The Lamb's High Feast

Melito, Peri Pascha and the Quartodeciman Paschal Liturgy at Sardis

Bibliographic Data

ID23527239
AuthorsA Stewart-Sykes
Year1998
Publication date1998-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Lamb's High Feast (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004313095
OpenAlexW4255260946
ISBN9789004313095
LanguageEN
Citations received7

The purpose of this work is to determine 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 homily 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 formal examination of the text in the contexts of Graeco-Roman rhetoric and of Jewish and Christian paschal liturgy and theology. This is the first full-length study of Peri Pascha to be published, and the first extensive study of the Quartodecimans since 1953.

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