Telling Stories in Church
Jennifer Wright Knust|Tommy Wasserman
This chapter discusses the divergent liturgical history of pericope adulterae. Assigned to third Saturday Lent in Rome, story gained even greater prominence Latin contexts, particularly during Carolingian and Ottonian periods. biblical reform preserved promulgated Roman stational liturgy, Jerome's Vulgate, also adulterae, which was featured an imperial-sponsored homiliary depicted luxurious copies Gospels. The comparatively peripheral Byzantine yet it incorporated this context as well. Featured a lection on feast days female sinner saints read penitential readily accepted within earlier traditions about repentant prostitutes mercy Christ extends. Liturgical reading guaranteed that would be remembered both albeit differently.
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