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Tracing the Bridegroom in Dura : The Bridal Initiation Service of the Dura-Europos Christian Baptistery as Early Evidence of the Use of Images in Christian and Byzantine Worship / Gerasimos P. Pagoulatos.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (187 p.) : 37Content type:
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  • 9781593337384
  • 9781463213916
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  • 230
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction: The Eleventh-Century Christ the Bridegroom Service and the Problem of Its Origins -- 2. Introducing the Third-Century Dura-Europos Christian Baptistery Service -- 3. Images and Worship in Antiquity -- 4. Τhe Bridal Initiation Service of the Dura-Europos Christian House Baptistery -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography
Summary: This book examines the previously unexplored sources of the eleventh-century Byzantine service of Christ the Bridegroom by locating its origins in the liturgical environment of third-century Christian Syria and Mesopotamia, and especially in the baptistry of the Christian House at Dura-Europos, as well as in the texts of the Acts of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip and the Symposium by Methodius of Olympus. More specifically, Pagoulatos analyzes the bridal initiation service (the earliest known Iconophile service) of the Dura-Europos baptistery, focusing on the role that the images played in it.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction: The Eleventh-Century Christ the Bridegroom Service and the Problem of Its Origins -- 2. Introducing the Third-Century Dura-Europos Christian Baptistery Service -- 3. Images and Worship in Antiquity -- 4. Τhe Bridal Initiation Service of the Dura-Europos Christian House Baptistery -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography

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This book examines the previously unexplored sources of the eleventh-century Byzantine service of Christ the Bridegroom by locating its origins in the liturgical environment of third-century Christian Syria and Mesopotamia, and especially in the baptistry of the Christian House at Dura-Europos, as well as in the texts of the Acts of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip and the Symposium by Methodius of Olympus. More specifically, Pagoulatos analyzes the bridal initiation service (the earliest known Iconophile service) of the Dura-Europos baptistery, focusing on the role that the images played in it.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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