Jewish Pesach and the Origins of the Christian Easter: Open Questions in Current Research (Studia Judaica / Forschungen Zur Wissenschaft Des Judentums) by Clemens Leonhard
English | Nov 16, 2006 | ISBN: 3110188570 | ISBN-13: 978-3110188578 | 507 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
The 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