Eucharistic Prayer of Addai and Mari

Name: Eucharistic Prayer of Addai and Mari
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ISBN: 9780198267379

ISBN-10: 0198267371

ISBN-13: 9780198267379

Edition: 1992

Authors: A. Gelston

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The Eucharistic Prayer is the most central and distinctive form of Christian public prayer apart from the Lord's Prayer itself. It gradually evolved into fixed forms during the early Christian centuries, and the Eucharistic Prayer of Addai and Mari is almost certainly the oldest such prayer still in regular use. Dr Gelston's study presents a critical edition of the medieval Syriac text of this ancient Eucharistic Prayer. The text, which is eclectic, is accompanied by a select critical apparatus and a translation, and is followed by textual notes on the variants in the apparatus. The detailed commentary, accessible to those who do not read Syriac, is concerned chiefly with literary-critical…

Book details

List price: $185.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/19/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 148
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction



From the Last Supper to the Eucharist



The emergence of fixed forms in the Eucharistic Prayer



The Eucharistic Prayer in the East Syrian Tradition


The Text: The Manuscripts


Work on the Text


Text and translation


Textual notes


Commentary


Appendix


A reconstruction of an earlier form


Bibliography


Index