Source texts
Judaism
Deiss, Lucien (ed.). Springtime of the Liturgy. Collegeville, 1979. Ch. “The Sources of Jewish Prayer”, p. 1-20.
Shema (3 biblical paragraphs): Online text http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/706162/jewish/Translation.htm (1 p.)
Mishnah, Berakhot, ch. 4. Online: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mishnah/Seder_Zeraim/Tractate_Berakhot/Chapter_4 (1 p.)
The Talmud of the Land of Israel. Vol. 1: Berakhot. Tr. by Tzvee Zahavy (Chicago – London, 1989), ch. 4:3, p. 170-176 (6 p.).
Seder R. Amram Gaon. Part II: The Order of Sabbath Prayer. Ed. and tr. by Tryggve Kronholm (Lund, 1974), “The evening prayer for the Sabbath”, p. 3-57 (ca. 14 p. without the notes).
Christianity
Didache, ch. 7-10. Online: http://web.archive.org/web/20101009033540/http://ivanlewis.com/Didache/didache.html (2 p.)
Egeria’s travels, ch. 24-49. (20 p.) online source
The Liturgy of St. James (tr. Ephrem Lash): from “Let all mortal flesh keep silent” to “Our Father” (ca. 16 p.) online source
Islam
Ghafoori, Ali. The Ritual Prayer of Islam. Houston, 1982, p. 1-20. (20 p.)
“How to perform the Daily Prayers” [Shia Jafari School], http://www.al-islam.org/nutshell/files/prayers.pdf (4 p.)
Hadith, Sahih al-Bhukari, Book 12, “Characteristics of Prayer”. Online: http://www.luvu4luv.com/Hadith_Bukhari_Book12.html (14 p.)
Secondary sources
Introduction to the comparison of the three worship traditions
Peters, F.E., The Monotheists. Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition. Volume II: The Words and Will of God. Princeton, 2003. Ch. “Divine worship”, p. 168-210 (43 p.)
“Under Way to a Theology of Prayer in Islam and Christianity”. Online: http://www.con-spiration.de/texte/english/2006/name-e.html (6 p.)
Methodology
Bell, Catherine. Ritual. New York / Oxford, 1997. Ch. “Characteristics of Ritual-like Activites”, p. 138-169. (32 p.)
Taft, Robert. “The Structural Analysis of Liturgical Units: An Essay in Methodology”, in Robert Taft, Beyond East and West: Problems in Liturgical Understanding, 2nd rev. and enlarged ed. (Rome: Pontifical Oriental Institute), 1997, p. 187-202. (16 p.)
Ritual in Rabinnic Judaism
Elbogen, Ismar. Jewish Liturgy. A Comprehensive History. Philadelphia – New York – Jerusalem, 1993, p. 15-149 (135 p.). Description of Jewish worship; old, but updated and still the best introduction.
Levine, Lee. “The Development of Synagogue Liturgy in Late Antiquity”, in: Eric M. Meyers, ed. Galilee through the Centuries, Winona Lake, IN, 1999, p. 123-144. (22 p.)
Hoffman, Lawrence A. "Jewish Liturgy and Jewish Scholarship”, in: Jacob Neusner, ed. Judaism in Late Antiquity. Part I, The Literary and Archaeological Sources. Leiden, 1995, p.239-266. Online: http://books.google.no/books?id=Nod8yCUJLuYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=no#v=onepage&q&f=false (28 p.)
Kimelman, Reuven, “The Shema and the Amidah: Rabbinic Prayer”, in: Mark Kiley, ed. Prayer from Alexander to Constantine. A Critical Anthology, p. 108-120. (13 p.)
Y. Tsafrir, “Jewish Pilgrimage in the Roman and Byzantine Periods”, in: JAC Supplement 20, Münster 1995, 369-376. (8 p.)
Ritual in Early Christianity
Bradshaw, Paul. Early Christian Worship. A Basic Introduction to Ideas and Practice. (London, 2010). (128 p.)
S. Verhelst, "The Liturgy of Jerusalem in the Byzantine period", in: Ora Limor and Guy Stroumsa, (eds.), Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land. From the Origins to the Latin Kingdoms, 2006, pp. 421-459. (40 p.)
