The Old Testament as Authoritative Scripture in the Early Churches of the East (Bible in the Christian Orthodox Tradition) 9781433107351, 9781453904664, 143310735X
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction (Nicolae Roddy) 1
Son of Man, Son of God: Aphrahat’s Biblical Christology (J. Edward Walters) 9
Ephraem the Syrian and the Authority of the Old Testament Writings (Merja Merras) 19
Levitical Paradigms for Christian Bishops: The Old Testament Influence on Origen of Alexandria (Bryan A. Stewart) 25
Leviticus between Fifth-Century Jerusalem and Ninth-Century Merv (Mark W. Elliott) 35
The Holy Spirit in Cyril of Alexandria’s Commentary on Isaiah (David Kneip) 43
Winking at Jonah Narsai’s Interpretation of Jonah for the Church of the East (Robert A. Kitchen) 51
A Syriac Tract for the “Explanation” of Hebrew and Foreign Words (Jonathan Loopstra) 57
Does the Orthodox Lectionary Subvert the Gospel? The Pericope of the Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen (Matt 21:36–46) (Nicolae Roddy) 65
A Question for the Audience: The Prokeimenon and Poetics in Eastern Liturgy (Timothy Scott Clark) 73
Grand Entrance: Entrance into Worship as Rhetorical Invitation and Liturgical Precedent in the Older Testament (Edith M. Humphrey) 79
The Use of the Old Testament in the Syrian Christian Traditions of India (Rajkumar Boaz Johnson) 91
Notes 107
Bibliography 131
Index 133
