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

This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homilies on the prophet Elisha deals with some of the more difficult stories in the Old Testament, how to understand the story of the bears who ravage the children who made fun of the prophet and why the sacrifice by the King of Moab of his son to h...

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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, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Texts from Christian Late Antiquity ; 2328
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Physical Description:1 online resource (361 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • I. ON ELISHA THE PROPHET
  • II. THE SECOND ON ELISHA AND ON THE KING OF MOAB WHO SACRIFICED HIS SON UPON THE WALL
  • III. THE THIRD ON ELISHA, AND THE SHILUMITE WOMAN 2 KGS 4:8–37
  • IV THE FOURTH ON ELISHA: ABOUT NAAMAN THE EDOMITE72 AND HIS DISCIPLE, GAHZI73
  • V. THE FIFTH ON ELISHA AND ON THE VISION OF THE SAINTS THAT IS ABLE TO SEE HIDDEN THINGS
  • VI ON THE FAMINE THAT WAS IN SAMARIA IN THE TIME OF ELISHA THE PROPHET91
  • VII. ABOUT ELISHA, WHEN A DEAD PERSON REVIVED UPON HIS BONES
  • INDEX OF NAMES AND THEMES
  • INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES