This chapter turns from Christian laypersons to the spiritual elites both serving and governing the communities in question. The necrosima opens with an extensive section on clergy, most prominently hymns designed to accompany the burial of a city’s bishop. The latter’s deaths posed particular challenges for communities, inasmuch as episcopal transitions provided openings for intra-Christian conflict, schism, or simply extended leadership vacuums. Strikingly, these hymns also showcase an aspect of the necrosima’s approach to biblical exegesis. While a smattering of texts thus figure prominently in many of the madrāshê, the lives of departed bishops are read through the lens of biblical types, becoming identified in immediate and personal ways with the patriarchs of the Old Testament. This chapter explores the necrosima’s engagement with Scripture to narrate both death and the deceased themselves through a range of exegetical lenses.