- Table of Contents (page 7)
- Acknowledgments (page 11)
- Abbreviations (page 13)
- A Brief Explanation of Transliteration and Other Spelling Conventions (page 15)
- Presenting and Re-Presenting Saints: An introduction to Ephrem the Syrian and Abraham of Qidun (page 17)
- Chapter I: The Text and its Interpreters (page 45)
- Chapter II: Pigments on the Palette: Language and Imagery in the Cycle (page 85)
- Chapter III: The Pigments Remixed: Prominent Vocabulary and Imagery in the Second Half of the Cycle (page 125)
- Chapter IV: Canons of Verbal Iconography: Rhetorical Devices & Polarity in the Cycle (page 143)
- Chapter V: The Canons Re-Codified: Rhetorical Devices and Polarity in the Pseudo-Ephremian Portion (page 177)
- Chapter VI: Rhetoric of the Madrasa: Rhetorical Strategy, Structural Patterns, and the Theology of the Icon (page 199)
- Chapter VII: Strategy, Structure and Theology in the Icon of Pseudo-Ephrem (page 249)
- Chapter VIII: Conclusions: Ephrem's Theology of Asceticism and Virtue (page 281)
- Appendix A: Further charts (page 299)
- Appendix B: Annotated Translation of the Cycle (page 323)
- Bibliography (page 407)