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Prayer and worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th centuries / edited by Derek Krueger and Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Taylor & Francis eBooksEdition: First [edition]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 312 pages.)ISBN:
  • 9781315601977 (electronic bk.)
  • 1315601974 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 248.3088/2815 23
LOC classification:
  • BX107 .P729 2017
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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