Ministries of song : women's voices in ancient Syriac Christianity /

Ministries of Song is a tour-de-force study of the power of women's ritual singing in late antique Syriac Christianity. Beyond the familiar roles of female saints and nobles, Syriac churches cultivated a flourishing but often-overlooked tradition of women's sacred song. Their music comes a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harvey, Susan Ashbrook (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2025].
Subjects:	Syrian churches > Liturgy. Women's choirs > Religious aspects > Christianity. Women > Religious aspects > Christianity. Hymns, Syriac > History > To 1500. Syriac Christians > Social conditions. Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. A forgotten history
Singing voices : women's ministry, women's authority
Singing women : portraits and meanings
Singing voices, voices sung : performance, genre, biblical models
Voices sung : women's voices in contextual narratives
Singing voices : women among the assembly
Models for laity, models for faith.