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- Title
THE MÊMRÂ ON THE SIGNS MOSES PERFORMED IN EGYPT: AN EXEGETICAL HOMILY OF THE "SCHOOL" OF EPHREM.
- Authors
HARTUNG, BLAKE
- Abstract
This article examines the Mêmrâ on the Signs Moses Performed in Egypt, a textfirst published by J.J. Overbeck. Despite its attribution to Ephrem of Nisibis (ca. 307-373), this memra is not well-known in Syriac scholarship. In this article, I provide the first English translation of the text, and argue that it is the product of the literary circle of Ephrem in fourth-century Nisibis or Edessa. Furthermore, I contend that this prose exegetical homily represents a genre almost entirely unknown in extant early Syriac literature. As a witness to little-known exegetical and homiletical practices in that formative period, it enriches our understanding of the early emergence and development of Syriac Christian literary culture.
- Subjects
MEMRA (The word); SYRIAC literature; OVERBECK, J. J.
- Publication
Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, 2018, Vol 21, Issue 2, p319
- ISSN
1937-318X
- Publication type
Article