Jacob of Serugh

Jacob of Serugh (, ; ; 452–521), also called Jacob of Sarug or Mar Jacob (), was one of the foremost Syriac poet-theologians, perhaps only second in stature to Ephrem the Syrian and equal to Narsai. He lived most of his life as an ecclesiastical official in Suruç, located in modern-day Turkey. He would finally become a bishop (of Batnan) near the end of his life in 519. He belonged to a Miaphysite or Non-Chalcedonian Christianity, although he was fairly moderate compared to a number of his contemporaries.

The positive reception of his work earned him various nicknames, including "Flute of the Holy Spirit" (alongside his predecessor Ephrem the Syrian) and "Lyre of the Believing Church" (in Antiochene Syriac Christianity). Writing in the late seventh and early eighth centuries, Jacob of Edessa attributed 763 ''mimre'' to him, of which 400 remain extant, at least 225 have been edited and published, and the longest of which is 1,400 verses. His prolific work had already achieved him a great reputation before the end of his lifetime, and his extant corpus makes him the third-largest single author collection of homilies from late antiquity, behind only Augustine of Hippo and John Chrysostom. Provided by Wikipedia