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Any selection
extracted from a larger text for special consideration. Classically the term
was used in synagogue & church liturgies to designate a selection from a
biblical text assigned for public reading. Modern biblical scholars
generally use the term to refer to the small self-contained units
from which a book was originally composed. A pericope may be as short
as a single line aphorism
or proverb or as long as the Sermon on the Mount (111 verses) or the Passion
Narrative (127 verses in Luke). But the term is most often used to designate
moderate sized segments of logically related sayings and/or narrative
material:
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last revised 29 December 2005
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