Acknowledgements
The editors wish to thank the members of the Research Centre “Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present” at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt, which was funded from 2015 to 2020 by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany, by the Max-Weber-Kolleg, and by the University of Erfurt. They also wish to express their warm gratitude for the intellectual input, personal support and consistent encouragement of many individuals connected to the Research Centre. We thank especially Jörg Rüpke, Günter Stemberger, Judith Frishman, and Gerard Rouwhorst.
The completion of this volume would not have been possible without the help of many people. Thomas R. Blanton IV was a skilled and careful copy editor for the book and a valued colleague in our discussions. Johanna Birkefeld, supported by the Professur für Liturgiewissenschaft of the University of Erfurt, checked the entire text for inconsistencies. Naomi Grützbach, funded by the University of Paderborn, as well as Raphael Neuschäfer, funded by the Professur für Liturgiewissenschaft of the University of Erfurt, assisted with the Index of Sources and the General Index. Heartfelt thanks also go to the anonymous referees from the AJEC Board for their helpful suggestions and comments and to our editors at Brill.
The editors of this volume met when working within the Research Centre: Claudia D. Bergmann served as its coordinator, Tessa Rajak was a member of the Board of Directors, Benedikt Kranemann was its Director, and Rebecca Ullrich was a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre and an organiser of the conference “Psalms in Rituals from Antiquity to the Present.”