1st Edition
Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction - Prayer, Worship, and Ritual Practice
Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Derek Krueger
Chapter 1 - Theories of Prayer in Late Antiquity: Doubts and Practices from Maximos of Tyre to Isaac of Nineveh
Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
Chapter 2 - Prayer and the Body according to Isaac of Nineveh
Sabino Chialà
Chapter 3 - Psalms and Prayer in Syriac Monasticism: Clues from Psalter Prefaces and their Greek Sources
Columba Stewart
Chapter 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 Prayer
Ann Marie Yasin
Chapter 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 Easter
Derek Krueger
Chapter 8 - Greek Kanons and the Syrian Orthodox Liturgy
Jack Tannous
Chapter 9 - Various Orthodoxies: Feasts of the Incarnation of Christ in Jerusalem during the First Christian Millennium
Daniel Galadza
Chapter 10 - The Therapy for Grief and the Practice of Incubation in Early Medieval Palestine: The Evidence of the Syriac Story of a Woman from Jerusalem
Sergey Minov
Chapter 11 - Apocalyptic Poems in Christian and Jewish Liturgy in Late Antiquity
Hillel I. Newman
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony is Associate Professor and Martin Buber Chair in Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Derek Krueger is the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.
"... [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
