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Autore: |
Hayes Andrew <1982->
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Titolo: |
Icons of the heavenly merchant : Ephrem and Pseudo-Ephrem in the Madrashe in praise of Abraham of Qidun / / Andrew Hayes
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Pubblicazione: | Piscataway, New Jersey : , : Gorgias Press, , [2016] |
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Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 405 pages) |
Disciplina: | 270.2092 |
Soggetto topico: | RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox |
Altri autori: |
Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, <303-373.>
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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 |
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