Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvBrouria Bitton-Ashkelony,Derek Krueger

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Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries forges a new conversation about the diversity of Christianities in the medieval eastern Mediterranean, centered on the history of practice, looking at liturgy, performance, prayer, poetry, and the material culture of worship. It studies prayer and worship in the variety of Christian communities that thrived from late antiquity to the middle ages: Byzantine Orthodoxy, Syrian Orthodoxy, and the Church of the East. Rather than focusing on doctrinal differences and analyzing divergent patterns of thought, the essays address common patterns of worship, individual and collective prayer, hymnography and liturgy, as well as the indigenous theories that undergirded Christian practices. The volume intervenes in standard academic discourses about Christian difference with an exploration of common patterns of celebration, commemoration, and self-discipline.Essays by both established and promising, younger scholars interrogate elements of continuity and change over time – before and after the rise of Islam, both under the control of the Eastern Roman Empire and in the lands of successive caliphates. Groups distinct in their allegiances nevertheless shared a common religious heritage and recognized each other – even in their differences – as kinds of Christianity. A series of chapters explore the theory and practice of prayer from Greco-Roman late antiquity to the Syriac middle ages, highlighting the transmission of monastic discourses about prayer, especially among Syrian and Palestinian ascetic teachers. Another set of essays examines localization of prayer within churches through inscriptions, donations, dedications, and incubation. Other chapters treat the composition and transmission of hymns to adorn the liturgy and articulate the emotions of the Christian calendar, structuring liturgical and eschatological time.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-12
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt610 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367881290

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List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgments Abbreviations List of ContributorsIntroduction - Prayer, Worship, and Ritual PracticeBrouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Derek KruegerChapter 1 - Theories of Prayer in Late Antiquity: Doubts and Practices from Maximos of Tyre to Isaac of NinevehBrouria Bitton-AshkelonyChapter 2 - Prayer and the Body according to Isaac of NinevehSabino ChialàChapter 3 - Psalms and Prayer in Syriac Monasticism: Clues from Psalter Prefaces and their Greek SourcesColumba StewartChapter 4 - Expressions of Prayer in Late Antique Inscriptions in the Provinces of Palaestina and Arabia Leah Di Segni Chapter 5 - Renovation and the Early Byzantine Church: Staging Past and PrayerAnn Marie YasinChapter 6 - The Power of the Eucharist in Early Medieval Syria: Grant for Salvation or Magical Medication?Volker Menze Chapter 7 - The Transmission of Liturgical Joy in Byzantine Hymns for EasterDerek KruegerChapter 8 - Greek Kanons and the Syrian Orthodox LiturgyJack TannousChapter 9 - Various Orthodoxies: Feasts of the Incarnation of Christ in Jerusalem during the First Christian MillenniumDaniel GaladzaChapter 10 - The Therapy for Grief and the Practice of Incubation in Early Medieval Palestine: The Evidence of the Syriac Story of a Woman from JerusalemSergey MinovChapter 11 - Apocalyptic Poems in Christian and Jewish Liturgy in Late AntiquityHillel I. NewmanBibliographyIndex

"... [the volume] offers a kaleidoscopic sense of the variety of work being done in this field by some of the most notable scholars of the current moment ... [if] one wants a sense of some of the high level, solidly executed work being done in the field of early Christian liturgical studies by European and American academics, this is an excellent source."- Laura Lieber, Duke University, USA, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017"Prayer and worship in the present volume are theoretically approached as expressions of religious identity, inextricably linked to theological speculation and doctrinal formulation, engendered by the remarkable diversity of local traditions within the geographical span of Eastern Christianities.The contributors to the volume cover specific topics of interest, study influential personalities and spatial frameworks.[...] It is certain that this book has initiated a number of discussions that will be further advanced in the future."-Niki Tsironi, Byzantina Symmeikta, ePublishingEKT