Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug / Homiliae Selectae Mar-Jacobi Sarugensis. / Volume VI, : Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug / Homiliae Selectae Mar-Jacobi Sarugensis ; Edited by Paul Bedjan and Sebastian P. Brock / / Jacob of Sarug.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Sarug, Jacob of,
• MitwirkendeR: Bedjan, Paul,; Brock, Sebastian P.,; Kiraz, George A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: Multiple
• Series: Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug / Homiliae Selectae Mar-Jacobi Sarugensis ; Volume VI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (446 p.)

Jacob of Sarug is one of the most celebrated poets of Eastern Christianity and the Syriac tradition. The Gorgias Press edition, edited by Sebastian P. Brock, contains over 100,000 lines of poetry based on Bedjan’s 1905 edition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface to the Reprinted Edition -- The Making of of the Gorgias Reprinted Edition -- Table of Contents -- Pagination Note -- Part II. Paul Bedjan, Missionary for Life (1838-1920) -- Introduction -- Khosrowa in the first half of the nineteenth century -- Education and Persian years -- Publishing in Europe -- Khosrowa, the Lazarist Mission and the Chaldean Church -- Bedjan’s publications in context: readership and objectives -- Conclusions -- Appendix. Bedjan’s Publications -- Part III. Indices -- Index of First Lines -- Index of Modern Translations -- Index of Manuscripts Used -- Index of Main Biblical Passages -- Index of Names and Subjects -- 16. On the Council of Chalcedon -- 15. The Sleepers of Ephesus -- 14. The Baptism of Constantine -- 13. Peter, John and Paul at Antioch -- 12.1. Tamar and Judah (Genesis 28) -- 12.2. Tamar and Judah (Genesis 28)