The poetic face of rhetoric : Ephrem's polemics against the Jews and heretics in Contra Haereses XXV

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Botha, Philippus Jacobus

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Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria

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The hymn Contra Haereses XXV by Ephrem is translated into English and the use of poetic devices such as metaphor, antithesis, apostrophe, invocatio, hyperbole and acoustic techniques to enhance the argumentative quality of the hymn are discussed.

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Ephrem the Syrian, Contra Haereses XXV

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Botha, PJ 1991, 'The poetic face of rhetoric : Ephrem's polemics against the Jews and heretics in Contra Haereses XXV', Acta Patristica et Byzantina, vol. 2, pp. 16-36. [http://journals.sabinet.co.za/ej/ejour_patris.html]