Prayer and worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th centuries /
Prayer and worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th centuries /
edited by Derek Krueger and Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony.
- First [edition].
- 1 online resource (xvii, 312 pages.) :
- Taylor & Francis eBooks .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-296) and index.
Introduction: prayer, worship, and ritual practice -- Theories of prayer in late antiquity: doubts and practices from maximos of Tre to Isaac of Nineveh -- Prayer and the body according to Isaac of Nineveh -- Psalms and prayer in Syriac monasticism: clues from the Psalter prefaces and their Greek sources -- Expressions of prayer in late antique inscriptions in the provinces of palaestina and Arabia -- Renovation and the early Byzantine church: staging past and prayer -- The power of the eucharist in early medieval Syra: grant for salvation of magical medication? -- The transmission of liturgical joy in Byzantine hymns for Easter -- Greek kanons and the Syrian Orthodox liturgy -- Various orthodoxies: feasts of the incarnation of Christ in Jerusalem during the first Christian millennium -- The therapy for grief and the practice of incubation in early medieval Palestine: the evidence of the Syriac Story of a woman from Jerusalem -- Apocalyptic poems in Christian and Jewish liturgy.
Electronic reproduction.
London
Available via World Wide Web.
9781315601977 (electronic bk.) 1315601974 (electronic bk.)
40026593303
Prayer--Orthodox Eastern Church.
Prayer--Oriental Orthodox Churches.
Eastern churches--Liturgy.
BX107 / .P729 2017
248.3088/2815
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-296) and index.
Introduction: prayer, worship, and ritual practice -- Theories of prayer in late antiquity: doubts and practices from maximos of Tre to Isaac of Nineveh -- Prayer and the body according to Isaac of Nineveh -- Psalms and prayer in Syriac monasticism: clues from the Psalter prefaces and their Greek sources -- Expressions of prayer in late antique inscriptions in the provinces of palaestina and Arabia -- Renovation and the early Byzantine church: staging past and prayer -- The power of the eucharist in early medieval Syra: grant for salvation of magical medication? -- The transmission of liturgical joy in Byzantine hymns for Easter -- Greek kanons and the Syrian Orthodox liturgy -- Various orthodoxies: feasts of the incarnation of Christ in Jerusalem during the first Christian millennium -- The therapy for grief and the practice of incubation in early medieval Palestine: the evidence of the Syriac Story of a woman from Jerusalem -- Apocalyptic poems in Christian and Jewish liturgy.
Electronic reproduction.
London
Available via World Wide Web.
9781315601977 (electronic bk.) 1315601974 (electronic bk.)
40026593303
Prayer--Orthodox Eastern Church.
Prayer--Oriental Orthodox Churches.
Eastern churches--Liturgy.
BX107 / .P729 2017
248.3088/2815