Ministries of Song

Women's Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvSusan Ashbrook Harvey

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Ministries of Song is a tour-de-force study of the power of women's liturgical singing in late antique Syriac Christianity. Extending women's religious participation beyond the familiar roles of female saints and nobles, Syriac churches cultivated a flourishing but often-overlooked tradition of women's sacred song. Susan Ashbrook Harvey brings this music to life as she uncovers the ways these now-nameless women performed a boldly sung teaching ministry and invited congregations to respond aloud. By exploring their ritual agency, Harvey demonstrates how these choirs helped to shape the formative ethical and moral ideals of their congregations and communities. Women's voices, both real and imagined, enriched the ritual and devotional lives of Syriac Christians daily and weekly, on ecclesial and civic special occasions, in sorrow or joy, with authoritative theological significance and social and political resonance. Arguing for the importance of liturgy as social history, Harvey shows us how and why women's voices mattered for ancient Syriac Christianity and why they matter still.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-09
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor332
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520412378

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Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration Introduction: A Forgotten History Singing WomenSyriac VoicesLearning from Syriac WomenPracticalities1. Singing Voices: Women's Ministry, Women's Authority Singing Women in the Ancient Mediterranean WorldChristian SongSyriac Women in Christian MinistrySyriac Christian Ministry: Daughters of the CovenantSyriac Women's Service and Syriac Women's SongWomen's Voices in Sacred Song2. Singing Women: Portraits and Meanings Ephrem: Women's Voices and Biblical TypologyJacob of Sarug: Typology and SoteriologyThe Life of Ephrem: Liturgy and Social MemoryImagery at WorkExalted VisionsModes of Instruction3. Singing Voices, Voices Sung: Performance, Genre, Biblical Models What, Where, When, and How?Ephrem's Mary: Singing the ProphetessDialogue in Song: The Constraints of StoryJacob of Sarug and Metrical NarrativeSounding Voices: Sensing the Issues4. Voices Sung: Women's Voices in Contextual Narratives Ancient Liturgy and Biblical WomenLiturgical Poetry in ContextContextual Narratives 1: Holy Foremothers, Sacred ScandalContextual Narratives 2: Bold Voices Bearing WitnessCompeting Voices: Daughters of EveRemembrance and Presence: Why These Matter5. Singing Voices: Women Among the Assembly The Participation of LaywomenLaity in the LiturgyLaity in the Liturgy and Laity in the WorldLiturgy in the Civic CommunityJacob of Sarug on Listening: The Experience of SoundAn Image for the Laity: Woman as Priest6. Models for Laity, Models for Faith Liturgical Listening: Hearing StoriesLiturgical Listening: Hearing Titles, Hearing ScriptsLiturgical Listening in Performative ContextStock Characters and Moral ExemplarityThe Lamenting Woman: A Type Toward RestorationEpilogue: The Good WifeAfterword NotesBibliographyPublication PermissionsIndex of Biblical CitationsGeneral Index