Icons of the Heavenly Merchant : : Ephrem and Pseudo-Ephrem in the Madrashe in Praise of Abraham of Qidun / / 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.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Année de publication: | 2016 |
Langue: | English |
Collection: | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
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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 |
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Résumé: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781463236502 9783110663020 |
DOI: | 10.31826/9781463236502 |
Accès: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Andrew Hayes. |