Mary and Joseph, and Other Dialogue Poems on Mary / / Sebastian P. Brock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Brock, Sebastian P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: Multiple
• Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (113 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; SYRIAC INTRODUCTION --; TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS --; ANNOTATION --; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --; APPENDIX: DIALOGUE SUGHYOTHO --; INDEX OF NAMES AND THEMES --; INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463214357; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463214357
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sebastian P. Brock.

What was Joseph’s reaction when he arrived home to find Mary pregnant? How did Mary manage to persuade him that her child was none other than the Son of God? The Syriac literary tradition had a unique way of answering these sorts of questions raised by the Bible. Dialogue poems (sughyotho) offer lively, thought-provoking, and often delightful re-imaginings of Biblical events. They expand the Biblical stories, giving the familiar characters more dialogue and describing their inner thoughts. The collection provides five dialogue poems featuring Mary, in Syriac original with facing English translation.