Monday, December 05, 2022

Syriac poetry: "the original Christian Rock"

SYRIAC WATCH: Video: Theology Professor Jeff Wickes on The Formation of Syriac Christian Culture Through Poetry (Margaret McVeigh, University of Notre Dame, Department of Theology).
Jeff Wickes, associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, focuses on the interplay between Syriac literature, theology, and liturgy in the context of late antique Christianity. Building projects that work from close readings of Syriac texts, he gravitates in his work towards larger questions of genre (especially poetry), religion, and theology as they play out within the historical horizons of late antique Christianity, and as those horizons meet our own in the contemporary world. ...

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