1 THO 3347 Byzantine Liturgy of the Hours and Liturgical Year Winter 2015, Thursdays 17:30-20:30, Room 1141 Professor: Fr. Michael Winn Office Phone: 613-727-1255, Cell Phone: 613-894-5833 Email: [email protected] (please use only this email address for this course) SYLLABUS January 15, 2015 Introduction; Distribution of Syllabus, Course Overview Class 1 January 22, 2015 Byzantine Liturgy of the Hours I Class 2 Anthropological, Sociological, and Psychological Issues; Related to the Celebration of the Hours Reading: George Guiver, Company of Voices: Daily Prayer and the People of God, 3-45. January 29, 2015 Byzantine Liturgy of the Hours II Class 3 New Testament, Pre-Nicean, and Patristic Heritage; History of the Byzantine Office in Particular Reading: George Guiver, Company of Voices: Daily Prayer and the People of God, 49-114. Supplemental Reading: Robert Taft, The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West, 3-29, 273-291. READING QUIZ #1 will occur at the beginning of this class. February 5, 2015 Byzantine Liturgy of the Hours III Class 4 General Theology of the Liturgy of the Hours Reading: George Guiver, Company of Voices: Daily Prayer and the People of God, 149-200. Supplemental Reading: Robert Taft, The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West, 331-373. February 12, 2015 Byzantine Liturgy of the Hours IV Class 5 Byzantine Vespers: Structure and Meaning Readings: Robert Taft, “Thanksgiving for the Light: Towards a Theology of Vespers,” in Beyond East and West: Problems in Liturgical Understanding, 127-149. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World, 59-65. [**] – For articles marked with this you will need to access this item from a library/university computer, or through the university server, as the subscription to the ATLA database that permits for full-text articles to be downloaded is held by USP. 2 February 26, 2015 Byzantine Liturgy of the Hours V Class 6 Byzantine Orthos (Matins): Structure and Meaning Reading: Robert Taft, “Sunday in the Byzantine Tradition,” in Beyond East and West: Problems in Liturgical Understanding, 31-48. READING QUIZ #2 will occur at the beginning of this class. March 5, 2015 Byzantine Liturgical Year I Class 7 Perceptions and Experiences of Time; Time and Celebration in the Bible – Sacred History and Anamnesis; Old Testaments Feasts; Meaning, Purpose, Theology of the Liturgical Year; Christ as Salvation History; Eschatology and History Readings: Robert Taft, “What Is a Christian Feast?” Worship, 83 no 1 (Ja 2009), 2-18. [**] Alexander Schmemann, “The Time of Mission,” For the Life of the World, 47-55. Robert Taft, “Historicism Revisited,” in Beyond East and West: Problems in Liturgical Understanding, 15-30. DUE AT THIS CLASS: Short Essay on Psalm or Nunc Dimittis or Magnificat (5 pages). See below for details. March 12, 2015 Byzantine Liturgical Year II Class 8 Calendars - History, Problems, Reforms; Sabbath and Sunday Readings: John Erickson, “Consultation on the Date of Easter,” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 21 (1977): 224-228. [**] D.P. Ogitsky, “Canonical Norms of the Orthodox Easter Computation and the Problem of the Dating of Pascha in our Time,” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 17 (1973): 274-84. [**] Alexander Schmemann, The Celebration of Faith, Volume II: The Church Year, 23- 26. March 18, 2015 Byzantine Liturgical Year III Class 9 Field Trip – Wednesday Evening, Matins for the Fifth Thursday of the Great Fast – Canon of St. Andrew of Crete St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Shrine, 952 Green Valley Crescent, Ottawa Readings: Alexander Schmemann, Great Lent, 63-85. [**] – For articles marked with this you will need to access this item from a library/university computer, or through the university server, as the subscription to the ATLA database that permits for full-text articles to be downloaded is held by USP. 3 March 19, 2015 Byzantine Liturgical Year IV Class 10 Great Lent, Holy Week, Pascha, Ascension, Pentecost Readings: Alexander Schmemann, Great Lent, 87-105. Hugh Wybrew, Orthodox Lent, Holy Week and Easter, 5-18. Vassa Larin, “Feasting and Fasting According to the Byzantine Typikon,” Worship, 83 no 2 (March 2009), 133-148. [**] Monk of the Eastern Church, The Year of Grace of the Lord, 198-219. Supplemental Reading: Monk of the Eastern Church, The Year of Grace of the Lord, 108-211. READING QUIZ #3 will occur at the beginning of this class. March 26, 2015 Byzantine Liturgical Year V Class 11 Commemoration of the Saints Readings: J. Baldovin, “Saints in the Byzantine Tradition,” Liturgy: Journal of the Liturgical Conference, 5 no. 2 (Fall 1985), 71-75. Alexander Schmemann, Introduction to Liturgical Theology, 141-146. DUE AT THIS CLASS: Research paper (10-12 pages). See below for details April 14, 2015 Byzantine Liturgical Year VI Class 12 Advent, Christmas, Theophany Room