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The Apostolic Tradition (or ''Egyptian Church Order'') is an early Christian treatise which belongs to ''genre'' of the Church Orders. It has been described as of "incomparable importance as a source of information about church life and liturgy in the third century". Re-discovered in the 19th century, it was given the name of ''Egyptian Church Order''. In the first half of 20th century this text was unanimously identified with the lost ''Apostolic Tradition'' presumed by Hippolytus of Rome. Due to this attribution, this manual played a crucial role in the liturgical reforms of main mainstream Christian bodies. Recent scholarship has highly contested this attribution. If the Apostolic Tradition was work of Hippolytus, it could be dated about AD 215 and its origin would be Rome. On the contrary recent scholars (see Bradshaw〔) believe that it contains material of separate sources ranging from the middle second to the fourth century, being gathered and compiled on about AD 375-400, probably in Egypt or even to Syria. Some scholars also suggest that the ''Apostolic Tradition'' portrays a liturgy that was never celebrated. ==Manuscript Tradition== The text of the Apostolic Tradition was part of two main ancient collections of the Church Orders, the Alexandrine Sinodos and the Verona Palimpsest. The Alexandrine Sinodos was re-discovered in the 19th century: the Bohairic Coptic version was published in 1848 by Tattam, the Sahidic Coptic version was published in 1883 by Paul de Lagarde, the Ge'ez and Arabic versions in 1904 by George William Horner. The second text found in these version was named by the publishers ''Egyptian Church Order'' and corresponds to what is now usually known as ''Apostolic Tradition''. The text was also part of the Latin collection known as Verona Palimpsest, where it takes the third position. This version was published in 1900 by Edmund Hauler but only half of the text was preserved. A critical edition was produced by Gregory Dix in 1937,〔Gregory Dix ''The Treatise on the Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus of Rome'' London 1937, reprinted with correction by Alban Press, 1995 ISBN 978-0-7007-0232-9〕 and in 1946 by B. Botte〔B. Botte, ''La Tradition Apostolique de S. Hippolyte'', SChr 11, Paris 1946〕 Fragments〔cod. Ochrid 86 f. 192 of National Museum of Ochrid, and gr. 900 f. 112 of National Museum of Paris〕 which contain chapter 36 of the probable Greek original text were found by M. Richard in 1975〔M. Richard, ''Opera minora'', I, Leuven-Tournhout 1976, pages 52-53〕 One of this fragments includes the probable original title of the text, ''Diataxis (Ordinances) of the Holy Apostles''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apostolic Tradition」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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