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Why we sing : music, word, and liturgy in early Christianity : essays in honour of Anders Ekenberg's 75th birthday

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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, James A. Kelhoffer.
Publication
  • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
  • Berglund, Carl Johan
  • Crostini, Barbara
  • Kelhoffer, James A.
  • Ekenberg, Anders, 1946-
Description
xiii, 612 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
Summary
"In a seminal study, Cur cantatur?, Anders Ekenberg examined Carolingian sources for explanations of why the liturgy was sung, rather than spoken. This multidisciplinary volume takes up Ekenberg's question anew, investigating the interplay of New Testament writings, sacred spaces, biblical interpretation, and reception history of liturgical practices and traditions. Analyses of Greek, Latin, Coptic, Arabic, and Ge'ez sources, as well as of archaeological and epigraphic evidence, illuminate an array of topics, including recent trends in liturgical studies; manuscript variants and liturgical praxis; Ignatius of Antioch's choral metaphor; baptism in ancient Christian apocrypha; and the significance of late ancient altar veils"--
Series Statement
Supplements to vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; volume 177
Uniform Title
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 177.
Subject
  • To 500
  • 30-600
  • Liturgics
  • Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
  • Church music > Catholic Church
  • Gregorian chants
  • Music theory
  • Church history > Primitive and early church
  • Church history
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language (note)
  • English and German.
Contents
Introduction: Early Christian liturgy and its reception / Sven-Erik Brodd, James A. Kelhoffer -- Part 1, Lyrics : liturgy and language in the New Testament. Liturgical influences on the text of the New Testament / Tommy Wasserman -- Zwei urchristliche Taufformeln / David Hellholm -- "Beginning with Moses and all the prophets" : proclamation and narrative progression in three speeches by Peter in Acts (Acts 2:14-20; 3:12-26; 4:8-12) / Daniel Gustafsson -- Celebrating the Exodus : a key to the prophetic message of the Apocalypse / Håkan Ulfgard -- "For an intelligible reading" : a colometrical version of First John / Birger Olsson -- Part 2, Leitmotifs : liturgical themes in other early Christian literature. Passing the audition : mode and harmony in Ignatius of Antioch's chorus (Eph. 4:2; Rom. 2:2) / James A. Kelhoffer -- Liturgies as plot devices in Apocryphal Acts / Carl Johan Berglund -- Didache 1-6, a coherent composition in the same tradition as the Gospel of Matthew / Jonas Holmstrand -- Praxeas und die Ausbreitung des "Monarchianismus" in Rom zwischen Migration, innerchristlichen Konflikten und der Entstehung der "Orthodoxie" / András Handl -- Der Stellenwert der Dichtung und das Lob Gottes bei Laktanz / Marianne Wifstrand Schiebe -- Baptism and the problem of sin in Pistis Sophia / Petter Spjut -- Childlike play in the liturgical writings of Dionysios the Areopagite / Fredrik Heiding, S.J. -- Part 3, Acoustics : liturgical space in early Christianity. The Dura "Baptistery"--a funerary space? / Barbara Crostini -- What is a Christian altar? Is it a [bōmos], a [trapeza] or a [thysiatērion]? / Tord Fornberg -- Altar veils : concealing or displaying the holy in early church architecture / Robin M. Jensen -- Part 4, Reverberations : reception and rediscovery of early liturgical traditions. Transposed and thriving : Bible reception in the Prophetologion : with the addition of an early Arabic witness (Sinai Arabic 588) in the appendix / Miriam L. Hjälm -- Accessit latinitas, recessit pietas : Pope Urban VIII Barberini and the vicissitudes of Latin hymnography / Anders Piltz, O.P. -- "The silence of all authors" : understandings of New Testament music in early-modern music theory and philology / Mattias Lundberg -- Yaredian patterns in the hymns of Aläqa Tayyä / Ezra Gebremedhin -- "Weeping at the grave creates the song: Alleluia" : The Nachleben of Russian Orthodox funeral hymns in modern culture / Helena Bodin.
Call Number
JME 23-362
ISBN
  • 9789004522039
  • 9004522034
  • 9789004522053 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022056984
OCLC
1346320065
Title
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, James A. Kelhoffer.
Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Supplements to vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; volume 177
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 177.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language
English and German.
Chronological Term
To 500
Chronological Term
30-600
Added Author
Berglund, Carl Johan, editor.
Crostini, Barbara, editor.
Kelhoffer, James A., editor.
Ekenberg, Anders, 1946- honouree.
Other Form:
Online version: Why we sing Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 9789004522053 (DLC) 2022056985
Research Call Number
JME 23-362
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