TY - BOOK ID - 91399377 TI - Ephrem the Syrian's hymns on the unleavened bread AU - Ephraem Syrus Diaconus AU - Walters, James Edward AU - Gorgias Press PY - 2012 SN - 9781463201593 1463201591 PB - Piscataway, NJ Gorgias press DB - UniCat KW - Hymns, Syriac KW - Hymns, Syriac. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:91399377 AB - In this set of homilies Ephrem (306-373) invites the reader into a world of symbolic interpretation filled with imagination brimming beneath the surface of word-plays, alliteration, and typological comparisons. These hymns thrust the reader into the middle of a context in which Christians and Jews maintain competing practices of a Passover service to the extent that Ephrem feels the need to distinguish between the symbol and the reality. These homilies are presented in their Syriac original alongside an annotated English translation. ER -