Book of Odes (Bible)


The Book of Odes, 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 from the Old and New Testaments. The first nine of them form the basis for the canon sung during matins and other services.

Content

Chapters of this book as presented by Rahlfs are:
  1. First Ode of Moses
  2. Second Ode of Moses
  3. Prayer of Anna, the Mother of Samuel
  4. Prayer of Habakkuk
  5. Prayer of Isaias
  6. Prayer of Jonah
  7. Prayer of Azariah
  8. Song of the Three Young Men
  9. The Magnificat; Prayer of Mary the Theotokos
  10. Benedictus Canticle of Zachariah
  11. The Song of the Vineyard: A Canticle of Isaiah
  12. Prayer of Hezekiah
  13. Prayer of Manasseh, King of Judah when he was held captive in Babylon
  14. Nunc dimittis; Prayer of Simeon
  15. Gloria in Excelsis Deo; Canticle of the Early Morning