Literature or liturgy?: early Christian hymns and prayers in their literary and liturgical context in antiquity
Information about Ancient Christianity is preserved in literary texts. These sources contain passages that became liturgical texts during their history of reception while the context or form of some of them could suggest their ritualized use in the churches of New Testament times. The essays in this...
| Published in: | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
2014
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| In: |
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (363)
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| Reviews: | Literature or Liturgy?Early Christian Hymns and Prayers in Their Literary and Liturgical Context in Antiquity (2015) (Lehnardt, Andreas)
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| Series/Journal: | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
363 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church
/ Prayer
/ Hymn
/ Literature
/ Liturgy
B Hymn / Liturgy / Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Liturgy and literature
B Conference program 2009 (Münster, Westfalen) B Electronic books |
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| Summary: | Information about Ancient Christianity is preserved in literary texts. These sources contain passages that became liturgical texts during their history of reception while the context or form of some of them could suggest their ritualized use in the churches of New Testament times. The essays in this volume elaborate on the question of how ancient pieces of liturgy might be found in the extant literature. It also asks how readers of these literary texts can avert the risk of anachronistic reconstructions of ancient liturgies. The topics of this collection range from Jewish Early Medieval poetry to Ancient Greek hymns. The papers discuss the physical appearance of prayer texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls, the performative aspects of texts as they are visible in the Old Testament Suspected Adulteress ritual, as well as prayer texts in the Psalms of Solomon and in the Acts of Thomas. All those lines of research in texts and methods intersect in the conceptual center of the volume: the question of liturgy in the literature of the New Testament which is also debated in detail. Reihe Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe - Band 363. Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Ralph Brucker: "Songs", "Hymns", and "Encomia" in the New Testament? -- Bibliography -- Naomi Janowitz: Water, Word, and Name: The Shifting Pragmatics of the Sotah/ Suspected Adulteress Ritual -- The Biblical Version of the Suspected Adulteress Rite -- The Suspected Adulteress Revisited: A Medieval Version -- Bibliography -- Daniel K. Falk: Material Aspects of Prayer Manuscripts at Qumran -- Material Culture of Prayer in the Greco-Roman World -- Evaluation of KLINGHARDT's Argument -- Liturgical Manuscripts From Qumran -- Writing Material -- Opisthographs -- Scroll Dimensions -- Excursus: The Tefillin -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Stefan Schreiber: Can Wisdom Be Prayer? Form and Function of the Psalms of Solomon -- 1. A Liturgical Use of PsSol? -- 2. Superscripts in the PsSol -- 3. The literary forms of the PsSol -- 4. The Structure of the Collection -- 5. Conclusions: The Sitz im Leben of PsSol -- Bibliography -- Michael Rand: Fundamentals of the Study of Piyyut -- 1. Definition -- 2. Jewish Liturgy -- 3. Typological Dating -- 4. Pre-Classical Piyyut: Liturgical, Formal and Literary Characteristics -- 5. The Relationship between Classical Piyyut and the Liturgy -- 6. The Major Poetic Innovation of Classical Piyyut -- 7. The Performance of Classical Piyyut -- Bibliography -- Didier Pralon: Les hymnes grecs païens de l'époque hellénistique et romaine -- 1. L'hymne d'Antagoras à Éros -- 2. Le péan érythréen, égyptien de Ptolémaïs, athénien, macédonien de Dion, à Asclépios -- 3. Le péan érythréen à Apollon -- Conclusion -- Résumé -- Bibliographie -- Hermut Löhr: What can we know about the Beginnings of Christian Hymnody? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology I: Literature and Oral Tradition -- 3. Methodology II: What is a Hymn? -- 4. Early Christian Terminology -- 5. Hymnodic Practice. |
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| ISBN: | 3161532198 |