Only when St. Ephrem composed hymns in the same pentasyllabic metre and had them sung to the same tunes as the psalms of Bardaisan, did the latter gradually lose favour.

Basil's treatise on virginity ; thirty nine discourses of St. Ephrem the Syrian, and many other works of the Fathers and writers of the Greek Church.

Ephrem the Syrian wrote a commentary on it, the Syriac original of which was rediscovered only in 1957, when a manuscript acquired by Sir Chester Beatty in 1957 ( now Chester Beatty Syriac MS 709, Dublin ) turned out to contain the text of Ephrem's commentary.

Ephrem was born around the year 306 in the city of Nisibis ( the modern Turkish town of Nusaybin, on the border with Syria, which had come into Roman hands only in 298 ).

Ephrem celebrated what he saw as the miraculous salvation of the city in a hymn which portrayed Nisibis as being like Noah's Ark, floating to safety on the flood.

Ephrem combines in his writing a threefold heritage: he draws on the models and methods of early Rabbinic Judaism, he engages skillfully with Greek science and philosophy, and he delights in the Mesopotamian / Persian tradition of mystery symbolism.

Ephrem is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on June 10.

" — Ephrem the Syrian, " Hymns on Faith " 16: 5.

Hymns on paradise: St. Ephrem the Syrian.

" Hymns Against Heresies: Comments on St. Ephrem the Syrian ".

* Benedict XVI on St. Ephrem and his role in history

The one prayer that typifies the Lenten services is the Prayer of Saint Ephrem, which is said at each service on weekdays, accompanied by full prostrations.

On the weekdays of this week, the first Lenten structural elements are introduced to the cycle of services on weekdays ( the chanting of " Alleluia ", the Prayer of Saint Ephrem, making prostrations, etc .).

The Prayer of Saint Ephrem is said for the last time at the end of the Presanctified Liturgy on Holy and Great Wednesday.

Icons of sainted deacons are often depicted on these doors ( particularly St. Stephen the Protomartyr and St. Ephrem the Syrian ).

* Memra on Ephrem —

Diatessaronic texts such as the Liege Dutch Harmony, the Pepysian Gospel Harmony, Codex Fuldensis, The Persian Harmony, The Arabic Diatessaron, and the Commentary on the Diatessaron by Ephrem the Syrian have provided recent insights into Aramaic origins.

He also relied on John Chrysostomos, the Cappadocian fathers and on Ephrem the Syrian, which were also accepted in the West.

In this theory God is seen as inhabiting a mythical holy mountain, a concept not unknown in ancient West Asian mythology ( see El ), and also evident in the Syriac Christian writings of Ephrem the Syrian, who places Eden on an inaccessible mountaintop.

Some of the Church Fathers also throw light upon the psychology of Mary, for instance, Saint Ambrose, when in his commentary on The Gospel of Luke he holds Mary up as the ideal of virginity, and Saint Ephrem, when he poetically sings of the coming of the Magi and the welcome accorded them by the humble mother.

He is sometimes also referred to as " the Babylonian " ( by Porphyrius ); and, on account of his later important activity in Armenia, " the Armenian ", ( by Hippolytus of Rome ), while Ephrem the Syrian calls him " philosopher of the Arameans " (, Filosofā d-Aramayē ).

They are referred to by St. Ephrem, and amongst them was a treatise on light and darkness.

Adolf Hilgenfeld in 1864 defended this view, based mainly on extracts from St. Ephrem, who devoted his life to combating Bardaisanism in Edessa.

This is not to say that all texts ascribed to Ephrem in Greek are by others, but many are.

* Fragments of the commentary of Ephrem Syrus upon the Diatessaron ( 1895 )

The early literature of Syriac Christianity includes the Diatessaron of Tatian ; the Curetonian Gospels and the Syriac Sinaiticus ; the Peshitta Bible ; the Doctrine of Addai and the writings of Aphrahat ; and the hymns of Ephrem the Syrian.

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Ephrem asserts that Christ's unity of humanity and divinity represents peace, perfection and salvation ; in contrast, docetism and other heresies sought to divide or reduce Christ's nature, and in doing so would rend and devalue Christ's followers with their false teachings.

