pericope

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The pericope is then substantiated by a fairly balanced literary relationship between character dialogue and direct authorial narration.

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  1. noun An extract or selection from a book, especially a reading from a Scripture that forms part of a church service.

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  • Yes, it will make one deal with its readings (or avoid them for one of the other readings), but notice how incredibly frequent the lectionary skirts around the hardest parts of those passages by stopping short or skipping over parts of reading that one would not miss if one was guided more by the textual pericope than the lectionary's assignment. —  Gen-X Rising
  • Pondering the same pericope, Ruthanna B. Hooke finds pastoral value in the urgency of its eschatological claims; for her, the reading offers a salutary perspective on the ultimacy of God's reign and a sense of immediacy that might spur Christians to deeper discipleship.
  • Jesus, in this pericope, struggles against a twisted version of the universal triad of earthly power (i.e. social, political, and religious power). —  Lo-Fi Tribe
  • The pericope presents a reader with a very vulnerable Jesus who is forced into a dynamic struggle involving a powerful and dangerous alliance of social, political, and religious elitism. —  Lo-Fi Tribe
  • The pericope is then substantiated by a fairly balanced literary relationship between character dialogue and direct authorial narration. —  Lo-Fi Tribe
 

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  1. Late Latin pericopē, from Greek perikopē, a cutting around, section, from perikoptein, to cut around : peri-, peri- + koptein, to cut.

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  1. Late Latin, a section of a book, from Greek περικοπή, a cutting all round, outline, in LGr. ecclesiastical a section, a portion of Scripture, from περί, around, + κόπτειν, cut.
 

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