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Hearing the Scriptures - Liturgical Exegesis of the Old Testament in Byzantine Orthodox Hymnography (Hardcover)
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Hearing the Scriptures - Liturgical Exegesis of the Old Testament in Byzantine Orthodox Hymnography (Hardcover)
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Throughout the ages, interpreters of the Christian scriptures have
been wonderfully creative in seeking to understand and bring out
the wonders of these ancient writings. That creativity has often
been overlooked by recent scholarship, concentrated as it is in the
so-called critical period. In this study, Eugen J. Pentiuc
illuminates the remarkable way in which the Byzantine hymnographers
(liturgists) expressed their understanding of the Old Testament in
their compositions, an interpretive process that he terms
"liturgical exegesis." In authorship and methodology, patristic
exegesis and liturgical exegesis are closely related. Patristic
exegesis, however, is primarily linear and sequential, proceeding
verse by verse, while liturgical exegesis offers a more imaginative
and eclectic mode of interpretation, ranging over various parts of
the Bible. In this respect, says Pentiuc, liturgical exegesis
resembles cubist art. To illuminate the multi-faceted creativity of
liturgical exegesis, Pentiuc has chosen the vast and rich
hymnography of Byzantine Orthodox Holy Week as a case study,
offering a detailed lexical, biblical, and theological analysis of
selected hymns. His analysis reveals the many different and
imaginative ways in which creative liturgists incorporated and
interpreted scriptural material in these hymns. By drawing
attention to the way in which the bible is used by Byzantine
hymnographers in the living Orthodox tradition, Hearing the
Scriptures makes a ground-breaking contribution to the history of
the reception of the scriptures.
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