Bradshaw, Paul. Eucharistic Origins (Oxford, 2004). Ch. “Didache”, p. 24-42. (19 p.)
Frøyshov, Stig (2010). The Formation of a Fivefold Cursus of Daily Prayer in Pre-Constantinian Christianity: Backward Inferences from Later Periods, In Daniel Galadza, Nina Glibetić & Gabriel Radle (ed.), TOXOTÊS. Studies for Stefano Parenti, p. 121-138. Online: http://mzh.mrezha.ru/lib/froyshov/fhv2010a.pdf (18 p.)
Ora Limor, “’Holy Journey': Pilgrimage and Christian Sacred Landscape", in: Ora Limor and Guy Stroumsa, (eds.), Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land. From the Origins to the Latin Kingdoms, 2006, pp. 321-353. (30 p.)
Ritual in Early Islam
Renard, John. Seven Doors to Islam (Berkely – Los Angeles – London, 1996). Ch. “Devotion”, p. 35-72. (38 p.)
Wiegers, Gerard. “Ritual,” in: Richard Martin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. New York, 2004. Vol. II, p. 597-601. Online: http://islamweb.us/islamic-ritual.html (5 p.)
Böwering, Gerhard. "Prayer," in: Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān, vol. 4, Brill Publishers, Leiden 2004, pp. 215-231. (17 p.)
Monnot, Guy. “Salāt”, The Encyclopaedia of Islam: New Edition, vol. 8 (1995), pp. 925-934. (10 p.)
Denny, Frederick M. “Islamic Ritual. Perspectives and Theories”, p. 63-77, in: Richard Martin, ed. Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies. Tucson, 1985. (15 p.)
Graham, William. “Islam in the Mirror of Ritual”, p. 349-367, in: Gerald Hawting (ed.). The development of Islamic ritual. Aldershot, 2006 (art. 1983). (20 p.)
Rippin, Andrew. Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Volume 1: The Formative Period, 1990. Ch. 7, “Ritual practice”, pp. 86-99. (14 p.)
Becker, “On the history of Muslim worship” Online source: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37518569/CH-Becker-on-the-History-of-early-Muslim-Worship-and-Salat-Prayer (25 p.)
Goitein, S. D. “Ramadan, the Muslim Month of Fasting” (1966), p. 151-171, in: Gerald Hawting (ed.). The development of Islamic ritual. Aldershot, 2006 (art. 1966). (21 p.)
Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava. “Muslim Festivals”, p. 317-329, in: Gerald Hawting (ed.). The development of Islamic ritual. Aldershot, 2006 (art. 1978). (13 p.)
Amikam Elad, "Pilgrims and Pilgrimage to Jerusalem during the Early Muslim Period", in Lee I. Levine, (ed.) Jerusalem. Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, New York, 1999, pp. 300-314. (15 p.)
Roff, William R. “Pilgrimage and the History of Religions”, p. 78-86, in: Richard Martin, ed. Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies. Tucson, 1985. (9 p.)
Relationship of Jewish,Christian and Muslim rituals
Bradshaw, Paul. “Jewish Influence on Early Christian Liturgy: A Reappraisal” (2008). Online: http://www.jcrelations.net/Jewish_Influence_on_Early_Christian_Liturgy__A_Reappraisal.3217.0.html?searchAutor=Bradshaw%252C%2BPaul (ca- 8 p.)
Israel J. Yuval, “Easter and Passover as early Jewish-Christian Dialogue”, p. 98-124, in: Paul F. Bradshaw and Lawrence A. Hoffman (eds.), Passover and Easter. Origin and History to Modern Times, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1999. (26 p.)
Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel. “Whose Fast Is It? The Ember Day of September and Yom Kippur”, p. 259-282, in: Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed. The Ways That Never Parted, Minneapolis, 2007. (24 p.)
Anazodo, Alfred. Liturgy of the Hours and Islamic Salat - A comparative study of public-liturgical worship of Christians and Muslims, doctoral thesis, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, 2002. ch. 4: “Liturgy of the Hours and Salat: A comparative representation”, p. 115-131. Online: http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/16 (16 p.)
Leirvik, Oddbjørn. « Some Christian-Muslim Reflections on Religious Body Language », Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, 16, 2006, 29-40. Online: https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/123456789/32946 (12 p.)