Christian Prayer Sequence Modeled on the Rabbinic Tefillah

The Apostolic Constitutions is a fourth-century CE collection of Christian church orders in eight treatises or books. The collection probably originated in Syria, possibly Antioch. The original language is Greek. The seventh of the treatises contains, among a larger series of prayers, six that are so close in their ordering and broad themes to the rabbinic Sabbath Tefillah that many scholars have assumed some Jewish influence. One theory is that these prayers are in fact Jewish, with some light Christian interpolations. (In the presentation here, the underlined phrases are those deemed to be the Christian interpolations.) Broadly speaking, the style is consistent with Hellenistic Jewish prayers written in Greek.