Charbel Nassif

Eighteenth-Century Melkite Psalters: Literacy, Catechesis, and Prayer

Abstract This article examines four eighteenth-century Melkite Psalters printed at Aleppo (1706), Shuwayr (1735), Bucharest (1747) and Beirut (1752). It analyses their printing context, structure, content and para-texts. In the Melkite tradition, the Psalter served both liturgica...