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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2025].
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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.