Jacob of Serugh and His Times : : Studies in Sixth-Century Syriac Christianity / / ed. by George Kiraz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bcheiry, Iskandar,; Brock, Sebastian,; Dinno, Khalid,; Griffith, Sidney H.,; Hansbury, Mary,; Harrak, Amir,; Harvey, Susan Ashbrook,; Mathews, Edward G.,; Meno, John,; Shemunkasho, Aho,; Van Rompay, Lucas,
• HerausgeberIn: Kiraz, George,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

A collection of studies on the Syriac sixth century writer Jacob of Sarug by a team of international scholars, including Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Sebastian P. Brock, Sharbil Iskandar Bcheiry, Khalid Dinno, Sidney Griffith, Mary Hansbury, Amir Harrak, George A. Kiraz, Edward Matthews, Aho Shemunkasho,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Symposium Welcome
• Repentance and Fasting from an Ascetical Prospective: A Comparative Reading of Jacob of Serugh and an Unpublished Shortened Version of a Collection of Homilies by Severus of Antioch
• A Prayer Song by St Jacob of Serugh Recovered
• Jacob’s forgotten sughyotho
• Jacob of Serugh, the Man Behind the Mimre
• Mar Jacob of Serugh on Monks and Monasticism: Readings in his Metrical Homilies ‘On the Singles’
• The Syriac Orthodox Celebration of the Eucharist in Light of Jacob of Serugh’s mimrō 95
• To Whom Did Jacob Preach?
• Jacob of Serugh, Homily on Good Friday and other Armenian Treasures: First Glances
• Jacob of Serugh and His influence on John of Dara as Exemplified by the use of Two Verse-Homilies
• Humanity’s Sin in Paradise Ephrem, Jacob of Serugh, and Narsai in Conversation
• Jacob of Serugh: a Select Bibliographical Guide
• A Reflection on the Occasion of the Blessing of an Icon of Mar Jacob of Serugh