Readings:

Online source: Didache
Book of Margery Kempe, 135-227 = Book 1, Chapters 41-78, inclusive.

Basic Questions:

1. What passage(s) in the readings did you find particularly interesting? Why? What passage(s) did you not understand?

2. What do the readings reveal about what it meant to be a Christian?

3. What do the readings reveal about the nature of Christianity at the time in which they were produced?

Specific Questions:

4. The Didache means "the teaching". Written around the early second century, it is one of the first documents that give us information about how the early Christians worshipped. What does it tell us about how Christians should live and worship?

5. Choose a particular passage from this week's reading of the Book of Margery Kempe that you find particularly interesting / relevant to our course / perplexing. It could be one or more sentences, a paragraph, or an entire chapter. Come to tutorial prepared to read out the passage. Why did you choose this passage?

6. What elements of The Book of Margery Kempe are already familiar to you from other readings or from the lectures? Identify as many as you can.

7. The first paragraph of Chapter 58 can serve as useful point of departure for discussing the first essay question for your final papers. How would you analyze The Book of Margery Kempe in light of this statement: "The Bible was an indispensable resource for the development of Christianity"? How would you deal with The Book of Margery Kempe in a broader discussion of the role of the Bible in the other primary sources that we have read?