Breaking the fast: the central moment of the paschal celebration in historical context and diachronic perspective

Breaking the fast is the central moment and core symbol of the Christian paschal celebration both in the quartodeciman and in the dominical traditions. While it appears constitutive for the quartodeciman celebration to break the fast after the conclusion of the Jewish Passover meal, which terminates...

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1. VerfasserIn: Buchinger, Harald 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2017
In: Sanctifying texts, transforming rituals
Jahr: 2017, Seiten: 191-205
weitere Schlagwörter:B Easter
B Paschal Vigil
B Quartodecimanism
B Dominical Easter
B Pascha
B Paschal Fast
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Zusammenfassung:Breaking the fast is the central moment and core symbol of the Christian paschal celebration both in the quartodeciman and in the dominical traditions. While it appears constitutive for the quartodeciman celebration to break the fast after the conclusion of the Jewish Passover meal, which terminates in the late evening, the mimetic link of the dominical Easter to the resurrection and to the discovery of the empty tomb on Sunday morning motivates a full-night vigil. Providing the putative historical priority of the quartodeciman celebration, it may therefore be possible that the paschal vigil originated as an extension of an evening celebration and not the latter as a reduction of the former, which in consequence would contribute to explaining puzzles posed not only by some early witnesses but also of fourth century sources that testify to dominical paschal vigils celebrated on Saturday evening.
Beschreibung:Abweichende Seitenzahlen in der Manuskriptversion: Seite 1-16
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 13-16
ISBN:9004347089
Enthält:Enthalten in: Sanctifying texts, transforming rituals
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.15496/publikation-69700
HDL: 10900/128337