15. Berger's edition mistransliterates Christi fili Dei, vae vae, miserere nobis, miserere nobis. The correctness of my own transliteration is confirmed by the German translation.

16. The belief that the wine of the Mass was offered to the Father is expressed in the prayer Unde et memores in the Canon Missae. See Jungmann, Mass, 2: 218–26; Lippe, Missale romanum, 1: 207–8; Botte-Mohrmann, L'Ordinaire, 80–2.

17. See R. Hesbert, Corpus Antiphonalium Officii 4, Rerum Ecclesiasticarum Documenta, Series Major: Fontes 10 (Rome: Herder, 1970), 71, no. 6276. Elsewhere, NY cites another text recited at Prime, the "Athanasian" Creed or Quicunque vult. Berger 115–6 (Hebrew) and 178 (English).

18. Lippe, Missale Romanum 1: 200; Botte-Mohrmann, L'Ordinaire 68; Jungmann, Mass, 2: 58–9.

19. The psalms are here cited according to their Hebrew numbers, the numbers used in most modern English translations of the Bible. The Vulgate numbers are Psalm 109:4; 98:6.

20. Lippe, Missale Romanum, 1: 208; Botte-Mohrmann, L'Ordinaire, 82.

21. The idea was already expressed in the New Testament, particularly in the Epistle to the Hebrews 5:6 and 7:21. See also the discussion in NY, Berger 101–4 (Hebrew) and 160–5 (English). For the early history of the idea see David M. Hay, Glory at the Right Hand: Psalm 110 in Early Christianity, Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series 18 (Nashville: Abingdon, 1973).

22. Perhaps the Jewish translator was unable to understand the Hebrew transliteration at this point. The word salbet, occurring just before the omission of Melchisedek and Moses, may represent his attempt to render (=Latin salutaris) with a similar-sounding German word, though one quite different in meaning.

23. Ps 115:13 in the Vulgate.

24. Lippe, Missale Romanum 211; Botte-Mohrmann 90; Jungmann 2:353.


Peter Jeffery is the Scheide Professor of Music History at Princeton University. He has been interested in Christian-Jewish relations and cross-perceptions since he was in college, where he first experienced tensions between the two religions. He has published extensively on Jewish and especially Christian chant and psalmody, and is currently planning a book entitled They Saw His Glory: How Judaism and Christianity Separated, as Told in their Ancient Hymns.

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