TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. ABBREVIATIONS xiii
5. A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF TRANSLITERATION AND OTHER SPELLING CONVENTIONS xv
6. PRESENTING AND RE-PRESENTING SAINTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO EPHREM THE SYRIAN AND ABRAHAM OF QÎDÛN 1
7. CHAPTER I: THE TEXT AND ITS INTERPRETERS 29
8. CHAPTER II: PIGMENTS ON THE PALETTE: LANGUAGE AND IMAGERY IN THE CYCLE 69
9. CHAPTER III: THE PIGMENTS REMIXED: PROMINENT VOCABULARY AND IMAGERY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE CYCLE 109
10. CHAPTER IV: CANONS OF VERBAL ICONOGRAPHY: RHETORICAL DEVICES & POLARITY IN THE CYCLE 127
11. CHAPTER V: THE CANONS RE-CODIFIED: RHETORICAL DEVICES AND POLARITY IN THE PSEUDO-EPHREMIAN PORTION 161
12. CHAPTER VI: RHETORIC OF THE MADRĀŠÂ: RHETORICAL STRATEGY, STRUCTURAL PATTERNS, AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE ICON 183
13. CHAPTER VII: STRATEGY, STRUCTURE, AND THEOLOGY IN THE ICON OF PSEUDO-EPHREM 233
14. CHAPTER VIII: CONCLUSIONS. EPHREM’S THEOLOGY OF ASCETICISM AND VIRTUE 265
15. APPENDIX A: FURTHER CHARTS 283
16. APPENDIX B: ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF THE CYCLE 307
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY 391