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What you should know about the Covid-19 vaccines from top experts
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Among the writers of the Syriac Christian tradition, none is as
renowned as St. Ephrem of Nisibis (ca. 307-373), known to much of
the later Christian world simply as "the Syrian." The great
majority of Ephrem's works are poetry, with the madrase ("teaching
songs") especially prominent. This volume presents English
translations of four complete madrase cycles of Ephrem: On the
Fast, On the Unleavened Bread, On the Crucifixion, and On the
Resurrection. These collections include some of the most
liturgically oriented songs in Ephrem's corpus, and, as such,
provide a window into the celebration of Lent and Easter in the
Syriac-speaking churches of northern Mesopotamia in the fourth
century. Even more significantly, they represent some of the oldest
surviving poetry composed for these liturgical seasons in the
entire Christian tradition. Not only are the liturgical occasions
of the springtime months a source of colorful imagery in these
texts, but Ephrem also employs traditional motifs of warm weather,
spring rainstorms, and revived vegetation, which likely reflect
Hellenistic literary influences. Like all of Ephrem's poetry, these
songs express early Christian theology in language that is
symbolic, terse, and vibrant. They are rich with biblical allusions
and references, especially to the Exodus and Passion narratives.
They also reveal a contested religious environment in which Ephrem
strove to promote the Christian Pascha and Christian
interpretations of Scripture over and against those of Jewish
communities in the region, thus maintaining firm boundaries around
the identity and practices of the churches.
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