International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Tinatin Chronz
University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; 
[e-mail]
The Early Jerusalem Euchologion in Georgian Transmission. 
Comparative Edition, Translation and Commentary
Presentation of the current DFG project at the University of Cologne, Department of Byzantine 
Studies: As a complete collection the Euchologion of Jerusalem, used until the Byzantinisation of 
the Palestinian liturgy, is lost. Until now no pure “pre-Byzantine” Greek Euchologion has been 
discovered in the Middle East. In the original Greek only few liturgical ordines from the field of 
episcopal celebrations have survived. Regarding Jerusalem especially Armenian and Georgian 
pilgrims and monks translated the liturgical texts of Palestine into their oriental languages, to be 
used in colonies of their nations in the Holy Land and religious services in Caucasia. The Georgian 
transmission of Palestinian liturgical books and texts remain therefore more closely linked to the 
Greek originals than the transmission of the Jerusalem heritage to other oriental languages, so to 
Syriac and Armenian. Therefore our reconstruction the “pre-Byzantine“ Euchologion of Jerusalem 
and Palestine is based on the Georgian witnesses. We will give an introduction to our project and 
an overview of the first results.

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THEATRE AND LITURGY: 
PERFORMANCE AND RITUAL IN CHRISTIAN WORSHIP – PART 2
Conveners: 
Andrew Walker White
, 
Niki Tsironis
Ouresis Todorovich
, 
Analogies between the Transition from the Ancient Performative Image to the Byzantine 
Liturgical Image and Evolving Contemporary Concepts of Digital Imagery
Jaakko Olkinuora
, 
Re-Defining the Liturgical Functions of Canon Poetry
Przemysłav Marciniak
, 
Hypokrisis
and 
Mimesis
– Byzantine Concepts of Theatrical and Non-Theatrical Imitation