Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns on the Unleavened Bread.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Walters, J. Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (117 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Text and Translation --; Index of Biblical References
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463234485; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463234485
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

In this set of homilies Ephrem (306-373) invites the reader into a world of symbolic interpretation filled with imagination brimming beneath the surface of word-plays, alliteration, and typological comparisons. These hymns thrust the reader into the middle of a context in which Christians and Jews maintain competing practices of a Passover service to the extent that Ephrem feels the need to distinguish between the symbol and the reality. These homilies are presented in their Syriac original alongside an annotated English translation.