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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MarkRoosienThe Travels of a Liturgical Feast from the Holy Land: Feasting the Lord’s Transfiguration in Armenian, West Syrian, and Byzantine Christianityhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/PL8BMLCUhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/PL8BMLCUhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/PL8BMLCUEmilioBonfiglioClaudiaRappArmenia and Byzantium without Borders: Mobility, Interactions, ResponsesLeidenBrill2023215-235Armenian Texts and Studies 7In late antiquity, the Holy Land was a central hub for the creation of new liturgical feasts for the church’s growing sacred calendar. From the Holy Land, liturgical rites and practices ‘travelled’ around the Christian world, as local communities adapted them in different ways. This chapter analyses how the cultural and intellectual environments of various Christian communities shaped the appropriation of liturgical practices from the Holy Land, using the Feast of the Transfiguration as a case study. This annual commemoration originated in the Holy Land in the sixth century, and was soon embraced by churches in Armenia, Syria, and Constantinople. Analysis of liturgical manuscripts, homilies, and hymnography reveals the strikingly unique ways in which each of these communities adapted the feast for local use. In Armenia, the feast acquired characteristics of the pre-Christian summer festival of Vardavar; in West Syrian Miaphysite circles, the feast took on themes related to the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles; and in Constantinople, the Iconoclast controversy played a role in shaping the local church’s adaptation of the feast. The history of the Feast of the Transfiguration demonstrates the extraordinary flexibility with which the celebration of liturgical rituals moved between cultures in the late antique Eastern Christian world.
Roosien, Mark. “The Travels of a Liturgical Feast from the Holy Land: Feasting the Lord’s Transfiguration in Armenian, West Syrian, and Byzantine Christianity.” In Armenia and Byzantium without Borders: Mobility, Interactions, Responses, edited by Emilio Bonfiglio and Claudia Rapp, 215–35. Armenian Texts and Studies 7. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Mark Roosien, The Travels of a Liturgical Feast from the Holy Land: Feasting the Lord’s Transfiguration in Armenian, West Syrian, and Byzantine Christianity, in Armenia and Byzantium without Borders: Mobility, Interactions, Responses, ed. Emilio Bonfiglio and Claudia Rapp, Armenian Texts and Studies 7 (Leiden: Brill, 2023), 215–35.IV-VII CEJacobitesTransfigurationVII-XVIII CEfeastsliturgics