Jacob of Sarug's Homily Concerning the Red Heifer and the Crucifixion of our Lord / / ed. by Demetrios Alibertis.

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• HerausgeberIn: Alibertis, Demetrios,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity ; 78
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (64 p.)

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. Part of a series of fascicles containing the bilingual Syriac-English editions of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homilies, this volume contains his homily on the red heifer slaughter ritual in Numbers 19. For Jacob, the narrative is a prefigurement of Christ's death and its ability to restore and permanently purify all who enter the church through baptism. 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- TEXT AND TRANSLATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES