 | Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem''s Hymns in Fourth-century Syria (Patristic Monograph Series) Subjects: Ephraem Syrus Saint 303–373; Hymns Syriac -- History and criticism; Christianity and antisemitism; Judaism (Christian theology) -- History of doctrines -- Early church ca. 30–600; This book investigates the complex anti-Jewish and anti-Judaizing rhetoric of Ephrem, a fourth-century poet, deacon, and theologian from eastern Roman Syria whose Syriac-language writings remain unfamiliar and linguistically inaccessible to centuries of scholars who study the well-known Greek and Latin writings of his contemporaries. |
