This booklet brings together seven essays by six authors on the canon in the Orthodox Church and on various texts that did not make it into this canon. Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou contributes a short introductory note on the biblical canon in the Orthodox Church and another one on the exclusion of the Book of Revelation from the lectionary, though not from the canon. Daniel Alberto Ayuch, Slavomir Céplö and Anushavan Tanielian discuss the cases of the Prayer of Manasseh, the Judgement of Solomon and the Wisdom of Solomon. The first work never was part of the canon of Hebrew Scripture, but found its way into the liturgy because of the views on repentance that it promotes. The second is a late work, composed after 538 in Arabic, probably in Egypt. It has long been thought to be an Arabic translation of the Testament of Solomon, but that proves to be wrong: the Judgement is close to the Testament and probably borrowed from it (and from other works), but is an independent composition. The third work, while having its place in the lectionaries of the Greek and Syriac Orthodox Church, is more prominently present and used in the Armenian Church. Nicolae Roddy presents a short prayer text in Rumanian entitled The dream of the mother of the Lord that for generations has been transmitted on amulets. The editor of this volume contributes a useful survey of the history of the canon in the Armenian Church and adds to it a list of fifty-four apocryphal writings that are preserved or mentioned in Armenian manuscripts.
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