David, our Orpheus: Reception, Rewritings and Adaptations of the Psalms in Byzantine Poetry. Ghent University
The Psalms, being an important corpus of biblical poetic texts, have influenced the entire history of European literature and religious culture. Early Christian and Byzantine readers recognized the poetical features of the Psalms, and psalmody (i.e. the practice of singing the Psalms in divine worship) was a typical exercise of monastic life. The proposed research will analyze how the Greek Psalms are reflected in various kinds of late ...