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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Jeffrey ThomasWickesImagining Ephrem the Authorhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/J4WM88ZHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/J4WM88ZHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/J4WM88ZHLewisAyresMichael W.ChampionMatthew R.CrawfordThe Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical TraditionsCambridgeCambridge University Press2023261-281This chapter traces the way that questions of authorship and authenticity have shaped scholarly reception of Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373 CE). Faced with an unreliable biographical tradition, and a poetic corpus in which the boundaries between the authentic and inauthentic blurred, scholars have constructed a history, a chronology, and a notion of literary genius and consequent decline to map this corpus. I suggest that such a focus has often rested on questionable assumptions about the context of the poetry and has been pursued at the expense of other modes of organising this corpus. Within the context of this volume, I use the case of the reception of Ephrem to ask how our own histories of scholarship have shaped, and at times even determined, the patterns we see in the literature we study, and the models we build to organise the past. Wickes, Jeffrey Thomas. “Imagining Ephrem the Author.” In The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions, edited by Lewis Ayres, Michael W. Champion, and Matthew R. Crawford, 261–81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Jeffrey Thomas Wickes, Imagining Ephrem the Author, in The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions, ed. Lewis Ayres, Michael W. Champion, and Matthew R. Crawford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 261–81.EphremIV CEIV-VII CEauthorshiphymnographypoetry