'Garrow's work deserves attention, not only because he has offered an innovative analysis of the composition of the Didache but also because he has argued his own thesis of Matthew's use of Didache with careful attention to detail...fine analytic work.' Prof. John S. Kloppenborg in Biblica

'The most thorough-going and persuasive defence of the independence of the Didache from the gospels to date.'
Prof. Jonathan Draper in Neotestamentica

'The enduring value of Garrow's study is that he has supplied Didache scholars with a pioneering and much-needed investigation. Garrow effectively calls into question all the present literature calculated to demonstrate the dependence of the Didache upon Matthew's Gospel.'
Prof. Aaron Milavec in Catholic Biblical Quarterly

'What I did not dare to do fifty years ago, Garrow accomplishes in this book, namely to ask the question: Why could Matthew not be dependent upon the Didache - in whatever form it existed at the time? This is a great and very fruitful question.'
Prof. Helmut Koester, University of Harvard

'Garrow's thesis is of the greatest interest for those studying Christian origins. The effect of his argument is to reverse the flow of recent assumptions; instead of arguing that the Didache belongs in the tradition dependent upon Matthew's Gospel. Garrow would suggest that Matthew used the Didache.' 
John Court, Senior Lecturer in New Testament, University of Kent at Canterbury

'Alan Garrow's thesis is a bold and highly original one, coming at problems which other scholars have puzzled over from new angles. He writes vigorously and lucidly. If his main argument about the very early date of the Didache is correct, then it is massively important and could change the face of New Testament studies.' 
David Wenham, Dean, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford

'This project is both provocatively original and meticulously argued. Garrow questions issues assumed to be long settled, and does so by means of exacting scholarship which demands to be taken seriously.' 
RT France, formerly Principal, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford