In the 520's CE a major dispute about Jesus' body erupted throughout the Christian east. The question was whether it was to be considered incorruptible, that is, essentially immune from suffering and decay. The dispute originated between Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarn…
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Archaeologists and historians have sought to understand the architecture of the early church using methods common to their respective fields of inquiry. This has included an approach to architecture which classifies buildings according to type and style. Limitations of both meth…
Medievalist Mary Carruthers suggests that any historical work must choose to focus on the distinctiveness of a particular moment, or its continuity with what has gone before (Carruthers, 1990). In this dissertation my aim is to do a bit of both. For the past century, the Apophth…
Ephrem's liturgical poems, the madrāšē, rarely have been studied as an exegetical genre. This study presents an analysis of his scriptural interpretation in two sets of madrāšē , or hymns: Hymns on Paradise, and Hymns on Unleavened Bread. Scholars tend to isolate Ephrem's indivi…