You are hereHomeBible ReviewApril 1991Sung SermonsHow a Sung Sermon Works The most authoritative text and commentary on the “Akathistos Hymn” is Trypanis, Fourteen Early Byzantine Cantica (Vienna: Bühlau, 1968) (= Wiener byzantische Studien 5, pp.17–39. Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.