The Peri Pascha Attributed to Melito of Sardis: Setting, Purpose, Sources

Melito’s Peri Pascha 1–5 as Recovered from a ‘Lost’ Leaf of Papyrus Bodmer XIII

The Journal of Theological Studies ◽

10.1093/jts/flx156 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 68 (2) ◽

pp. 576-592

Author(s):

Brent Nongbri ◽

Stuart George Hall

Keyword(s):

Greek Text ◽

Critical Text ◽

New Material ◽

Peri Pascha

Abstract The purpose of this article is to present some new material on the Greek text of Melito. In what follows, Brent Nongbri will describe the rediscovery of the first leaf of the Greek copy of Melito’s Peri Pascha in the Bodmer collection and discuss its place in the codex of which it is a part. We shall then jointly present a transcript of the text, supplemented where it is damaged with material from other sources and the published critical text. A new critical text follows, with notes in explanation. Finally we offer a new translation of the sections concerned.

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Deux nouveaux témoins coptes du «peri Pascha» de Méliton de Sardes - 318 ou 319 Pères de Nicées? - En marge de la "Vision de Dorotheos"

Analecta Bollandiana ◽

10.1484/j.abol.4.01486 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 102 (3-4) ◽

pp. 383-398

Author(s):

Enzo Lucchesi

Keyword(s):

Peri Pascha

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Encore un temoin copte du "Peri Pascha" de Meliton de Sardes

Vigiliae Christianae ◽

10.2307/1583996 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 290

Author(s):

Enzo Lucchesi

Keyword(s):

Peri Pascha

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Melito of Sardis's PERI PASCHA and Its “Israel”

Harvard Theological Review ◽

10.1017/s0017816000016291 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 91 (4) ◽

pp. 351-372 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lynn Cohick

Keyword(s):

Second Century ◽

Early Christian ◽

Right Hand ◽

Anti Jewish ◽

Peri Pascha

When Peri Pascha 96–97 proclaims, “The God has been murdered; the King of Israel has been put to death by an Israelite right hand” ( θες πεϕόνευταιׁ βασιλεὺςτο ᾽Ισραλ νῄρηται ὑπ δεξις ᾽Ισραηλίτιδος), along with similar accusations, the author is said to reflect the very worst in early Christian reactions to, or jealousy of, contemporary Jews. Moreover, because this homily is commonly attributed to Melito, a second-century Quartodeciman bishop of Sardis, its anti-Jewish remarks are also frequently discussed from this perspective. In this article, I call both of these lines of interpretation into question and offer an alternative.

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