The Jewish Pesach and the Origins of the Christian Easter: Open Questions in Current ResearchThe study assesses the main issues in the current debate about the early history of Pesach and Easter and provides new insights into the development of these two festivals. The author argues that the prescriptions of Exodus 12 provide the celebration of the Pesach in Jerusalem with an etiological background in order to connect the pilgrim festival with the story of the Exodus. The thesis that the Christian Easter evolved as a festival against a Jewish form of celebrating Pesach in the second century and that the development of Easter Sunday is dependent upon this custom is endorsed by the author's close study of relevant texts such as the Haggada of Pesach; the "Poem of the four nights" in the Palestinian Targum Tradition; the structure of the Easter vigil. |
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... Rest of Holy Week ? 4.7.1 The ' Service of the Resurrection ' 293 296 4.7.2 The Easter Vigil and the Quartodeciman Pascha 301 4.7.3 Conclusions 313 4.8 Easter Sunday 314 5 The Targum Expansion of the Four Nights 5.1 The VI Contents.
Open Questions in Current Research Clemens Leonhard. 5 The Targum Expansion of the Four Nights 5.1 The Text of the Targum Expansion 317 318 5.2 Contexts of the Palestinian Targum Tradition 325 5.2.1 Forgotten Traditions ? 325 5.2.2 The ...
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