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SUMMARY:Ephrem Armenius: the Armenian reception of the homilies of Ephrem 
 of Nisibis and Ephrem Graecus
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DESCRIPTION:Date: 19 June 2026 \nTime: 16:00-17:30\nVenue: Eccles Room\, P
 embroke College \n\nNo Syriac author was as influential outside of “the
  Syriac world” as Ephrem of Nisibis. A deacon who migrated to Edessa aft
 er the Roman handover of Nisibis to the Persians in 363\, he was a gifted 
 anti-heretical poet who is the most translated and imitated Syriac author 
 of all time. Given the early reception and imitation in Greek\, which spre
 ad across Western Asia\, Europe and Northern Africa in Late Antiquity and 
 the Middle Ages\, it is no surprise that the Armenian tradition\, with its
  openness to Syriac as well as Greek culture\, was enriched by both tradit
 ions. In this talk\, Dr Andy Hilkens will explore the Armenian reception o
 f Ephrem of Nisibis and Ephrem Graecus\, focusing in particular on the for
 mation and transmission of the heterogenic Armenian corpus of Ephremian an
 d Pseudo-Ephremian sermons\, and on the promise of the Armenian tradition 
 for the discovery of previously unknown texts.\n\nAbout the speaker: Dr. A
 ndy Hilkens is a religious and cultural historian of Late Antiquity and th
 e Middle Ages who operates at the intersection of Syriac\, Armenian\, Copt
 ic and Byzantine studies. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the
  FWF-START project Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles as 
 Literary Characters (PI: Dan Batovici) in the Faculty of Protestant Theolo
 gy at the University of Vienna and teaches Coptic at the Institute of Egyp
 tology. His research interests include Syriac and Armenian hagiography\, t
 he Syriac historiographical tradition and its ties to Greek\, Armenian and
  Arabic historiography\, Syriac-Armenian studies (in particular Syriac-Arm
 enian dialogue and debate\, Syriac-Armenian bilingualism\, and the product
 ion of translations)\, and the global reception of Ephrem of Nisibis\, Eph
 rem Graecus and Jacob of Serugh.
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