The architecture and liturgy of the bema in fourth- to-sixth-century Syrian churches / by Emma Loosley.

• Author: Loosley, Emma.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: New ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of London, 2001.; Previously published: Kaslik, Liban : Parole de l'Orient, 2003.

First published in 2003 this is a new edition of a work that remains the only study of the nave platform known as the Syrian Bema to utilise an interdisciplinary approach. By combining archaeological and architectural research with a study of the Syriac Liturgy to explore how worship evolved on the...