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St. Ephraim’s Influence on the Greeks

[1] Attempting to identify the nature and extent of St. Ephraim’s influence on the Greeks (by which term I designate simply those who wrote Greek, irrespective of their mother tongue or place of origin), is far from easy, despite the fact that there is no shortage of available materials which bear upon the subject. In addition to the numerous authentic Syriac writings which survive1 (Ephrem wrote exclusively in Syriac and is not thought to have known more than the bare rudiments of Greek), there are a number of accounts of the saint’s life written in Greek and Syriac; a large collection of Greek writings attributed to him and conventionally termed “Ephraim Graecus;” and a variety of Greek writers of the 4th to 6th centuries with whom connections have been posited. The difficulty is that although a figure conventionally identified as St. Ephraim came to occupy a position of great importance and influence within the Greek-speaking Church, it is far from clear how this figure can be connected with the Syrian “Harp of the Spirit” and his genuine theological writings. [2] Of the various sources listed the biographical materials appear, at first glance, to offer the greatest potential. The earliest known allusion to Ephraim’s work in a non-Syriac text is given by