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Treasure-house of Mysteries: Exploration of the Sacred Text through Poetry in the Syriac Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why was Cain’s sacrifice rejected, but Abel’s accepted? How did Joseph react when he came home and found Mary with child? Questions such as these served as the starting points for St Ephrem and other poets of the early Syriac tradition in these lively and highly imaginative poems where they explore the deeper spiritual meanings of the biblical text with great insight. Written with considerable...

[63] words full of wonder, [64] and with a groan she said, [65] ‘When you go with your father, [66] listen and do all that he tells you, [67] and if he should actually bind you, [68] stretch out your hands to the bonds; [69] and if he should actually sacrifice you, [70] stretch out your neck before his knife: [71] stretch out your neck like a lamb, [72] like a kid before the shearer.* [73] See, my son, that you do not put your father under oath [74] when he draws out his knife against you, [75] lest
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