Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Sinful Woman.

This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily on the sinful woman who anoints Jesus at the banquet – widely identified in the west as Mary Magdalene – focuses on the theme of weeping which Jacob describes as the dominant characteristic of repentence. For him, the sinful woman is the exam...

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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, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Texts from Christian Late Antiquity ; 31
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Physical Description:1 online resource (138 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • TEXT AND TRANSLATION
  • APPENDIX: ROMANOS AND THE SYRIAC VERSE TRADITION ON THE SINFUL WOMAN
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX