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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berglund, Carl Johan, editor.

Crostini, Barbara, editor.

Kelhoffer, James A., editor.

Ekenberg, Anders, 1946- honouree.

Series:

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; 0920-623X v. 177.

Supplements to vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; volume 177

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Liturgics.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church music--Catholic Church.

Gregorian chants.

Music theory.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 612 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Language Note:

English and German.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Why we sing

ISBN:

9789004522039

9004522034

OCLC:

1346320065