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The Benedictus (also Song of Zechariah or Canticle of Zachary), given in Gospel of Luke 1:68–79, is one of the three canticles in the first two chapters of this Gospel, the other two being the "Magnificat" and the "Nunc dimittis".
Canticle Three — The Prayer of Hannah (1 Samuel 2:1–10) Canticle Four — The Prayer of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:1–19) Canticle Five — The Prayer of Isaiah (Isaiah 26:9–20) Canticle Six — The Prayer of Jonah (Jonah 2:2–9) Canticle Seven — The Prayer of the Three Holy Children (Daniel 3:26-56) [5] Canticle Eight — The Song of the ...
"Benedictus" (canticle), also called the "Canticle of Zachary", a canticle in the Gospel of Lukas; Part of the "Sanctus", a hymn and part of the eucharistic prayer in Western Christianity Various musical interpretations of it "Benedictus" a song by Simon & Garfunkel from their 1964 album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Two canticles, the canticle of Mary (the Magnificat) and the canticle of Zechariah (the Benedictus), are both contained within this chapter. The unnamed author of Luke names its recipient, Theophilus , who is most likely a real (but unknown) person, [ 2 ] but the term could simply mean a fellow believer, since theo philus is Greek for God lover ...
This chapter contains two dating formulae, in verses 1 and 7, which place the recorded events in the year of 520-519 BCE, "in the second year of Darius" (son of Hystaspes), the king of Persia. [6] [20] Accordingly, Zechariah was a contemporary of the prophet Haggai, [21] confirming the records in Ezra 5:1 and Ezra 6:14. [2] [3] [20]
The Magnificat; Prayer of Mary the Theotokos (Luke 1:46–55) The Song of the Vineyard: A Canticle of Isaiah (Isaiah 5:1–7) Prayer of Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:10–20) Prayer of Manasseh, King of Judah when he was held captive in Babylon (ref. in 2 Chronicles 33:11–13 and appears also as a separate deuterocanonical book)
One of the three prophets from the post-exilic period, Zechariah's prophecies took place during the reign of Darius the Great. [1]Chapters 1–8 of the book are contemporary with the prophecies of Haggai, [2] while chapters 9–14 (often termed Second Zechariah) are thought to have been written much later—in the 5th century, during the late Persian or early Ptolemaic period. [3]
Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893 The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.