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Document Details : Title: 'Odysseus' Bruises' Subtitle: Traces of Literary Influence beteen the Manichaeans and Ephrem Syrus Author(s): SALA, T. Journal: ARAM Periodical Volume: 16 Date: 2004 Pages: 245-262 DOI: 10.2143/ARAM.16.0.504682 Abstract : This paper deals with traces left by a luring encounter but on a textual body. Previous analyses of the Manichaean psalms read them mainly on a Gnostic or an apocryphal background. Often the study stopped reaching the textual Gnostic border, a tendency retraceable to the classical misprision of manichaeism as a 'Gnostic religion'. A territory beyond that, towards othodox Christian forms of discourse, was seldom trodden. Such an approach systematically screened off a significant and thrilling area of that complex textual net in which the psalms are confined. In this paper the author takes on the risk of exploring those areas where heresy and orthodoxy, the manichaeans and Ephrem Syrus share a common language. As the study is a work in progress, the author would like to present here only some astonishing instances of convergence between the two discourses. |
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