On This Day – The Armenian Church Synaxarion – March (Eastern Christian Texts) - Hardcover

Mathews Jr., Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0842529985 ISBN 13: 9780842529983

Publisher: Brigham Young University, 2017

Synopsis

The Yaysmawurk' is an Armenian liturgical collection of brief saints' lives arranged according to the day on which they were celebrated in the annual church calendar. The first Yaysmawurk' was translated from an existing Greek liturgical collection, the Synaxarion, "where the lives are all collected." In fact, it is common knowledge that this Greek collection was the basis for nearly all such liturgical collections of the lives of the saints throughout the early Christian world; however, it was not a mere translation. Rather, it constituted a logical culmination of a long and steady development in the Armenian Church of what scholars today like to call the "cult of the saints." This volume in the On This Day series collects the entries for March.

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About the Author

Edward G. Mathews Jr. taught at The Catholic University of America, Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Seminary, University of Scranton, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Armenian Evangelical Seminary in Yerevan, and St. Nersess Armenian Seminary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brigham Young University
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0842529985
• ISBN 13: 9780842529983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 218