From what I can gather from Wikipedia (search made in 2019), the Apostolic Constitutions drew from the following five main sources:Whiston based his work on Arabic manuscripts, with the help of an Orientalist scholar. It was somewhat controversial but essentially sound.
The original 1711 has no preface, and no introductory notes, so my question is still: what greek text was Whiston working off in 1711? It puts to a lie that "consensus" / Wickedpaedia slogan that Codex Hierosolymitanus was the first complete copy of the Didache. What am I missing here? ….
Has anyone compared Whiston's text with the Codex Hierosolymitanus/Donaldson Didache?
If you search books with:
“Didache” “Whiston” “1711”
You get about five good history discussions.
I will plan on collating them here and on the PBF.
DCH• Books 1 to 6 are a free re-wording of the Didascalia Apostolorum
• Book 7 is partially based on the Didache.
• Book 8 is composed as follows:
o chapters 1-2 contain an extract of a lost treatise on the charismata
o chapters 3-46 are based on the Apostolic Tradition, greatly expanded, along with other material
o chapter 47 is known as the Canons of the Apostles and it had a wider circulation than the rest of the book.
• Books 7 & 8, besides that which derives from the sources indicated above, are interspersed with 16 prayers that bear striking similarity to Jewish Synagogal prayers: Book 7.26.1-3 (1); 33.2-7 (2); 34.1-8 (3); 35.1-10 (4); 36.1-7 (5); 37.1-5 (6); 38.1-8 (7); 39.2-4 (8); Book 8.5.1-4 (9); 6.5-8 (10); 9.8f (11); 12.6-27 (12); 15.7-9 (13); 16.3 (14); 40.2-4 (15) and 41.2-5 (16).
Unfortunately, like all things Wiki, there is confusion.
• When I [at that time, went] to to the Wiki pages for the Didascalia Apostolorum and the Apostolic Canons, they were both said to derive from the Didache in some way.
• The Apostolic Tradition seems to have not survived in Greek, only Syriac and Ethiopic.
• What passes for the Ethiopic of the Didascalia may be a "Readers' Digest" version of the Greek Apostolic Constitutions. [Some of this has been reformatted since original BC&H post in 2019]
Statistics: Posted by DCHindley — Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:24 am