The Authorship and Dating of the Syriac Corpus attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis: A Reassessment
A large portion of the Syriac works attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis survives in the form of collected poetic anthologies. This paper argues that previous attempts to assign authorship and date of composition to Ephrem’s hymn cycles mistakenly treat these works as if they were treatises written by Ep...
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