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Terms and Conditions. Privacy Statement. Browse Our Titles. Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account. Editors: Jan den Boeft. This collection of essays deals with the rise and development of early Christian poetry, discussing its techniques and its theoretical foundation. The individual papers concern specimina of Hebrew, Syriac, Greek and Latin poetry and study the various and partly conflicting traditions from which it originated.
The biblical examples, e. The book shows how the problems involved were solved in different ways, which justified the use of pagan literary accomplishments for singing the praises of the Lord. Copyright Year: E-Book PDF. Login via Institution. Prices from excl.
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His publications concern Latin literature and early Christian studies. Anton Hilhorst , Ph. He has published on early Christianity, especially the Shepherd of Hermas, martyrological documents and apocryphal literature. The volume gets off to a good start with ancient Jewish metrical epitaphs There is an excellent general essay In almost every case they are successfull both in giving the individual poet and a general discussion on the nature of early Christan poetry and its relationship to the pagan poetry that it sought to emulate Rice, The Heythrop Journal , Bureau, Revue des Etudes Latines ' Wilken, Religious Studies Review , Scourfield, Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies , All those interested in early Christian studies and the history and literature of Late Antiquity, as well as classical philologists, theologians, Syriasts and students of Byzantium.
