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On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Quartodecimans were early Christians who maintained the tradition derived from Judaism, and observed Pascha on the same occasion that the Jews observed Passover. In this work, Alistair Stewart-Sykes, the leading authority on Melito and the Quartodecimans, presents a unique collection of material in a format ideal for classroom use as well as for the general reader. At the head of this...

suggest that the notice in Eusebius is of little help in dating On Pascha. Nonetheless we may gather from the dating of the Apology and from Melito’s position in Polycrates’ catalogue that Melito flourished in the third quarter of the second century. Thirdly we may deduce from Polycrates’ statements here that Melito was Jewish by birth. Polycrates lists seven great lights of Asia who had been Quartodecimans, and then adds himself as a “supernumerary eighth.” The particular great lights enumerated
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