has been encouraged by the availability of user-friendly editions and translations of the texts in question. Alistair Stewart-Sykes’s annotated English version of the Didascalia Apostolorum (DA) is the most recent contribution to this phenomenon. The explicit aim of Stewart-Sykes’s project is not the creation of a translation akin to that published by Vööbus in 1979, which seeks to stick as closely as possible to the Syriac manuscripts. Instead, like R. Hugh Connolly before him, Stewart-Sykes aims to provide a translation ‘for those whose primary interest is not in philology but in ecclesiastical history, liturgy, and/or early Judaism’ (p. 90). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq097 |