Icons of the Heavenly Merchant : : Ephrem and Pseudo-Ephrem in the Madrashe in Praise of Abraham of Qidun / Andrew Hayes.

• VerfasserIn: Hayes, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF TRANSLITERATION AND OTHER SPELLING CONVENTIONS --; PRESENTING AND RE-PRESENTING SAINTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO EPHREM THE SYRIAN AND ABRAHAM OF QÎDÛN --; CHAPTER I: THE TEXT AND ITS INTERPRETERS --; CHAPTER II: PIGMENTS ON THE PALETTE: LANGUAGE AND IMAGERY IN THE CYCLE --; CHAPTER III: THE PIGMENTS REMIXED: PROMINENT VOCABULARY AND IMAGERY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE CYCLE --; CHAPTER IV: CANONS OF VERBAL ICONOGRAPHY: RHETORICAL DEVICES & POLARITY IN THE CYCLE --; CHAPTER V: THE CANONS RE-CODIFIED: RHETORICAL DEVICES AND POLARITY IN THE PSEUDO-EPHREMIAN PORTION --; CHAPTER VI: RHETORIC OF THE MADRĀŠÂ: RHETORICAL STRATEGY, STRUCTURAL PATTERNS, AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE ICON --; CHAPTER VII: STRATEGY, STRUCTURE, AND THEOLOGY IN THE ICON OF PSEUDO-EPHREM --; CHAPTER VIII: CONCLUSIONS. EPHREM'S THEOLOGY OF ASCETICISM AND VIRTUE --; APPENDIX A: FURTHER CHARTS --; APPENDIX B: ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF THE CYCLE --; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463236502
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463236502
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrew Hayes.

A detailed study of a cycle of fourth-century liturgical poems, in Syriac, dedicated to a great pioneer of the Syriac ascetical tradition. Hayes analyzes its various portraits of the saint, shaded differently by Ephrem and his later imitators.