Syriac Hagiography : Texts and Beyond.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Figures -- ‎Sigla and Abbreviations -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction (Minov and Ruani) -- ‎Part 1. Texts as Literature -- ‎Chapter 1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiography (Mellon Saint-Laurent) -- ‎Chapter 2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Medieval Syriac Milieu (Durmaz) -- ‎Chapter 3. Objects as Narrative Devices in Syriac Hagiography (Ruani) -- ‎Part 2. Saints Textualized -- ‎Chapter 4. Pope Sylvester: How to Create a Saint-The Syriac Contribution to the Sylvestrian Hagiography (Di Rienzo) -- ‎Chapter 5. The Syriac Martyrdom of the Mimes and the Performance of Biblical Recitation: Questions of Power and Contexts (Horn) -- ‎Chapter 6. The Syriac Life of Mār Yāret the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a Monastic Holy Man in Early Medieval Mesopotamia (Minov) -- ‎Chapter 7. Prose, Poetry, and Hagiography: The Martyrdoms of Jacob the Persian and Tahmizgard in Syriac Story and Song (Bremer-McCollum) -- ‎Chapter 8. The Memory of the Persian Martyrs in St Nikodemos' Synaxaristes (1819) (Brock) -- ‎Part 3. Beyond the Texts -- ‎Chapter 9. Between Gift and Commodity: The Distribution of Tokens and Material Substances at the Pilgrimage Sites of Stylites (Boero) -- ‎Chapter 10. St Stephen in Amida in a New mimro of Jacob of Serugh: Christianity vs Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious Shrines (Debié) -- ‎Scriptural Index -- ‎Index of Ancient Sources.

The collective volume Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explores several late-antique and medieval Syriac hagiographical works from the complementary perspectives of literature and cult.

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