The Jewish background of the christian liturgy / by W. O. E. Oesterley. Oxford : Clarendon, 1925
Content
Title page
Provenance
Preface
9 Contents
14 Abbreveations
15 Part I. The Jewish Liturgy
15 I. Reliability of the Sources
20 I. Genealogies
24 II. Statements in the Mishnah corroborated in other acient documents
26 III. The Oral Tradition
36 II. The Pre-Christian Elements in the Jewish Liturgy
83 Part II. Jewish Liturgical Influence on Early Forms of Christian Worship
83 III. Worship in the Early Christian Communities
83 I. Worship in the Temple and the Synagogue
90 II. Worship in other Places
95 III. The Hegemony of the Church in Jerusalem
101 IV. Sources for the Earliest Forms of Christian Worship
111 V. The Influence of the Jewish Liturgy on Early Forms of Christan Worship
155 Part III. Special Studies
155 VI. The Antecedents of the Eucharist
155 I. A meal partaken of
157 II. The meal not a Passover feast
167 III. The weekly Chabûrah meal and Kiddûsh
174 IV. Some objections dealt with
180 VII. Further Arguments in Support of the Theory Advocated in the Preceding Chapter
180 I. Some New Testament passages considered
187 II. Some passages from other early Christian literature considered
194 VIII. The Origin of the Agapé
194 I. The New Testament evidence
196 II. Early post-biblical evidence
200 III. The Jewish origin of the Agapé
205 IX. The Origin of the Epiclesis
231 Indexes