id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt f1881j94k87 Jeffrey Thomas Wickes Out of Books, A World: The Scriptural Poetics of Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns on Faith 2013 .txt text/plain 242 6 36 Chapter two analyzes Ephrem's understanding of Scripture's poetics (how Scripture itself works, and how it has come to be) and then chapters three through five trace three metaphors which Ephrem uses Scripture to refashion: metaphors of the self (chapter three), of others (chapter four), and of Christ (chapter five). This argument is pursued in chapters two through five. cache/f1881j94k87.txt txt/f1881j94k87.txt