The lost “De Baptismo” of Melito? Text and English translation online

As I mentioned a day or two ago, Alin Suciu has proposed that a Coptic text in a papyrus in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow is in fact the remains of a lost work by the 2nd century writer Melito of Sardis. His article will appear in Adamantius sometime later this year or early next. But the first page of it is on Academia.edu here, and begins as follows: In the early 1990s, Alla Elanskaya published a fragmentary Sahidic papyrus codex housed at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow[1]. The manuscript contains a homily which provides elaborate speculations on baptism, the elements, and the human being as a microcosm of creation. The authorship of the homily remains uncertain due to the dilapidated condition of the manuscript and the absence of its initial section, which presumably contained the title and author. Elanskaya tentatively titled the text the Treatise on the Symbolics of Baptism and the Elements, based on the surviving contents. Despite its sophisticated theology, the homily published by…