Böcker av Anton Baumstark

I-IV -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Abkürzungen -- Einleitung -- ?. Die Literatur der vorislamischen Zeit -- I. Die Literatur bis zum Zeitalter der christologischen Kämpfe -- II. Die Literatur der nestorianischen Bewegung -- III. Die Literatur der monophysitischen Bewegung -- ?. Die Literatur der islamischen Zeit -- I. Die nestorianische Literatur bis zur Jahrtausendwende -- II. Die jakobitische Literatur bis zur Jahrtausendwende -- III. Die nestorianische und jakobitische Literatur des zweiten Jahrtausends -- IV. Literarisches Leben bei Melchiten und Maroniten -- Nachträge und Berichtigungen -- Register -- 379-380

In 1921, Anton Baumstark delivered two lectures on thedevelopment of the Roman Rite to a gathering at the Abbey ofMaria Laach. Abbot Ildefons Herwegen offered to publish thoselectures, but Baumstark decided to write a book on the topicinstead, which was published two years later as On the HistoricalDevelopment of the Liturgy. It would be another sixteen years beforehe produced Comparative Liturgy, for which he is better known.Together the two books lay out Baumstark's liturgical methodology.Comparative Liturgy presents his method; On the HistoricalDevelopment of the Liturgy offers his model.For nearly a century, On the Historical Development of the Liturgyhas been valued by specialists in the field of liturgical studies, bothfor its description of comparative liturgy and for the portrayalof patterns Baumstark discerns in liturgical development. Alsosignificant are the hypotheses Baumstark proposes and the evidencehe brings to bear on problems in liturgical history. In this annotatededition, Fritz West provides the first English translation of this work by Anton Baumstark.

Anton Baumstark presents the Arabic text and Latin translation of an Egyptian version of the Testamentum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi. Baumstark discusses the date of the text and compares the content of the liturgical prayers with various contemporary sources.

This essential volume on the Syrian Orthodox liturgy (Fenquitho) by an eminent liturgist covers both the development of the liturgy itself and the structure of the church year.

Anton Baumstark compares the text of a Gospel citation found in a Coptic Manichaean Kephalaia with other versions of the text in order to demonstrate that it was influenced by the Diatessaron tradition.

Anton Baumstark surveys the possible literary sources for liturtgical hymn prayers of the Eastern Syriac tradition and also provides a Latin translation of nineteen such prayers found in Bedjan's Chaldean Breviary.

Anton Baumstark compares the Greek text of a Theotokion preserved in a sixth-century manuscript to comparable texts from the Oriental Christian traditions and the Western Ambrosian Rite.

Illustrations were common in manuscripts of the Gospels, but far less common for the Acts and Epistles. Anton Baumstark describes the images found in one manuscript that does include illustrations for these documents and compares them with the Eastern tradition.

Descriptions of the Holy Lands abound, yet each offers a unique perspective. Anton Baumstark publishes here an Arabic version of one such description accompanied by a brief introduction to the text and a Latin translation.