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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In liturgical study and especially in English liturgical stud the subject of the daily office has always been something of th poor relation. The attention of scholars has been concentrate to such an extent upon the Eucharist and upon the rites o Christian Initiation in recent years that many other fields have not received their due consideration and thus the time seems more than ripe for a new study of the origins and early history of the office. Almost the only textbook on the subject which is available to English students of liturgy is The Influence of the Synagogue upon the Divine Office by Professor C. W. Dugmore first published by the Oxford University Press in 1944 and reissued by the Alcuin Club in 1964 (Alcuin Club Collections No. 45). While in its day this made a major contribution to the subject it is now not only out of print but also seriously out of date in the light of the enormous strides in scholarship which have taken place in subsequent years. It is therefore extremely misleading for students to continue to use this work as though it were unquestionably accurate. However since the majority of more recent research has been undertaken by continental scholars and their findings nearly all buried in the pages of learned journals in foreign languages they have up to now been effectively inaccessible to most English-speaking students. Moreover not only translation but also bridge-building is called for since such work as has been one has on the whole been pursued in separate seemingly watertight compart- ments: Jewish scholars have worked largely in isolation from New Testament scholars New Testament scholars largely in isolation from liturgical scholars and so on with the result that hardly at all have the findings in one area been related to those in another. Even among liturgical scholars study has tended to be restricted to small areas of the subject and the effects of new perspectives and discoveries in one historical period or geographical area upon the understanding of the office at other times and in other places have rarely been considered or worked out in full. (LL)