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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827235003321

Autore

Griffin Carl W.

Titolo

Cyrillona : a critical study and commentary / / Carl Griffin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piscataway, New Jersey : , : Gorgias Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4632-3706-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 pages)

Collana

Gorgias Eastern Christian studies

Disciplina

809.19351

Soggetti

Christian poetry - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Cyrillona: The Author and His Works -- Chapter Two. On the Institution of the Eucharist -- Chapter Three. On the Washing of the Feet -- Chapter Four. On the Pasch of Our Lord -- Chapter Five. On the Scourges -- Chapter Six. On Zacchaeus -- Epilogue -- Appendix Cyrillona, the Bible, and Dating -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Citation Index of Scripture -- Citation Index of Ancient Authors and Works -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cyrillona (fl. 396) was a younger contemporary of Ephrem the Syrian whose work has been celebrated as comparable in both beauty and its significance for our understanding of early Syriac Christianity. This study reassesses conventional claims about the author’s identity, date, and the constitution of his corpus. It introduces each of Cyrillona’s five surviving poems and examines their poetic form and genre, structure and rhetorical features, and critical questions of text, interpretation, and theology.