Easter in the Early Church: An Anthology of Jewish and Early Christian Texts

Father Cantalamessa has gathered, and commented on, a comprehensive list of texts on Easter in the early Church, describing how and when Easter and the Passover were celebrated. The texts include those of

- Jewish writers (Exodus 12, Deuteronomy 16, Philo of Alexandria),

- New Testament writers (the Gospel writers, Paul),

- Writers of the second century (Esuebius of Caesarea, Hippolytus of Rome)

- Greek writers (Heracleon, Ptolemy, Melito of Sardis, Irenaeus)

- Syrian writers (Ephraem the Syrian, Cyrillonas)

- And Latin writers (Tertullian, Zeno of Verona, Ambrose of Milan)

to name a few.