Earthquakes in Hymnography: Publication, Identification, and Interpretation of the Text

 
PIIS241377150010951-9-1
DOI10.31857/S241377150010951-9
Publication type Article
Status Published
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Affiliation: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Journal nameIzvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka
EditionVolume 79 Issue 4
Pages84-101
Abstract

This is the first publication, with the tranlslation into Russian, of a unique rite dedicated to the victims of the earthquake of 18 January, 749 AD, in Syria and Palestine from the 9th century Hagiopolite tropologion Sin. Gr. ΝΕ/ΜΓ 56+5, and its study in the context of similar Constantinopolitan texts. Through the development of a system of topoi, typical for natural disasters, as well as special for earthquakes, the author puts this liturgical commemoration of the situational catastrophe in the general schedule of God’s dispensation, forms an attitude to the cataclysm as a manifestation of providence of God, and integrates it into the eschatological perspective of sacred history, reaffirming by this the most important function of worship as a transformed reality.

KeywordsByzantine hymnography, tropologion Sin. Gr. ΝΕ/ ΜΓ56+5, menaion Sin. Gr. 563, the earthquake of 749 AD in Syria and Palestine
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Publication date29.09.2020
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