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- Title
Twenty-Four Elders: Revelation and the Old Testament Canon in Victorinus and Melito.
- Authors
Stevens, Luke J.
- Abstract
Melito of Sardis, it is here argued, reported an Old Testament canon of twenty-four books (rather than twenty-five) and went on to link this figure with the twenty-four elders in Revelation. From Melito, Victorinus of Poetovio took up this exegesis and eventually added his own variation; it is from him that the Latin tradition knows of these interpretations, along with the count of twenty-four books. Further grounds are examined for linking the writings of Melito and Victorinus, including especially their relation to those of Irenaeus and Papias. A reconsideration of Melito's place in the patristic tradition is also urged, with the suggestion that he wrote his Extracts in Rome ca. 150 and was a pivotal influence in the West.
- Subjects
OLD Testament; VICTORINUS, Saint, Bishop of Poetovio, d. 304; MELITO, Saint, Bishop of Sardis, 2nd century; BIBLICAL criticism; EARLY Christian literature
- Publication
Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2022, Vol 30, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
1067-6341
- Publication type
Article