Syria: Cyril. Const. Apost. Chrysostom. Liturgy of James

The liturgy of the Jerusalem church of the later period is preserved for us in the Greek original under the name of the Liturgy of James. Ja. Liturgy Swainson prints the text of four manuscripts in parallel columns on pp. 215–332: the Rotulus of Messina (gr. 177), formerly belonging to the local monastery of S. Salvatore, dating from the end of the 10th century. In the diptychs lists of names prayed for on p. 300 f., the living church heads are named: Benedict of Rome 974–983, Nicholas II of Constantinople 984–995, Agapios of Antioch 978–996, and Elias of Alexandria, who reigned after 968. This leads to the time immediately after 985 and to a monastery (p. 284${12}$) of the East, where one could still ignore in 985 the death of Benedict which had already occurred in 983. From the mention of Aenea tou apostolikou kai prōtou tōn episkopōn Aeneas the apostolic and first of the bishops at the head of the list of bishops on p. 294${20}$, researchers have rightly concluded—with reference to the Aeneas mentioned in Acts 9:33—that Lydda-Diospolis was the original home of this text. Brightman (p. xlix$_{38}$), on the other hand, raised the objection that, according to Lequien’s Oriens Christianus III 581, Zenas, one of the 70 disciples (Tit. 3:13), is the first traditional bishop of Lydda. But Lequien’s source is the catalogue of disciples of the so-called Epiphanius or Dorotheus, which Th. Schermann has recently edited along with its parallels: Prophetarum vitae fabulosae etc. Fabulous Lives of the Prophets, etc. (1907) p. 125 no. 61 = p. 142 no. 66 = 170 no. 66. However, the editor’s investigations, which he presented in Texte und Untersuchungen 31, 3, p. 350 f., rob these lists of their authority in the face of such a serious witness as the diptych of a liturgical manuscript: they originated only around the middle of the 8th century and are often considerably arbitrary in their information. The diptychs teach us various other things about the sources of the manuscript, but these questions are better treated in a larger context.