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Nisibene Hymns
Poetic theology for worship and catechesis, treating doctrine through biblical imagery and pastoral urgency.
Ephraim the Syrian4th century4th century
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Metadata
Overview
- Category
- Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
- Genre
- Homily
- Tradition
- Eastern
- Region
- Mesopotamia
- Original language
- Syriac
- Date certainty
- Range
Historical context
Manuscript context
This text is represented here through a composite Syriac witness set associated with Ephraim the Syrian and its transmission in Mesopotamia.
Themes
Controversies
- Arian controversy
Source links
Primary translation
www.newadvent.org · Source quality: Primary · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Archive mirror
web.archive.org · Source quality: Archive · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Original language witnesses
Witness status: Composite witness set
Reconstructed OCR witness from two public-domain scans. source-01 preserves Syriac-script OCR lines; source-02 adds a second OCR witness for cross-checking.
Open normalized witness textS. Ephraemi Syri opera selecta (OCR witness)
License: Public Domain Mark 1.0
S. Ephraemi Syri Carmina Nisibena (OCR witness)
License: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Oxford-BYU Syriac Corpus (Ephrem, Hymns on Nisibis)
License: CC BY 4.0