Syllabus/achievement requirements

Primary sources (original Greek)

Eucharist (and Baptism)

Didache 9.10.14 and Justin Martyr, Apologia I, 65-67 and Dialogus cum Tryphone 41,1-3; 117,1-3, p. 66-74, in: H?nggi & Pahl, Prex eucharistica Fribourg, 1968 (5 p. Greek text) In compendium

The Divine Liturgy of St. James (Anaphora) p. 244-260 in: H?nggi & Pahl, Prex eucharistica Fribourg, 1968. (9 p.) In compendium

Cyril of Jerusalem, Five mystagogical catecheses (excerpts, 8 p.) Online source (For full English text with notes, see for instance: http://www.monachos.net/content/patristics/patristictexts/651)

Church Year

Hesychius of Jerusalem (5th cent.), “Homily IV on Pascha” p. 112-117, in: Aubineau, Michel (ed.), Les homélies festales d’Hésychius de Jérusalem Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1978 (3 p.) In compendium

Daily Office, Hymnography

Origen, On Prayer VII (1 p.) Online source [link to be provided] (For an English version of the entire treatise: http://www.ecatholic2000.com/fathers/origen.shtml)

Two early hymns (1 p.): Ph?s hilaron (‘Gladsome Light’) Online source Gloria (‘Glory to God in the highest’) Online source

Jerusalem’s earliest hymn book (4th-5th century): 4 short hymns from Sunday Vespers (1 p.). Online source (the selection will be provided in a pdf file on Fronter)

Primary sources (English version)

Pre-Constantinian

Didache ch. 6-16. (5 p.) online source

Justin Martyr, Extracts from First Apology (Deiss, Lucien. Springtime of the Liturgy Collegeville, 1979, p. 89-94). (6 p.) In compendium

Apostolic Tradition (by some attributed to Hippolytus of Rome) (16 p.) online source

Jerusalem

Egeria’s travels ch. 24-49. (20 p.) online source

The Liturgy of St. James (tr. Ephrem Lash): from “Let all mortal flesh keep silent” to “Our Father” (ca. 16 p.) online source

Armenian Lectionary (earliest extant Jerusalem Lectionary, Armenian version, 5th c.). (11 p.) online source

Sophronius of Jerusalem (d. 638): The Great Blessing of Waters (From ‘Trinity beyond all being’ to ‘Give to all who partake of it sanctification, blessing, cleansing, health.’) (3 p.) online source

John Damascene, Paschal canon (8th c.). (6 p.) online source

Secondary litterature

Method and Research History

Bradshaw, Paul. The search for the origins of Christian worship : sources and methods for the study of early liturgy New York: Oxford University Press, 2002 (2nd ed.). (230 p.) Book

Robert Taft, "Anton Baumstark's Comparative Liturgy Revisited", s.191-232, in: Robert Taft og Gabriele Winkler (eds.), Comparative Liturgy Fifty Years After Anton Baumstark (1872-1948) Roma, 2001. In compendium.

General

Fr?yshov, Stig. “The Formation of a Fivefold Cursus of Daily Prayer in Pre-Constantinian Christianity: Backward Inferences from Later Periods”, p. 121-138 in: Daniel Galadza e.a. (eds.) TOΧOTHC. Studi per Stefano Parenti Grottaferrata, 2010. (18 p.) Online source

Sheering, Daniel. “Eucharistic Liturgy”, p. 711-743, in: Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter, The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (34 p.). In compendium

Jerusalem

Baldovin, John F. The Urban Character of Christian Worship. The Origins, Development, and Meaning of Stational Liturgy Rome, 1987, p. 45-104. (60 p.)

Louth, Andrew. St. John Damascene. Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 252-268 (17 p.; a commentary to John Damascene’s Pascal canon, on syllabus) In compendium

Mazza, Enrico. Mystagogy, A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Age New York: Pueblo, 1989, p. 150-164 (15 p.; a commentary to Cyril of Jerusalem’s Mystigagogical cathecheses) In compendium

Verhelst, Stéphane, ”The Liturgy of Jerusalem in the Byzantine Period”, p. 421-462, in O. Limor & G.G. Stroumsa (eds.) Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land. From the Origins to the Latin Kingdom Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. (42 p.) In compendium

Witvliet, John D., “The Anaphora of St. James”, p. 153-172, in: Bradshaw, Paul (ed.) Essays on Early Eastern Eucharistic Prayers Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1997. (20 p.) In compendium

Woolfenden, Gregory, ”From Jerusalem and the Palestinian Monastic Traditions to Modern Orthodoxy”, p. 49-74, in: Daily Liturgical Prayer. Origins and Theology Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. (26 p.) In compendium

Compendium, books and recommended literature

The compendium is available at the book store Akademika at the UiO campus. If you want it sent you have to contact the faculty and get permission to order them from the book store. A book you have to buy is:

Bradshaw, Paul. The search for the origins of Christian worship : sources and methods for the study of early liturgy New York, 2002 (2nd ed.)

The following literature is recommended for the student’s optional (1/3) syllabus:

?Source

Germanus of Constantinople (8th cent.). On the Divine Liturgy. The Greek text with translation, introduction and commentary by Paul Meyendorff Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1984. (text, English 25 p.; commentary 46 p.) Book

Method

Witvliet, John D. “For our own purpose: the appropriation of the social sciences in liturgical studies”, p. 17-40, in: Paul Bradshaw and John Melloh, Foundations in Ritual Studies: A Reader for Students of Christian Worship London, 2007. (24 p.) In compendium

Taft, Robert. “The Structural Analysis of Liturgical Units: An Essay in Methodology”, p. 187-202, in: Robert Taft, Beyond east and west: problems in liturgical understanding 2nd rev. and enlarged ed., Rome, 1997. (16 p.) In compendium

Secondary literature

Doig, Allan. Liturgy and Architecture. From the Early Church to the Middle Ages Farnham: Ashgate, 2008. Book (relevant pages: 1-83.)

Stringer, Martin. A Sociological History of Christian Worship Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Book (relevant pages: 1-119.)

Fr?yshov, Stig. ”Hymnody of the Rite of Jerusalem”, Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology (Forthcoming in 2010/2011). (ca. 20 p.) Online source (forthcoming)

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