The Lamb's High Feast

Melito, Peri Pascha and the Quartodeciman Paschal Liturgy at Sardis
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-11236-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stewart-Sykes, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage

Über Autor(innen)

Alistair Stewart-Sykes, Ph.D. (1992), University of Birmingham, is an Anglican priest. Formerly on the staff of Codrington College Barbados, he is now Assistant Professor of Liturgics at the General Theological Seminary in New York.