Jacob of Sarug's additional homilies on Good Friday / translation and introduction by Edward G. Mathews Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacob, of Serug, 451-521, author.

Mathews, Edward G., Jr., 1954- author of introduction, translator.

Series:

Texts from Christian late antiquity ; v. 51.

Texts from Christian late antiquity, 1935-6846 ; 51

Language:

Armenian

English

Syriac

Subjects (All):

Good Friday sermons.

Good Friday.

Genre:

Sermons.

Physical Description:

x, 115 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Additional homilies on Good Friday

Homilies on Good Friday

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2018.

Language Note:

Text in English, Armenian, and Syriac; with English translations of Armenian and Syriac texts. Armenian texts are translations from Syriac, but most of the Syriac texts are lost.

Summary:

"Neither of the two homilies found in this volume is included in the large edition of Bedjan. The first survives only in an Armenian version and centers around a rather unique lament of the Mother of Jesus who while standing next to the cross and her dying Son chides the archangels Gabriel and Michael for not having saved Him from such an ignominious death. The other, which survives only in a single Syriac manuscript, is a homily On Mary and Golgotha that according to tradition Jacob left incomplete at the time of his death. These two homilies appear to be the last two pieces of a long cycle of homilies that Jacob preached on the events of Good Friday"-- Publisher's website.

Notes:

"The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press's The Metrical Homiles of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob's surviving sermons."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-107) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781463207526

1463207522

OCLC:

1044776972

Publisher Number:

99979366303