The Old Testament As Authoritative Scripture in the Early Churches of the East (Hardcover)

Contents: Nicolae Roddy: Introduction ? J. Edward Walters: Son of Man, Son of God: Aphrahat’s Biblical Christology ? Merja Merras: Ephraem the Syrian and the Authority of the Old Testament Writings ? Bryan A. Stewart: Levitical Paradigms for Christian Bishops: The Old Testament Influence on Origen of Alexandria ? Mark W. Elliott: Leviticus between Fifth-Century Jerusalem and Ninth-Century Merv ? David Kneip: The Holy Spirit in Cyril of Alexandria’s Commentary on Isaiah ? Robert A. Kitchen: Winking at Jonah Narsai’s Interpretation of Jonah for the Church of the East ? Jonathan Loopstra: A Syriac Tract for the ≪Explanation≫ of Hebrew and Foreign Words ? Nicolae Roddy: Does the Orthodox Lectionary Subvert the Gospel? The Pericope of the Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen (Matt 21:36-46) ? Timothy Scott Clark: A Question for the Audience: The Prokeimenon and Poetics in Eastern Liturgy ? Edith M. Humphrey: Grand Entrance: Entrance into Worship as Rhetorical Invitation and Liturgical Precedent in the Older Testament ? Rajkumar Boaz Johnson: The Use of the Old Testament in the Syrian Christian Traditions of India.