The Book of Odes ( grc-gre, Ὠδαί) is a book of the

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found only in

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Bibles and included or appended after the

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in Alfred Rahlfs' critical edition of the Septuagint, coming from the fifth-century

Codex Alexandrinus The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manu ...

. The chapters are prayers and songs (

canticles A canticle (from the Latin ''canticulum'', a diminutive of ''canticum'', "song") is a hymn, psalm or other Christian song of praise with lyrics usually taken from biblical or holy texts. Canticles are used in Christian liturgy. Catholic Church ...

) from the

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and

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s. The first nine of them form the basis for the

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sung during

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and other services.

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Chapters of this book as presented by Rahlfs are: Rahlfs, Alfred.

Septuaginta The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond t ...

(Greek Edition). 1979. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. # First Ode of

Moses Moses hbo, מֹשֶׁה, Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ, ); syr, ܡܘܫܐ, Mūše; ar, موسى, Mūsā; grc, Mωϋσῆς, Mōÿsēs () is considered the most important pro ...

(Exodus 15:1–19) # Second Ode of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1–43) # Prayer of Anna, the Mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 2:1–10) # Prayer of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:2–19) # Prayer of Isaias (Isaiah 26:9–20) # Prayer of Jonah (Jonah 2:3–10) # Prayer of Azariah (Daniel 3:26–45, a

deuterocanonical The deuterocanonical books (from the Greek meaning "belonging to the second canon") are books and passages considered by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Assyrian Church of the East to be ...

portion) # Song of the Three Young Men (Daniel 3:52–90, a deuterocanonical portion) # The

Magnificat The Magnificat (Latin for "

y soul Y, or y, is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. According to some authorities, it is the sixth (or sevent ...

magnifies

he Lord He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' ...

) is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle of Mary and, in the Eastern Christianity, Byzantine tradition, the Ode of the Theotokos (). It is traditionally incorporated ...

; Prayer of Mary the

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(Luke 1:46–55) # Benedictus Canticle of Zachariah (Luke 1:68–79) # The Song of the Vineyard: A Canticle of Isaiah (Isaiah 5:1–7) # Prayer of

Hezekiah Hezekiah (; hbo, , Ḥīzqīyyahū), or Ezekias); grc, Ἐζεκίας 'Ezekías; la, Ezechias; also transliterated as or ; meaning "Yahweh, Yah shall strengthen" (born , sole ruler ), was the son of Ahaz and the 13th king of Kingdom of Jud ...

(Isaiah 38:10–20) #

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, King of Judah when he was held captive in Babylon (ref. in 2 Chronicles 33:11–13 and appears also as a separate

book) #

Nunc dimittis The Nunc dimittis (), also known as the Song of Simeon or the Canticle of Simeon, is a canticle taken from the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke, verses 29 through 32. Its Latin name comes from its incipit, the opening words, of the Vulgate t ...

; Prayer of Simeon (Luke 2:29–32) # Gloria in Excelsis Deo; Canticle of the Early Morning (some lines from Luke 2:14, and Psalm 35:10-11; 118:12; and 144:2)

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* * James A Miller
''"Let us sing to the Lord": The Biblical Odes in the Codex Alexandrinus''
(January 1, 2006). Dissertations (1962 - 2010) Access via Proquest Digital Dissertations. Paper AAI3231313. * James Mearns
The Canticles of the Christian Church, Eastern and Western, in Early and Medieval Times
Cambridge University Press, 1914. *

Henry Barclay Swete Henry Barclay Swete (14 March 1835 in Bristol – 10 May 1917 in Hitchin) was an English biblical scholar. He became Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1890. He is known for his 1906 commentary on the ''Book of Revelation'', and other ...

,
An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek
', Cambridge University Press, 1914, page 253. * David Lincicum
''Septuagint Odes''
*Rev. Symeon-Anthony Beck

{{Authority control Anagignoskomena Texts in the Septuagint

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