TY - BOOK AU - Krueger,Derek AU - Bitton-Ashkelony,Bruria ED - Taylor & Francis. TI - Prayer and worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th centuries SN - 9781315601977 (electronic bk.) AV - BX107 .P729 2017 U1 - 248.3088/2815 23 KW - Prayer KW - Orthodox Eastern Church KW - Oriental Orthodox Churches KW - Eastern churches KW - Liturgy N1 - 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 UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315601977 ER -