{"id":26570,"date":"2011-08-08T08:13:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T12:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/the-liturgical-commentaries-of\/"},"modified":"2011-08-08T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T12:13:22","slug":"the-liturgical-commentaries-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/the-liturgical-commentaries-of\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liturgical Commentaries of St Symeon of Thessalonika"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\"Liturgical<\/a><\/p>\n

I am happy to recommend my friend’s recently published book, The Liturgical Commentaries<\/a><\/i> of St Symeon of Thessalonika.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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From the book:<\/p>\n

This volume contains an edition and facing
\nEnglish translation of Explanation of the Divine Temple<\/i> and “On the Sacred
\nLiturgy,” the two commentaries on the pontifical (hierarchal) Byzantine Divine
\nLiturgy by St. Symeon of Thessalonika (\u20201429). This edition is based on MS
\nZagora 23, which contains extensive corrections and additions apparently added
\nto the text by the author himself. The book opens with a historical and
\ntheological foreword on liturgical commentaries and mystagogy by Archimandrite
\nRobert Taft. The introduction surveys the life and career of St. Symeon,
\nanalyzes the structure and theology of the commentaries, and concludes with an
\naccount of technical and editorial questions. The index includes references to
\nnames, places, and topics in Symeon’s text and in the introduction and traces
\nkey terms in the commentaries in both Greek and English.<\/p>\n

A review:<\/p>\n

\"Fr<\/a><\/p>\n

With this book Fr.
\nSteven Hawkes-Teeples, SJ, Professor of Byzantine Liturgy at the Pontifical
\nOriental Institute in Rome, fills a gaping hole in the scholarly literature
\nassociated with the overlapping academic fields of Byzantine Studies, Medieval
\nStudies, Orthodox Theology, and Oriental Liturgiology. The present volume
\nrepresents the first translation into any modern western academic language of
\nboth commentaries of St. Symeon of Thessalonika (d. 1429) on the Byzantine
\nDivine Liturgy or Eucharist. Such neglect is surprising, for St. Symeon is an
\nauthor of the first importance. As the last and most prolific Orthodox
\nliturgical theologian of the Byzantine era, who lived at the point when the
\nByzantine Empire was moving toward its demise before the Ottoman onslaught, he
\ncrowns and closes his era. — Robert F. Taft <\/o:p><\/p>\n

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I am happy to recommend my friend’s recently published book, The Liturgical Commentaries of St Symeon of Thessalonika. From the book: This volume contains an edition and facing English translation of Explanation of the Divine Temple and “On the Sacred Liturgy,” the two commentaries on the pontifical (hierarchal) Byzantine Divine Liturgy by St. Symeon of … Continue reading The Liturgical Commentaries of St Symeon of Thessalonika<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,14],"tags":[2352,1713,2823,2824],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}