Icons of the heavenly merchant : Ephrem and Pseudo-Ephrem in the Madrashe in praise of Abraham of Qidun / / Andrew Hayes

• Autore: Hayes Andrew <1982->
• Pubblicazione: Piscataway, New Jersey : , : Gorgias Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 405 pages)
• Disciplina: 270.2092
• Soggetto topico: RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox
• Altri autori: Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, <303-373.>
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Icons of the heavenly merchant
• ISBN: 1-4632-3650-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816824103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gorgias Eastern Christianity studies ; ; 45.