| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019) |
| Subject |
Abraham, of Kidun -- active 4th century
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Orthodox.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781463236502 |
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1463236506 |
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