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IV Vestments: the Garments of Glory

III The Holy Anointing Oil

II Temple Music: Meaning and Influence.

I Melchizedek in Scripture, Tradition and Liturgy

 

6 November 2010

31 October 2009

30 May 2009

8 November 2008

IV Vestments: the Garments of Glory

The fourth Temple Studies Group Symposium will be on Saturday 6 November 2010. Further details will be made available on this website.


III The Holy Anointing Oil

The third Temple Studies Group Symposium was on Saturday 31 October 2009 in the Temple Church, London. Anointing with myrrh oil was the most holy mystery of the Jerusalem temple. It passed into Christianity and gave the faith its name. This symposium explored the temple rite and its meaning, and then looked at some of the ways in which Christians preserved the ancient tradition.

 

Speakers and papers:
Dr Margaret Barker
The Holy Oil in Temple Tradition.
Download (pdf 94KB)
Prof. John Hall The Anointing of the Gods: Sanctification and Authority from Egyptian Pharaohs to Hebrew Priest Kings and Beyond  
Archimandrite Ephrem The Holy Oil in the Orthodox Church  
The Rev. Dr Richard Price The Holy Oil in the Early Church.  
Dr Sebastian Brock The Holy Oil in Syriac Tradition Download (pdf 27KB)
The Rev. Dr Laurence Hemming The Holy Oil in Roman Catholic Tradition.  

II Temple Music: Meaning and Influence.  

30 May 2009, 10am5pm, Temple Church, London. Details of the six speakers are on the Symposium information sheet (pdf 114KB). Abstracts and other additional information or website links will appear on this site when available.

     

(Click on image to enlarge: L-R Welcome from Robin Griffith-Jones, Master of the Temple Church, Margaret Barker, Jill Purce).

 

Speakers:
Dr Margaret Barker An overview of Temple Music.  
Dr Crispin Fletcher Louis Temple Trumpets and the Angelic Shout  
Jill Purce Harmonics, Vowels, God and the Angels. See also: www.healingvoice.com Download abstract (pdf 33KB)
The Rev. Canon Lucy Winkett “The rest is silence”; the song of the angels in contemporary worship.  
John H. Wheeler How the Hebrew Masoretic Text preserves the vocal music of the Second Temple.  
Frederick M. Huchel The Cosmic Ring Dance of the Angels: An Early Christian Rite of the Temple. Download abstract (pdf 33KB)
László Dobszay The Origin of Christian Chant.  

I Melchizedek in Scripture, Tradition and Liturgy

8 November 2008, St Stephen's House, Oxford. The speakers were Professor Robert Hayward, Dr Crispin Fletcher Louis, Dr Laurence Hemming and Dr Margaret Barker.

Papers:
Dr Margaret Barker Who was Melchizedek and who was his God? Download
(pdf 115KB)

Dr Crispin Fletcher Louis

Melchizedek at Qumran

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(pdf 76KB)
Professor Robert Hayward

Melchizedek as priest of the Jerusalem Temple in Talmud, Midrash and Targum

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(pdf 87KB)
Dr Laurence Hemming

Melchisedek in the Liturgy of the Western Church

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(pdf 16KB)

 

 

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