Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel : : 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: Butts, Aaron Michael,; Jacob, Mor,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (68 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Text and Translation --; Mimro 33 on the construction of the tower of Babel --; Bibliography of Works Cited --; Index of Names and Themes --; Index of Biblical References
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463215804; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463215804
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily on the Tower of Babel develops an extended word-play between “morduto” ‘rebellion’ and “marduto” ‘discipline.’ As is characteristic of Jacob, the characters, their personalities, and their motivations are developed far more than they are in the biblical narrative. 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.