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The Wisdom Shaping of the Psalter
Much debate surrounds the alleged presence of wisdom in the Psalter. Many studies focus on the identity and nature of wisdom psalms. This approach remains controversial in that few interpreters agree on which psalms constitute wisdom psalms.
Kyle Dunham
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PRAYERS OF THE FIRST FIVE CATHISMATA IN THE OLD RUSSIAN PSALTERS [PDF]
The Old Russian manuscript tradition demonstrates a rich variety of prayers after the kathisms of the Psalter. The article examines 26 Psalteries of the 13–14 centuries in the context of the Old Russian liturgical literature: horologions, liturgical ...
Deacon Anton V. Shchepetkin
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From Healing to Wounding: The Psalms of Communal Lament and the Shaping of Yehud’s Cultural Trauma
Biblical trauma studies strongly emphasize that texts and traditions that eventually formed the Hebrew Bible helped both the authors and the (former) “readers” to cope with catastrophic events. This approach, however, leads to side-lining other functions
Verde Danilo
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A possible interpretation of Psalm 40: Gerald Wilson’s research on the coherence of the Psalter A paradigm shift in the study of the Bible has been evident since the 1970s.
P. Styger, D.J. Human
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The Cathedral Rite of Constantinople: Evolution of a Local Tradition [PDF]
This article studies the evolution of the Liturgy of the Hours at Constantinople after the ninth century, when not only monastic churches of the city, but also secular churches followed the liturgical rite referred to as “hagiopolitis”.
Stefano Parenti
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Dots and Acute Accent Shapes in the Dobrejšo Gospel [PDF]
This paper examines the distribution of three types of sporadic and infrequent diacritics in the Dobrejšo Gospel and their functions: a dot or acute-accent shape over a liquid consonant letter in OCS trъt/trьt formations, and, more rarely, over other ...
Vakareliyska, Cynthia M.
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Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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Psalms 69:33-34 in the light of the poor in the Psalter as a whole
The Psalter has very often been regarded as the prayer book of the poor. In the Psalms God is portrayed as the saviour of the poor, their hope, their stronghold and liberator whether these are prayers of an individual or prayers of the community.
A Groenewald
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Fragments of Boethius: The Reconstruction of the Cotton Manuscript of the Alfredian Text [PDF]
‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’: T. S. Eliot's metaphor in The Waste Land evokes the evanescent frailty of human existence and worldly endeavour with a poignancy that the Anglo-Saxons would surely have appreciated. Such a concept lies at
Irvine, SE
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