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 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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