Seeing Christ through Scriptures at the Paschal Celebration: Exegesis as Mystery Performance in the Paschal Writings of Melito, Pseudo-Hippolytus, and Origen

Drago Andrei Giulea

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21pp. Estratto da "ORIENTALIA CHRISTIANA PERIODICA" 2008. Punto Metallico --- The present article poses the hypothesis that three of the earliest Paschal writings, the first belonging to Melito of Sardis, the second to an anonymous author whom scholars conventionally call Pseudo-Hippolytus, and the third belonging to Origen, may testify to a special exegetical practice. Besides the fact that all three works were part of, or at least had a strong connection with, the complex liturgical feast of Pascha, they also consist in detailed commentaries on Exodus 12 and share various elements such as mystery language and typological parallels. However, the key common element the present paper emphasizes is that the exegetical exercise at the Paschal Festival in the first three centuries in Asia Minor and Alexandria was not conceived of as mere reading and rational enterprise, but rather as a mystery performance through which the one who does the hermeneutical task suffers personal transformation and encounters the concrete, effective though noetic, manifestations of the Logos. It was pivotal for Melito and Pseudo-Hippolytus and probably developed as a polemical reaction to the pagan mysteries practiced in Asia Minor. Origen most likely took over this kind of exegesis from an ongoing tradition, probably via Clement, and also articulated it in a complex elaboration in which the elements of Pascha, liturgy, mystery, and exegesis intertwine.

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• Title: Seeing Christ through Scriptures at the Paschal Celebration: Exegesis as Mystery Performance in the Paschal Writings of Melito, Pseudo-Hippolytus, and Origen
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