Divine Liturgies - Human Problems in Byzantium Armenia Syria and Palestine

In obedience to Jesus' command 'Do this in remembrance of me' the ritual repetition of the Lord's Supper down through the ages and across multiple Christian cultures in the liturgies of East and West has given rise inevitably to innumerable diversities of shape text cultural context and theological interpretation as well as to debates sometimes heated among modern experts as to the methodologies for resolving the problems arising from these differences. The problems of cultural history structural historical and textual reconstruction theological interpretation and method involved in the modern scholarly debate on these issues are the object of the studies in this volume dedicated to the liturgies of Byzantium Armenia Syria and Palestine.