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Author:   Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520422681

ISBN 10:   0520422686
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   09 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents   List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration   Introduction: A Forgotten History Singing Women Syriac Voices Learning from Syriac Women Practicalities   1. Singing Voices: Women's Ministry, Women's Authority Singing Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World Christian Song Syriac Women in Christian Ministry Syriac Christian Ministry: Daughters of the Covenant Syriac Women's Service and Syriac Women's Song Women's Voices in Sacred Song   2. Singing Women: Portraits and Meanings Ephrem: Women's Voices and Biblical Typology Jacob of Sarug: Typology and Soteriology The Life of Ephrem: Liturgy and Social Memory Imagery at Work Exalted Visions Modes of Instruction   3. Singing Voices, Voices Sung: Performance, Genre, Biblical Models What, Where, When, and How? Ephrem's Mary: Singing the Prophetess Dialogue in Song: The Constraints of Story Jacob of Sarug and Metrical Narrative Sounding Voices: Sensing the Issues   4. Voices Sung: Women's Voices in Contextual Narratives Ancient Liturgy and Biblical Women Liturgical Poetry in Context Contextual Narratives 1: Holy Foremothers, Sacred Scandal Contextual Narratives 2: Bold Voices Bearing Witness Competing Voices: Daughters of Eve Remembrance and Presence: Why These Matter   5. Singing Voices: Women Among the Assembly The Participation of Laywomen Laity in the Liturgy Laity in the Liturgy and Laity in the World Liturgy in the Civic Community Jacob of Sarug on Listening: The Experience of Sound An Image for the Laity: Woman as Priest   6. Models for Laity, Models for Faith Liturgical Listening: Hearing Stories Liturgical Listening: Hearing Titles, Hearing Scripts Liturgical Listening in Performative Context Stock Characters and Moral Exemplarity The Lamenting Woman: A Type Toward Restoration Epilogue: The Good Wife   Afterword   Notes Bibliography Publication Permissions Index of Biblical Citations General Index

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Susan Ashbrook Harvey is the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion at Brown University, specializing in Syriac and Greek Christianity of the late antique and Byzantine eras. She is the author of Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination.

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