Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel : : Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug.

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 t...

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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 ; 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (68 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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