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All Bible quotations are taken from New Revised Standard Version, unless otherwise indicated.

Brock, Sebastian. 1985. The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Pub.

Bychkov, Victor V. 2012. “The Symbolology of Dionysius the Areopagite,” Russian Studies in Philosophy. Vol. 51, no. 1. Summer. (I thank Fr Victor for this reference).

Cyril of Jerusalem. 2017. Lectures on the Christian Sacraments. Translated by Maxwell E. Johnson. Yonkers, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.

Digital Chant Stand of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOADCS).

Dionysius the Areopagite. The Celestial and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy. 1894. Translated by Rev. John Parker, M.A. London: Skeffington & Son.

____________. The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology. 1920. Translated by C. E. Rolt. London: Lewis Reprints Limited.

Levinas, Emmanuel. 1996. Basic Philosophical Writings. Edited by Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley, and Robert Bernasconi. Indianapolis: Indiana U. Press.

Liddell and Scott. Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.

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Meyendorff, Paul. 1984. On the Divine Liturgy: St Germanus of Constantinople. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.

Milgrom, Jacob. 1991. Leviticus 1-16, a New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, The Anchor Bible. New York: Doubleday.

Moffitt, David M. 2022. the Atonement: New Perspectives on Jesus’s Death, Resurrection, and Ascension. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic.

Najim, Michel and Patrick B. O’Grady. 2025. Hieratikon Á: Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom for One Priest and Deacon. Antiochian House of Studies.

Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. Corpus Dionysiacum I. Patristische Texte Und Studien. K. Aland und E. Mühlenberg. Band 33. Berlin, New York: Walter De Gruyter, 1990.

Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. Corpus Dionysiacum II. Patristische Texte Und Studien. K. Aland und E. Mühlenberg. Band 36. Berlin, New York: Walter De Gruyter, 1991.

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Ricoeur, Paul. 1967. The Symbolism of Evil. Translated by Emerson Buchanan. Boston: Beacon Press.

Schibille, Nadine. 2014. Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

Taft, Robert F. S.J. 2008. Liturgy: Model of Prayer — Icon of Life. Fairfax, VA: Eastern Christian Pub.