Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity: Essays in Honour of Anders Ekenberg’s 75th Birthday

626 Pages·2022·3.81 MB·English

by  Carl Johan Berglund, Barbara Crostini, James Kelhoffer

WhyWeSing
Supplements
to
Vigiliae Christianae
texts and studies of early christian life and language
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G.Rouwhorst
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Why We Sing
Music,Word,andLiturgyinEarlyChristianity
essays in honour of anders ekenberg’s
75th birthday
Editedby
CarlJohanBerglund
BarbaraCrostini
JamesA.Kelhoffer
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Contents
Figures ix
Abbreviations xi
Contributors xii
1 Introduction:EarlyChristianLiturgyandItsReception 1
Sven-ErikBroddandJamesA.Kelhoffer
part 1
Lyrics:LiturgyandLanguageintheNewTestament
2 LiturgicalInfluencesontheTextoftheNewTestament 49
TommyWasserman
3 ZweiurchristlicheTaufformeln 80
DavidHellholm
4 “BeginningwithMosesandalltheProphets”:Proclamationand
NarrativeProgressioninThreeSpeechesbyPeterinActs(Acts2:14–40;
3:12–26;4:8–12) 109
DanielGustafsson
5 CelebratingtheExodus:AKeytothePropheticMessageofthe
Apocalypse 126
HåkanUlfgard
6 “ForanIntelligibleReading”:AColometricalVersionofFirstJohn 152
BirgerOlsson
part 2
Leitmotifs:LiturgicalThemesinOtherEarlyChristianLiterature
7 PassingtheAudition:ModeandHarmonyinIgnatiusofAntioch’s
Chorus(Eph.4.2;Rom.2.2) 175
JamesA.Kelhoffer
vi contents
8 LiturgiesasPlotDevicesinApocryphalActs 202
CarlJohanBerglund
9 Didache1–6,aCoherentCompositionintheSameTraditionasthe
GospelofMatthew 225
JonasHolmstrand
10 PraxeasunddieAusbreitungdes„Monarchianismus“inRomzwischen
Migration,innerchristlichenKonfliktenundderEntstehungder
„Orthodoxie“ 250
AndrásHandl
11 DerStellenwertderDichtungunddasLobGottesbeiLaktanz 283
MarianneWifstrandSchiebe
12 BaptismandtheProblemofSininPistisSophia 306
PetterSpjut
13 ChildlikePlayintheLiturgicalWritingsofDionysiosthe
Areopagite 331
FredrikHeiding,S.J.
part 3
Acoustics:LiturgicalSpaceinEarlyChristianity
14 TheDura“Baptistery”—aFunerarySpace? 355
BarbaraCrostini
15 WhatIsaChristianAltar?IsItaβωμός,aτράπεζαora
θυσιαστήριον? 393
TordFornberg
16 AltarVeils:ConcealingorDisplayingtheHolyinEarlyChurch
Architecture 409
RobinM.Jensen
contents vii
part 4
Reverberations:ReceptionandRediscoveryofEarlyLiturgical
Traditions
17 TransposedandThriving:BibleReceptionintheProphetologion:With
theAdditionofanEarlyArabicWitness(SinaiArabic588)inthe
Appendix 435
MiriamL.Hjälm
18 Accessitlatinitas,recessitpietas:PopeUrbanviiiBarberiniandthe
VicissitudesofLatinHymnography 464
AndersPiltz,O.P.
19 “TheSilenceofAllAuthors”:UnderstandingsofNewTestamentMusic
inEarly-ModernMusicTheoryandPhilology 494
MattiasLundberg
20 YaredianPatternsintheHymnsof AläqaTayyä 507
EzraGebremedhin
21 “WeepingattheGraveCreatestheSong:Alleluia”:TheNachlebenof
RussianOrthodoxFuneralHymnsinModernCulture 531
HelenaBodin
IndexofAncientLiterature 551
IndexofModernAuthors 572
IndexofSubjects 581

Figures
14.1 ThelunetteoftheGoodShepherdinavaultedsky,MausoleumofGalla
Placidia,Ravenna(ca.450ce).Photo:GilbertoTortora.Publishedwith
permission. 358
14.2 Thecanopy.Dateofphotography:1932.ChristianBaptisteryniche,
excavationphoto,ChristianBuilding.YaleUniversityArtGallery,
Dura-EuroposCollection.Publishedwithpermission. 361
14.3 Thebasinbelowthecanopybuiltofashlarbricks.Dateofphotography:
1934–1935.ChristianBaptistery,frontwalloffont,ChristianBuilding.Yale
UniversityArtGallery,Dura-EuroposCollection.Publishedwith
permission. 362
14.4 Mosaicofcanopynexttoaburial,ChurchoftheTheotokosatWadi‘Aynal-
Kanisah,MountNebo.Describedincsla.e02563(PawełNowakowski,
http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/).PhotobyM.PiccirilloandE.Alliata.Published
withpermissionoftheStudiumBiblicumFranciscanum.Allfurther
reproductionisforbidden. 364
14.5 Thepaintingofasarcophagusatoneendoftheprocessionofvirgins.
WikimediaCommons.Publicdomain. 375
14.6 Detailofthehalf-opendoor.Baptistery,northwall,processionofvirgins,
ChristianBuilding.YaleUniversityArtGallery,Dura-EuroposCollection.
Publishedwithpermission. 377
14.7 Faux-marblecolumnsframethecanopyoftheTorahniche,Durasynagogue.
YaleUniversityArtGallery,Dura-EuroposCollection.Publishedwith
permission. 380
14.8 StandingfiguretotheleftoftheTorahniche(WingPaneliii),Dura
synagogue.WikimediaCommons.PublicDomain. 383
16.1 Hammathsynagogue,pavementmosaic,fourthcentury.NearTiberias,
Israel.Photo:RobinM.Jensen. 412
16.2 Adomedciboriumwithlamps,altar,andvessels.Mosaicinthesouth
lunetteofthechurchofthemonasteryofMarGabriel,Karmin,sixth
century(512ce).Photo:DanielC.Waugh.Usedwithpermission. 415
16.3 ChiesadiSant’ApollinareinClasse,Ravenna,mosaicpanel,seventhcentury.
Photo:RobinM.Jensen. 416
16.4 Fourth-centuryfresco,fromoratorybeneaththeChiesadiSs.Giovannie
Paolo,Rome.Photo:RobinM.Jensen. 417
16.5 Mosaicshowingachurch,easternMediterranean(Syria?),fifthcentury,now
intheLouvreMuseum,Paris.Photo:RobinM.Jensen. 419
16.6 Sixth-centuryivorypyx,withscenesofthewomencomingtoChrist’stomb,
nowintheMetropolitanMuseumofArt.Openaccess. 420
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16.7 Tombmosaicshowingtheinteriorofachurch,fromTabarka(Tunisia),late
fourthcentury.Photo:RobinM.Jensen. 426
21.1 Thehymn“Donotweepforme,Mother”(Нерыда́йМене́,Ма́ти)in
ChurchSlavonicfromTriód’Póstnaia.Photo:HelenaBodin. 535
21.2 Russianicon,“Donotweepforme,Mother”(Нерыда́йМене́,Ма́ти).
Moscowschool,17thcentury,restored.Photo:©HeikoArens,National
Museum,Stockholm(nmi95). 536