Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia

Ephrem the Syrian was one of the founding voices in Syriac literature. While he wrote in a variety of genres, the bulk of his work took the form of madrashe , a Syriac genre of musical poetry or hymns. In Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia, Jeffrey Wickes offers a thoroughly contextualized study of Ephrem’s magnum opus, the Hymns on Faith , delivered in response to the theological controversies that followed the First Council of Nicaea. The ensuing doctrinal divisions had tremendous im