Pasen en het Oude Testament. Kanttekeningen bij oude en nieuwe leesroosters

Abstract

The Old Testament has made a remarkable come-back in recent lectionaries, but some desiderata remain. The Roman-Catholic Ordo Lectionum Missae has favored the (re)introduction of a first lection from the Old Testament, except for the Sundays between Easter and Pentecost. In other traditions, this lacuna has been filled. An analysis of the Revised Common Lectionary (USA), the Gemeenschappelijk Leesrooster (the ‘Common Lectionary’ of the three Protestant churches engaged in becoming the United Protestant Church in the Netherlands) and other lectionaries demonstrates that it is still difficult to let the Old Testament speak for itself. Read in the way of a triennial cycle the Torah proves itself a real Easter-story. (For the first time in the history of Christian liturgy a triennial cycle of Torah will be recognised as a legitimate way of reading the Scriptures by being incorporated in a Service Book, sc. that of the above mentioned United Protestant Church in the Netherlands.) The same standard - has adequate provision been made for the reading of the Old Testament? - is used in a preliminary assessment of the recent proposals for a revision of the old-testament readings in the Easter-Night, made by the (R.C.) ‘Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Liturgischen Kommissionen im Deutschen Sprachgebiet’.