Asia
Melito of Sardis
Title- The name of the book in American English
Melito of Sardis
Text Type Source - The name of the document volume or collection
On Pascha
Traditional Source -
Sardis, Turkey
Thesis -The nomenclature of the books (scrolls) in English or as found in other sources.
Around 160-170 AD this bishop lists 25 books of the old testament plus one apocrypha
Description-
Sardis no longer exists but the area is near Salihli in the Manisa province of Turkiye. Sardis was the capital of the Lydian kingdom and was the first city where coins were minted. It later became an important city under the Roman Empire. Possibly Bishop Melito lived among a highly populated Jewish community, and therefore he tries to distinguish Johannine Christianity from the non-Christian Judaism (Tannaim teachers)
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