Fragmentary Witnesses to Early Christian Liturgies, Hymns, Homilies, and Prayers
Rick Brannan
APPIAN WAY PRESS
FRAGMENTS OF CHRISTIANITY: FRAGMENTARY WITNESSES TO EARLY CHRISTIAN LITURGIES, HYMNS, HOMILIES, AND PRAYERS
Copyright 2021 Rick Brannan
Cover design by Eli Evans
Published by Appian Way Press
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This volume is dedicated to all the museums and organizations that have diligently been placing manuscript images, archival volumes, catalogs, and other items online and making them freely available.
This work could not have been completed without access to these resources.
There are several people I need to acknowledge and thank, in one way or another, who have helped me throughout the journey of this volume. From the beginning of the project, I kept everyone’s names and how they were of assistance nicely laid out in a file on a laptop that unfortunately died when a mug of coffee spilled on the keyboard in a freak pandemic schooling-at-home incident. Thankfully the balance of the material for this book was on a server in the cloud. If you answered a request of mine for help locating a particular article and I’ve missed including your name, please know I am sorry, and I really do appreciate your help.
I would like to thank Jacob Cerone for supplying several difficult-to-locate articles and for generally encouraging me through the whole process of researching and writing this book. Ian Nelson Mills provided several articles as well, always with a word of encouragement. Jan Krans-Plaisier provided several articles along with encouragement early on. Brent Niedergall provided consistent encouragement and feedback on an early draft. Slavomír Čéplö provided access to essential reference material I would have been lost without. Cristian Cardozo was similarly able to locate articles impossible for mere mortals such as myself to find. Dan Batovici supplied a few articles and book sections that would’ve otherwise been impossible to come by.
I would like to specifically acknowledge the members of the “NT Studies Literature Requests in the Times of Corona” Facebook group. In many cases literature requests were quickly and cheerfully fulfilled. I know that Jeremy O’Clair and Matthew Calhoun fulfilled requests I made there. Elijah Hixon supplied a particularly important last-minute need. There were others whose names I do not specifically remember and cannot currently track down. If you are one of these, thank you for your assistance.
Lastly, thanks to my family. Thank you to Amy, Ella, Lucas, and Josiah for asking about things and encouraging me (even when you didn’t know you were).
Rick Brannan
June 2021
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About Fragments of Christianity: Fragmentary Witnesses to Early Christian Liturgies, Hymns, Homilies, and PrayersWhat were early Christians like? How did they worship? How did they pray? How did they preach? Brannan sifted through volumes of papyrological evidence to provide transcriptions and translations of examples of prayers, homilies, hymns, liturgies, and theological treatises, each with an introduction and brief discussion. These fragmentary examples of Christian material provide a link to the people who created them and who practiced their religion with them. They are direct evidence of the practice of Christianity. They date from as early as the second century through the fifth century. These papyri provide a glimpse into the lives and practice of early Christians. |
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