Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on Praise at Table / / Jeff W. Childers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• HerausgeberIn: Childers, Jeff W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: Multiple
• Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity ; 38
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; TEXT AND TRANSLATION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463237042; 9783110663020
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463237042
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jeff W. Childers.

Part of a series of fascicles containing the bilingual Syriac-English editions of Saint Jacob of Sarug's homilies, this volume contains his homilies on Praise at Table. These homilies offer a glimpse into the efforts of one late antique author to construct distinctly Christian meaning from the experience of communal meal-sharing. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press's The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob's surviving sermons. Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive.