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The Fragment on the Mountain: A Note on Didache 9.4a
- Neotestamentica
- New Testament Society of Southern Africa
- Volume 49, Number 1, 2015
- pp. 175-188
- 10.1353/neo.2015.0007
- Article
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Abstract:
This article suggests that Didache 9.4, which makes reference to a fragment that had been scattered on a mountain, and employs this image to refer to the eschatological ingathering of the church, should be understood as an allusion to a tradition held in common with the first and fourth Gospels of a mountainside feeding miracle performed by Jesus. Recognition of such an allusion both illuminates the obscurities of the text and provides a basis for understanding the Didachistic Eucharist as a proleptic participation in the messianic banquet.