Literature or liturgy?
Subtitle: early Christian hymns and prayers in their literary and liturgical context in antiquity
By: edited by Clemens Leonhard and Hermut Löhr
Contributors: Literature or liturgy? Early Christian Hymns and Prayers in their Literary and Liturgical Context in Antiquity (2009 : Münster, Germany)
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 363; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 363.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9783161532184
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Acts of Thomas; History; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Christianity; Piyutim; Laudatory poetry; Psalms of Solomon; Prayer; Hymns; Hymner; Judendom; Böner; Fornkyrkan
Other titles: Early Christian hymns and prayers in their literary and liturgical context in antiquity
Description: Which hymns and prayers did Christians of Antiquity recite in their congregations? Which sources are extant and how should we study them in order to answer these questions? The essays in this volume survey answers to these questions as they are given in theology, Jewish studies, and classical studies.
Notes: International conference proceedings, from a symposium held in Münster in December 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

In English, with 1 contribution in French.
Table of contents: title: "Songs", "hymns", and "encomia" in the New Testament?  -- Ralph Brucker; title: Water, word, and name: the shifting pragmatics of the Sotah/Suspected Adulteress Ritual  -- Naomi Janowitz; title: Material aspects of prayer manuscripts at Qumran  -- Daniel K. Falk; title: Can wisdom be prayer? Form and function of the Psalms of Solomon  -- Stefan Schreiber; title: Fundamentals of the study of piyyut  -- Michael Rand; title: Les hymnes grecs païens de l'époque hellénistique et romaine  -- Didier Pralon; title: What can we know about the beginnings of Christian hymnody?  -- Hermut Löhr; title: Which hymns were sung in ancient Christian liturgies?  -- Clemens Leonhard; title: Hymns and prayers in the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas -- Gerard Rouwhorst.