Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria. By Christine Shepardson
In the first edition of his Symbols of Church and Kingdom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), Robert Murray wrote that Ephrem ‘hated the Jews’ (p. 68). He was not the first scholar to notice Ephrem’s anti-Jewish rhetoric that some have likened to modern day anti-Semitism (see K. H. Kuhlma...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 342-344 |
| Review of: | Anti-Judaism and Christian orthodoxy (Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press, 2008) (Morrison, Craig E.)
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Book review
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| Summary: | In the first edition of his Symbols of Church and Kingdom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), Robert Murray wrote that Ephrem ‘hated the Jews’ (p. 68). He was not the first scholar to notice Ephrem’s anti-Jewish rhetoric that some have likened to modern day anti-Semitism (see K. H. Kuhlmann, ‘The Harp out of Tune: The anti-Judaism/anti-Semitism of St. Ephrem’, The Harp 17 [2004], pp. 177–83). For several decades now, scholars have studied Ephrem’s works in order to discern the historical context that drove his anti-Jewish polemic. Murray thought Ephrem feared ‘the Rabbis’ influence with his flock’ (p. 67). H. J. W. Drijvers (‘Jews and Christians at Edessa’, JJS 36 [1985], p. 87) concluded that Ephrem was addressing Christians who were drawn to Jewish customs. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp134 |
