Introduction -- Scholarship on early Christian teachers -- Teachers in non-Christian sources -- Sources on Syria -- Sources on Asia Minor -- A source on Rome: The Shepherd of Hermas -- Sources of uncertain location
Summary
"Were the 'didaskaloi' tradents of the Jesus material and therefore guarantors of the historical reliability of the Gospels? And why was their fate so different from that of the rabbis? Alessandro Falcetta tackles these and other challenging questions in his study of one of the most intriguing groups in early Christianity - its teachers - and, by surveying all the earliest sources mentioning them, unveils the first century of their history."--Provided by publisher
Notes
Based on the author's thesis (postdoctoral)--Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose, Bologna, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and indexes
