Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The Seventh Day / ed. by Edward Mathews Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mathews Jr, Edward, Editor.

Series:

Texts from Christian Late Antiquity ; 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creation--Sermons.

Sermons, Syriac--Translations into English.

Sermons, Syriac.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 p.)

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive. Part of a series of fascicles containing the bilingual Syriac-English editions of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homilies, this volume contains his homilies on the Six Days of Creation. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press’s The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob’s surviving sermons. In this final installment of the long Homily 71, On the Six Days of Creation, Jacob treats the events of the seventh day, on which God rests from all his labors of creation carried out over the course of the previous six days.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

TEXT AND TRANSLATION

HOMILY 71G: ON THE FASHIONING OF CREATION: THE SEVENTH DAY

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

1-4632-4345-6

OCLC:

1266229576