Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The First Day : : Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug.
Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily constitutes the first example of a Hexameron, or Commentary on the Six Days of Creation, in Syriac literature. This edition presents Jacob’s comments on the first day, Gen. 1:1-5. The volume constitutes a fascicle of The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug,...
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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 (76 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Text and Translation -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index of Names and Themes -- Index of Biblical References |
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| Summary: | Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily constitutes the first example of a Hexameron, or Commentary on the Six Days of Creation, in Syriac literature. This edition presents Jacob’s comments on the first day, Gen. 1:1-5. 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. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781463219147 9783111024141 9783110663037 |
| DOI: | 10.31826/9781463219147 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |