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The Odes of SolomonCodex ISO Edition 019 · The Complete Surviving Text · J. Rendel Harris, 1911
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The Odes of Solomon

Codex ISO Edition 019 · The Complete Surviving Text · J. Rendel Harris, 1911

The surviving Odes sing of divine love, living water, light, knowledge, union, birth, descent to Sheol and salvation. Their date, place, original language, authorship, unity and community setting remain disputed.

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Before you read

Context without the mythology.

Codex ISO separates the surviving evidence from later interpretation, so you can encounter the text without being told what to believe about it first.

01 / Historical context

A traditionally numbered collection of forty-two anonymous early Christian hymns, preserved chiefly in Syriac. Harris's 1911 edition prints an Ode 1 identified from Coptic, no surviving Ode 2, and Ode 3 through 42 with the opening of Ode 3 lost.

02 / Why it matters

This is Harris's complete surviving English Ode body: no missing passage is silently supplied.

From / associated with the text
““As the sun is the joy to them that seek for its daybreak, so is my joy the Lord; because He is my Sun and His rays have lifted me up.””
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What is The Odes of Solomon?

The surviving Odes sing of divine love, living water, light, knowledge, union, birth, descent to Sheol and salvation. Their date, place, original language, authorship, unity and community setting remain disputed.

What survives of The Odes of Solomon?

A traditionally numbered collection of forty-two anonymous early Christian hymns, preserved chiefly in Syriac. Harris's 1911 edition prints an Ode 1 identified from Coptic, no surviving Ode 2, and Ode 3 through 42 with the opening of Ode 3 lost.

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