Daily prayer and its ascetic context in the Syriac and Ethiopic Testamentum Domini
By: by Grant Scott Sperry-White.
Published: 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Testament of Our Lord -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Prayer -- History.; Widows -- Prayer-books and devotions -- History.; Clergy -- Prayer-books and devotions -- History.
Other titles: Syriac Testamentum Domini; Ethiopic Testamentum Domini
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-242).

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1993. 22 cm.
Table of contents: Description of the Testamentum Domini and history of scholarship; Supplications of the handmaids of God, widow's prayer and its ascetic context: Excursus, prayer in the middle of the night; "Assiduous at the altar" presbyteral prayer and its ascetic context; Bishop's daily prayer; People's daily prayer: Excursus, communal prayer at early dawn and lamplighting.