TY - BOOK ID - 143792153 TI - Songs for the Fast and Pascha AU - Ephraem AU - Hartung, Blake AU - Falconer, Joshua AU - Walters, J. Edward PY - 2022 SN - 081323574X PB - Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, DB - UniCat KW - Christian poetry, Syriac KW - Hymns, Syriac UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143792153 AB - "The ancient author of these poems (teaching songs) is St. Ephrem the Syrian (ca. 307-373), a native of the city of Nisibis in Mesopotamia, who became the Christian bishop of Edessa (Urfa in modern Turkey). The original language is classical Syriac. This volume presents English translations of four complete cycles of St. Ephrem's teaching songs: On the Holy Fast, On the Unleavened Bread, On the Crucifixion, and On the Resurrection. These liturgically oriented songs provide information about the celebration of Lent and Easter (Pascha) in the Syriac-speaking churches of northern Mesopotamia in the fourth century. Also they represent some of the oldest surviving poetry composed for these liturgical seasons, expressing ancient Christian theology in symbolic language that is rich in biblical allusions"-- ER -