G201 Readings: Alexander Schmemann, The Celebration of Faith, Volume II: The Church Year, 45- 74. Elizabeth Theokritoff, “Celebrating the Incarnation in the Feasts of the Orthodox Church,” St Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 46 no 1 (2002), 63-79. [**] [**] – For articles marked with this you will need to access this item from a library/university computer, or through the university server, as the subscription to the ATLA database that permits for full-text articles to be downloaded is held by USP. 4 Short Essay on Psalm(s) or Nunc Dimittis or Magnificat (5 pages) Write a five page paper on one of the following: Psalms 1-3 from Vespers Psalms 140-141 from Vespers Psalms 129, 116 from vespers Nunc dimittis from Vespers Psalm 33 from Vespers Psalm 37 from Matins Psalm 62 from Matins Psalm 87 from Matins Psalm 102 from Matins Psalm 142 from Matins Psalms 134-135 (Polyeleos) from Matins Psalm 50 from Matins & others services Magnificat from Matins Psalms 148-150 from Matins Please organize the paper in the following manner: 1. situate the psalm or text in the context which gave rise to this text 2. identify any difficult words or phrases in the text 3. present some patristic commentary on this text (if any) 4. how is this text used in the Liturgy of the Hours 5. anything else you think important that needs to be stated about this text. The version of the Psalms (ideally) used in the Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox Churches is the Septuagint- not the Hebrew (Masoretic) version. In researching the Psalms, keep in mind that essentially all of the following works in the bibliography below are commenting on the Hebrew, not the Greek. Occasionally there can be significant differences between the Greek and Hebrew. Make sure you have an English translation of the Greek (Septuagint) in hand when you are writing your paper, so that you note any important differences between the two. A version of the Bible that follows the Septuagint is The Orthodox Study Bible (published in 2008 and includes the Old Testament). Please do not exceed the page count by more than one or two pages. I will not read anything past seven pages. Please format the paper according to the Student Style Guide found on the USP Faculty of Theology webpage, and please use footnotes (endnotes will not be accepted). You may submit the paper digitally (preferred) in a Word document format, 1” margins, Times New Roman, 11pt, and 1.5 line spacing. Marks will be deducted for grammatical/orthographic errors. Please (have a peer) proofread. [**] – For articles marked with this you will need to access this item from a library/university computer, or through the university server, as the subscription to the ATLA database that permits for full-text articles to be downloaded is held by USP. 5 Commentaries that Include Interpretations of the Individual Psalms R. C. Dentan, Layman’s Bible Commentaries 7-9; A. Clifton J. Allen, ed., The Broadman Bible B. Rhodes, Psalms pp. 5-192. (London: SCM Press Commentary, v.4, Esther to Psalms (Nashville, Ltd.: 1961-1970). BS 491.2 L39 1961-1970 Tennessee: Broadman Press, 1971), pp. 153-464. BS 491.2 B76 1969-1972 4 Reginald Fuller, ed., A New Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture (London: Nelson, 1969), pp. 439-499. Marvin E. Tate, Word Biblical Commentary 20, BS 491.2 N49F8 1969 Psalms 51-100 (Dallas, Texas: Word Books, 1990). BS 491.2 W67 1982 20 Peter C. Craigie, Word Biblical Commentary 19, Psalms 1-50 (Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1983). Leslie C. Allen, Word Biblical Commentary 21, BS 491.2 W67 1982 19 Psalms 101-150 (Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1983). BS 491.2 W67 1982 21 James Luther Mays, Psalms, Interpretation, A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching A. A. Anderson, The Book of Psalms, v.1 (Louisville: John Knox Press, 1994), pp. vii-451. BS (Introduction and Psalms 1-72), New Century Bible 1430.3 M29P82 1994 11 (London: Oliphants, 1972). BS 491.2 N492 1967 11 Leopold Sabourin, S.J., The Psalms: Their Origin and Meaning, v.1 (New York: Alba House, 1969) 2 A. A. Anderson, The Book of Psalms, v. 2 (73-150), vols. BS 1430.2 S23P8 1969 v.1 New Century Bible 11 (London: Oliphants, 1972). BS 491.2 N492 1967 11 Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmeyer, Roland E. Murphy, eds., The New Jerome Biblical Commentary Carroll Stuhlmueller, CP, Psalms I (1-72), Old (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1990), Testament Message 21 (Wilmington, Delaware: pp. 523-552. BS 491.2 J47B7N4 1990 Michael Glazier, 1983). BS 1151.2 043T47 1981 21 George Arthur Buttrick, ed., The Interpreter’s Bible, Carroll Stuhlmueller, CP, Psalms II (73-150), Old The Book of Psalms and the Book of Proverbs, v. 4 Testament Message 22 (Wilmington, Delaware: (New York-Nashville: Abington Press, 1955), pp. 1- Michael Glazier, 1983).