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Imagining the Death of Jesus in Fourth-Century Mesopotamia
A Study of Ephrem of Nisibis
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Blake Hartung
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2023
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In this volume Blake Hartung explores the place of the passion and death of Jesus in the writings of Ephrem of Nisibis (ca. 307–373). The book argues that the genre of Ephrem’s works (usually short poems for public performance), is key to understanding his unsystematic approach. Ephrem drew widely upon the Passion narratives and traditional motifs related to Christ’s death and deployed them differently in distinct settings. Each chapter explores a key theme in Ephrem’s discourse about the death of Christ in context (including anti-Judaism, the defeat of death, and economic imagery). Ultimately, Hartung urges further consideration of the role of Christ’s death in early Christian thought and practice beyond the traditional confines of atonement theology.
Author / Editor information
Blake Hartung, Ph.D. (2017), Saint Louis University, is Assistant Teaching Professor of Religious Studies and History at Arizona State University. He has published several articles and a translated volume on early Syriac Christianity.
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eBook published on:
October 9, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789004680241
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Main content:
260
eBook ISBN:
9789004680241
Audience(s) for this book
This monograph will prove appealing to specialists in Syriac and Middle Eastern studies. Because Ephrem is widely revered across Christian traditions, a monograph on Ephrem will also be of ecumenical interest. Since this monograph intersects with several other scholarly trajectories in early Christian studies (including atonement theology, poetry and hymnody, and biblical exegesis), it will also find readers among those scholarly communities.
