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The Inauguration Anthem of Hagia Sophia Again

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Andrew Palmer
Andrew Palmer*
Affiliation:
University of Groningen
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Extract

On Christmas Day, 1988,1 received from Marc Deprez the draft of an article entitled Noël et Hanoucah, which threw some further light on the imagery used in the kontakion translated by me in BMGS 12. On p. 146 I referred to ‘a verbal reminiscence of the Feast of Booths’, where the poet writes: In celebrating the Word’s divine sojourn in the Body may we, the children of his Church, be thatched with luminous virtues worthy of his grace, and may we prove, by divine illumination, a worthy dwelling-place of knowledge... But I did not know why the Feast of Booths was especially relevant to the occasion of the kontakion, which was Christmas Day.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 14 , 1990 , pp. 247 - 249
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1990

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