Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity : : Essays in Honour of Anders Ekenberg’s 75th Birthday / / edited by Carl Johan Berglund, Barbara Crostini, and James A. Kelhoffer.
This volume sheds new light on an array of late ancient Christian liturgical sources, practices, and traditions emerges from these multidisciplinary studies on the interplay of New Testament writings, ancient music, liturgical spaces, biblical interpretation, and reception history.
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| Superior document: | Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements ; 177 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (626 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- 1. Introduction: Early Christian Liturgical Traditions (Brodd and Kelhoffer)
- Part 1. Lyrics: Liturgy and Language in the New Testament
- 2. Liturgical Influences on the Text of the New Testament (Wasserman)
- 3. Zwei urchristliche Taufformeln (Hellholm)
- 4. "Beginning with Moses and All the Prophets": Proclamation and Narrative Progression in Three Speeches by Peter in Acts (Acts 2:14-40
- 3:12-26
- 4:8-12) (Gustafsson)
- 5. Celebrating the Exodus: A Key to the Prophetic Message of the Apocalypse (Ulfgard)
- 6. "For an Intelligible Reading": A Colometrical Version of First John (Olsson)
- Part 2. Leitmotifs: Liturgical Themes in Other Early Christian Literature
- 7. Passing the Audition: Mode and Harmony in Ignatius of Antioch's Chorus (Eph. 4.2
- Rom. 2.2) (Kelhoffer)
- 8. Liturgies as Plot Devices in Apocryphal Acts (Berglund)
- 9. Didache 1-6, a Coherent Composition in the Same Tradition as the Gospel of Matthew (Holmstrand)
- 10. Praxeas und die Ausbreitung des „Monarchianismus" in Rom zwischen Migration, innerchristlichen Konflikten und der Entstehung der „Orthodoxie" (Handl)
- 11. Der Stellenwert der Dichtung und das Lob Gottes bei Laktanz (Wifstrand Schiebe)
- 12. Baptism and the Problem of Sin in Pistis Sophia (Spjut)
- 13. Childlike Play in the Liturgical Writings of Dionysios the Areopagite (Heiding)
- Part 3. Acoustics: Liturgical Space in Early Christianity
- 14. The Dura "Baptistery"-a Funerary Space? (Crostini)
- 15. What Is a Christian Altar? Is It a βωμός, a τράπεζα or a θυσιαστήριον? (Fornberg)
- 16. Altar Veils: Concealing or Displaying the Holy in Early Church Architecture (Jensen)
- Part 4. Reverberations: Reception and Rediscovery of Early Christian Liturgical Traditions.
- 17. Transposed and Thriving: Bible Reception in the Prophetologion: With the Addition of an Early Arabic Witness (Sinai Arabic 588) in the Appendix (Hjälm)
- 18. Accessit latinitas, recessit pietas: Pope Urban VIII Barberini and the Vicissitudes of Latin Hymnography (Piltz)
- 19. "The Silence of All Authors": Understandings of New Testament Music in Early-Modern Music Theory and Philology (Lundberg)
- 20. Yaredian Patterns in the Hymns of Aläqa Tayyä (Gebremedhin)
- 21. "Weeping at the Grave Creates the Song: Alleluia": The Nachleben of Russian Orthodox Funeral Hymns in Modern Culture (Bodin)
- Index of Ancient Literature
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Subjects.