Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Elijah : : Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Kaufman, Stephen A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity ; 913
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; I. The First Homily on Elijah the Prophet --; II. On Elijah When he Fled from Jezebel --; III. On Naboth the Jezreelite --; IV. On Elijah the Prophet and on the Troops of Fifty --; V. On the Ascension of Elijah --; Table of Major Variants --; Index of Names and Themes --; Index of Biblical References
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463215118; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463215118
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

This volume collects all of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) extant homilies on the prophet Elijah. In these homilies Jacob shows a remarkable sensivity to the human motivations of the biblical characters which was quite rare in ancient biblical exegesis. The volume constitutes a fascicle of The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain the original Syriac text of Jacob's surviving sermons, fully vocalized, alongside an annotated English translation.