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The present study examines the paschal sermon of Melito of Sardis, entitled Peri Pascha (“On the Passover”) (c. AD 160–170), which, drawing from Exodus 12, proclaims Israel's slaughtered paschal lamb as a “type” of the crucified Christ. Our goal is to examine allusions to anothe…

This study evaluated the view that Jesus’s communal meals, including the Last Supper, were modeled after a Greek symposium. The underlying prerequisite for this notion is the hypothesis that the Greek symposium was a common format from which all communal meals in the Greco-Roman…

This dissertation argues that believer’s baptism by immersion should precede communion as prerequisite to it, due to the explicit example of the New Testament, the assumed pattern that all believers are baptized, and a principle of analogy (continuity) from the necessity of circ…