The Allusions to the Alexandrian Liturgy in the Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes: The Coptic Texts
The allusions to the Alexandrian Liturgy, in the Christian Topography, 7, 22 of Cosmas Indicopleustes, have been noticed a long time ago by E. Peterson who exaggerated in speaking of a "destruction" of the old tradition. Nevertheless, it is worth turning back to them, because they were not...
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| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Orientalia christiana periodica
Year: 2017, Volume: 83, Issue: 2, Pages: 491-498 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cosmas Indicopleustes ca. 6.Jh.
/ Prayer
/ Coptic Church
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDF Orthodox Church RC Liturgy |
| Summary: | The allusions to the Alexandrian Liturgy, in the Christian Topography, 7, 22 of Cosmas Indicopleustes, have been noticed a long time ago by E. Peterson who exaggerated in speaking of a "destruction" of the old tradition. Nevertheless, it is worth turning back to them, because they were not directly confronted with the Coptic texts. Cosmas quotes two prayers rtepi yiv rwv npoacpep6vra)v (top. 7, 97, 1-2) which is prayed in the Coptic Church nowadays in the "Litany for the Oblations" during the Morning Service as well as during the Liturgy of Saint Mark and nepi Si rwv Keicoifujfiivwv (top. 7,97, 6), which belongs to the "Litany of the Departed" and is prayed in the Coptic Church nowadays during the Evening Service as well as during the Liturgy of Saint Mark. It is true that the Coptic text of the prayers has been largely expanded, but we have to notice that it better attests the wording of Cosmas than the Greek liturgy of St Mark or others parallel texts. On the contrary, the Coptic liturgy may be proud of having preserved until today the kernel of these prayers |
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| ISSN: | 0030-5375 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Orientalia christiana periodica
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