The lamb's high feast : Melito, Peri Pascha, and the Quartodeciman paschal liturgy at Sardis
Alistair Stewart-Sykes
The purpose of this work is to detennine the place of Melito's Peri Pascha in the paschal liturgy of the Quartodecimans at Sardis. Its conclusion is that Peri Pascha constitutes the two parts of the Quartodeciman liturgy. The first part of the work is a liturgical hom- ily on Exodus 12 which was delivered on the eve of Pascha, and the second half is the text of a commemorative ritual which constituted the celebration of Pascha itself. This conclusion is based on a fonnal examination of the text in the contexts of Graeco-Roman rhetoric and of Jewish and Christian paschal liturgy. On the basis of this classification it is possible to reconstruct the entire Quartodeciman paschal liturgy.
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Volume:
42
Année:
1998
Editeur::
BRILL
Langue:
english
Pages:
246
ISBN 10:
9004112367
ISBN 13:
9789004112360
Collection:
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 42
Fichier:
PDF, 108.63 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1998