Among the more prominent deacons in history are Phoebe, the only person actually called " deacon " in Scripture ; Stephen, the first Christian martyr ( the " protomartyr "); Philip, whose baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch is recounted in ; Saint Lawrence, an early Roman martyr ; Saint Vincent of Saragossa, protomartyr of Spain ; Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the mendicant Franciscans ; Saint Ephrem the Syrian and Saint Romanos the Melodist, a prominent early hymnographer.

This is confirmed by the implicit approval of St. Gregory the Great and by well attested facts ; in the East, for example, Hilarion, Ephrem, and other confessors were publicly honoured in the fourth century ; and, in the West, St. Martin of Tours, as is gathered plainly from the oldest Breviaries and the Mozarabic Missal, and St. Hilary of Poitiers, as can be shown from the very ancient Mass-book known as " Missale Francorum ", were objects of a like cultus in the same century.

Jacob of Serugh (, ; his toponym is also spelled Serug or Sarug ; c. 451 – 29 November 521 ), also called Mar Jacob, was one of the foremost Syriac poet-theologians among the Syriac, perhaps only second in stature to Ephrem the Syrian and equal to Narsai.

As a gnostic, he certainly denied the resurrection of the body ; and so far as we can judge by the obscure quotations from his hymns furnished by Ephrem he explained the origin of the world by a process of emanation from the supreme God whom he called the Father of the living.

A metrical homily on holy Mar Ephrem / by Mar Jacob of Sarug ; critical edition of the Syriac text, translation and introduction by Joseph P. Amar — La chaîne arménienne sur les épîtres catholiques.

As part of this doctoral work, Palackal brought out a CD, Qambel Maran, a collection of Syriac chants in the Chaldean tradition of the Syro-Malabar Church ; it includes the hymn Awun d ’ wasmayya, i. e., the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, arguably in the same words which were used by Jesus when he taught the Pater Noster, compositions by St. Ephrem the Syrian ( notably the acrostic hymn Iso maaran m ’ siha on the name Iso M ' siha, i. e., Jesus the Messiah ), and the Syriac translation Sabbah lesan of the Latin hymn Pange Lingua by St. Thomas Aquinas ; these chants had up to then been preserved in the main only in oral tradition ; among the singers is Fr.

His success in dealing with a manuscript that, having been rewritten with other works of Ephrem the Syrian, had been mostly illegible to earlier collators, made him more well known, and gained support for more extended critical expeditions.

Jacob appointed Ephrem as a teacher ( Syriac, a title that still carries great respect for Syriac Christians ).

The most popular title for Ephrem is Harp of the Spirit ( Syriac:, ).

A new integrative approach to anger treatment has been formulated by Ephrem Fernandez ( 2010 ) Termed CBAT, for cognitive behavioral affective therapy, this treatment goes beyond conventional relaxation and reappraisal by adding cognitive and behavioral techniques and supplementing them with affective techniques to deal with the feeling of anger.

When Nisibis was ceded to the Persians in 363, Ephrem the Syrian left his native town for Edessa, where he founded the celebrated School of the Persians.

" With regard to Boswell's central claim to have found evidence for the use of wedding crowns in the rite for making brothers, Ephrem notes that what the relevant text says, " somewhat literally translated ," is this: " It is inadmissible for a monk to receive is a standard Greek word for ' godparent ' children from holy baptism, or to hold marriage crowns or to make brother-makings.

He has provided lyrics or melodies for Alemayehu Eshete, Mahmoud Ahmed, Ephrem Tamiru, Kennedy Mengesha, Marta Ashagre, Netsanet Melese, Kuku Sebesebe, Aregahegene Worashe, Woubishet Fisseha, Tesegaye Eshetu, Haileye Tadesse, Madingo Aferwork, and many more.

To name some of his work, he is credited for the melody of the song " እስከመቼም አልረሳው ያንቺን ፍቅር እኔ " sang by vocalist Ephrem Tamiru.

The Dean of the PIL is Prof Ephrem Carr OSB of St. Meinrad Archabbey, Indiana, USA, elected December 2008 for four years.

The two giants of this period are Aphrahat, writing homilies for the church in Persia, and Ephrem the Syrian, writing hymns, poetry and prose for the church just within the Roman Empire.