Poezia creştină siriacă în Antichitatea târzie. O scurtă introducere în elementele ei definitorii
Syriac Christian Poetry in Late Antiquity. A brief introduction

Summary/Abstract: The article begins with a chapter on the origin of Syriac poetry, where I point out that it originated in heterodox environments related to Bardesanes in the northern Mesopotamiancityof Edessa. Thereafter I refer to the time of Ephrem the Syrian and the poetic movement he generated by trying to combat heresies. I describe the two forms of his metrical poetry, i.e.memrā and madrāšā, while also refering to the genre called soghīthā, which is in fact a special type of madrāšā. Afterwards I deal with three other smaller Syriac poetic forms and I briefly introduce the most important Syriac poets from Late Antiquity as well as some special features of their poetry.

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