TY - BOOK AU - Mahr, August Carl TI - Relations of Passion Plays to St. Ephrem The Syrian SN - 9781258298838 U1 - E67.1 PY - 1942/// CY - Columbus PB - The Wartburg Press N1 - The purchase of the ointment: a feature of Eastern and western passion plays. The question of a connection between them, The purchase of the ointment in the Cyprus Passion Cycle, The text (with English Translation), Relation of the Greek purchasing scene to a Homily of Ephrem, The Syriac and Graeco- Latin Version of Ephrem`s Homily and their distinguishing features, Ephrem`s Homily as the source of the Western Dramatists, Features from his Homily in the western plays, The purchase of the ointment, The temptation by the Devil, Christ the great Physician, Further Affinities between the western plays and Ephrem`s Homily, Homilies of Latin Fathers on Mary Magdalene`s Conversion, The pre- eminent source value of Ephrem`s Homily ER -