Stephanie Perdew VanSlyke
First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
1125 Wilmette Ave.
Wilmette, IL 60091
847-251-6660 x11
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Our mission is to study issues in Christian and Jewish liturgical history through the early centuries of the common era.
Papers
PAUL BRADSHAW – Women and Baptism in the Didascalia Apostolorum HARALD
BUCHINGER – The Disappearance of the Liturgical Triduum
MARTIN CONNELL – Early Worship on the Lips of Jesus?
RICHARD FABIAN – An Arian Holy Week? (Well, at least not Manichaean...)
DANIEL GALADZA – Methodological Considerations for the Study of Hagiopolite Liturgy after the Arab Conquest (638 CE)
ROBIN JENSEN – Aspects of Early Christian Baptism in Light of Material Evidence
PETER JEFFREY – The Eucharist in the Gospel of Judas
VASSA LARIN – The Opening Formula of the Byzantine Divine Liturgy
LIZETTE LARSON-MILLER – Plurality in all Things: Ritual as Care for the Sick and Dying
CLEMENS LEONHARD – Morning Salutations and the End of Sympotic Eucharists
VITALY PERMIAKOV – Liturgical Prayers for the Feast of Encaenia
JIM SABAK – A Postscript to a Postscript on the Embertide Vigils in Roman Practice
PATRICK REGAN – Easter Week in Early Roman Liturgical Books
ROBERT TAFT – Were There Once Old Testament Readings in the Byzantine Divine Liturgy?
Reports
NICHOLAS RUSSO – Report on the dating of Cyril of Jerusalem’s Baptismal Catecheses
DAVID PITT – ReportTBD
FRITZ WEST – Report on the papers of Anton Baumstark and Hieronymus Engberding
Stefanos Alexopoulos: “«Εἴπωμεν πάντες…» Liturgical History and Liturgical Practice”
Harald Buchinger: “Was there ever a Liturgical Triduum in Antiquity?
Paul Bradshaw:
Martin Connell: “Clothing Imperatives in the Letters of Paul”
Sr. Vassa Larin,: The Origins of Singing "It is Worthy" (Dostoino est') at the Hierarch's Entrance in the Russian Pontifical Rite.
Clemens Leonhard: “Justin and the Idea of the Initiation Meal”
Annie McGowan: “Basilian Anaphoral Scholarship: the State of the Question”
Mark Morozowich: “Monday to Wednesday of Holy Week in First Millennium Jerusalem”
Vitaly Permiakov: “Byzantine Church Dedication Rites”
Walter Ray: “Egyptian Baptism”
Nick Russo: “Origins of Lent”
James Sabak: “Vigil Liturgies in Fourth to Eighth Century Roman Sacramentaries”
Robert Taft: “When did the Catechumenate Die out in Constantinople?”
Mikhail Zheltov will also bring a paper.
In addition, we will hear the following reports:
Max Johnson: Review of E. Ferguson’s Baptism in Early Christianity
Patrick Regan: Report on book proposal to be published by Liturgical Press: Two Church Years Compared: Ordinary and Extraordinary
1. Clemens Leonhard: "Ascetic Pesachs - The Ritual of the Seder as Non-Meal"
2. Reuven Kimmelman: TBA
3. Ruth Langer: "The Presence of God in Jewish Liturgy"
4. Martin Connell: "If Not Reliable History: On Jewish Feast-Names in the Christian Gospels."
5. Robert Taft: "From Polemicists to Promotors: The Jesuits and the Liturgical Traditions of the Christian East."
6. Sister Vassa Larin: "Toward the Origins of Singing 'Axion estin' at the Entrance of a Bishop into Church in the Byzantine Rite"
7. Stephanie Perdew, "Update on Research on the Apostolic Church Order."
8. Lizette Larson-Miller: "Martyrs' Tombs and Incubation"
9. Robin Jenson: "Inscriptions in Baptisteries and Other Liturgical Locations"
10. Dominic Serra: “The Gelasian Exorcismi Super Electos in Roman Baptismal Practice and Theology”
11. Chris McConnell:"Paschal Baptism at Sardis? Baptism in Melito'sOn Pascha"
12. Vitaly Permiakov: "Iconoclasm and the Byzantine Rite for the Dedication of Churches"
Robert Taft, "Worship on Sinai in the First Christian Millennium."
Sister Vassa Larin, "The Commemoration of Civil Authorities in the Late-Byzantine and Muscovite Euchology Traditions: Past and Present."
Ruth Langer, "Memory."
Stephanie Perdew, "Update on Research on the Apostolic Church Order."
Harald Buchinger, "Resumé of a Paper on the Etymologies of "Pascha."
Patrick Regan, "The Influence of Jerusalem on the Paschal Lucernarium."
Reuven Kimelman, "The Meaning and Structure of the Classical Rabbinic Shema
Liturgy."
Nicholas Russo, "The Role of Secret Mark in the Origins of Lent."
Vitaly Permiakov, "Byzantine Dedication Rites."
Number of participants: 12-15