What Scripture or trustworthy extrabiblical sources do we have which describe the creation of 'Death' as it is personified in the Hymns you have well quoted?
"What Scripture or trustworthy extrabiblical sources do we have which describe the creation of 'Death' as it is personified in the Hymns you have well quoted?"
Oh, I suspect that death in those hymns, personified as Death, is like the artistic personifications we see in paintings and literature even to today. +Ephraim the Syrian was a great and sublime poet and hymnographer. But that is not at all to say that Death is not personified in the NT. For example, Luke 3:17, Matthew 3:12, Acts 2:24, Romans 5, especially Romans 6:9 and 2 Tim. 1:10 and how about Rev. 6:8.