Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The Second Day (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity)

Edward G.

ISBN 10: 1463205538 / ISBN 13: 9781463205539

Published by Gorgias Pr Llc, 2015

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Title: Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on the Six Days of...

Publisher: Gorgias Pr Llc

Publication Date: 2015

Binding: Paperback

Book Condition:Good

Edition: Annotated edition.

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In this second part of Homily 71, On the Fashioning of Creation, Jacob treats the making of the firmament: what it was, where it was, what – as far as can be determined – was placed above it and what below it, its purpose and utility for humanity, and the importance of its place in the Genesis account of the six day progression of creation.

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.