The Usage of Scriptural Nativity Motifs in Early Greek and Slavonic Hymnography

Enrique Santos Marinas

doi:10.18778/2084-140X.13.37

Authors

Enrique Santos Marinas Complutense University of Madrid, Faculty of Philology https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8453-0014

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.13.37

Keywords:

kata stichon hymns, Book of Hours, homiletic literature, Apocryphal Gospels, Nativity Motifs

Abstract

In this article I will make a survey of the usage of the main nativity motifs that can be found in early Greek and Slavonic hymnography, such as the kata stichon hymns. Moreover, I will compare them with the nativity motifs that are mentioned in several works belonging to the homiletic literature, such as Pseudo-Chrysostom’s sermon known as In illud, Memor fui Dei, et delectatus sum or St. Proclus’ Oratio in natalem diem Domini, as well as with the apocryphal Gospels and Infancy Gospels. In this way, we can have an idea of the mutual references that are made between all those works, and of the different usage that they show.

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