Strasbourg papyrus

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Not to be confused with the Strasbourg papyrus containing portions of Empedocles' philosophical poem.

The Strasbourg papyrus is a

Eucharistic Prayer
known.

Since the 1970s many scholars started to think that this prayer is in itself a complete anaphora,[2][3][4] even if this assumption has been challenged after the publication of the Barcelona Papyrus.[5] The structure of such a prayer is very different from the thanksgiving over the wine and bread as found in chapter 9 and 10 of the Didache. Actually there is not even a mention of any food; nor does it present the Sanctus, nor an anamnesis nor an epiclesis and not even the Words of Institution. This text is anyway considered to include the base structure that we can find later in many other famous anaphoras.

Content

The Strasbourg Papyrus starts with a praise the

Alexandrine anaphoras. It continues with a reference to Jesus Christ the Saviour, followed by we offer the reasonable (λογικὴν) sacrifice and this bloodless worship (ref. Romans 12:1) and by the quotation of Malachi 1:11
.

The second part starts with the simple sentence Sacrifice of incense and offering., and it is followed by an intercession prayer for many different subjects, as the Church, the army, the princes, the souls of those who have fallen asleep, the orthodox fathers and the bishops. Unlike the intercessions in the Didache, here the prayer is not only for those who participated the liturgy, but it intercedes more generally. The Papyrus leaf ends with a doxology.

References

  1. ^ Michel Andrieu and Paul Collomp Fragments sur papyrus de l'anaphore de Saint Marc, in Revue des sciences religieuses, pag 500-501, 1928
  2. ISBN 0-8146-6153-X
    (1997)
  3. ISBN 0-8146-6119-X
    (1995)
  4. ISBN 0-8146-6085-1
    (1987), pag 52
  5. ISSN 0042-6032.[permanent dead link
    ]
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