Cyrillona : a critical study and commentary / Carl Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, Carl W., author.

Series:

Gorgias Eastern Christianity studies.

Gorgias Eastern Christian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry--History and criticism.

Christian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages).

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, New Jersey : Gorgias Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781463237066

1463237065

OCLC:

1100450130