Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Elijah : : Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug.
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 M...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texts from Christian Late Antiquity ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (456 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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