Origin of the Eucharist the "Didache", "1 Clement" and Ignatius of Antioch provide glimpses of what Christians were doing in their eucharists. Later sources, Tertullian and the "Apostolic Tradition", offer some details from around the year 200. Once the Church "went public" after the conversion of Constantine the Great in the second decade of the fourth century, it was clear that the Eucharist was established as a central part of Christian life. Contemporary scholars debate whether Jesus meant to institute a ritual at his Last Supper; whether the Last Supper was an actual historical event in any way related to the undisputed early "Lord's
Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture up with early Jewish-Christian polemics. Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture This brief article distinguishes the various terms used to describe (Jew)ish and (Christian)ity scripture. Several terms refer to the same material, although sometimes rearranged. For Jews, the Bible means... Judaism has traditionally held that, along with the Torah, God revealed a series of instructions on how to interpret and apply the Torah. The Torah is referred to as the "written law", while the additional instructions were known as the "Oral law". By the second century CE Jewish sages began writing down interpretations of the Bible; Orthodox Jews consider these