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The Book of Odes is, in our opinion, a collection of Scriptures explicitly selected for regular liturgical use. Most of these Odes have indeed been used for that very purpose in the Eastern Orthodox Church liturgy, as the Book of Odes also survives in Eastern Orthodox bibles. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. Revelation 18:13 View whole chapter See verse in context.

The Book of Odes (Greek: Ὠδαί), commonly referred to simply as Odes, is a book of the Bible found only in Eastern Orthodox Bibles and included or appended after the Psalms in Alfred Rahlfs' critical edition of the Septuagint, coming from the fifth-century Codex Alexandrinus. The chapters are prayers and songs (canticles) from the Old and New Testaments. The first nine of them form the basis for the canon sung during matins and other services.

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Chapters of this book as presented by Rahlfs are:^[1]

1. First Ode of Moses (Exodus 15:1–19)
2. Second Ode of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1–43)
3. Prayer of Anna, the Mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 2:1–10)
4. Prayer of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:2–19)
5. Prayer of Isaias (Isaiah 26:9–20)
6. Prayer of Jonah (Jonah 2:3–10)
7. Prayer of Azariah (Daniel 3:26–45, a deuterocanonical portion)
8. Song of the Three Young Men (Daniel 3:52–90, a deuterocanonical portion)
9. The Magnificat; Prayer of Mary the Theotokos (Luke 1:46–55)
10. Benedictus Canticle of Zachariah (Luke 1:68–79)
11. The Song of the Vineyard: A Canticle of Isaiah (Isaiah 5:1–7)
12. Prayer of Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:10–20)
13. Prayer of Manasseh, King of Judah when he was held captive in Babylon (ref. in 2 Chronicles 33:11–13 and appears also as a separate deuterocanonical book)
14. Nunc dimittis; Prayer of Simeon (Luke 2:29–32)
15. Gloria in Excelsis Deo; Canticle of the Early Morning (some lines from Luke 2:14, Psalm 144:2 and Psalm 118:12)

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References[edit]

1. ^Rahlfs, Alfred. Septuaginta (Greek Edition). 1979. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. ISBN978-3438051219

External links[edit]

• Works related to Book of Odes (Greek text) at Wikisource
• 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, An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek, Cambridge University Press, 1914, page 253.
• David Lincicum, Septuagint Odes
• Rev. Symeon-Anthony Beck, Notes on the Codex Alexadrinus Psalter

Summary: Book 10

The Achaeans sail from the land of the Cyclopesto the home of Aeolus, ruler of the winds. Aeolus presents Odysseuswith a bag containing all of the winds, and he stirs up a westerlywind to guide Odysseus and his crew home. Within ten days, theyare in sight of Ithaca, but Odysseus’s shipmates, who think thatAeolus has secretly given Odysseus a fortune in gold and silver,tear the bag open. The winds escape and stir up a storm that bringsOdysseus and his men back to Aeolia. This time, however, Aeolus refusesto help them, certain that the gods hate Odysseus and wish to dohim harm.

Lacking wind, the Achaeans row to the land of the Laestrygonians,a race of powerful giants whose king, Antiphates, and unnamed queenturn Odysseus’s scouts into dinner. Odysseus and his remaining menflee toward their ships, but the Laestrygonians pelt the ships withboulders and sink them as they sit in the harbor. Only Odysseus’sship escapes.

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From there, Odysseus and his men travel toAeaea, home of the beautiful witch-goddess Circe. Circe drugs aband of Odysseus’s men and turns them into pigs. When Odysseus goesto rescue them, Hermes approaches him in the form of a young man. Hetells Odysseus to eat an herb called moly to protect himself fromCirce’s drug and then lunge at her when she tries to strike himwith her sword. Odysseus follows Hermes’ instructions, overpoweringCirce and forcing her to change his men back to their human forms.Odysseus soon becomes Circe’s lover, and he and his men live withher in luxury for a year. When his men finally persuade him to continuethe voyage homeward, Odysseus asks Circe for the way back to Ithaca.She replies he must sail to Hades, the realm of the dead, to speakwith the spirit of Tiresias, a blind prophet who will tell him howto get home.

The next morning, Odysseus rouses his men for the imminent departure.He discovers, however, that the youngest man in his crew, Elpenor,had gotten drunk the previous night, slept on the roof, and, whenhe heard the men shouting and marching in the morning, fell fromthe roof and broke his neck. Odysseus explains to his men the coursethat they must take, which they are displeased to learn is rathermeandering.

Summary: Book 11

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By god, I’d rather slave on earth foranother man . . .
than rule down here over all the breathless dead.
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Odysseus travels to the River of Ocean in the land ofthe Cimmerians. There he pours libations and performs sacrificesas Circe earlier instructs him to do to attract the souls of thedead. The first to appear is that of Elpenor, the crewman who brokehis neck falling from Circe’s roof. He begs Odysseus to return toCirce’s island and give his body a proper burial. Odysseus thenspeaks with the Theban prophet Tiresias, who reveals that Poseidonis punishing the Achaeans for blinding his son Polyphemus. He foretellsOdysseus’s fate—that he will return home, reclaim his wife and palacefrom the wretched suitors, and then make another trip to a distantland to appease Poseidon. He warns Odysseus not to touch the flocksof the Sun when he reaches the land of Thrinacia; otherwise, hewon’t return home without suffering much more hardship and losingall of his crew. When Tiresias departs, Odysseus calls other spiritstoward him. He speaks with his mother, Anticleia, who updates himon the affairs of Ithaca and relates how she died of grief waitingfor his return. He then meets the spirits of various famous menand heroes and hears the stories of their lives and deaths.

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Odysseus now cuts short the tale and asks his Phaeacianhosts to allow him to sleep, but the king and queen urge him tocontinue, asking if he met any of the Greeks who fell at Troy inHades. He relates his encounters there: he meets Agamemnon, whotells him of his murder at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra.Next he meets Achilles, who asks about his son, Neoptolemus. Odysseusthen tries to speak with Ajax, an Achaean who killed himself afterhe lost a contest with Odysseus over the arms of Achilles, but Ajaxrefuses to speak and slips away. He sees Heracles, King Minos, thehunter Orion, and others. He witnesses the punishment of Sisyphus,struggling eternally to push a boulder over a hill only to haveit roll back down whenever it reaches the top. He then sees Tantalus,agonized by hunger and thirst. Tantalus sits in a pool of wateroverhung by bunches of grapes, but whenever he reaches for the grapes,they rise out of grasp, and whenever he bends down to drink, thewater sinks out of reach. Odysseus soon finds himself mobbed bysouls wishing to ask about their relatives in the world above. Hebecomes frightened, runs back to his ship, and immediately sailsaway.