Papers presented and discussed at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, Mass., November 22-25 2008.
Introduction / Nicholas Roddy
Examine this vine : Psalms and structure in the liturgical worship of the ancient Eastern church / Timothy Clark
The Aanaginoskomena : custom, practice, or conciliar statements / Eugen J. Pentiuc
Grand entrance : entrance into worship as rhetorical invitation and liturgical precedent in the Old Testament / Edith M. Humphrey
Wisdom of Solomon in the Old Testament of the Armenian Church / Anoushavan Tanielian
The use of the Old Testament in the Syrian Christian traditions of India / R. Boaz Johnson
Son of man, son of God : Aphrahat's biblical christology / J. Edward Walters
Ephraem the Syrian and the authority of the Old Testament writings / Merja Merras
Levitical paradigms for Christian bishops : the Old Testament influence on Origen of Alexandria / Bryan A. Stewart
Leviticus between fifth-century Jerusalem and ninth-century Merv / Mark Elliott
A tract for the interpretation of Hebrew words in Syriac / Jonathan Loopstra
The Holy Spirit in Cyril of Alexandria's commentary on Isaiah / David Kneip
A Christian Nineveh : Narsai's interpretation of Jonah for the church of the East / Robert A. Kitchen.
The Old Testament as authoritative Scripture in the early churches of the East. ISBN 9781433107351. Published by Peter Lang. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.