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qv33rv07n92	Vincenz Heereman	All humans are cast into battle: Ephrem the Syrian's Theology of Spiritual Struggle and Ascetic Heroism	2023		.txt	text/plain	342	15	47	The Memra on Jonah and the Repentance of Nineveh, read against the backdrop of ancient epic literature, reveals that Ephrem seeks to create a Christian ideal in which repentance, construed as a battle, is the epitome of heroism (chap. A fascinating pattern emerges from Ephrem's construal of ascetic practices: even as he highlights human agency, he forestalls any potential lapse into voluntarism.	cache/qv33rv07n92.txt	txt/qv33rv07n92.txt