Editing Gloria in excelsis Deo (section)

{{Short description|Christian hymn}}
{{For|the Bach cantata|Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191}}
[[File:Gloria 5 (init).png|thumb|right|200px|The melody in [[neume]] notation]]
"'''{{lang|la|Gloria in excelsis Deo|italic=no}}'''" ([[Latin]] for "Glory to God in the highest") is a [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Hymn#Christian hymnody|hymn]] known also as the '''Greater Doxology''' (as distinguished from the "Minor Doxology" or [[Gloria Patri]]) and the '''Angelic Hymn'''<ref name="ODCC">{{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|ISBN=978-0-19-280290-3|chapter=Gloria in Excelsis|editor-first1=Elizabeth A. |editor-last1=Livingstone|editor-first2=Frank Leslie|editor-last2=Cross}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/235572/greater-doxology |title=Greater Doxology|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|access-date=2012-03-11}}</ref>/'''Hymn of the Angels'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.neamericandiocese.org/liturgical-hours/hymn-of-the-angels.aspx|title=Hymn of the Angels|publisher=North American Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church}}</ref> The name is often abbreviated to '''Gloria in Excelsis''' or simply '''Gloria'''.

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The hymn begins with the words that the [[angel]]s sang when announcing the birth of Christ to shepherds in {{bibleref2|Luke|2:14|DRA}}: [[Douay-Rheims Bible|Douay-Rheims]] (in Latin). Other verses were added very early, forming a [[doxology]].<ref name=CE/>

An article by [[David Flusser]] links the text of the verse in Luke with ancient Jewish liturgy.<ref>[https://wholestones.org/sanctus-and-gloria/ English translation] of an article that originally appeared in ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/Abraham_unser_Vater.html?id=kdcLtwAACAAJ&redir_esc=yAbraham Unser Vater: Juden und Christen im Gespräch über die Bibel: Festschrift für Otto Michel zum 60. Geburststag]'' (ed. Otto Betz, Martin Hengel, and Peter Schmidt; Leiden: Brill, 1963), 129–152</ref>