Studies in Oriental Liturgy: Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, New York, 10-15 June 2014

This volume contains sixteen papers on Eastern Christian liturgies: on

their origins, historical developments, current practices, and their

theologies. The subjects range from initiation in Syriac Christianity to

the origins of the feast of the Ark of the Covenant, and to the Book of

Hours of Armenia and Jerusalem; from Coptic liturgy to an ancient

Ethiopian catechesis with liturgical comments, and to the Palestinian

Typicon; from Byzantine vesting rituals to the rite of marriage in the

South-Slavic tradition, and to the fifteenth-century Archbishop Symeon of

Thessalonica; from present-day Romanian liturgy “between Greeks and Slavs’

to Catholic veneration of Russian saints, and to the American Orthodox

monastery of New Skete; and from the interactive web 2.0 to Robert Taft

looking back on his impressive academic career. Thus the Society of

Oriental Liturgy, dedicated to inquiries into the manifold worship

traditions of the Eastern Churches, once more demonstrates that its

research is an attractive cornucopia.