pericope
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun An extract; a selection from a book; specifically, in the ancient Christian church, a passage of Scripture appointed to be read on certain Sundays and festive occasions.
- noun 2. In ancient prosody, a group of two or more systems.
Examples
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In the RSV Catholic Version the pericope reads as follows: Isaiah 11:3 “And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.”
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The initial pericope of the Evangelical story refers to the “canticle of the vineyard” that we find in Isaiah.
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I've said before, and I'll repeat it, that I'm not a historical scholar, and I don't much care if a particular pericope was borrowed from the OT, the Greeks, the Babylonians, or the bloody Hittites.
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I remember once in my homiletics class at Nashotah House, the late Fr Reginald Fuller was commenting on why a certain pericope ended where it did and skipped the verses it did.
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There are many remnants of the practice of naming a pericope after its first words, as in the capitularium.
Note
The word 'pericope' comes from Greek roots meaning 'a cutting around; a section'.
