Holy Women in the Liturgy of Old Jerusalem: Corpus of Texts and Complex of Topoi
https://doi.org/10.31802/BCA.2021.11.3.005
Abstract
In this article, the authors take into account the history of Hagiopolite liturgy, with its common rites and Triduum texts, and study how the complex of topoi in the hymns for holy women was developed. They propose a model that helps to describe the poetics of Byzantine hymnography in parallel with the history of liturgy and the formation of the corpus, exploring the sources of basic metaphors and their usage in early liturgical texts. Originally, in the Hagiopolite tradition, holy women were venerated according to common rites for martyrs, monastic saints and women. Later, in the 7th–9th centuries, individual propers for selected women appeared. Their topoi can be divided into three topical blocks: «marriage» (source: the common rite for holy women), «competition» / «war» (source: the common rite for martyrs and monastic saints), and «passion» (source: the common rite for martyrs and Triduum texts). For the first time we publish in Russian translation the common rite for holy women from the lectionary NLR. Gr. 44 (9th c.), and common hymns from the collection Sinait. gr. ΜΓ / ΝΕ 24 (8th–9th c.) and the tropologion Sinait. gr. ΜΓ / ΝΕ 56+5 (8th–9th c.). Most of the topoi discussed in the article have become common patterns for the development of the language of later hymnographical propers for holy women in the Hagiopolite and Constantinopolitan traditions.
About the Authors
A. Ju. Nikiforova
Institute for World Literature at the Russian Academy of Sciences; St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexandra Ju. Nikiforova - PhD in Phililolgy Senior Researcher at the Institute for World Literature at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Researcher of Center for the History of Theology and for Theological Education of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University
25a, Povarskaya str., Moscow 121069
L. S. Holkina
Institute of Literature at the Russian State Humanitarian University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Liliya S. Holkina - PhD in Philology Leading Researcher, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Literature at the RSHU.
6, Miusskaya sq., Moscow 125993
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Nikiforova A.J., Holkina L.S. Holy Women in the Liturgy of Old Jerusalem: Corpus of Texts and Complex of Topoi. Bible and Christian Antiquity. 2021;(3):160-196. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31802/BCA.2021.11.3.005
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